Game is the best learning way for babies. Babies know this world in the game. Zero to three years old period is the key period for baby growth. By games, babies obtain all kinds of apperceive of the world and also obtain the ability of solving problems. Moveover, by touching with associate, babies develop their social sensibility, making babies study and grow in the game. When doing movement, because cervical vertebra of zero-to-three-year-old babies haven't completely developed their cervical vertebra, they don't have enough holding power to support their head. Babies of this age group adapt to do the following mitigated movement, the action of householders should be more gentle.
◊ Game name: chasing puppy
◊ Game intention: train baby's creeping speed and facility; train baby's neck movement ability; train baby to tell about the direction of voice.
◊ Game processes:
(1) Baby, dad, mom bend over the bed together, mom shouts "chasing puppy, chasing puppy", and rapidly creeps on.
(2) When mom has chased the baby, dad should hold a toy ahead to creep along, saying "puppy, come and chase dad, wow, wow." At this time, mom says to the baby, "baby, go and chase that." The baby is attracted by the toy, and will rapidly chase that.
◊ Householder hints:
(1) This game should be carried under the situation that the baby is full, and his energy state is very good, and he has no illness.
(2) The field of creeping should be spacious, it's better to carry it out on the ground.
◊ Game: looking for toy bricks
◊ Movement contents:
Mom sits beside the desk making child sit on mom's legs, put a small thing such as a toy brick on the desk. When child looks at it, smash the small thing with cup. Then intentionally put the child's hands close to the desk. If the child moves or holds up the cup, and has the mind to look for the toy brick, the game has finished.
◊ Movement benefits:
Train the child to feel existence of the object and the ability to search the object. By snaping and holding larger objects (not the small and dangerous objects), train the child's finger muscle.
◊ Game: tearing paper, nipping paper
◊ Movement contents:
Mom sits beside the baby, prepare a piece of blank paper for the baby. First, Give paper to the baby to play, if baby initiatively tears it, you can't intervene it. You can induct the baby to tear larger paper into smaller one. If the baby doesn't tear it, wait until after the baby ramdomly plays for a while, induct the baby to put strength onto the paper with different direction of forward and backward, tear the paper. Then you can also induct the baby to nip the broken paper piece by piece, to put into mom's hand or pocket, small box. Then the game has finished.
◊ Movement benefits:
Train the development of fine action of baby's muscle, and also train the baby's hands and eyes harmony.
◊ Game: beating
◊ Movement contents:
You can choose a "ball box" that especially for training, also you can choose toys that baby likes, such as a little bigger toy bricks and so on to carry out this game. You can let the baby knock up and down with a single hand, also let the baby beat two objects each other with both hands. Mom should pay attention to choose safe toy.
◊ Movement benefits:
Let babies develop movement ability of the hand section. At the same time, let them feel the power of striking one another.
◊ Game: equal feeling train
◊ Game intention:
To train babies' time and space concept, develop their equal feeling.
◊ Game courses:
(1) Mom holds the baby in her arm shaking on the swing, or sitting in the swivel chair, or holds the baby to go sitting on the slide.
(2) Putting the baby on the tick, parents respectively drag both ends of the tick to shake slightly.
◊ Affection hints:
(1) Be careful when doing these games.
(2) Mom shaking on the swing should be gentle and slow. There is no need for mom to go up to the slide. She only needs to hold the baby in the arm sitting at the slide mouth, sliding down and sitting on it once by once.
(3) In the course of shaking small tick or bedsheet, mom and dad should try to be slow, both hands should grasp it to avoid that the baby is frightened or falls down from the bedsheet because of rapid speed or without tightly holding the bedsheet.
◊ Game: reverse for three steps
◊ Movement contents:
Prepare toys and soft mat whose material is safe and healthful. Let the baby lie on its belly on the soft mat, with two elbows outspread to maintain the upper body. Dad should put the toy before the baby to amuse him trying hard to exercise his body forward to fetch the toy. When the baby's two arms support the body to crawl his body forward and when the baby will reach the toy soon, mom pulls back the baby's two legs, making his body as even-groveling style backpedal. With parents' comfortable language encouragement in the game, the game is repeatly carried out. The baby will enjoy it very much, it's suitable to last for 10 to 15 minutes.
◊ Movement advantages:
It assists baby's limb to become mature and it's elbow holding power, exploit largo vision space, accelerate the body feeling and development of balance feeling. Notice that don't put much strength when reverse, produce more happy atmosphere, encourage the baby to challenge the difficulties and overcome the difficulties.
