Gross Motor:
Play Tunnels
Learning walker
Spacial awareness:
Wooden skittles with balls
Hand Eye Coordination:
Big cardboard building blocks play for infants and toddlers
Threading with Cardboard tubes made from toilet / kitchen rolls or we could use pool noodle pieces too!
Fancy straws and felt circle threading
Play dough base with straws and pasta stacking. You can also use coloured pasta shells to make it more interesting and include sorting by colours activity.
Instead of straws and pasta, we could also use noodle and cheerios.
Jumbo tweezers, ice cube trays and some giant pom pom do the trick :)
https://theimaginationtree.com/4-diy-baby-and-toddler-toys-for-motor/
Other activities:
Stacking Cups/Rings/Blocks
Bead Mazes/ Activity cubes (You can decide what to choose based on your play space area at home)
Transferring items from one container to other / muffin trays
Dropping pom poms through toilet role tubes
A pounding bench ( more appropriate after 8 months)
Sensory:
Sensory Ball sets ( like bumpy, soft, hard, crinkly)
A musical set ( like xylophone, rattles, bells, egg shakers, tambourine, drums) Reflecting Mirrors
A rolling Tube / Bottle Sensory Wooden Blocks
Sensory bottles (With liquid, glitters, buttons etc)
Sticky ball with masking tape (inside out)
Musical Egg Shakers with Easter eggs and cereals / grains and taping them after filling
Make magnetic pom poms by attaching adhesive magnets using glue guns to the bottom of pom poms and let the child stick them on the fridge one by one.
Spider web treasure basket filled with toys and webbed with threads.
Cognitive:
Knob / Peg puzzles
Treasure Baskets ( You can make one with simple things available at home or buy them but no choking/small parts)
Color paddles/Rainbow petals/Rainbow colored wooden toys
Any pretend play sets
Flash cards with pictures
Fine Motor:
O Ball is what this is called, is a favourite toy for infants as it has a lot of holes and hence a great gripping toy. Filling O Ball with different textured fabric and making the child pull them all out is a great fine motor activity for infants.
You could also fill a plastic Baby wipes box instead of O Ball.
Simple sorting game with big button (use either plastic or wooden) and you could use this for sorting by colours or shapes. Fun activity!
Montessori Inspired activities for 1 year olds
Other activities:
As We discussed before, Tummy time, rhyme time, story time and massage all are all very important in their daily routine.
You can makeover a small baby play area with any toys lying around in home that are appropriate for their age. They can include a treasure basket, sensory items, mirrors and items mentioned above with a small soft mat/rug lying on the floor.
Coming to treasure baskets you can create as many as you wish with different sensory materials to stimulate their senses. (You can make themed baskets like different textured balls, fabric materials, wooden items, steel etc..,)
Emptying things from a Jar/basket and putting them back. Dropping pom poms/ posting items into a container/box. Sorting activities Exploring painting with edible finger paints Playing with sensory bags Listening to funny noises Using scoops to empty/fill glasses.
Bed Time Books:
I am not sleepy I am not cute Goodnight Moon If Animals kissed Good night Sleep tight little one Its bedtime for little monkeys Hush little polar bear The GoodNight Train The runaway bunny Hush Little Baby Counting Kisses Kitten’s first full moon Bear snores on Goodnight, good night construction site Kiss Good night Song of Night Sleepy bunny Good Night, Gorilla
Regular books:
The very hungry caterpillar Where’s spot Peepo My big animal book/ any picture illustrated books Polar bear, polar bear what do you hear? Brown bear, brown bear what do you see? The very quiet cricket Board book If you give a mouse a cookie Head,shoulders, knees and toes Ten little fingers and ten little toes Owl Babies How do dinosaurs say Good night? Giraffes can't dance The very busy spider Green Eggs and Ham The rainbow fish The giving tree Where the wild things are May I please have a cookie Chicka chicka boom boom Love you forever Corduroy Five little monkeys jumping on the bed Dear Zoo Guess how much I love you
Touch and feel books
Baby touch and feel Animals Pat the bunny Elmer’s world touch and feel Usborne Touch and feel books (That’s not my series) Bedtime Peekaboo Tails Little penguin Ladybird touch and feel books
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