How to improve your baby's motor skills? What activities are there?

It is important to assist children in their multi-faceted development. Motor skills are the most basic and important ability, and are an important skill for children's limb balance and coordination. So how to improve your baby's motor skills and what activities are there?

Activities to improve children's motor skills

Stacking Blocks and Cups: Every baby should have one of these. Stacking is a great activity to improve hand-eye coordination. Show your baby how to stack and cheer for him to try. This activity is suitable for babies aged 11 to 13 months.

Push and pull cars: What baby doesn't love playing with trains or cars? Any toy that can move quickly is a favorite for babies. And it's also a great toy to improve their motor skills and manual dexterity. This is suitable for toddlers aged 12 to 14 months.

Sprinkling and moving things: Any activity involving water and splashing can capture your baby's attention. You can use a sprinkler to water the flowers, or have him scoop water from the bathtub into another basin with a cup. Any activity that allows your baby to move and move things can improve motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Point out body parts: This activity is also educational. Teach your child the different parts of the body and ask him to point them out. Make sure your child touches or points to the part you are asking about. You can start teaching your baby when he is around 12 months old.

Draw or doodle: What better way to use your baby's hands and brain than drawing? You can let your baby paint with his fingers at 8 months old, and then develop non-toxic crayons and colored pencils. This can improve their fine motor skills. Start this activity when your baby is around 11 to 13 months old.

Benefits of improving children's motor skills

Develop fine motor skills: When your baby draws, he or she uses multiple muscles in his or her hands, so it can help develop his or her fine motor skills. You can provide your child with a variety of tools, such as crayons, pencils, or even finger painting.

Use imagination: Children can use their imagination when drawing. You will find that children can draw freely, drawing the underwater world at one moment and the treasure map at another.

Training children to concentrate: When children draw, they will naturally concentrate on drawing, which can also train children's concentration ability. Over time, children will understand that concentration can help them complete tasks.

Expressing emotions: Drawing is a common way to express emotions. Therefore, when children draw, they can naturally express their thoughts and feelings, and can also calm their emotions.

Stages of motor development in children

The first stage is from birth to two and a half years old.

During this stage, the child's nervous system is developing and some basic motor functions are being formed, such as crawling, walking, grabbing, hitting, pushing, blinking, shaking head, talking, making various expressions, etc. All these basic abilities will become the foundation for the child's future intelligence and physical development.

The second stage: from two and a half years old to five and a half years old, also called "early childhood".

At this stage, normal children should have a set of basic motor functions, including jumping, running, kicking, throwing, catching, sliding, turning, etc. These seemingly simple movements are the important foundation for the normal development of children's motor skills and intelligence in the future.

The third stage: the transitional functional motor period of "late childhood".

When children are six years old, generally speaking, their basic motor skills should allow them to enter the third stage normally. This stage is the traditional children's sports stage. Children participate in various children's sports, such as children's football, children's basketball, etc.