◊ Game: recognise "1"
◊ Game contents:
When fetching biscuit, candy and so on for the baby, parents should give the child only one piece. At the same time, first prick up first finger to tell the baby "this is 1". Make the baby imitate you to hold out one finger, then give him another one to show adimiration. Once you give all kinds of objects later, you can do it like this, and ask the baby "how old are you?" Teach him to prick up his first finger to show that he is "one", and with vocalism companion.
◊ Movement advantage:
Establish primary number concept.
◊ Game: feeding mom
◊ Game contents:
While feeding the baby, mom also can give the baby a spoon at this time to alow the baby's spoon to fill round and round in the bowl (Mom concerning with cleariness may give the baby a overclothes to put on, and spread a mat cloth, don't be afraid of dirtying the baby and don't allow the baby to practice it.) Little ty little, mom can encourage the baby to fill a bowl with rice to feed him by himself. Also mom should encourage the baby to feed for her. Mom's encouragement makes the baby feel that he is capable, thus he will be more interested in learning to take care of himself.
◊ Movement advantages:
Encourage the baby to imitate, cultivate the baby's muscle controlling power in the course of learning to use tools, cultivate the baby's confidence and independence.
◊ Game: remparting high
◊ Movement contents:
5 to 10 pieces toy bricks or toys(small boxes and so on) that are easy to ramparted high, mom should sits playing with the baby, the mom first stores up high, while storing up, saying:"Remparting high", it attracts the baby to do actions like mom does. At the beginning, mom's action should be slow, making the baby fully feel the action of mother's effort of controlling when storing it up. Try best that the point of verge neating. The baby may not do it well at once, but he will gradually realize this.
◊ Movement advantages:
Train the hands and eyes harmony, exercise the controlling power of small hand muscle, cultivate the absorption ability. Mom should encourage the baby to feel the happiness of success from the game.
◊ Game name: chasing puppy
◊ Game intention: train baby's crawling speed and facility; train baby's neck movement ability; train baby to tell about the direction of voice.
◊ Game processes:
(1) Baby, dad, mom bend over the bed together, mom shouts "chasing puppy, chasing puppy", and rapidly creeps on. At this time, the baby will rapidly creep on.
(2) When mom has chased the baby, dad holds a toy ahead to creep along, and says "puppy, come and chase dad, wow, wow." At this time, mom says to the baby, "baby, go and chase that." The baby is attracted by the toy, and will rapidly chase that.
◊ Affection hints:
(1) This game should be carried out under the situation that the baby is full, and his energy state is very good and has no illness.
(2) The field of crawling should be spacious, it's better to carry it out on the ground. If creeping on the bed, parents must care about the baby's safety problem, prevent the baby from falling off during the course of creeping.
(3) There should be no hard toys on the field creeping, for fear that they will hart the baby.
◊ Game: recognise pictures
◊ Game contents:
Parents should pick out some pictures on which has baby's fimilar objects. First let baby watch the picture and then let him watch the objects. By repeatly comparing and watching, the baby will rapidly connect the picture and the corresponding objects. Finally, mix pictures that the baby's familiar picture with other pictures, let the baby find out. If the baby can do this, you should praise him with a loud voice to boost up the baby's confidence and studying interest.
◊ Movement advantage: train baby's understanding, memory and recognising ability.
◊ Movement name: baby movement gym
Intention: By some passive and initiative movement, it can not only improve the growth and development of baby body,but also it can develop his brain, nerve system, muscle and so on. Also it can help and improve the development of baby's action. Setting-up exercises is one way of communication between mom and baby, which can establish good parents and baby relation.
Rules:
1. Parents and baby do together, the action should be correct and on the beat.
2. Cooperate privity, good mental attitude of winning.
Prepare: small bed, operation VCD, music tap, recorder
◊ Movement name: baby creeping
Intention: Because the game needs baby to watch toys correctly, with hands and legs doing it together, it can develop baby's ability of eyes, hands, legs coordination. creeping action can improve the body muscle movement and train baby's brave and strong volition.
Rule:
1. Baby can creep towards the object with parents' coordination.
2. When creeping, baby's belly leaves the ground, with hands and knees creeping for 6 metres, who first reaches the termminus will win.
Ready: soft mat, waving bell.