The baby’s first birthday is a holiday that all young parents look forward to. At this time, the child is already starting to walk, is interested in everything around him and is unusually energetic. This is a great time for development and learning. What to do with your child from home on your own? The best educational games and the most interesting options for hanging out with your son or daughter especially for you in our article.
Every day is a discovery!
It is recommended to show the karapuz the apartment and introduce it to the surrounding household items from a very young age. But with a child who has already celebrated his first birthday, such activities are even more interesting. Comment on all your everyday activities, tell your baby what you will do and why. Show a variety of objects that are usually out of his access. Let the baby touch the adult books, mom's cosmetics, some decorative interior decorations. Of course, such games should take place under the supervision of an adult. Not sure what to do with a 1 year old baby at home? Invite him to re-examine the familiar room, ask where the clock is, where is the beautiful vase or painting. You can additionally tell more about the appearance and properties of the items found.
Simple games with regular toys
In each nursery there are figures in the form of animals and dolls. Invite your child to copy the usual everyday activities in the game. Feed the teddy bear, show how to swing the doll in your arms or ride in a stroller. Also, toys can be bathed, put to bed and sometimes taken for a walk. As the child grows, such a game will become more complicated - as early as 2-3 years, you can offer to play a doctor, school or hairdresser. But if the child shows interest in more complex actions at an early age - be sure to encourage and satisfy his interest. During the game, you can develop the qualities of empathy and kindness, show how to deal with animals. If the child does something unacceptable, for example, grabs a teddy cat by the tail or throws a soft bunny, explain that you can’t do this, because the toy hurts.
Choosing educational toys correctly
Many child development experts argue that the simpler the items to play, the more useful they are. Whether or not to buy modern development centers and expensive interactive and musical toys for your baby is a personal choice for each parent. But to provide a child with the necessary minimum of simple game sets is simply necessary. What to do with a child from a year at home and what toys do you need to have at hand? Get a set of cubes (you can soft) with bright pictures or letters, sorters, dolls, cars, balls of different sizes and books with colorful illustrations and a small amount of text. Animal figurines, large puzzles and designers are also useful. All these items should be in any nursery. With their help, you can study colors, basic geometric shapes and compare the quality of different materials and textures. It is not necessary to go to the store for development toys - many interesting and useful funs can easily be made with your own hands from materials found in any home.
Useful homemade products for early development
Educational toys are not difficult to make with your own hands. Try to make a useful craft at least once, and you will never have a question about what to do with a child on a yearly basis. An interesting game is a developing frame. To make it, you need a base made of thick cardboard or plywood. Attach sewing accessories - Velcro, zippers, buttons and eyelets, old door locks (if they are safe and do not have small parts), buttons and toggle switches. You can also sew and glue pieces of fabric of various textures. Playing with such a frame is simple - the child will try to unfasten and fasten all the elements, touch different surfaces in softness and texture. New
tactile sensations stimulate the development of the child. Try stitching small bags and filling them with different cereals and other fillers. Not sure what to do with your child after a year? Try to make simple sorters with your own hands. Take the box, stick the images of animals on it and make them cuts in the mouth. The child will put “food” in these holes - large beads or balls of a suitable size.
Fine Art for Toddlers
You can get acquainted with drawing a child after the first birthday. Stock up on enough paper, you can even buy a few Whatman paper. Get
wax pencils, finger paints and other safe materials for creativity. Show your child simple drawings - the sun, flowers, geometric shapes, animals. Let the kid draw himself, let him first get not quite even lines and scribbles, even such a drawing perfectly develops imagination,
fine motor skills and
prepares your hand for writing. Do not know what you need to do with your child a year on a walk? Get colorful crayons (for the smallest it is better to take a large size and diameter) and let me draw.
Creative activities
At the age of 1 year, the baby can be introduced to such creative techniques as applique and sculpting. Remember that young children drag everything in their mouths, so classes using glue and plasticine should be supervised by adults. For sculpting, it is best to use salt dough. It can be prepared at home from equal parts of salt and flour, diluted with water to the desired consistency, or you can buy ready-made goods for creativity in the store. This material is considered safer than plasticine and its analogues. Try to mold simple forms - “sausages”, “balls”, or just let the baby mash the dough. What to do with a child from the year, except for modeling? You can try to make an application, of course, most of the work will fall on the shoulders of the parent, but the baby will definitely be interested to observe and be interested.
