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Toys To Boost Body Part Naming in Tots
Looking for proven ways of teaching toddlers about body parts using toys? The right ones prove to be very helpful for toddlers. These child-friendly toys will help them learn and remember the names of different body parts. Even the complicated ones like knees, ankles, shoulders, and more!
Tired of crooning “One little, two little, three little fingers?” Nursery rhymes and songs are surely helpful in introducing the names of different body parts, but then, they aren't enough. Bring in bright, easy-to-play toys, which teach the names and functions of various body parts. Along with enjoying the whole process, your little one will learn the human body vocabulary much faster. Here are the most favoured toddler toys for naming body parts.
Toys that Help 21-Months-Old to Learn about Body Parts
A Winding Doll:
Little kids love playing with dolls, especially the ones that move. Toddlers are best educated about the human anatomy with the help of dolls. So, get that winding doll that walks and says a few words. With a doll as a teaching aid, you will find it easy to show how ‘legs’ are useful for walking, or why ‘eyes’ turn when the ‘head’ moves left or right. Similarly, if your kid’s play pen has a boy-doll that starts drumming after being wound or activated with a play button, use it to show how ‘hands’ are needed for drumming, or ‘fingers’ make it possible to hold the sticks firmly.
Wooden Body Puzzles:
One good way of teaching toddlers about body parts using toys is through puzzles. These educational toys are much loved because of their child-friendly designs and catchy colours. Such puzzles are available in both anatomies- a girl's and even a boy's. So, to begin with, pick the one that matches your child’s gender and go ahead with explaining that to avoid any confusion.
Plush Toys:
Get cuddly and colourful plush toys in the shape of hands, heart or eye balls. Tots will love to compare their own body parts with their plushies. Besides, the touch and feel of this toy will make it impossible for the child to forget that particular body part.
Sound Books:
These oft-purchased toy books have sound panels installed in them. Upon being touched at the right spot, they make specific noises to help your child relate. For example, there are snoring sounds, sneezing sounds, yawn sounds etc. With the help of these sound based books, parents can help their kids learn more about the names of various body parts and their specific functions and sounds.
Anatomy Board Games:
Buy an anatomy board game and encourage your little one to play with you or her older siblings. She might not get the hang of it at the very onset, but once familiar, she is bound to participate actively and begin rattling off the names of various parts of the human body.
Once toddlers learn the names of human body parts, you will find them standing solo in front of the mirror, busy discovering their own body parts- especially the ones that they have learnt recently. Such is the strong association between toys and body parts naming! Read more
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0 to 2 months gross motor milestones and development delays
Motor development is a very important aspect of babies development. Motor development takes from head to foot, from the midline of the body that is head and trunk and later to the arms and legs.
Motor development proceeds from gross to fine motor milestones. Motor activities help babies to learn and use their bodies, to gain confidence as they master these skills.
0 to 1 month:
At birth, when babies are placed on stomach, they immediately turn their head to one side this is one of the first gross motor skill that the baby develops. This development of turning their head sideways helps to clear the breathing passage.
This is the first activity in which babies try to raise their head and neck against gravity and is usually seen within one month after birth.
Problems involved:
Unable to clear the breathing passage when put on his stomach.
How to help your baby:
Place baby on your lap, show a toy from sides and encourage him to turn his head towards the toy.
Place baby on his back, speak to him or dangle a moving colourful toy or ring or make some sound on the side to which you want the baby to turn. Repeat the activity on both sides so that baby can turn equally well in both directions.
Place baby on stomach, apply firm finger strokes, pat on the muscles at the base of the skull and in between the shoulder blades. It will activate the neck muscles to turn as well as raise the head.
0 to 2 months:
Generally babies by the age of one month move their arms and legs against gravity. By kicking their arms and legs, babies learn about various parts of own body, and the effect it can create on the environment. This is the first play way method of learning about cause and effect phenomenon for infants.
Problems involved:
Frog position or hypotonic child
Hypertonia or crossing of legs
Increased tone or stiff child
How to help your baby:
You may help your baby to learn this skill by doing bicycle movement, this can also be done during diaper changing time.
Tie attractive sound making anklets and bracelet with bells on babies hands and legs. Baby will be encouraged to move his legs and hands as the bells makes sound.
Suspend a crib gym across babies bed so that his kicking feets will strike it and produce a noise and this would encourage the baby to repeat the activity.
By the time baby is three months old you would notice that he holds his head steady in midline while on stomach. This is the time where head control happens.
Gross motor development plays a vital role in babies development as it helps in development of motor skills, fine motor development and cognition development. Once baby is born one needs to keep a track of how development proceeds Month by month in babies so as to understand if any developmental delays are there or not. Read more
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