How to occupy children at home? 100 ways to take a child

What classes and entertainment can be offered to children at different periods of their development?

• Moms of children of any age constantly puzzle over what they should occupy their favorite crumbs. Firstly, the child is very often bored, and he begins to be capricious
• Secondly, mom does not even have the opportunity to devote a moment to herself and household matters. You need to understand that the baby is not interested just to sit and do nothing
• He needs to do something, he is interested in everything new, unknown and fascinating

What remains to do with mothers? How to diversify their children's leisure? How to take them for at least a few minutes?

How can you take small children?

• Of course, the best occupation for children is walking in the fresh air. This is both informative and good for health. During such promenade, it is necessary to show the baby different objects, call them clearly and talk a little about them. The baby will learn to imitate the voices and fish of animals faster if they come across to him on the street, and his mother will make characteristic sounds
• If the child is already walking, then he needs to be attached to the team. Therefore, it is better to go to playgrounds, where children are the same in age. In the process of communication, the baby is formed by personal qualities - he is trying to defend his position and at the same time cost friendship. Children who often communicate with their peers begin to talk much faster
• If the weather on the street does not allow for a walk, then you can spend time at home. Of course, the good old TV can come to the aid of mom. While the baby looks at his favorite cartoon, his mommy will have time to do something, however, when watching the kids of television, you need to observe some frames. Until two years, the child is better not to watch TV at all. If the baby really likes any cartoon, you can see it for no more than half an hour
• After two years, children are allowed to watch a TV or playing on a computer for no more than two hours. Moreover, these two hours should be divided into several visits with long breaks
• Children of all ages and floors always really like games with the ball. They can be organized both in the fresh air and within the apartment. Only now at home it is necessary to observe some caution so that the beloved mother of the vase does not fly from the table

• Many kids love to listen to music and dance. Such a pastime should appeal not only to the baby, but also to its parents. After all, the first dances of children often look so funny
• As for such creativity as drawing and modeling of plasticine, this can be experimented at any age. True, acquaintance with plasticine should take place under the sensitive guidance of parents, because the baby may try to try unusual material to taste. If the first attempt was unsuccessful, and the baby was not at all interested, there is no need to despair. Everything has its time
• Drawing today you can do at any age. For infants, there are special finger paints. They can be drawn, even sitting in the bathroom. The canvas will naturally serve the bathroom itself. Such paints are very easy to wash off and do not eat into its surface
• You can draw on paper. The baby will be very interesting to use his fingers as a brush. He can leave small circles on paper, and mom will need to call the color of the paint in which the baby dipped his finger

How can you take a child in 3-4 months?

3-4 months is the period when the baby has just learned to hold his head and turn over. He can already hold rattles in his hands and wave them in all directions.

The horizons of the crumbs also expanded - it can see at a distance of one meter. This allows him to examine the mobile over the bed and reach for his hand. In addition, the baby begins to talk a little. True, hooting and agukia can still be called a conversation, but this is one of the steps to such a long -awaited word “mother”.

The main tasks of this period are preparations for crawling, sitting and conversation.

• In order to push the baby to crawl, you can use unfamiliar and familiar objects. Putting the baby on the tummy, you need to place the toy of interest to him in front of him
• The kid will reach for her, and you can pure him a little at the back. For this purpose, you can use also jumping or springy objects. For example, a ball or a wooden painted egg. Having reached the subject, the baby will see that he had slipped away from him again, and again will try to get him
• Be sure to give your pet rattles of various colors, sizes and textures. He will be interested to consider and feel them. In addition, the sound made by them will delight your "button"
• A great occupation with the baby at all stages of its development are songs, rhymes and nursery rhymes. It is desirable that Mamul sang or spoke them, leaning toward the baby. He must see her lips and learn the art of pronouncing various sounds. In addition, for the baby there is no sweeter music than the beloved and native mother voice

• A nursery rhyme with the names of parts of the body will help the development and knowledge of your body. Mom can pronounce the rhyme and at the same time show, touch or pinch the part of the child’s body in question
• You can diversify the horizon of the baby by planting it just a few minutes in pillows and leaning on the bolder of the bed. If we are talking about a girl who cannot be planted, then she can simply be drew around the apartment, pointing to objects and calling them. It is only worth clarifying that objects should be at a distance of not more than 90 cm from the eye of the baby. By the way, children are very fond of looking at their reflection in the mirror
• Kids at any age love to play hide and seek. Mom closes her face or face with her hands, and opening him, says “ku-ku”. As a rule, the crumbs laugh and seeds from this.

