9/3/2023 0 Comments Daily activities for daycare![]() ![]() We can’t stress enough how important music is, and how easily it is to weave into your routine. Helping infants develop gross-motor skills is an important role for daycare providers. Gross motor activities for infants include sitting, standing, crawling, lifting, throwing, kicking, rolling, and eventually walking as they transition into toddlerhood. Gross motor skills are activities that involve large muscles and the whole body. ![]() Alternatively, you might use smaller scraps of fabric to make bean bags for older infants to toss in gross-motor activity games. Try a variety of fabrics, like corduroy, denim, velvet, wool, and fleece, and use these for tummy time or other floor games. You can use large swatches of different types of fabric to make texture mats, similar to carpet mats. Introduce different textures to infants for a unique sensory experience. If you have a mixed-aged daycare, preschoolers can even make homemade instruments to share with the infants. Let them mimic your movements with the instruments or shake, rattle, and roll at their own pace. Give them safe, supervised time with rattles or children’s instruments like maracas, egg shakers, tambourines, xylophones, rain sticks, hand bells, hand drums, or whatever you have. It is also important for them to experiment with sound and music. You can sing to them or play classical music in the background during other activities. There are many ways to incorporate music into babies’ day. Music is beneficial to children of all ages, and music can help babies with auditory and speech development, which can improve vocabulary and creativity. Repeat after the baby, and allow them to delight in the sounds. You will be repeating after the baby! When they are in a good mood, babies make all kinds of coos, giggles, and noises. Other activities to do with mirrors include making funny faces and seeing if the infant can mimic you, naming body parts (Baby’s eyes, Baby’s nose, etc.), or playing simple games like Peek-A-Boo. This will also help them with word association and vocabulary. You can also put simple toys (dog, cat, etc.) in front of the mirror and ask similar questions. Ask questions like “Who is that?” or “Where’s Baby?” (using Baby’s name, of course). ![]() Let them point, coo, or touch the mirror. Mirror, Mirrorįor an easy visual activity, you only need a baby-safe mirror. Food and dietary needs vary greatly for infants, so any meals or tasting activities should ideally be care-planned with parents first. ![]() Sensory activities for infants should encourage listening skills, visual tracking, touching, and feeling. Babies develop and reach milestones at different rates, so choose appropriate activities, adjust them for each infant’s current stage, or file them away for later use when your infants are a little older. Play-based activities can also be as involved or as casual as you need because each infant and daycare setting is different. One of the biggest benefits of play-based activities is that they don’t require a lot of special equipment or supplies. When you develop a routine and activities for infants in your daycare, you can focus on playful activities that help infants learn how to move, communicate, socialize and learn about their world. Children, especially infants, learn through play. When parents choose a daycare for their infants, they look for a safe and nurturing environment, but they may also be interested in the curriculum or activities you will provide to encourage development. Early childhood is considered a critical period for brain development, and as a caregiver, you must engage infants in activities that will boost their visual, language, and motor skills. They are constantly reaching new milestones and learning about the world around them simply by engaging with it. It’s no secret that infants develop at astounding rates during the first year of life. ![]()
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