In children of the second year of life, there is a sharp leap in mental and physical development. Those toys with which the baby played with pleasure for the first 12 months are gradually losing their relevance. Games and toys that develop the worldview of a one-year-old child, logic, and speech behavior come to the fore.
Instructions
Step 1
When a child reaches 12-14 months, parents should review their home arsenal of toys. And the point is not at all that any rattles will now become uninteresting to him. Perhaps the kid plays with them with pleasure. It is about replenishing the child's stock with those toys that will help him develop coordination, motor skills, speech, logic and other skills. Most children at the age of 1 are already taking their first steps. To develop coordination of movements and balance, the child may need all kinds of rolling toys. Up to 1, 5 years old, it is preferable to purchase wheelchairs with front control. The baby can lean on the handle, which is at the height of his chest, and hold on to in the event of a fall. The gurney should encourage the child to walk, which means that it is necessary that it contains elements that emit sounds or move during movement. The child will be interested in watching them, pushing the gurney forward. For the physical development of the baby, balls of different sizes and degrees of jumping ability, rugs with a relief surface for the prevention of flat feet, slides and ladders are also useful.
Step 2
Children of the second year of life begin to actively imitate adults. They develop an interest in the objects that parents use in everyday life and the movements that they make. To develop everyday skills and hand motor skills, it is recommended to purchase toys that are analogous to real household items, for example, kitchen utensils, dolls and corresponding large accessories for them (clothes, combs, pacifier, etc.), sandbox toys (shovels, scoops, rakes, watering cans, sieve), children's phone, fishing rods for catching magnetic puzzles or nets for catching fish from the bathroom.
Step 3
For the development of logic, color and volumetric perception, a child needs educational toys of different shapes, sizes and colors, but having common features or purpose. We are talking about all kinds of pyramids, cubes, mosaics, nesting dolls, etc. Experts recommend purchasing toys of the same type of different sizes and made of different materials. A child, sorting through cups or a pyramid of plastic and wooden rings, forms an idea of the purpose of objects, their colors and volumes. From this point of view, various sorting toys are especially interesting. They represent a kind of container or box with holes of different shapes and attached inserts that fit the holes. The child needs to find which hole the liner fits into. At first, such a toy may seem difficult to the baby, so the correct actions should be accompanied by words of approval from the parents, encouraging the baby to continue playing.
Step 4
In the second year of life, it is necessary to stimulate the development of speech. The child acquires the basic vocabulary through communication with adults. At this age, he is interested in various picture books and parent's comments to them, sets of pictures, animal figures making sounds, audio recordings of poems, songs, various nursery rhymes and finger games. Try to get your child involved in your story. Ask questions about what he just heard. Accompany the reading of books with sounds and gestures.
Step 5
The creativity of a child at the age of one year is developed by various finger paints, felt-tip pens, pencils, modeling kits. Such games will help adults to spend time with the child and contribute to the development of the perception of colors, textures, shapes. Also, children in the second year of life are interested in electronic musical instruments, rattles, whistles and toys that make sounds. As a rule, such objects cause wild delight in the child.
