Games to play with babies

0-3 month

Touch is almost a language for infant. (早期的活動主要以嬰兒的自我認知為主。)

infant massage, stretching out

facial expressions

dance with my baby, airplane baby

mirror games

-        Smile

-        Shake different parts of your body

-        Make faces with silly sounds

-        Make sounds with your lips

-        Make animal sounds

-        Rock back and forth

3-6 m

swat the toy

target practice

peekaboo

babbling with baby

6-9 m 會坐了，活動能力增強了，花樣就多了

shake rattle and roll

dumping delights

switching hands

play ball

fingerpuppet

litte drummer

cushion mountain

where’s the toy

bottle role

sand man

fine motor skills

Small and large motor skills develop separately. Even though they require the same physical foundations, the two skills advance a little bit at a time.

Activities:

-        Give your baby a variety of safe objects to play with. Lile measuring spoons, small balls and small toys.

-        Put an object in her hand and encourage her to drop it

-        Give her a container to drop her treasures into and the take them out
-        Encourage her to give you an object and then be sure to give it back
-        See if she can hold two things in the same hand

Cause and effect:  Switch on and off the lights

Hand release skills:  Three blocks two hands

Old fashioned toys and games strengthened cognitive, motor and language development.

-        Blocks, beads, peekaboo, where is the ball

9-12 m

creativity and originality

1.       pretend a banana is a telephone. Say “hello banana, u taste good.”

2.       ask the baby ”would u like to talk to the banana?”

3.       enjoy it together