5 Activities That Can Help Increase Child Brain Development

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JAKARTA - Having a creative and intelligent child is the dream of all parents. Building children's intelligence is entirely your obligation as a parent. Therefore, you must learn things that can be done to improve your child's thinking skills.

As reported by Parents, Wednesday, October 19, here are 5 activities that you can do to help improve the development of your child's brain, namely;

The age of a toddler is a time when his sensory abilities begin to develop. He began to learn to touch, kiss, and feel things around him to better understand his environment.

To introduce your child's texture, you can take him to practice sticking. Use dark markers to plagiarize alphabet letters or numbers on paper. Then, ask your child to decorate these letters with textured objects such as sandpaper, nuts, cotton balls, and pasta.

Touching letters gives children the opportunity to feel how a letter forms. For a child who is learning to write, his fingers can experiment with letters before holding a stationery. You can say letters or numbers loudly when your child is creatively decorating the writing.

Then, develop the activity by creating a poster that reads his nickname. In this way, the child will quickly recognize the letters listed on the poster or billboard.

You can teach your child to measure using the items around you. Although the ruler is the most common measuring tool, try experimenting with the moon, season, or time of the year to make the learning process interesting.

Put the child down, then place the apples in a line to measure the same number of apples as the child's height. Or specify how many games of wooden blocks are parallel to the height of the refrigerator at home.

In addition, invite children to find out how many books are needed to cover their beds. Always count every time you put a new object and unconsciously the child will count you.

Choose one or two furniture from the house to label. It can be a refrigerator, window, and a chair. After that, name another object once a month. Create a label of the same size and use a big font so that the child can identify it easily.

Type, print, and scissors words one by one. Then use the quote to be linked to the object. According to Childcarelorange, labeling allows children to know that everything has a common symbol to write and identify.

If the kid is big enough to recognize letters, ask him what the front letter is for "Lampu" and ask him to find a furniture label that starts with "L."

If he is too young, show him different letters and introduce him to his words. Strengthen the concept every day and over time, children are able to identify words independently.

Children are natural hunters and they like to explore. You can take children to play hunting in supermarkets. Get food that has a certain color (like purple) or look for objects with one shape (like a circle) around the house.

If the child needs help, collect three objects to choose from him while asking, "Which object is red? Which object is in the form of a circle?" You can ask the child to look for letters, words, or certain numbers on the bookcase. You can also pretend you can't find a box of orange juice or a pair of socks. Putting the child on a fun mission in finding items at home.

Invite children to recognize the city by showing supermarkets, fire stations, gas stations, and other interesting places. When you go through every place, discuss details about the place. Including who works there, the use of the place, and what items children can find in it.

Then image or print the images of these places and place them on an index card along with the details. You can show the index card again when you take your children for a walk later in the day.