What to play with a 4 month old baby. Educational games for children of the fourth month of life

4 months is so little. For an adult. In 16-18 weeks it is impossible to even master any sport or play a musical instrument perfectly. Look what your baby has achieved! This is not the little bag that you brought from the maternity hospital, this is already a full-fledged little man! How to develop a child at 4 months so that he is smart, healthy and pleases mom and dad with a happy smile?

What should a 4 month old baby be able to do?

Your baby has almost ceased to be bothered by colic and gas, and parents have a short respite before a new serious test - teething. Now you can direct all your efforts to the diversified development of the child, provided that he is healthy and his mental and physical development corresponds to his age. The pediatrician will definitely confirm this, but you can approximately estimate these parameters at home if you are attentive and observant.

Loss of newborn reflexes

Now the child develops acquired skills, and unconditioned reflexes fade away. This indicates that the baby is developing normally. Carry out small tests to determine the extinction of reflexes during the newborn period:

Galant reflex

A newborn bends his back if you run your index finger along the baby’s spine from top to bottom, and to the left and right of the midline of the spine at a distance of up to 1 cm. By the fifth month, this reflex should be absent.

Robinson's grasp reflex

It is replaced by purposeful grasping and holding of objects.

Toe curling reflex

When massaging the feet, the newborn curled his toes inward, but now he should fan them out.

Moro reflex

When the baby is lying on his back, you clap your palms on the surface where the “test” is located to the side at the level of the head. If earlier the baby sharply spread his arms to the sides, and then brought them together as if he was hugging himself, in the fifth month of life this reflex, if not completely extinguished, then noticeably weakened.

Bauer reflex

The Bauer reflex should also fade away: if a newborn baby in a position on his stomach felt support on his heels (an adult’s palm, deliberately pushing), he would try to push off and crawl away. The persistence of this reflex after 5-6 months indicates a pathology in the development of the baby’s central nervous system.

Brief table of skills (physical, emotional, auditory, visual, speech)

What should a four-month-old baby be able to do: a table of average indicators of normal development:

Skills:
physical	Holds your head firmly while in an upright position and lying on your stomach Rolls over from stomach to side and back Lying on his stomach, raises his chest, leaning on his arms bent at the elbows When trying to give it a vertical position with the legs supporting it, it transfers some of the weight to the legs Holds rattle with fingertips and base
emotional	Smiles consciously Reacts actively, demonstrating a complex of animation at the sight of familiar faces Laughs enthusiastically Objects by crying in protest when an adult tries to take a toy away from him
auditory	Turns head towards sound Distinguishes between positive and negative intonation of the voice (smiles to a joyful and friendly voice, reacts to a loud, threatening voice with a wary look or crying) Recognizes familiar songs and sayings by actively listening to them
visual	Pays attention to small objects Follows with his gaze an object moving in front of his face in an arc at a distance of about 15 cm from one side to the other
speech	Pronounces some vowel and consonant sounds or combinations thereof, makes a snorting sound

Children who are ahead of their physical development can demonstrate many more skills and abilities - the table shows average values.

Height and weight of a 4 month old child (Russia and WHO)

WHO and domestic pediatrics have somewhat different views on what the normal height and weight of a four-month-old child is. The difference lies in the range of these parameters (WHO has a lower limit and a higher upper limit than Russia).

These parameters are average and, first of all, depend on the initial parameters at birth, on the course of pregnancy and the correct course of childbirth, as well as on genetic predisposition.

Anna, mother of five-month-old Darina: “My daughter was born large, 4.2 kilograms! At 4 months I weighed 8.5! The doctor scolded us and reproached us for being obese! But what can you do if everyone in the family is rather big: both me and my husband? Here is the same child! I didn’t give Darinka any complementary foods or supplements, only breast milk, but the weight still exceeds the parameters.”

How to help your baby develop fully?

Full development requires a comprehensive approach: a four-month-old baby must develop diversified - both physically and mentally. By introducing an element of play into your daily activities with your baby, you will make development not only successful, but also harmonious.

Educational games and exercises

Educational games for 4-month-old children will be good helpers for proper development. As a rule, there are no special and strictly obligatory games, just as there are no strictly defined times in the daily routine dedicated to games. You can include an element of playing gymnastics, massage, swimming, walking. Even before eating, you can play a little with the baby.

Physical development (gross motor skills)

At 4 months, the baby should already have fairly developed gross motor skills. This is not only an indicator of the child’s correct development, but also prerequisites for the development of fine motor skills, and, as a result, earlier speech development.

By the fifth month, the child’s tone of the flexors and extensors of the legs and arms is balanced, so movements are necessary to strengthen the muscles of the limbs. This way the baby will be more ready to crawl and walk.

Developmental activities are good to conduct when the baby is full (20-30 minutes after eating) and alert, then they will bring pleasure to both the child and you. While doing the exercises, count out loud: the baby’s auditory analyzer matures and a sense of rhythm develops.

“Swing all around!”

This exercise will help strengthen the joints and muscles of the hands. Starting position (IP): on the back. Place your thumbs into the crumbs' palms so that he squeezes them into a fist. Carefully spread the handles to the sides on a count of “one”, and smoothly lift them upward on a count of “two”. On the count of three, pull it forward and lower it. Repeat 5-7 times.

