Activities for infant ages 8 months to 12 months old
Topics
Introduction
As far as I know, most of the babies like to play in the kitchen. They want to explore each and everything and do something or the other with available items. By doing so, they are giving us a signal to note and observe them. From there on, we can very well set up the appropriate activities based on their interest. Both these are activities happened by observation. While he was in the kitchen, he has started to do some play, and based on that; I have set up an activity. Eager to know, what are the activities which we did? Scroll through.
Activity Name:Transferring object
Benefits
Fine motor development, Sensorial development
Age
After 8 months
Materials needed
Ping pong balls, vegetables, basket, building blocks, ladle, spoon or any baby safe items, yarn
This is the one which he did. He pulled out the vegetable basket, throw it upside down, and started to transfer all the potatoes from floor to the basket.
- After he did so, I gave him spoons, cups, and a big vessel. So he was transferring one by one from floor to the vessel and vice versa.
Spider web transfer activities
- To make it a little tedious, we can try this spider web transfer activity.
- Take a basket with holes and tie yarn or thread, as shown in the picture.
- Keep all the items inside or outside. Let the baby transfer all of them.
- Let baby keep their hands in between the yarn and take the items out.
- While doing it, he was playing with the yarn as well—great sensory activity.
Activity Name:Container game
Benefits
Fine motor development, Sensorial development
Age
After 8 months
Materials needed
Different kind of containers, water bottles.
- Provide different kind of containers. Make sure the corners are blunt.
- Let baby to fix the lid on the container. Don’t expect them to fix the correct one . It is for exploration.
- This one also discovered by him, so i have kept the container arrangement on the shelf for better access.
Summary
Always observe the child and their activities. They clearly tells us what they are interested. Observation helps to understand the child right from their birth .