Kicking and waving their arms while lying in their cot can lead them to discover that a kick can make a banging sound. Even young babies love to learn about the world through exploration.Heightens curiosity and encourages exploration.Spatial skills can also be enhanced when playing games that require concentration, quick responses and finely tuned motor skills. As the child grows computer games have been shown to help with hand and eye coordination. Soon infants are building towers with two cubes this also requires fine coordination skills. Shape sorters help infants to fine tune their visual perception and hand coordination. After the first year, infants adopt the ‘pincer grasp’ where they use their thumb and index finger to grasp even very tiny objects. Within another month they are able to move the object from hand to hand. Infants first use the ulnar grasp where their fingers close against the palm when trying to hold an object.

The grasping, at first, is quite clumsy but through repetition, and across time, infants become adept at grasping and develop fine motor skills. Young infants learn to grasp an object, for instance a cube. All these movements strengthen muscles in readiness for the next stage - walking.Īs babies develop they become more adept at grasping objects. You will often see young babies in a bath reaching with their legs towards a floating toy and kicking. For example, a young baby has greater control over their leg movements than their arms. Bath toys provide opportunities to develop and use motor skills to great effect. Sound and movement attract a baby’s attention if a toy is placed almost within reach of babies their movements become more animated. When young babies watch a mobile they are constantly moving their head, arms, legs and even their mouths in response to the movement of the toy. Many movements that young babies make are in preparation for the next stage of their development. An infant’s growth and development in the first year of life is rapid.Encourages fine motor skill development.

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