"Bike"

Add this exercise to your daily gymnastics; it strengthens the leg muscles and develops the hip joints.
IP: on the back. Holding the baby by the shins, alternately bend and unbend the legs, making smooth circular movements and making sure that the legs are parallel to each other.

"Airplane"

This exercise helps strengthen the muscles of the neck, back, shoulder girdle and trains the vestibular apparatus.
IP: on the stomach. Lift your child under your arms, face forward, and place your heels on your chest. Fly around the room.

Exercises for a 4-month-old baby on a fitball

"Pushers and rockers"

IP: lying on your back. Hold your baby by the shins. On the count of “one”, bend your knees, and on “two”, pull them towards his chest. “Three” - roll the ball back a little so that the legs straighten. Repeat 5-7 times.

"Palms to the floor"

IP: on the stomach. “One” - tilt the fitball, holding the baby by the butt and lower back, so that the outstretched arms touch the floor. On the count of two, return to the starting position. Perform the exercise carefully and only if the baby holds his head and back level well.

Development of fine motor skills

To make your child’s fingers dexterous and strong, able to cope with small buttons when it’s time to go to the garden, and to make your child a champion in putting together mosaics, start finger games now.

It has been proven that fine motor skills developed from the cradle make a baby a faster talker!

While charging, work the fingers of each hand in turn. Don’t just rub and massage your fingers, but say simple rhymes at the same time: this will develop the child’s hearing, memory and rhythm.

In the mouse house
There were 5 little kids.
One loved to eat
Another is to listen to a poem,
And the third is to take a walk,
And the two little ones should go to sleep.

Place your baby's hand in your palm, back side up, so that the fingers are extended. Grabbing each finger by the tip and holding it with light pressure by the nail and pad, bend it slightly upward, saying:

Guli-guli:
Once - big
Two - funny
Three - beautiful,
Four - happy
Fifth - baby
Shoo-shoo-shoo!(make a fist).

Let's go swimming? Don't rush to dive into the bath completely, play! And when the baby begins to sit in the water on his own, combine bathing and finger play.

"Fish-fish"

Supporting the baby under the breast, tilt it so that one palm fits into the water. With your other hand, grab the child’s palm so that you can freely bend and straighten the fingers from the index finger to the little finger at the same time. Sentence:

Little fishes, little fishes,
Plop-plop with fins!
Tails squelch-squish,
And they floated away into the reeds!

Do your finger exercises carefully! It is difficult for a child to keep them straightened; do not put a lot of effort into straightening your fingers - the joints are very fragile!

Emotional and social development of the child

For a 4 month old baby, communication is a great pleasure. He is not afraid of strangers and listens to voices with interest. The child likes to watch facial expressions. He will be happy to feel your nose and cheeks, stick his fingers in your mouth, and pull your hair. Use this interest for games!

"Ram-ram"

Butt heads with your baby, saying:

Early-early
Two rams
We met in the meadow.
Stand up straight
Two rams
And to each other
No goo-goo...

On the handles

Teach your child to express his desires not only by shouting. Are you being capricious? Before you take him, stretch out your hands to him, beckon him, forcing him to stretch out his hands to you:

Handles! Come to us!
Take the baby quickly!

Etiquette lessons

Etiquette lessons are important now! Teach your baby to say hello and goodbye to people. Every time you accompany your dad to work or your grandmother home, bring the baby to the departing person, performing a certain ritual-game of farewell. For example, pressing your cheek to the cheek of the person leaving, and then waving your hand:

Bye bye! Farewell!
Stop by often!

Evgeniy, father of seven-month-old Yegor: “I love it when my son greets me. As soon as I enter the door, Egorka is in his wife’s arms and stretches out her palm to say hello. I’ve greeted him this way since birth, when he probably didn’t yet understand that I was a dad and what this handshake meant.”

Vision development

By four months, a child’s vision perceives colors perfectly: natural colors are better, natural ones are yellow, green, red and blue. Pure and bright shades are preferable to halftones and multicolors. Don't go overboard with the variety of toys!

How to train your eyesight while playing?

Take a small bright ball. Place the baby on his tummy, and the ball in the baby's field of vision. Draw the child's attention to the ball, and then roll it from side to side so that the child follows the toy with his eyes. You can say:

Ball-ball, roll
Show your sides!
Oh, what a beautiful ball!
Come on, mom, hide the ball!
(you can hide the ball so that the baby notices the absence of the toy).

Concentration of attention

The following trick will help you concentrate your attention and develop your eye muscles. Untie all the pendants from the mobile (hanging bed toy) and replace them with nondescript, plain, one-color ones (you can fill pieces of nylon stocking with padding polyester and tie them like a ball). And tie one bright toy. When the baby watches the mobile, his eyes will be focused only on the bright toy.

Tumbler

Not only vision, but also coordination of movements is developed by mobile toys such as tumblers. Touch the child’s hand, rock the tumbler, and until it stops, the baby will not take his eyes off it, rotating his pupils from side to side, which means training the eye muscles.

Attach bright pictures (rags, stickers, even balloons) to the walls in every room where the baby is, and even if the baby can find bright objects on the boring walls in the bathroom or kitchen.

Developing hearing

Always talk to your child!

