Cognitive development activities: 12 to 18 months
The first half of the second year of your baby’s life-from 12 to 18 months, is a powerful moment of learning. The small probably already dominates or attempts to master the walk, beginning the first words, their desire to explore are large.
There are many small games and activities you can do with your baby to help their cognitive development at this age.
Reading 20 minutes a day. Read to your baby is very important. Create a routine of daily reading time. Surely you ask the same book several times, your baby is absorbing a lot of important information. Find out about special booklets for this age.
Talk to your baby. Talk a lot with your child, talk about what they are doing at every moment, though he still can not answer fluently.
Recite nursery rhymes. Rounds and nursery rhymes, and repetitive verse, are a delicious way to help the cognitive development of the child. You see how easily memorized.
Listening to music with your child. Sing songs and listen to music at home and in the car. Try to choose music that you do not mind repeating many times as it surely will again request a song over and over again. At some point your little one starts to sing all those songs.
Teaching about shapes, numbers and colors. In the everyday task of the house there are countless opportunities to name your child colors, numbers and shapes around them. The color of his toy, the amount of bananas left, the form of a block: these data are constant learning.
Teaching about the parts of your body. Appoint his arm, his head, his nose in the morning Vestil, show the parts of your body and ask where they are: those little games stimulate memory and cognitive development.
Educational toys. Socket sets, to match similar shapes and are special to this age. Find a store of educational toys which are best for the age of your child.