Newborn baby has a fast developing speed both physically and psychologically. The function of their body and nervous system develops rapidly, so sense of visual and auditory improves gradually. At this time, the children are relatively sensitive to visual color shakes and auditory sounds. Thus, toys with vivid colors, sound and various touches can be chosen for them.
Babies at this period can make complete continuous motions and explore the surroundings slowly. They have been able to grasp things by both hands accurately in a harmonious movement. They begin to know items’ name, interact with others and understand a larger vocabulary. This phase is required to meet children’s needs of climbing, throwing, jumping and etc. It improves the flexibility of hands and coordinated ability of hands, eyes and brain through building blocks, differentiating colors, comparing size and etc..
6 months old babies start getting more lively and active, being more sensitive to the sound and images around them. Parents can clap their hands to the rhythm as children listen to music or play sound toys. With this, children’s good sense of music and rhythm forms slowly and steadily. 9 months old babies begin to know his/her own name and recognize facial features and some items. Parents can take babies to cognize different shapes, patterns and letters as well as having babies to receive different aspects of training. It does help the development of babies’ brain.
Babies over 2 years old act more animatedly, have a better coordination of body movements and like to run. Their language develops more rapidly. Types of comprehensive training toys suit their needs. Musical toys make diverse crisp sounds by continually hands knocking. The sound stimulates the baby to change the tap position constantly in order to bind the baby's sense of auditory, visual and hands-on skills. With the combination of the three, parents can guide their children to learn musical scales continuously. Also, play house is a game which can cultivate babies’ interactive competence, imagination ability and relevant social skills.
12 months old babies have learned to stand and walk supportively. They can step 2-3 paces independently. At this point, it needs to add some push-and-pull ball-kind toys to help children maintain the balance in the process of independent walking. Besides, babies here can use fingers to get things and say a few simple words. Sound toys can be selected to promote language development. Educational toys can contribute children’s perception of shape. These two can initiate children’s preliminary intellectual enlightenment.
Babies at this phase have abundant creativity, love music, like portfolio, dismantling, design and invention. Knowledge mastered is richer than ever, the understanding of routine items is also more comprehensive. Great improvement has been achieved in terms of language skills, physical coordination capacity and awareness of items. Blocks serve as all-right tools not only for their hands-on activities but also the design and invention exercise. A lot of different things can be made through various combinations and dismantling, simultaneously, it increases the children’s perception of color and structure collocation.