It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t understand anything about cooking borscht or ironing clothes: comment on your actions! This is the only way the baby’s hearing and speech will develop! It is very useful to rest your baby’s head against your cheek when you speak: he will feel muscle movement and vibration when pronouncing sounds.

No monotony!

Listen and repeat!

Let your child speak if he is vocal, and then repeat his “speech.” This will teach the baby to dialogue.

Less “bunnies”, more specifics!

Call your child by name, and not just affectionate words like “sunny, bunny, fish.” This way he will sooner begin to respond to the name and get used to it.

"Ding Ding"

Buy a bell! Shake it to the right side of the baby's head. When the baby turns toward the sound, move it to the left. Ring the bell from different places in the room, forcing your baby to look for the source of the sound.

Turn on the music

Music is needed not only for the development of aesthetic taste and musical ear: it develops children's hearing, has a beneficial effect on emotional development, and develops a sense of rhythm. Turn on the music and sing yourself: all kids like it.

Developing speech

As with hearing development, speech development is facilitated by constant communication with the child. Read fairy tales and poems, don’t make excuses that the child won’t understand or remember anyway!

“We often do not suspect that the most ordinary phrases and actions of his mother are imprinted on a child’s brain from birth,” writes the Japanese author of the book “After Three It’s Too Late,” Masaru Ibuka. “So mothers who constantly talk to their children have a strong influence on the development of children’s intelligence.”

“Bah? Or Ma?

You can reinforce the pronunciation of a specific syllable in a child if he hears it often. Try reading a poem using only one syllable, but changing the intonation. In this way, you can help ensure that the baby is the first to fully say the word that you expect from him.

"My voice"

Does your baby gurgle or babble for a long time? Take advantage of the moment, record it on your camera, voice recorder, phone, etc. If necessary, play the recording: the baby’s reaction to his own voice will be vivid!

"Repeat Mom"

We develop a child's speech by actively imitating his babble! After all, if mom speaks like him, then he can do it, like mom!

Cognitive development of a 4 month old baby

By learning about the world around him and himself, the child develops harmoniously.

“A variety of impressions received contribute to children’s cognitive development,” argues E.I. Turevskaya. in Developmental Psychology. - Adults surrounding the baby must satisfy this need for impressions and try to keep the environment interesting and not monotonous. The cognitive development of children living in a monotonous environment slows down somewhat.”

The four-month-old baby is interested in his own body. Help him with this!

"Where? Here!"

A game that helps you remember your child's body parts.
Ask: “Where are our pens?» (legs, tummy, nose, etc.)
And immediately answer: "Here!» (naming a body part)

"Let's fly!"

Body parts can be taught using this game. Take the baby’s hands in yours, wave them, saying:

“Let's fly, fly! On the head(on the tummy, ears, legs, etc.) sit down!» (press your palms to the named part of the body).

“Who is that behind the glass?”

It is useful to play with your baby in front of the mirror. Leave all superstitions aside - educational games with a mirror are educational and exciting. Show the reflection to the child, make a face yourself, kiss the child so that he can see the looking-glass mother kissing the baby: this way the child will be more likely to identify his reflection with himself.

Educational toys

Rattles or maracas

What toys does a 4 month old baby need? First of all, rattles, and the louder they sound, the better. It’s good if among them there are geometric ones (spherical, oval, rectangular - but without sharp corners!), and plot ones (depicting animals, people). A wonderful option is children's maracas. They have a comfortable handle, and they sound very loud. The baby will really enjoy shaking both hands to the beat of the music. The colors of the rattles should be bright and useful for developing vision: green, yellow, blue, orange.

Sensory mats

At 4 months, the child plays and spends a lot of time lying on his tummy, exploring everything that comes to hand. Children's rugs with sewn-on rustling, sound elements and toys made of different fabrics will be useful for the sensory development of the baby.

How to make educational toys yourself?

Educational toys for 4-month-old children can be made independently.

Sensory bags

Sew bags from fabrics of different textures (silk, plush, felt, cotton, etc.), fill with cereals. Such educational toys are useful for the development of a child’s sensory and fine motor skills.

Multi-colored caps

Attach lids from jars and bottles to a sheet of plywood of various sizes and colors. A child will definitely like this educational panel: offer it when the baby is lying on his stomach, he will reach out with his hands to the bright circles. Do not use toxic glue! Fastening with small self-tapping screws will be much more reliable (this will also give strength to the toy).

But before buying educational cartoons, think about it: don’t believe promises to make a child prodigy out of a baby, there will be much more damage to children’s vision!

Daily routine as an element of development

It is worth accustoming your baby to a routine from birth. Certain hours for sleeping, feeding and playing will bring order to the organization of the day for both the child and the mother.

Walks

By the age of four months, walks become longer, in summer - up to 3 hours, in winter - up to 2. Babies still sleep during the walk, so if the child is not sensitive to the rocking of the stroller and closes his eyes as soon as he is dressed, you can simply put the stroller on the balcony or a veranda, and mom can do housework.

Nutrition

The baby should be fed six times a day; equal periods of time between feedings allow the food to be digested and the stomach to rest.

Massage

It is better to carry out a massage twice a day, at the same time, the child will wait for this procedure, especially if the complex includes not just rubbing and stroking, but games and sentences.

It’s good if going to bed in the evening is a kind of ritual (actions repeated day after day): bathing, a “tenderness session” (stroking and kissing), a lullaby.