You can play with the children in the "goat-gate" or "forty-white."

How to occupy a child at 5-6 months?

• If the baby already knows how to sit, you can play with him in the sandbox. Only instead of sand can you use a variety of cereals. Such games should be held under the strict control of parents, since the child in any case will try to try what he was given, to taste
• Experienced mothers recommend using only salt at first. Having tried it once, the baby is unlikely to still want to tasting bulk mixtures. Such a lesson develops fine motor skills very well

• Children at this age also love to crush and tear paper. Do not regret a couple of leaves for your baby. It will be very interesting to watch how he copes with this task perfectly
• In appearance, it will be similar to how office workers are preparing for the arrival of the tax inspectorate. True, such classes should also take place under supervision. As a rule, in the end, the baby will solve all the traces and try to eat paper
• As for colloquial speech, parents should continue to sing the crumbs of songs, tell poems and nursery rhymes
• It is desirable that any actions of the parents be accompanied by comments. It is necessary to explain to the child that now his mother is changing or washing him
• At 5-6 months, some kids are already starting to sit and crawl. But not all. It is necessary to continue with them exercises with attempts to reach your favorite toy, only you no longer need to push it - you just need to give it to your legs to lean on the arm or a bed of the bed
• A child at 5-6 months likes to play the front of the Ladushki, "Fort-Belarusian." Moreover, he can already fulfill all the movements himself

• A hide and seek game may now look a little different. You can cover with a handkerchief or diaper some object and ask the baby where it has gone. Then you need to tear off the veil from the object and say "ku-ku"
• Perhaps the baby will not immediately understand what exactly is happening, but over time he will follow a certain chronology and pattern in your actions. As a desired object, you can use something that makes a sound. So the baby will hear the sound and navigate it where the object is located
• You can play hide and seek in another way. When the child is in the crib, you need to leave the field of vision for a second and ask from under the crib “Where is Mom?”. Then you need to look out and say “ku-ku”. The kid will be incredibly happy and may laugh cheerfully

How to occupy a child at 7-8 months?

At 7-8 months, almost all the kids are already sitting and trying to crawl. These skills and aspirations can be used. You need to continue games with the movement of toys.

• For a child who is already sitting, it is much easier to find interesting tasks and games. For the development of fine motor skills, you can continue to give it various sizes of container with loose cereals. If the baby manages to hold a spoon in his hand, then you can show him how to pour a cereal with it
• If he doesn’t succeed, then you can give him a large container where he can pour all the cereals in turn, and then try to separate them from each other. Such a game is also called "Cinderella"
• In addition to the cereals, in a box or a jar (not glass), you can apply different in shape, color and size of objects that could be very interesting to the baby. Let him take these items alternately, and then folds them back
• An excellent effect is obtained from a metal can of baby food. The objects, falling to the bottom of the banks, hit him and make voiced sounds, which also attracts the attention of the child. If the items in the bank are very small, it is better to hold games under the supervision of parents
• Kids aged 7-8 months are very fond of scattering and watching where and how a thrown object will fall. If you put the baby in the crib and tie the objects thrown out by the threads or ropes, you can teach it to independently return objects to the crib
• By the way, very often the same children like to do with a cork on a chain in the bathroom. Throwing it overboard the bathroom, then they are happy to pull the chain, and the cork reappears before their eyes

• Having put the child on the floor, you can roll the ball with him. Dad can sit opposite the crumbs, and mom to insure him from behind. Dad will throw the ball to the baby, and mom help him return him back
• As for creativity, you can already introduce the baby with wax pencils. Naturally, the baby will not immediately become a great artist. It is not a fact that he will do something on his own. At first, mom will have to drive the child’s hand with a pencil in her with her own hands. However, over time, the baby will more and more show interest in such classes
• At 7-8 months you can start a game with cubes. It is desirable that the cubes are soft (plastic, rubber or rag). You can show the baby how to build a tower or lock. Of course, at first its function will only be to destroy the just built object. But over time, he himself will want to hoist the cube on a cube, and create turrets
• Small children are very amused by the cups-lodges. They with great pleasure disassemble their stack and try to collect them again in a heap

The bathing process can also be turned into a fun pastime. For this, in addition to ducks and dolphins, you can use special bathroom stickers, sponge and all the same cups.

The baby can sculpt the stickers on the walls of the bathroom, and then also joyfully tear them off.

Game with a sponge:

1. We buy one or more lips of different colors and shapes
2. We lower the sponge into the water, take it out and squeeze it out in front of the baby's eyes from it.
3. Let the baby do the same on your own

Cups

• We take cups-lodges or ordinary one-time cups
• We collect water in them and pour it from one glass to another
• Let the baby try to pour water yourself

How to occupy a child at 9-10 months?

