Thinking games to help your baby develop intelligence

Through these thinking games, you can help your baby train his brain in the best way, help him know the system, always be confident and know how to handle situations in the best way.

Participating in thinking games is one of the effective ways to help your baby's brain move to make him smarter . You need to choose games that suit your baby's age and interests. The most important thing is to have fun with your baby, to share joy, enjoy happiness with your baby and help them learn and practice important skills while playing.
You can refer to some intelligent baby games below:

1. Building towers and castles:
Blocks with many different sizes and materials depending on the baby's age are the simplest method and help them create their own separate castles. This game will help your baby practice grip skills, strengthen hands and fingers.

 

2.
Jigsaw puzzles: For 2 - 3 year old children, use a maximum of 20 pieces to make them form funny shapes according to their observation ability. This game helps your baby develop his eyesight, and at the same time stimulates observation and motor skills for the baby. It also requires concentration to achieve a goal you suggest. It also means letting your baby's imagination be free to develop.

 

3. Find hidden objects:
You should hide the toys that your baby loves like dolls, cars ... but deliberately let your baby see where you left. After that, ask them carefully what you want and offer your baby to find help. Your baby will be obedient and enjoy looking for you. After the search is complete, give your baby a compliment for encouragement. You can increase the difficulty by having your baby find 2 or 3 items at the same time. This game not only helps your baby increase movement, but also gives them excitement when doing something.

4. Distinguish different objects:

Thinking games to help your baby develop intelligence
Prepare 10 candies, 10 small plastic balls, 1 candy jar, 1 ball basket. Put the candies and balls together. Then you put the balls and candies in the jars and baskets, and tell your baby to do the same thing in the right place. At first, your baby may mistakenly miss the candy and ball, but over time he will do better. Please wait patiently.

Or you can also put objects in front of your baby, teach your baby each name of objects, then ask him to give you the right object. If your baby does not give the correct object, do it again until she knows it.

5. Identify colors:
Select squares, circles, triangles or balls of different colors, put them side by side. Then tell your baby to give you the desired color objects. Similarly, put all the animals and objects in a basket, cover it up and ask your baby to open it up and find you green balls, yellow oranges, red cars, ...

You can also prepare some colorful shapes and show your child how to arrange them in groups of colors. This game helps children to recognize the basic colors around them and helps them to solve problems better.

6. Recognize sounds:
Use the small recorder to record sounds in everyday life such as car horns, laughter, cries, doorbells, phone rings, running water, clock ticks , the sound of the dog barking… Then you let your baby listen again and see how many sounds he recognized. You need to clearly explain the sounds your baby does not know, then let him hear again and repeat the sounds.

7. Catching
stuffed animals : Children love small, colorful, moving animals. You hang a lot of cute stuffed animals in front of your baby, suggesting for them to grab them with their hands. Your baby will enjoy this challenging game. At the same time, the baby will focus on observing the stuffed animals, observing how you get them. This game also helps your baby practice the eye reflexes very well.

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