Conclusion

What should a baby be able to do at 4 months? Don't just hold your head up and turn on your tummy! He must be able to learn the most important thing: to enjoy communicating with the most dear people - mom and dad! A child of 4 months is a completely social being, pay more attention to his development, this will make it easier for the baby to fully enter the world of adults.
Develop while playing! After all, play is a child’s leading activity and an integral component of a happy and carefree childhood.

In addition to books on child psychology, you may be interested in the following:

• Glen Doman. "Harmonious development of the child."
• Evgeny Komarovsky. “The health of the child and the common sense of his relatives.”
• Irina Maltseva. "Finger games: From birth to 3 years."
• Masuru Ibuka. “After three it’s too late.”
• Maria Montesori. "Methodology of early development."
• Tatiana Strobykina. "Games and exercises for the little ones."

Video on the topic

The baby is 4 months old, and now this tiny bundle of happiness has become more awake, actively gurgles and rejoices at the appearance of his mother, and can already make some movements on his own, namely: rolling over onto his tummy from his back and grabbing small objects.

1. Activities for vision development
2. Physical development
3. Activities for vision development

Classes with a 4-month-old child include exercises to develop the child’s hearing, vision, and attention.

Activities for vision development

Already now you can slowly introduce the concepts of the basic properties of an object: size, color, shape - do not overdo it in your efforts - the baby is still too small to master a large amount of information. Children's memory at this age is quite short-term and in order to achieve results, and especially to consolidate them in the child's consciousness, a methodical and leisurely study of the material is necessary.

When choosing toys for your child, try to choose those whose colors are not too complex - children at this age prefer solid-colored objects, or painted in a maximum of two or three colors with clear boundaries; a four-month-old baby is not able to perceive variegated colors with complex patterns. The main task of parents is to be patient. Believe me, you will soon be rewarded for your efforts.

Physical development

A 4-month-old child already knows a lot and enjoys not only educational games, but also physical exercises.

Take the opportunity to do daily exercises - the older and more independent the baby becomes, the more difficult it is for the mother to attract him to physical exercise.

Very soon the moment will come when the baby will simply begin to crawl away during classes if he finds such a pastime not interesting enough. Mom needs to be more and more creative to entertain her baby. That is why massage and exercises should be carried out in the form of a fun game and certainly during the period when the child is most calm. Sing songs, smile more at your baby, combine gymnastics with playing “okay” or “horned goat” - let this pastime bring as many cheerful positive emotions and pleasure as possible!

In order to help your baby learn and strengthen the corresponding abdominal and back muscles, you can play “bells”: gently roll the baby on the bed. Several times, turning him over onto his stomach and back. Tell this little one a funny story about how he is a bun running away from his grandparents or a springy rubber ball.

We begin to carry out exercises to strengthen the arms and spine - let the child grab the index fingers of your hands and slightly pull him towards you. This exercise will help teach your child to sit. Of course, it is still impossible to sit a baby at 4 months - the child will master the skill by 6 months.

In general, any manipulations carried out with the child must be commented on out loud - in this way, you calm the baby and form memorable reactions in him to certain actions, and secondly, you give him undoubted pleasure by introducing an element of play into the simplest everyday moments.

Activities to develop touch and motor skills

A set of activities for a 4-month-old baby includes stroking and massaging arms and legs - stroke and kiss each finger while saying a funny rhyme. Finger gymnastics is very useful for babies up to a year old and older: it helps to develop not only fine motor skills, but also to activate those brain centers that are responsible for speech.

What to play with your child?

Simple and well-known poems about “magpie and crow” will be your first step on the path to independently pronouncing your first word.

Games with a 4-month-old child can be done using completely different materials at hand: let him touch pieces of various materials or unwind a ball of yarn - such exercises are aimed at developing motor skills and tactile sensations.

Remember that when using potentially dangerous objects in educational games for your baby, you should not leave him unattended for even a second. Show your child that different things make different sounds - knock on the overturned pan with your hand and then with a rattle, put a handkerchief or napkin in your hand - let the baby shake it and understand that this object does not make a sound.

Activities for vision development

A four-month-old baby will study his image in the mirror with great pleasure - at this age a reaction to reflection appears. Smile at the second baby in the mirror and wave your hand to him, do the same with the real child.

When wondering how to play with a child at 4 months, remember that the most important thing in the development of a baby is a creative approach and your full participation. Children to whom their parents pay attention, who are hugged, kissed, and talked to several dozen times a day, are calmer, more confident and sociable than their deprived peers. Remember this and show maximum participation to your child, no matter what age he is.

In this article we offer 12 original games that will make your leisure time with your child not only exciting, but also very useful.

Why is it necessary to play with a child?

Why exactly do you need to play with your child? Don’t just buy mountains of toys in the hope that the baby will somehow occupy himself and won’t pester you for an hour or two. And on a day off, take a break from your work for this very hour in order to tinker on the carpet, cut out figures from colored paper, chat about all sorts of nonsense, and read.

Communication with you gives a child much more than any mechanical “developmental” toy. Spending time with parents, loved ones, and grandparents, the baby grows up happy, emotionally healthy and smart.

Don't know what to play?

