The video demonstrates how to make jigsaw puzzles for toddlers using pictures, cellotape and scissors. You can draw your own pictures or use ready-made pictures from newspapers or magazines. Start with two or three large puzzle pieces. As the child gets older you can make the jigsaw puzzle more complex by varying the number and size of pieces.Read More →
This video explains how play supports children’s overall development and in particular how it supports brain development. Play is like fireworks in the brain as it activates so many different areas of the brain all at once. Read More →
Set in India, this video describes the language skills children acquire by age 3 and demonstrates how caregivers can promote language development. The main 3 practices highlighted are 1) noticing the child’s interest; 2) getting involved; and 3) naming and taking turns talking about what you both are doing. Daily routines and shared book-reading are highlighted as especially good opportunities for language learning.Read More →
This video demonstrates how to make a hanging mobile using sticks, yarn and scissors. This is suitable for children 0 to 6 months of age.Read More →
In this video a grandfather and a boy around 12 months roll the ball to each other, while the grandfather “narrates the game”. Grandfather aligns the narration with the boy’s movements, and repeats his words several times. Read More →
This video describes the social and emotional skills children acquie in the first three years and how caregivers can support children’s social and emotional development. It emphasizes the importance of responsiveness, routines, and peer interactions, in helping children develop their social and emotional skills.Read More →
This video describes the language skills children acquire from birth to age 3 and suggests what caregivers can do to support language development. Read More →
¿Sabías que las Figus promueven la capacidad de análisis y clasificación de los objetos? Para armar las Figus tenés que recortar formas geométricas, como triángulos, cuadrados y círculos de distintos tamaños y colores, de cartulinas, cartones o goma eva. Colocá las figuras geométricas frente al niño o niña, explicándole los nombres de cada forma y color. Invitale a agrupar por forma, color o tamaño y luego a armar objetos imaginarios o conocidos, como por ejemplo, una casa, un árbol o animales.Read More →
Inmediatamente después del nacimiento y en los primeros años de la vida, el cerebro realiza conexiones entre las células cerebrales a muy alta velocidad, y absorbe todo tipo de experiencias: interacciones físicas, las sensaciones del bebé, cómo el bebé procesa lo que está ocurriendo, lo que oye, lo que ve, el contacto físico. Read More →
This video describes the thinking skills children develop in the first 3 years and suggests what caregivers can do to support their children’s acquisition of these skills.Read More →
This video shows the stages of baby talk from birth to 12 months, from first sounds to first words.It explains what is going on behind the scenes, how babies communicate before they can talk, and how interactions with adults are beneficial for children’s language development. Read More →
Este vídeo explica e ilustra cinco etapas de interações de “ação e reação” que são fundamentais para a prestação de cuidados responsivos e necessárias para o desenvolvimento do cérebro. Os cinco passos são: 1) compartilhe o foco; 2) apoie e incentive; 3) nomeie; 4) revezem-se; e 5) pratiquem finais e começos.Read More →
In this video a facilitator plays with a child under age 3. She lays out pieces of different colored cloths between herself and the child, and invites the child to pick one. The facilitator then proceeds to pick the same color. After a while the child picks out the same cloth color herself. Facilitator talks naturally with the child instead of teaching colors in didactic manner.Read More →
In this video a facilitator plays with a child under age 3. She lays out pieces of different colored cloths between herself and the child, and invites the child to pick one. The facilitator then proceeds to pick the same color. After a while the child picks out the same cloth color herself. Facilitator talks naturally with the child instead of teaching colors in didactic manner.Read More →
¿Sabías que el Chiki Chiki ayuda a estimular la capacidad del bebé de ver, oír y agarrar objetos? Para jugar este juego solamente necesitás una botella transparente de plástico, a la que podés introducirle botones de colores, piedritas, etc. Luego, tenés que asegurarte de cerrar muy bien la tapa y sellarla con un pegamento no tóxico. Este juego debe realizarse siempre en presencia de un adulto para seguridad del bebé.Read More →
This video summarizes children’s physical development from birth to 3 years and how physical development supports children’s cognitive development. Examples of what caregivers can do to support their children’s physical development are provided.Read More →
Did you know that making music with household objects helps baby’s hand coordination, movement and strength? To play, give your baby objects that are available in your home, such as clean and safe plastic pots and pans. With a pair of spoons you can make the selected items sound like a drum set. Show baby how and then let her create her own music or make up her own game.Read More →
This video explains how “serve-and-return” interactions between a child and an adult work to reinforce the development of connections in the child’s brain. It also touches on how lack of adult feedback and passive activities such as screen time can negatively affect child development.Read More →
The experiences we have in our earliest years can affect our health over our lifetime. This video describes what children need to build a good foundation (like the foundation for a house). It also explains toxic stress and the negative impact toxic stress has on health and development. Read More →
¿Sabías que el Bada Bum ayuda a la coordinación, movimiento y fuerza en las manos del bebé? Para jugar al Bada Bum dale a tu bebé objetos que están disponibles en tu casa, como ollas y potes de plástico limpios y seguros. Con un par de cucharas podés hacer sonar los elementos seleccionados como si fuera una batería. Mostrale al bebé cómo y luego dejá que cree su propia música o invente su propio juego.Read More →
