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Babies need vigilant guidance when coming into contact with new materials and understanding their different senses. There are various approaches to making sense of these senses, a choice of which is dependent on the preferences of the guardian or parent. Most approaches used today are more scientifically inclined and most include one form or another of sensory activities for infants.
Before commencing on the actual activities, it is important to consider and evaluate several factors that especially concern the child safety during play. Among the key factors involves the child health, where any materials he may be allergic to or that could hurt him should be removed. Having a pediatrician on standby could aid with emerging issues and emergencies.
Age grouping of the children is key as they are in different stages of growth and development. The toddlers should be taught together, since they also require more attention. Preschool aged children should be taught together too. This group does not require as much attention, but will require different toys and techniques, as will they bigger kids who require physically and mentally challenging activities.
Every sense in the kid body needs to be targeted. The order is not important, but access to all senses is crucial. The children could be taught the importance of sight by blindfolding them and asking them to perform a certain task while blindfolded. This could be walking, eating or even drawing. Peripheral vision tests could also be incorporated here.
When targeting their auditory sense, there are many activities which focuses their attention to only using their ears. The child can be blindfolded and told to follow familiar sounds. As such, they gain motor skills from auditory response. Motor skills may also be strengthened from singing and dancing games, especially when dancing to a known song.
Among the most used sense by a child is touch as they hold and push things around. As such the feel of different textures and ability to hold and discern objects of different shapes and sizes is quite important. Sensory activities for such may include wrapping the nude child in a soft blanket, laying them in a box of balls, finger painting, guessing an object based on how it feels, walking barefoot in the yard so as to feel the leaves and grass and such like activities.
Sensory activities targeting the sense of taste need to be approached with a level of caution and sobriety. Babies, and especially toddlers are naturally inclined toward putting almost everything they come into contact with in their mouth. To deter them from this, activities such as engaging them in cooking and baking should guide them on what is good to put in their mouths and what is not. Taste games, making crafts from snacks and using snacks and treats to count are just examples of other possible fun and learning activities.
A child sense of smell needs to be gradually improved over time with exercises and fun games. Since most toys do not have distinctive smells, most parents and guardians will depend on artificial scents to help the children. Spiced sprinkles are added to finger paint and kids glue to aid in smelling well. Special dough which may have either peppermint, lavender or citrus scents may also be used for smell exercises.
Before commencing on the actual activities, it is important to consider and evaluate several factors that especially concern the child safety during play. Among the key factors involves the child health, where any materials he may be allergic to or that could hurt him should be removed. Having a pediatrician on standby could aid with emerging issues and emergencies.
Age grouping of the children is key as they are in different stages of growth and development. The toddlers should be taught together, since they also require more attention. Preschool aged children should be taught together too. This group does not require as much attention, but will require different toys and techniques, as will they bigger kids who require physically and mentally challenging activities.
Every sense in the kid body needs to be targeted. The order is not important, but access to all senses is crucial. The children could be taught the importance of sight by blindfolding them and asking them to perform a certain task while blindfolded. This could be walking, eating or even drawing. Peripheral vision tests could also be incorporated here.
When targeting their auditory sense, there are many activities which focuses their attention to only using their ears. The child can be blindfolded and told to follow familiar sounds. As such, they gain motor skills from auditory response. Motor skills may also be strengthened from singing and dancing games, especially when dancing to a known song.
Among the most used sense by a child is touch as they hold and push things around. As such the feel of different textures and ability to hold and discern objects of different shapes and sizes is quite important. Sensory activities for such may include wrapping the nude child in a soft blanket, laying them in a box of balls, finger painting, guessing an object based on how it feels, walking barefoot in the yard so as to feel the leaves and grass and such like activities.
Sensory activities targeting the sense of taste need to be approached with a level of caution and sobriety. Babies, and especially toddlers are naturally inclined toward putting almost everything they come into contact with in their mouth. To deter them from this, activities such as engaging them in cooking and baking should guide them on what is good to put in their mouths and what is not. Taste games, making crafts from snacks and using snacks and treats to count are just examples of other possible fun and learning activities.
A child sense of smell needs to be gradually improved over time with exercises and fun games. Since most toys do not have distinctive smells, most parents and guardians will depend on artificial scents to help the children. Spiced sprinkles are added to finger paint and kids glue to aid in smelling well. Special dough which may have either peppermint, lavender or citrus scents may also be used for smell exercises.
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