Now that your child is getting older you are able to do more
activities with them. It’s really important that you interact with them and do
fun things with them. Even though they are young they really enjoy doing things
with their care givers. One fun activity that we like to do at our daycare in
the infant room is doing art with them. We do special projects with them which
ties in with the season or holiday. We do a lot of art that involves painting
with their hands and feet. The cool thing is that you can use their feet and
hands into a lot of different ideas. The art project is really made by them. Especially
with fall being here, there’s a lot of different neat things you can do with
them. Such as drawing a tree branch and painting their hands and putting them
on the tree as the leaves. With Halloween just around the corner they’ve done a
lot of activities. A fun activity is to take black construction paper and white
paint, and paint their feet with the toes towards the bottom of the paper. Then
take a black sharpie and make the eyes and the mouth. Now you have just made a
ghost. Another great decoration is pumpkins, and you can do that by painting
your child’s hands. So you take orange paint and just paint the inside of the
palm of their hand, and press it on the piece of paper, and take pinky or
finger beside the pinky and dip in brown paint for the stem of the pumpkin. All of you child’s arts will be just be the
most adorable even though they are little and don’t think they could do art.
They make an awesome artist. We do a lot of different art crafts in our infant
room. These are just a couple of ideas that I thought I would share with
Halloween just around the corner.
Another
thing that we do with our infants is that we take them out for stroller rides
when it’s nice. They love feeling the nice breeze and being pushed around. This
gets them out of the closed in room and giving them fresh air. It doesn’t have
to be a long walk, it could just be around the block. They will enjoy every
minute of it. Sometimes it’s a good idea if you’re planning on going a little
ways to take a cup of water and a little snack such as puffs. Most children love
puffs and you don’t have to worry about them choking and it’s really easy to
put a few on the tray of the stroller.
We
found out over this past summer that our infants loved water. So when the rest
of the center had their splash day, and if it was nice enough they took them to
have their own splash day. They put them in their water diapers and took them
outside. We put water in containers that they could sit and play with the
water. They had the greatest time, they laughed and giggled and had a blast.
A fun,
cheap easy activity that your 3-6 month old baby loves and is easily
entertained by for a long time is blowing bubbles. You can even make your own
bubbles. Just take dawn dish soap and water and put it in a container and have
a small wand and blow bubbles. They love it and could sit there looking at
those bubbles float and pop in the air. It gets your child just a talking a
giggling!
It’s so
cute and impressive to see what your child can do and are at such a fun age
that you can do a lot of fun activities and entertainment with your child at
this age. Be creative and le your imagination run.
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