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Activities to do with your 11 month old
Here are a few ideas on how to encourage development and learning in your 11 month old baby.
Your baby is nearly a toddler! He or she is learning new things every day. Here are some great ideas for everyday learning.
- Help your baby understand her world by regularly naming objects in her world, singing familiar songs and reading books.
- Play simple clapping games such as holding his hands and clapping them to the simple rhythm of songs such as twinkle, twinkle little star. This helps develop coordination and rhythm.
- To encourage the development of sharing (right now your baby is still too young to fully understand this), play giving and taking games with her toys. Babies at this age love to hand you things and get them back. This sets up the idea for later development of sharing. This is also a great way to model manners by saying "Thank you" when you receive the toy back.
- To help develop social skills use one of your baby's favorite stuffed toys to practice. Encourage your baby to kiss the bear goodbye or give her a hello hug. When leaving the house you could tell her to wave bye bye to the teddy bear.
- If your little one has taken his first steps he may be ready for a push along toy.
- Allow your baby time to practice holding small blocks in her hand and to play with the idea of dropping them. This is a skill babies love to learn. The discovery that they can deliberately open up the fingers and drop an object is a much loved one! Be prepared to pick up lots of toys over and over and over again as they master this skill.
- Give your baby opportunities to practice putting food in her own mouth. Usually at this age they prefer to grasp food with the fingers. Hence the name finger foods.
- It's a great time to set up some social play experiences for your baby. Although your baby will still want to stay close to you she will enjoy watching other babies play.
- Babies at this age get a real sense of fun from exploring kitchen cupboards. Set aside a cupboard with a few pots and pans that your baby can explore and play with.
- Let your baby turn pages in books. Board books, vinyl or cloth ones work best at this age. This allows a baby to become familiar with how books are read, by turning the pages.
- Provide your baby with a few new and novel toys. They enjoy exploring new and interesting objects at this age.
- Read books which show concepts such as big and small, up and down, in and out.
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