Finger games
Young children value parents' attention the most. For harmonious growth and development, it is enough for the kids that the household often talked with them, smiled at them. Often the simplest finger games bring the child more pleasure than the most modern toys. Today, parents are offered whole manuals with descriptions of movements and rhymes that help to interest the baby. But you can also remember something from your own childhood. Games like Magpie, Pussy, Fight! no less interesting, despite the fact that more than one generation of babies plays in them. Do not know what you can do with a child a year - be sure to try such fun. After all,
finger games not only please the child, but also develop fine motor skills and imagination.
Active games
Physical activity is the key to the harmonious development of the child. Already at the age of one year, children love to play ball, catch-up and hide and seek. Show your kid these wonderful games, and he will surely want to play them every day. If you regularly read and tell your child poems, and he already knows some of them, try to portray your favorite story with gestures and movements. Another interesting version of the games for the smallest is to play your favorite fairy tale or song. Invite the baby to jump like a bunny, wag its tail like a fox, hide or show the size of the tree with handles. Positive emotions from such a game will surely receive both the child and his parents.
How to read the smallest?
Love for books should be instilled in children from birth - psychologists advise. Choose fairy tales, poems, and short stories appropriate to your child’s age. It is desirable that the books also have colorful and understandable illustrations. But the text should not be too much, because long stories with an abundance of actions and characters your baby simply will not understand. Simple short tales can simply be read, allowing the child to look at the pictures, or you can tell them randomly, focusing on the image. Do you think what to do with a child from the age of the easiest and most useful? Offer him a joint reading - let mom or dad read the text, and the kid looks for acting heroes in the picture or shows some special action / rare item separately in book illustrations.
First theater
At the age of one year, the child can already be acquainted with theatrical art. For starters, you can try to just play the plots of familiar fairy tales with existing toys. “Gingerbread Man”, “Pockmarked Hen” and “Turnip” - you can put these works with ease. The child will also be interested in playing with dolls-gloves. You can try to make a table theater with your own hands, making figures from paper or stitching them from scraps. What to do with a child from a year? Be sure to play with him in the theater. In addition, you can specially play a familiar fairy tale with a “wrong” plot for the baby. Let the kolobok meet during his journey an elephant or a kangaroo, and not a hare and a wolf. Try to draw the attention of the baby to the fact that there is a mistake in the fairy tale, and ask them to find it.
Games for 5 minutes: what to do with a child at home?
Even the most responsible and enthusiastic mother of raising a child, from time to time, feels the need for a few minutes for the baby to be busy with some interesting and useful business, while she is running around the house. What games will help captivate a baby at the age of one year? Give your child something unfamiliar or unfamiliar, but completely safe for him. A good option is a stack of old magazines, a thick catalog or a large book with illustrations. Even if it breaks, it doesn’t matter: garbage can be removed, and the child is busy with useful work. Ask any specialist what to do with your child a year for the development of fine motor skills, and you will probably be advised to give your baby more often paper, small toys that vary in texture. Make a “treasure box” for your child - take a small box, preferably divided into sections. Fold in it sea stones, sea shells (larger) and other interesting, but safe little things. Such a game is suitable if the mother needs to cook dinner or do cleaning, and she can watch the child, but does not have the opportunity to personally participate in the game.
What to do with a child from a year to two for a walk?
A daily stay in the fresh air must be included in the daily routine of a healthy child. During the walk you can not only have fun, but also learn something new. Have your baby play in the sandbox or delve into the snow. Also, at any time of the year, you can draw with a stick on the ground, and in spring using the same tool, measure the depth of puddles. Try to be in different places, pay attention to how the seasons change. And remember that every walk is a real adventure for the baby, he is interested in everything from a running cat or dog to birdsong, car signals and other street sounds.
What to do with a child (1.5 years) on the street? Do not be lazy to bring along toys suitable for age and season. Sets for games with sand, a shovel for snow, wheelchairs, balls - there are many options for any season. Think what you can do with your child? 1 year is a great time for the kid to get acquainted with social life. Try to drive a fidget to a zoo, an amusement park or any other place where it is beautiful and interesting. At the same age, you can start visiting children's cafes or even some kind of development center for the smallest.