Play and learn: 12 leisure activities for your baby

Play with your baby It is one of the most rewarding and fun activities to take advantage of while this stage of your child's childhood lasts, which happens very fast. The times of game They help us to feel more united because we develop emotional ties that will last a lifetime.

In addition, the game allows your baby to explore the world around him, helping him in his cognitive development. Here are some ideas to play with your baby. Surely you will spend good times that will last in your memory.

Cognitive development activities to play with your baby

- Artistic activities. In these ages they respond very well to certain activities, such as painting, which can be done on the table or on a large piece of paper on the floor. With the children we will use finger paints, sponges or rollers and after two years they will be able to use the waxes alone. In general, they do not last long with this activity so we will have to be with them, motivate them, draw us and applaud their works of art.


- Manipulation games. Once we see that they have been painting for a while, we can change their activity and offer them snaps, puzzles or puzzles. In the case of babies, it is interesting to offer objects or toys that they can manipulate, take inside and outside, discover boxes with objects inside ...

- Stories to be able to display and put stickers: they like it a lot and take advantage of fine psychomotor work when teaching them to pick them with their fingers, as well as the spatio-temporal organization when teaching them to stick them in the right place.

- Reading should be a daily activity. It is very enriching for them to read stories teaching them the illustrations since they are babies. Then they will be the ones who want to turn the pages or tell the story.


- Various crafts: there are many resources on the internet today to be able to carry out manual works with children from a very young age and with very affordable materials for all parents, such as painting tweezers or building dolls with egg cups.

- Homework: from a year they can help us to collect clothes in the cupboards, to order drawers ... For them it is a game and at the same time we give them their protagonist space, while we teach them how to order and clean.

Musical activities for babies

- Hear. All children love music with what we can take advantage of to give them songs and teach them to listen.

- To sing. It is interesting to combine it with others sung by us accompanied by gestures. They will watch us closely and try to imitate us and repeat them. The more times we repeat the songs, the more fun they will be and the easier they will learn them.


- Dance. Dance with them while we listen to music. This moment is very fun for them. They like to see us dance, reproduce the same movements ...

- Relax. Work relaxation through music.

The use of digital devices

TV / DVD / IPad: controlled in time and type of projected images. It is not bad to use it to work the attention, to calm them or to relax them in certain moments, but it is not necessary to abuse or create them a constant dependence. It is easy to fall into excessive use. We must try to avoid them and make good use of these resources.

María Campo Director NClic-Kimba.

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