Are you bored of assembling a pyramid of cubes over and over again, and it’s no longer fun for your child? We have collected ideas for you that will help you unlock your child’s physical potential and develop new skills. 12 active gross motor skills, tasks to improve coordination and balance.

Through gameplay, you will help your child improve his speech and prepare him for a successful start in kindergarten and school. You will develop the art of communication, instill leadership qualities in your child’s character, increase his self-esteem, and orient him towards success.

It is in the format of play and fantasy that it is easiest for a child to reveal himself, express his feelings, dreams and desires, and get rid of fears. In addition, for example, acting out scenes and episodes from familiar fairy tales teaches the basic principles of polite communication: sharing, waiting for your turn, helping a friend in a difficult situation.

By creating a stimulating learning environment for your child, you help him reach his full potential.

Let's play!

But let's move from words to action! Below we provide descriptions of 12 different games for children from 3 to 7 years old. Read them, choose which ones you will play today, and which ones you will leave for tomorrow or next week. Prepare everything you need for the gameplay. Choose a convenient time and invite your child to spend time with you. Try not to be distracted by phone calls or TV during the process. Spend half an hour or an hour with quality communication with your child. This is not a lot at all, but such communication cannot be overestimated. Today you lay the foundation of your friendship with your child, rehabilitate yourself during the work week, create a favorable, learning environment and... just relax! We wish you a pleasant weekend.

Animal parts

You will need:

• Pictures of animals cut out from magazines or drawn
• Scissors
• Sheet of thick paper

Invite your child to match the heads and tails of different animals. You can add fun to the game by creating wonder animals of your child's choice.

1. Cut out images of various animals in advance.

2. Cut the images in half, dividing them into a head and a tail.

3. Place the halves of all the pictures interspersed in front of the child, ask him to match the corresponding tail to the head.

4. Have your child glue the whole animal onto a piece of paper.

Game option: invite your child to deliberately mix up the heads and tails to create new, unprecedented animals!

Safety: Use a glue stick and scissors with rounded ends.

Guess!

Make a wish for an object from your environment. If you give your child enough clues, he will be able to immediately guess what you mean. It would also be right to give your child the opportunity to ask you a riddle!

Where to play: at home, on a walk, at a party or in a store.

1. Choose an interesting and familiar subject to the child.

2. Say that you wished for an object from what surrounds you. Give one clue, such as color, shape, size, or the first letter the word begins with.

3. Let the child, with the help of leading questions, try to guess what kind of object you have in mind.

4. Swap roles and try to guess what your baby wished for.

Rhythm rhyme

Following the rhythm of a song is not so easy. This game requires coordination and helps develop the baby's hearing, sense of rhyme and rhythm. The game would be appropriate, for example, in a car. She will occupy and distract the child on the road.

Required:

• Music

1. Suggest a word, such as “day.”

2. Say the word to the rhythm of the music playing: “Day-day-day-day-day.”

3. Ask the child to continue the musical rhythm with a new word that rhymes with the previous one: “Day-day-day-stump-day-day-day.”

4. Come up with words one by one until you get tired of the game.

Determine by touch

Teach your child to use touch to explore their environment. Let him create mental images of things that he can touch with his eyes closed.

What you will need:

• Several small items: cup, cookies, washcloth, spoon, comb and others
• Large bag or basket
• Blindfold

1. Select items for the game and put them in a bag or basket.

2. Sit with your child on the floor in front of each other and explain the essence of the game.

3. Blindfold your baby.

4. Take turns placing items from the basket into the child’s hands.

5. Ask him to carefully feel and guess what he is holding.

6. Give hints if the child cannot cope.

Safety: be sure to discuss with your child that you are going to blindfold him. If he doesn't like the bandage, you can just play with your eyes closed. And, of course, all items must be safe.

Book about me

Make a special book with your child - where he himself will be the main character!

What you will need:

• Thick paper
• Magazines with pictures
• Photos of your child and other family members
• Child's drawings
• Scissors
• Stapler
• Pen

1. Collect visual elements that are meaningful to your child, including his drawings, photos of him and his friends, pets, crafts, and family photos.

2. Make an album from sheets of paper, placing a collage of images, clippings and comments from the baby.

3. Fasten the sheets together.

4. Attach the cover: “All about me!”

5. When the book is completed, read it together.

Such a project can be extended over more than one day. Return to work when you and your child are in the mood.

Believe me, after a year, two, or even 10 years, this book will be extremely popular! You yourself will already forget that such a story once happened, or that the little one couldn’t pronounce the letter “r”, but how funny he joked when he was only 3 years old!

So many memories collected together will become a real treasure over time, and then, perhaps, an excellent gift, for example, for a wedding:)

Find the clock!

It only takes a few minutes to find the ticking clock! How exciting and exciting it is! Where could they be? You need to listen very carefully, and think and move quickly.

What you will need:

• A kitchen timer or alarm clock that ticks loudly enough.

1. Set a timer for 3-5 minutes and hide it in your room or outside.

2. Ask your child to listen.

3. Tell your child that he has 3 minutes to find the timer! And for a successful search you need to be very careful!)

4. If the baby is having difficulties, give hints.

5. Play again, reducing the search time.

Game option: You can help in the search by saying “hot” or “cold” as your child approaches or moves away from the clock.

Falling tower

Remember when we started with the fact that building “towers” ​​from cubes tired you? Play the other way around, don’t build, but destroy! Kids sometimes prefer to destroy something than to create it. It's not scary, it's just a game!

