The following is a list of developmental exercises you can do with your young child at home, helping improve their hand-eye coordination, motor development, bilateral movement, visual tracking, and size/shape/ spatial concepts:
- wheelbarrow game (hold your child's legs and have them walk on their hands)
- puzzles
- wooden beads for stringing
- sorting shapes, colors, etc (put three cups in a row in front of your child an dhave them put buttons into one, pegs into the second, and balls into the third, or any variation thereof)
- bike and tricycle riding
- throw a balloon into the air and have them try to keep it from touching the ground
- finger paints
- playdough
- living room bowling (roll a soft ball to knock down milk cartons or something similar)
- place a magnet on a string and hang it fromt he end of a stick- have them fish for metal objects
- set the table
- hop on one foot
- blow bubbles
- try to pop bubbles with a chopstick
- hide and seek
- build a pattern with blocks- see if your child can complete the pattern
- cutting with safety scissors
- simple mazes
- ask, "What if you were....? What do you think you would see? Do? Feel?"
- have them pick up small objects with tweezers
- the Operation game
- match pictures to a past holiday or vacation
- legos and all building blocks
- practice jumping jacks
- practice marching, tapping one hand over the opposite knee while doing it
- memory games
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