Baby is a beautiful gift of heaven. It’s blissful to see your baby grow from her belly, to her knees, to her feet, to her toes and finally on the competitive journey of life.
The complete cycle starting from her belly to her dream involves various activities that help her grow and develop in various fields of growth. The best stage to learn something is infancy. Whatever good or bad they learn is through their experience and teachings during these formative years. There are many early childhood infant activities that improve physical, motor, emotional, cognitive and sensory growth of infants.
Following is a list of infant learning activities :
Use Multi-Sensory Learning
When your baby shows some interest in any particular object; try to help her learn about that object using sensory systems. If your baby adores flowers, make her learn the smell, feel the touch and hear the gentle sound that flower makes. Babies enjoy this kind of learning and will respond more easily because during infancy sensory systems are very strong.
Respond to Your Baby
It is very important to respond to your baby. Listen to what your baby says and help her learn through sensory skills. If your baby is looking at his or her belly, tell him/her that ‘this is your belly’. Your baby will develop some sensory information and will develop an elaborate idea of belly.
Researches have also indicated that there is a strong relation between parents’ responsiveness and their children’s IQ.
Categorizing
Categorizing activities help infants learn faster. You can categorize different objects based on the difference in color, shapes, sounds, texture and form. Categorize your infants toys based on colors and shapes. Make your infant learn by visualizing different colors and touching different shapes of the categorized objects.
Make Learning Videos for Your Child
you can make learning videos for your baby. Videos can help them learn new words, new objects and recognize different sounds more easily and effectively.
Play Matching Games with your Infant
pick up any one object from the house like a tennis ball. Then ask your baby to search for some other similar object. You can also ask your baby to get some object of the similar color or shape.
Play and Explore from Different Postures
Help your baby learn different body parts and postures. Give them some toys to explore while they play on their stomach, back and seated.
Infant Language Activities Done With Blocks
Give some educational blocks to your babies. Let them feel different shapes and visualize different colors. They can also learn to produce different objects by matching the shapes and colors.