You can build towers from cubes with your baby ad infinitum. And every time the process of the building falling will cause him a storm of emotions. Of course, the tower was so high and now it falls to the floor with a roar! Breathtaking!

What you will need:

• , sticks, blocks or other objects from which you can build a tower.

1. It is most convenient to play on the floor.

2. Take turns stacking objects on top of each other to create a tall tower.

Game option: you can stack two towers in parallel - whose will be higher? Multi-tiered buildings are also very popular among kids.

Intimate talk

Sometimes a conversation is much more interesting over the phone than face to face. Make a homemade apparatus from two paper cups and a string threaded between them.

1. Make a device and decorate each “tube” with stickers or drawings.

2. Move to different ends of the room or sit on both sides of the sofa.

3. Start the conversation as usual: “Hi, it’s mom!”

4. Talk about what happened today for each of you.

Dance, hand!

How to dance if you only have one part of your body? Shall we try?

What you will need:

• Music

1. Use any dance music. Ask your child to listen to the rhythm.

2. Have a dance battle. Take turns telling each other which body part will dance now.

Show me how you feel

Sometimes it is difficult for children to correctly express their emotions. This game will help your child better understand his own feelings and correctly perceive the feelings of others.

What you will need:

• Illustrations or pictures that depict human emotions

1. Select pictures with different emotions: fun, joy, sadness, fear, grief, fright, tenderness, love, indifference and others.

2. Discuss with your child how the people in the images feel and how they express these feelings.

3. Stack the pictures face down.

4. Turn over the pictures one at a time and ask the child to depict the reflected emotion without using words.

5. You must guess what emotion is shown in the picture by the way the baby shows it.

Guess the end

Teach your child to predict the end of a story. In the future, he will be able to use this skill in performing any cognitive tasks.

What you will need:

• with a wonderful ending

1. Find a cozy place to read.

2. Read part of a fairy tale or story to your child and stop before reaching the end.

3. Ask him what he thinks will happen next.

4. Invite him to come up with several possible options for the development of events.

5. Read the book to the end to find out how it ends.

Follow the stickers!

This game is a version of a treasure hunt that will teach your child to follow the trail carefully. And where and to what they will lead him depends on you.

What you will need:

• Colored stickers
• Treasure Reward
• Place to play

1. Come up with a route that the child treasure hunter will have to take.

2. Place stickers in plain sight along the route.

3. Place a reward at the end of the path.

4. Explain to your child how to conduct the search and what awaits him in the end.

5. Be sure to celebrate the successful outcome of the event together.

Finally

A few stimulating ideas, some art supplies, and time are all you need to create a unique play-learning environment for your child.

Do not forget:

1. A child learns especially productively only if you are an active participant in the process.

2. You are your child's best teacher and it is up to you to make learning fun.

3. Enjoy the time you spend together! Then you will receive such returns that you never even dreamed of.

The period before school is the most favorable time for play in a child’s life. You will get great pleasure watching how he becomes more dexterous, how his vocabulary grows, how he turns from a self-centered toddler into a socially adapted child.

Description of 12 games for children taken from the book "150 educational games for children from three to six years old" by the publishing house "Alpina Non-fiction"

Our baby is already 4 months old. Time flies quickly, and the child adapts more and more to this world. Everything around him is very interesting, but he is still too small to independently explore the environment. Parents can help him with this. How wonderful is it to learn while playing?! Let's see which developmental activities we can play with the baby at this stage of his development.

The list of these games is, of course, not final. He will help you understand the basic principles of developmental activities and guide you in this exciting process.

Don’t force your baby if he doesn’t want to play or doesn’t like it, maybe he’s just not in the right mood right now. Try playing this game with him later. Remember that you are not doing this just to do it, but to Have a good and productive time with your child! It is also important not to leave the child alone unattended!

Let's play hide and seek

This game has many options and as much as you have enough imagination, you will play it in so many different ways. Below are some examples.

1. First, cover your eyes with your palms, and then spread your palms with the words “peek-a-boo!” Repeat this several times. Then close the baby’s eyes with your palms, open them with the words “peek-a-boo!” Repeat this several times.
2. You can play this game by covering your head with a blanket and looking out with the words “peek-a-boo!”
3. Hide out of your baby's sight, then look out and say “peek-a-boo!”
4. You can try draping a translucent scarf over your baby. The baby will throw it off of him, and if not, then help him and say “peek-a-boo!”
5. You can hide not only yourself, but also hide various toys and objects.

Playing with soap bubbles

Blow bubbles in the presence of your child. A child will enjoy watching transparent balls floating in the air. Also, catch a soap bubble with a woolen mitten and let the child take a closer look at it.

Ball games

Play with your child using an inflatable colorful beach ball.

Place your baby in front of you on his back. Hold the ball directly above him, spinning and swinging it. The baby will try to grab him. If necessary, help your child hold the ball. Throw the ball up and throw it into the child's hands.

The baby can help himself hold the ball with his feet. Try to bring the ball to the child's feet, he will try to push the ball away. If not, help him hit the ball with a foot or two.

The exercise helps develop the child’s tactile sensations and strengthens the muscles of the legs and abdomen.

