Thursday, 1 January 2015

Hand actions

Good for age: 14 months (but older and younger kids might enjoy it, too!)

Skills developed: hand and eye coordination,  imagination, vocabulary increases

What you'll need: just yourselves.

Detail: Make your kid sit facing you. Show her your tongue and say "aaa" . See is she copies. If she does, cheer her up.

Then try clapping and say clap. If she also does the same, give her a kiss.

Then try more complex actions like
"flap your wings like pigeon"
"turn your head"
"bend your neck"
"Raise your shoulder"
"Wave your arms like a monkey"
 "Clap like a seal"
"thump your chest like gorilla"
"wiggle your toes"
"Feeling shy? Cover your face"

If she is not copying you, don't get disappointed. Try it some other time. She may just laugh. That is actually a good sign as this shows she is interested. Keep repeating. Eventually she will copy. By this activity you can teach action, birds name, animals names, body parts and most importantly relation between each of those.

After sometime you copy her.

We used this book too while doing this activity.

From Head to Toe Board Book - Eric Carle

It has picture of animals doing various actions. You can do it with or without the book. 
The book does add extra fun to the activity. We have the paperback version of the book.
Adding few pics for your reference:


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