The game of identifying acquaintances and breaking the tower is very helpful for your baby's cognitive development and motor skills. Come on, let's play!
1 / Game for children: familiar face
When children from 6 months to 12 months old are trained to recognize familiar faces in the family, mothers not only help the baby develop discrimination and recognition skills but also help them develop their fine motor skills.
- Preparation: Family photos with size 9 × 12 or 10 × 15, photos of relatives, nannies, neighbors ...
Mom can create for your baby a lovely photo album by herself
- How to play with your baby:
Sit down next to or let your baby sit on your lap and give him a photo album, emphasizing that this is his own photo album. Ideally, mothers should buy a small photo album, each image is a page to make the baby easier to see.
At first, you may have to help your baby turn the pages of the picture, but as the left and index finger movements develop, your baby will be able to figure out how to turn the page on her own. A little older, children will focus more on each picture, point and recognize the person in the picture or other strange things.
Observe your baby's excited expressions when he recognizes a familiar face or when he is "fascinated" by colorful pictures. After watching, moms can put the album on the bookshelf or put it in the baby's toy box. Gradually, viewing photos with your mother will become a baby's favorite activity.
2 / Baby game : Break the tower
Although it takes some more time to be able to arrange the puzzles in rows or up high, babies from 6 to 12 months old will love to knock these puzzles over. Not really a destructive act, this "destructive" game will help children develop hand and eye coordination skills.
Although it is not possible to "build" yet, every child is very fond of "breaking".
- How to play with your baby:
Put your baby on your lap or lean back against your mother and then arrange the wooden or plastic blocks into a tall tower. Ideally, baby should play on wooden floors or bricks to add sound effects when the tower falls. When building the tower, the mother does not need to try too hard to arrange it beautifully, because in fact, in less than 1 minute, your tower will also be knocked over by your baby.
Let your baby self-steam from the top floor, to the lowest part of the tower. If the baby does nothing, the mother can lend her a hand. Children not only admire the collapse of the tower, but also enjoy the sounds created afterwards.
Continue to build houses and let the baby break. Gradually, the baby's ability to move hands will be developed better, and accordingly, the mother's building ability will also increase significantly.
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