Listen to music and sing songs

Children love music and rhythm. Even the intrauterine world of the child was filled with various sounds: the beating of the mother’s heart, the movement of blood through her body, the work of the lungs, etc. Music and singing help connect nerve connections in the brain, develop children's ear for music and sense of rhythm, and, when using musical instruments, teach them to establish logical relationships between their movements and sound.

Therefore, do not forget to sing songs to your baby and listen to music. And believe me, he doesn’t care what kind of voice or ear for music you have. The main thing for him is to hear his native voice, see his native face and your attention!

Children enjoy the soothing rhythm of lullabies. Sing them to your child before bed or play them on the computer. This will become a kind of pleasant ritual for him.

At this age, you can add instruments such as wooden spoons or toy drums to singing (this can also be a plastic, metal (but not very heavy) bowl or tin can). Let your baby try to tap a rhythm. Show your child how to hit the drum with your palm and fist, and the baby will be happy to hit the drum, as well as the drum on the floor and furniture. You can build an entire drum set out of tin cans and let your baby drum on them while holding him upright under his arms.

"Sock with a bright pattern"

In the next game in the series we will study the parts of our body in a fun way.

Put a bright sock on your baby's feet, bright gloves on his hands, or special toys that, in addition to bright colors, make various sounds. Tell your child that this is a hand, this is this finger, this is a leg, this is shown on a glove, on a sock, etc. Observe the baby's reaction and, if he liked it and grabs his leg or arm, then practice this game, and if not, then repeat it later.

"Two toys"

Place a toy that squeaks, such as a rubber one, in each of the child's hands. See if he will look at the hand that makes the squeak. Older babies can squeeze both toys at the same time. Help the child if he is having a hard time.

During this period, the child begins to transfer objects from one hand to another. Place a rattle in your child's hand. Shake the handle with the toy inside. Show him how to transfer an object to another handle. To do this, place the free handle on the rattle, and the child will automatically grab onto it. Unclench the fingers of the other hand. Praise the child.

This game develops simple motor skills and coordination.

"Fun for hands"

It is also important to develop fine motor skills and enrich the child’s sensory sensations, in particular tactile ones.

To do this, let your child feel objects of different textures (skeins of thread, fabric, paper, bags with different fillings (cereals, legumes, etc.).

Use rattles in the game. A rattle is probably one of your baby's first toys. And, most likely, you have several of them in your house: in different shapes and colors. This game will allow you to use your rattles and diversify their everyday use. Offer the baby a rattle, holding it over the baby's hand (alternately right and left). If he doesn't try to grab it, bring it closer to the handle and help your child grab it. Grasp the baby's fist with the toy in your palm and help him feel the handle of the rattle. With each lesson, raise the toy higher and higher above your hand and help your baby less and less.

"Rocking the baby"

The last of the series “Developmental activities with a child in the 4th month” I would like to offer you the game “Rocking the Baby”.

Young children really like the swing. If you sing songs or read poetry while rocking, the child will form important connections in the brain, and also develop a sense of rhythm, the baby learns to maintain balance and develops the vestibular apparatus.

Place your baby on your lap and rock back and forth and to the sides. To do this, you can use a rocking chair or fitball. At the same time, read your favorite poem or sing a song.

"Mirror"

Bring your child to a large mirror. Show and name him different objects, parts of the body, make movements with them (shake your head, wave your arms, clap your hands...), ask questions... He will happily listen to you and smile at you.

A child will be very happy to play with a safe mirror hanging in his crib or stroller.

During the game, the vocabulary increases, the baby learns to recognize his reflection in the mirror.

Looking at the pictures

It will be interesting for the baby to look at black and white, bright pictures of contrasting colors, in which the baby recognizes various objects, photographs of the baby himself and his family members, thematic cards with images of animals, plants, birds, toys, furniture, fruits and vegetables, etc.

Show your child pictures and be sure to explain to him what is shown in them.

You should not look at more than 3 pictures with your baby at a time.

Also periodically replace the pictures with new ones or at least change their places.

"Entertaining Conversations"

In the next game in the series “Developmental activities with a child in the 4th month” we will talk to our baby.

At this age, children babble. Repeat after your child his childhood conversations, and this will bring him a lot of pleasure. In this way you encourage his speech activity. If you pay attention to certain sounds of the child, such as “ma-ma” or “pa-pa”, the baby will begin to pronounce them more often.

Talk to your child more often, talk about what is happening nearby, look him in the eyes, smile and nod. The baby will understand that he is understood and listened to.

"Let's dance"

Hold your baby firmly under your arms and do a few dance moves. Or take your child in your arms and dance. Try dancing to your favorite song or rhyme.

"Physical exercise"

A child at this age is no longer so interested in just lying in a crib or stroller, so he becomes more interested in outdoor games. This can be massage or dynamic gymnastics. Or different lifts up/down, light rocking on the knees, etc. This is a large topic that is difficult to fit into one paragraph, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with it more closely in other sources :).

"There and back again"

The last of the series “Developmental activities with a child in the 4th month” I want to offer you the game “There and Back”.

You will need a small plastic wheeled car or other toy that can move across the floor. You can pour cereal or other bulk material into a small plastic bottle.

Place the baby on his tummy, you can place a towel cushion under his chest to make it easier for him to be in this position and he can play longer.

