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5 educational activities for your children under 5 years of age
At this time it is very common for children to spend many hours with their parents at home, and sometimes it becomes difficult to think of activities that they can do together.
We present you 5 educational activities that will help you spend time with the little ones in the house and in the processes, in order to stimulate their development.
What is the importance of activities at home?
In the early stages of children, games are not only their way of entertaining themselves, but they are their way of learning and developing.
Getting involved and creating educational activities with them enhances their proper development, strengthens their motor skills, creativity, imagination and independence.
How to promote development in your children from home?
The game is the best tool to share and teach our little ones. They are able to express themselves through games and with them understand the rules and the world around them.
They are able to understand simple number concepts, develop language, reading, and comprehension. Activities that involve making use of play dough, paper cutouts, and music enhance our children's creativity.
5 Activities you can do without leaving home
1. Reading
You can choose books with simple plots and lots of pictures that you can read while your child follows the story through the pictures.
Create different voices or expressions for the characters, and thus you will keep him interested, allow him to express himself and ask questions throughout the story.
At the end of the story, ask him what he liked the most, you will be stimulating his memory and his creativity by doing this activity with him.
Likewise, his vocabulary will expand, and he will learn more ways of expressing language, ask him to describe the scenes he sees.
When he shows his interests, you can ask him what story he wants to hear, make him a participant in the process, and he will feel like continuing, this reinforces his reading habits and will make him feel like his special space.
2. Balancing activities
They can play to stand for a few seconds on one foot, squatting or taking steps on the balls of their feet.
This will be enhancing balance and therefore motor skills, it is also a very fun activity.
You can put on music to dance that will stimulate your child's spontaneity and stop the music to freeze like statues, this will be very entertaining, and their balance will be enhanced.
3. Finger activities
Activities such as folding paper and creating figures with how airplanes, boats or others enhance children's fine motor coordination.
You can also use other materials that you have to hold with your fingers or precisely place them somewhere during the game.
This is also enhancing his expressive and artistic ability, give him materials such as paint, colors and papers to create and manipulate.
Teach him the names, the textures, the use of blunt scissors, and how to hold the materials, this will strengthen his skills.
4. Teach him the colors and shapes
They can play with plasticine and paints to create different shapes and learn different colors, you can integrate this activity with the previous one if you wish and create a more complete game.
You can also create figures and name them so that your child can color them inside, when he already identifies some figures and colors you can ask him to paint them in specific colors or ask him what figure it is and what color he wants to paint it.
As well as you can play to identify the figures that are in the drawing of a small house.
It is important that parents celebrate their achievements and learning, they do not drink to wait only for successes, it is a process, and it should be fun for both.
5. Self-care activities
These activities are very important as they develop their independence and teach them personal hygiene skills.
These give them a sense of ownership over themselves and their care.
It also makes them feel safer and makes them more socially independent and responsible, it is important that these activities are gradually introduced.
Their skills will improve, and they will be able to do them better, we must be patient and not pressure them in the process to enjoy it.
You can, for example, show him step by step how to brush his teeth, how to shower, comb his hair or get dressed.
This can also be done through play, ask him to try it first with a toy and ask him what the steps are, this will develop his autonomy in hygiene activities and will be beneficial for his social interaction.
With this, your child can feel capable and sure of himself and his abilities. Remember that all great emotional support will depend on the attention and care that we provide to our little ones.