By nine months, many kids are already crawling and trying to stomp a little. To speed up the walking process, you need to improve crawling. To do this, you can build a variety of obstacles for the child in the form of pillows, yourself, rollers or other improvised means. You can purchase a tunnel for him.

Not all kids are so brave to climb into the tunnel the first time. To stimulate courage in a child, parents sometimes have to act as an example and climb into the tunnel first.

Since the baby at this age loves to tear and crush the paper, you can invite him to play with toilet paper. In addition to the development of motor skills, toilet paper provokes a child to follow a running roll and chase him. Such a game can captivate the baby for a long time and free his mother.

At the age of 9-10 months, kids try to imitate their parents in everything. Therefore, during this period, you can give a baby (regardless of gender) its first doll. The child will display on the doll all those actions that mother does with him (feed, kiss, iron, comb, put to bed). To begin with, of course, mom will have to show the baby how to do it.

You can begin to develop an associative series in the baby:

1. We put two different or distinguishable in color in front of the baby the same figures
2. We take out the same figure from behind and ask the baby to find her a couple
3. In the process, we explain to him by what signs these items are a couple
4. You can use cubes, balls, socks, shoes as objects as objects

Complex game of hide and seek

• Pour a rather high layer of cereal into a deep container
• In the groats in front of the baby we instill one or more objects
• Let the baby himself try to find these objects
• You need to be prepared for the fact that the cereal will be scattered or specially scattered around the room

Playing with paints

1. We take two transparent cups with water and paint
2. We dip the baby’s finger, for example, in red and lower it immediately in one glass, and then into another
3. Immediately add blue paint to one of the glasses and observe the changes
4. In the second glass we drip green paint and wonder why the colors differ
5. Next time, the baby can choose the colors that he wants
6. Over time, he will be able to predict what shade it will turn out when mixing different colors

Since plasticine is still quite dangerous for children of this age, you can try its analogue - salty dough. The kid can crush it in his hands, pierce his finger, leave the imprint of his palm or even a foot in the test. Of course, all these manipulations should occur under the strict control of parents.

How to occupy a child in 11 months-year?

11-12 months-it is time for many undertakings-speech, walking, independent food and hygiene.

• As for hygiene, at this age, the baby can already have his personal toothbrush. It makes no sense to buy toothpaste yet - let him first learn to just brush your teeth
• At first, the brushing of the teeth will occupy literally a couple of seconds - two movements in one and the other. But over time, the baby will imitate his parents and fierce the teeth with a brush for a long time. Be sure to praise the baby for his desire for cleanliness
• More and more children at 11-12 months are interested in independent movement around the apartment. If in the walkers his movements are constrained, then there are no restrictions in walking without walkers
• Now he can calmly turn on and turn off the light, stretch to the door handle and keys in the lock, table and that lying on the table. Therefore, in such a crucial period, parents should be very accurate and prudent - you need to remove dangerous, beating, cutting and stitching items away
• Many mothers and dads have to tie the arms of the cabinets so that the baby does not open them. In order to avoid such actions, it is better to allocate one cabinet in the kitchen and in the room, where there will be safe, but at the same time interesting things for crumbs
• It can be multi -colored nylon covers, folded in a cardboard box, colored plastic or metal bowls, mugs and spoon. Forks and knives, even plastic ones, it is better to remove it away from the child

• As for the kapron covers, the baby can sit with them for a long time - he really likes to take them out of the box in turn, feel and put them back in the box. The same can be done with lids from plastic bottles. By the way, 11-12 months is a suitable age for the ability to surround and tighten the lids on bottles. Kids are trying very hard to learn this difficult matter
• To develop speech, you need to continue to sing a baby and tell poems with nursery rhymes. The baby will already be interested in colorful books with large images. Reading the book, it is better to put the child in his arms so that he can see both the picture and mother’s mouth during the pronunciation of words. That is how the kids learn to say - they need to understand how the tongue should be located between the teeth and what shape the lips acquire when pronouncing certain letters and syllables
• Closer to the year, you can start learning the crumb of games with sorters. First you need to show several times and voice him that where to insert in order for the figure to find himself inside the toy. It is advisable to apply to the hole of the sorter and the inappropriate figures so that the baby understands that this form of the object will not pass into the window. At the same time, you can wave your head negatively and say that this choice is wrong. Soon the baby himself will begin to navigate in the forms and colors suitable for certain holes
• Children at this age are very fond of puppet theaters performed by their beloved parents. Therefore, you can purchase or sew a couple of dolls dressed on the hand, and show the baby representations. At the same time, it is not necessary to hide behind the screen - the baby will look at the moving toy and perceive the words said by mom for the speech of animals
• In order to make a toy for a puppet theater, you can use an old sock. You only need to sew or glue a nose, eyes and mouth to it. Everything else depends only on your imagination

How to take a child in 2-3 years?