Push the car towards the baby, then away from him. The bottle will rustle interestingly when rolled.

Push the car back and forth, first yourself, and then together with your baby. Tell your child what kind of toy it is, its parts, spin the wheels.

What games does your child like and what games does he not? What difficulties do you encounter while playing? Share your experience in the comments :)

Happy playing with your little one!

The article was prepared using materials from the Internet, books and personal experience.

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If there are older children in the family, involve them in caring for and engaging with the youngest family member. Show them how you communicate with the younger one, accompanying your actions with affectionate speech.

How to develop a child's vision and hearing at 4 months

The baby is actively developing visual memory. At the age of 3-4 months, he is able to recognize a toy, as well as distinguish a familiar face from an unfamiliar one. You can help him develop these abilities by using different games.

Baby in different positions

Choose a toy and show it when the baby is in different positions: from the side, from the back, when he is lying on his stomach or on his back. Bring the toy closer to his face and then remove it.

Games with different objects

Give your baby objects to play with that are different in shape, size and color. You can also tell him how they differ from each other.

Rice. Toys for the fourth month

Familiar and Unfamiliar

Develop his ability to navigate among objects. By showing already familiar toys, teach them to notice a new object. To do this, first take a familiar toy, and then an unfamiliar one, and show them one by one, naming them. If he asks, put a toy in his hands and let him explore.

Such different sounds

Give your child toys to play with that can make sounds. Bells, rattles, tambourines, and squeaking, whistling, and buzzing toys all come in handy to add variety to your games. But don't create a cacophony of sounds! Alternate toys.

Bell

You can play hide and seek with your baby using sounding objects. A bell with a cheerful shimmering sound is best suited for this game.

Take a bell and ring them first from behind a curtain or other barrier so that the child begins to look for the source of the sound. And then show him the bell - you will see how happy he will be to discover what was “hidden” behind the curtain.

If you liked this game, you can repeat it and even complicate it by hiding the bell on the other side, changing the location of the sound source.

You can play hide and seek with your baby, covering your face with a scarf or hiding behind the head of the bed - these games give him great pleasure. Especially the moment when he “discovers” his mother. The main thing is don’t disappear for long!

What toys and manipulations with them will be interesting to the child?

❧ Show your baby toys so that he reaches for them and then feels them.

❧ Place the toy in his hand and try to pull it out. He will try to keep her.

❧ Bracelets worn on legs or socks with bells will make you want to reach out and touch them.

❧ Place round toys in the baby’s crib; the baby will push them with his legs. And the tumbler doll will also ring pleasantly when rocked.

❧ If you hang a ball with bells inside or a bag with rattles above the crib, the baby will try to kick them.

First performance

If you find moving toys (a pecking chicken or a hare playing a drum, bears chopping wood), you can show your child a performance. Of course, the child does not know how to cope with them, but parents can show how the toys work and tell them what is happening.

Watching the toys move

The child will be interested in moving wind-up toys. He watches them with pleasure, sitting in the arms of an adult or lying on his stomach. But the child also likes an ordinary ball, which can be pushed and watched as it rolls, and a bright car, especially if it buzzes, blinks and lights up.

The child likes to watch how the mother herself “plays,” for example, rolling balls down a slide or rolling balls in a plastic tube.

WE DEVELOP MOVEMENTS

Place the baby on his stomach and show him a bright toy. He will raise his head high, leaning on his forearms and looking at the object with interest.

Continue massage, gymnastics and swimming. You can use the same complex as used previously .

Support your child's desire to develop physically. You can add new movements, because in the first year of life, physical exercises very actively develop the child’s psyche. Help your baby accept, for example, the following new positions:

❧ stimulate attempts to crawl by placing your hands under the baby’s feet, from which he will push off;

❧ if you want your child to “jump” on your lap, this exercise should not last longer than 1-2 minutes;

❧ carry the child with his back to you, supporting him in the perineal area with one hand, and place the other hand on his stomach;

❧ swing the child in your arms or on a large gymnastic ball, accompanied by humming songs. This exercise is useful for the development of the vestibular apparatus.

If you feel good and your spine is in order, this month you can master the kangaroo backpack. Start accustoming your baby to this method of movement gradually, from 15-20 minutes, so that he does not get tired.

Take the choice of a backpack very seriously - you need designs that have a semi-rigid back, a good cross, and a seat made to look like comfortable pants.

When the child gets used to this method of moving around the apartment, you can go out with him for walks or for more important things: to the shops or to an appointment at the clinic.

Although, of course, it is most convenient for dad to have such a backpack on his back - he will be able to walk with his burden for many kilometers without getting tired.

And, by the way, it’s time to think about giving your baby more freedom of movement. He is already tired of the crib, but a playpen or a special play mat gives him more opportunities. Have you already purchased them?

Development of a child's tactile sensations

To do this, continue to select a variety of items. The baby grows and develops, which means he is ready to perceive more and more diverse things. Consider all parameters: size, shape, weight, texture and ratio of parts. Keep in mind that babies under five months of age do not like the harsh, rattling sounds of plastic rattles, and cold materials cause discomfort.

When your baby picks up a toy, pay attention to the position of the thumb. He must be opposed to others.

Alternately place different objects or toys in the child’s hands - soft and hard, smooth and rough, light and heavy. This is how the child develops a sense of touch.