With young children their attention span isn’t very long, so you need to be creative to keep their attention for as long as possible, especially when you are trying to teach them something. An activity you can try is a tissue paper collage. All you need is some tissue paper, copy of letter you are working on, such as A, glue stick and scissors.
With a new school year beginning children will be learning names of new students in their classroom. This activity assist the children and it’s a fun activity in the process. To get started, have the children get in a circle. Each child takes a turn. One child says, “have you seen my friend?” Then they describe what their friend, which is another student in the class, has on. Another child says, “I’ll find him for you”, so then they say the child’s name that the first child is talking about. If correct then that child gets to take a turn and describe another child. By doing this all the children learn each others name and do it in a way that is fun.
When should you switch your baby to table food? I am in the process of transitioning my 8 month old to table food. Is this too soon? I don’t believe it is. He is showing interest in what we eat and he is wanting to eat when we eat. I have started him out slow on things like mixed veggies, some mashed and some cut really small. I have given him mashed potatoes, which he loves. I have to still watch out for things that contain rice and rice flour because I still beleive he is allergic, test or no test. This is one reason why I began giving him table food, also. I noticed he didn’t have a wide variety of baby food he could eat because most stage 2 and 3 contain rice flour.
There are many fun games and activities you can do with your baby/toddler, but one that most babies love is singing songs. They can be some of the common children songs or you can make silly songs up that makes your child laugh. Some of the common songs I have found that young children like are:
1. The Wheels on the Bus
2. Old McDonald Had a Farm
