Carrying out activities with your child during the first months of life is essential for their physical and mental development. These stimulations can be rewarding and even more so if we turn it into games to have fun with. Therefore, in this post We are going to talk about activities you can do for one year old babies.
With one year, the little ones are already able to take their first steps, they begin to have fun playing with different objects, throwing them, stacking them, everything that is within their reach is a discovery and synonymous with fun. This age, it is a key phase in which to stimulate their learning through activities or games.
Activities for one year olds
The little ones they learn through games, they are explorers of a new world and they want to know everything. For all this, here is a list of activities to have fun with the little ones while they learn.
games in the water
You only have to fill the bathtub, and teach the little one the wonderful world of splashing water. If you don't have a bathtub, it can be a basin for the baby to put their hands or feet in.
In addition to splashing, you can play with the water temperatures, always having control, so you will learn that there are different.
games with textures
In these activities, you can play with your little one with endless different textures that we all have at home. You can put small piles so that with his hands he can discover the different textures. They can be flour, water, foam, a sponge, etc.
Let it enjoy having contact with different textures and have fun learning.
shadow games
Who has not played as a child make shapes of animals or other elements on the wall of your room. Well, it's time to go back to childhood and show that mysterious art to your little one.
For one year old babies it will be like seeing magic, since those shadows have their own movement.
games with sound
In this case it is a activity with which to know the hearing capacity of the baby. You will only have to place an object that makes noise near it, but without being able to see it. For example, a bath duck that makes a noise when squeezed.
Once you start playing the duckling and it makes the noise, the toddler will begin to follow the sound, either with head movement searching or chasing.
Soap bubbles
With this example of activity you can promote psychomotricity, sight and attention of the baby. There is nothing more simple and fun for little ones than seeing soap bubbles fly. Stand near the child and start throwing bubbles into the air, he will try to catch them with his hands.
pick and match games
We have commented before that babies love to take any type of object within their reach and group them. In this case, we will play with different clothes, for example colored socks, the little one will only have to group them by colors or drawings.
This activity can be done with any object or garment since its objective is for the little one to learn to differentiate while having fun. At first, you do not have to put many elements or it can be complicated.
games with containers
This activity is beneficial for improve children's grasp of objects, as well as hand-eye coordination.
You will fill with rice, chickpeas or lentils, various containers of different sizes and shapes. It is your little one who must transfer said food from one container to another so that as few as possible fall out.
build and pull games
Conclusion activities with which babies develop their psychomotricity and control of their body. Also thanks to them, they discover and learn the cause-effect relationship.
The children do not know the cause, they have fun building towers with any type of object to later throw said objects to the ground. It is an activity that provides them with various benefits.
These activities are just a small selection of all that you can do with your baby and enjoy with him. Through these games, you are helping to develop their creative abilities, such as motor skills, visual coordination, among other skills.