The age of 2-3 years is a great time for creative classes with the baby. All known methods can be used - crayons, plasticine, paints, pencils and felt -tip pens. Today, special coloring pages for kids are sold in stores. You can find the same pictures on the Internet and just print them.

It is advisable to monitor children at the time of their work, since wallpaper, doors or floor can become a canvas for their creations.

At 2-3 years old, the child can play with the designer for a long time, building high towers and locks.

• During all these classes, the baby can include children's songs and sing them with him. In this case, you can also dance. The baby will really like the well -known “dance of little ducklings” or a parody of “Swan Lake”
• The so -called “developing boards” for children are gaining great popularity today. Examples of such boards can be found on the Internet. Order such a board dad or grandfather, and you will just have a lot of free time
• On the developing board, you can arrange several options for locks (jacket, hook, hinged lock, etc.), lightning fastener, light switch, bell, bell, phone disk and a lot of all that interests your baby. Under small doors with locks, you can stick your favorite cartoon heroes of the crumbs. Having dealt with a complex castle, the baby will be rewarded with a meeting with his favorite

At the age of 2-3 years, many parents begin to take their kids to various circles-dancing, swimming, struggle, studying foreign languages. A small child is like a sponge. He absorbs everything very quickly and studies everything. However, it is worth monitoring the state of your crumbs. If the baby looks sluggish and tired or does not want to go to classes, it is better not to force him to do it.

In general, it is advisable for the child to spend more time in the fresh air. On the street, especially in the warmth of the year, it is much easier for the baby to find a lesson. It can be a sandbox, swings, children's playgrounds, which today are located in almost every yard. Playing in the fresh air, the baby simultaneously has fun and tempers his body.

How to take a child at 4-5 years old?

At 4-5 years old, it is very difficult for a child to sit in one place. You can invite him to draw, wait or make an application. Applications can be done using purchased magazines in which you just need to cut items and glue them to the designated places.

• For applications, you can also use improvised means (dry or fresh leaves, flowers or their petals, cereals, coffee grains, etc.). Mom-ruler always has a lot of various decor elements, from which they, together with the child, can create an interesting picture or craft. Subsequently, such a masterpiece can decorate a children's baby
• As a material for crafts, cones, acorns, matches and plasticine are often used. Of these simple materials, you can make a whole zoo
• Children aged 4-5 years, especially those who themselves poorly draw, will like drawing under a carbon copy. Everyone can feel like a sort of Picasso or gave. Also, the artists-nums are suitable for drawing by points. Such blanks can be found in the store, or you can create the mother herself, taking as a basis any simple drawing, and using tracing paper
• You can give the kids pencils and a sharpener - they will be happy to imprison each pencil, and even several times

Children at 4-5 years old are very curious and they are interested in everything unusual. You can give out a baby and give the opportunity to consider everything under it. A microscope will be very instructive and exciting at this age.

Today there are special children's microscopes on sale. You can consider anything in such a miracle apparatus. As a rule, the kids are very surprised at what they see, because the items of the microscope familiar to them look completely different.

How to take a child at 6-7 years old?

• Since at the age of 6-7 years, children either prepare for school, or are already starting to go to it, it is better to let the baby take a break from brain activity in their free time. It is also desirable that the child moves as much as possible, since regular sitting at the desk in the same position can adversely affect the posture of crumbs
• Parents need to give their baby a more walk and play sports. Dancing, karate, football, basketball, volleyball, visits to the pool are suitable for boys for this age.
• Volleyball and football are also recommended for those boys whose growth does not exceed the average. Such sports will help them stretch up and grow to the middle, or even higher growth. The sections of hockey and tennis are considered very fashionable today

Girls at 6-7 years old can be given to the same dances, gymnastics, to the pool. Tennis classes are very popular among young ladies today. Each girl dreams of becoming the second Maria Sharapova or Anna Kournikova.

Summing up, it is worth saying that no matter how much parents are busy, they should always devote time to their crumbs. After all, it may happen that when you finally cut off time and want to play the ball with your baby, it may already be uninteresting to him. The computer and tablet will become much more interested in it, and you will not have time to enjoy its awkward first movements.

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