By: Stephanie Zepeda
Children begin learning how to interact with their environment from birth. There are many activities that parents can do with their children to promote cognitive development. In this post, we will offer simple activities that can be done at home or on-the-go to boost a child's cognitive development with respect to their age group.
Infants: 0-3 months
- Read to your baby.
- Talking to your baby. Parents can narrate what they are doing to their baby.
- Singing to your baby during bath time.
- Rattling toys in their view. Mobiles can be hung over a baby's play pen.
Infants: 3-6 months
- Playing with objects and offering age-appropriate toys.
- Touching different textures.
Infants: 6-12 months
- Playing peek-a-boo while waiting at the doctor's office.
- Stacking objects and examining cause and effect by touching the objects to topple them over.
- Placing different objects in a water bottle and rattling the bottle to see the different noises they make.
Toddler: 1-3 years
- Imitating and solving real-life situations through pretend play.
- Working on puzzles of different shapes and sizes.
- Touching and grasping objects of different textures.
- Singing a favorite song or learning a new song together in the car.
- Practicing mimicking and identifying animal sounds.
- Reading stories: although toddlers cannot read, they can practice flipping pages and pointing at different images throughout the book.
Young Child: 4-5 years
- Pretend play as doctors, mommy and baby, teachers, or grocery shopping.
- Playing "I Spy" in the grocery store.
- Identify rhyming words.
- Create alternate endings to a story read from a book.
- Sorting and grouping items: children can sort flatware by placing spoons and forks in the respective locations.
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