Marin Haffey

EN 320 Infant & Toddler Education

Infant and toddler education: Assignment 4- Developmentally

appropriate/Curriculum cards

Birth-6 months
o Cognitive: touch tour- Carry your baby around at your eye level
and name each object as you touch it. Include things like wall
hangings, raised letters, doorbells, and stone or brickwork.
o Cognitive: Faces- Take babys hands and touch their nose, ears,
mouth, and other body parts and say the part while doing the
action.
o Fine motor: Tummy time- Lay child on their tummy and let them
play with toys. Allow them to reach and grab for a toy.
o Fine motor: highchair fun- Tie one end of a short string to a few
of your child's toys. Tie or tape the other ends to the tray of her
highchair. She will enjoy throwing the toys off the highchair tray,
then pulling the strings to get them back again.
o Gross motor: Tummy Time-lay child on their tummy and let them
play. get down on that level, making faces and noises to
encourage raising his head, which strengthens the neck and
upper body muscles.
o Gross motor: roll over- working with your child on rolling over
from stomach to back and back to stomach. This will take some
practice.
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Language: Talking- Talk to your child all the time. Get up
close in personal with them. They are fascinated with voices and
faces. Language: Talk and play- Bounce the baby to the rhythm
of your words, particularly as you repeat phrases and sounds.
o Social/Emotional: Smile- smile and make silly faces with your
baby. At this stage they are beginning to smile back and make
eye contact.
o Social/Emotional: Mirror- Mirror babies movements and emotions.
They will find it very amusing.
6-12 months

o Cognitive: Peek-a-boo- This simple game helps a child learn

about object permanence. Play often and have fun.
o Cognitive: Texture crawl- Your crawling child will love feeling and
learning about interesting articles such as a rubber floor mat,
carpet samples, silk scarves, chenille rug, bubble wrap, a piece
of corduroy, velvet, satin, sticky side of a piece of contact paper,

etc. if you scatter them across the floor. Get down on the floor
and explore them together, using words like cool, smooth, and
bumpy to talk about what you feel.
o Fine motor: Spaghetti play- Place a few strands of cooked
spaghetti in front of the child at the highchair/table. Let them
experiment with picking up the pieces and eating them. May
have to cut the pieces into sizes that can be easily swallowed.
Many babies will stick to this activity until they succeed.
o Fine motor: Hats- Have a basket of hats and try them on one by
one. Then give them to your child to try on as well. Also fun to
play in front of a mirror.
o Gross motor: Air walk-assist the child with his early steps and
have fun. lift the toddler into the air as they are walking. Soon
they will be lifting and jumping to help.
o Gross motor: Come on up- lay on the floor and encourage child to
come play. They will be crawling all over and using their muscles
in no time. Also this could lead into lifting child into the air for
more fun.
o Language: Keep talking- remember to keep talking about objects
around you. At this stage children will begin to recognize and
acknowledge the objects you are talking about. For example he
will look towards the door when you say goodbye.
o Language: Reading- It is never too early to start reading to a
child. Sitting with them and not just reading but describing
pictures is a great tool for language development.
o Social/Emotional: Blow a kiss- teach a child to give a gift of love
as you blow a kiss to her and encourage copying blowing a kiss
by spreading open your arms and saying, "Blow me a kiss."
o Social/Emotional: Who do you see- This activity helps a child
recognize familiar faces thy have a connection with. Glue a small
mirror or pictures of the child, friends or family inside a
decorated box..Place the lid on top of the box. When your child
opens the box, she will see someone special!
12-18 months (1-1.5)
o Cognitive: short to tall- Cut paper towel rolls into several different
sizes. If you like decorate them. Encourage your child to stand
the rolls up in order from shortest to tallest. Store the rolls in an
empty coffee can, shoebox, or diaper-wipe container when not in
use.
o Cognitive: More books- Children should be able to point to
pictures in a book at this stage. Let them explore books with you.

o Fine motor: Art- work on art with children. They should be able to
grasp a marker or crayon with the pincer grasp by this age. Give
them parkers and paper and let them be creative.
o Fine motor: Silverware- At this age children should be
experimenting with using their plastic utencels when eating
meals. Cups should also be used at this age.
o Gross motor: Animals- Give your child a series of instructions
such as "Let's pretend you are a rabbit. Can you hop like a
rabbit?" or "Let's pretend you are an elephant. Can you walk
about like a big, heavy elephant?"
o Gross motor: Baloons- Inflate a few balloons to use as balls and
sit a few feet away from each other, batting them with the hands
as they move by. This activity will led to future hand eye
coordination to hit a ball with a bat. Dont forget to Dispose of
the balloons after you are finished, as they pose a choke hazard.
o Language: Song- This is sung to the tune of "Frre Jacques," or
"Are You Sleeping?"
o I hear thunder, I hear thunder, (Drum feet on the floor.)
Hark, don't you, hark, don't you? (Pretend to listen.)
Pitter-patter raindrops, (Flutter your fingers for raindrops.)
Pitter-patter raindrops,
I'm wet through, (Shake your body vigorously.)
So are you! (Point to your child.)
o Language: Telephone- Practice using the telephone with your
child. The child can have conversations with you or pretend
conversations with a friend or family member. Even a fictional
character. He can use an old cell phone or a toy. just make sure
your real cell phone is out of reach.
o Social/Emotional: feelings- Name Your Toddler's EmotionsHelp
your child identify his emotions by naming them. He might be
overwhelmed by anger, fear, or sadness. Giving him names for
his feelings makes them less scary.
o Social/Emotional: Adventure- Go out! Take your child to
restaurants, museums, stores. Run errands. Do everyday life
stuff that involves interacting with people to model how to do it,
and give your child opportunities to practice it himself if he wants
to. He will start to interact with people of all ages when he's
ready.

18-24 months (1.5-2)

o Cognitive: Give Choices- Give your child the chance to select

between two choices as often as you can: "Would you like apple
or orange juice?" "Do you want to wear your red shirt or your
yellow one?" "Shall we read 'Goodnight Moon' or 'But Not the
Hippopotamus?'"
o Cognitive: Encourage Imagination- Give your child dolls, stuffed
animals, toy telephones, and make-believe play materials such
as scarves and hats, old clothes and shoes for fashioning
costumes and props, and blankets for building forts.
o Fine motor: Keep playing- at this stage children should be able to
Build a tower with 4-6 blocks and Put 4 rings on a stick. Have
fun!
o Fine motor: More art- At this stage children should be able to
Paint on paper using her whole arm to move the paintbrush
Imitate you drawing a vertical line ( l ) and a circle (it may not be
accurate)
o Gross motor: Play ball- At this stage a child should be able to
Throw a small ball. Have fun!
o Gross motor: Clean up- Let child Help With Household Chores
such as picking up toys, and putting clothes into the washing
machine or laundry basket.
o Language: Puppets- Make homemade puppets out of paper bags
decorated with buttons, yarn, and thread. Have the puppets hold
a conversation with each other or with you or her. Put on a
puppet show.
o Language: Grammar matters- Use proper grammar when you
speak to model it for your child. She learns to speak (and write)
from you.
o Social/Emotional: Playdates- Make playdates and be part of a
playgroup. Give your child lots of chances to learn cooperative
play. Remember, though, that it's a learning process that takes
time.
o Social/Emotional: Alone spot- Create an alone spot for your child,
where she can hide when she wants to, such as a large
cardboard box or a closet with pillows on the floor. (This is not a
time-out spot).

24-36 months (2-3)

o Cognitive: simple directions - Give the child simple instructions to

do such as tutch head and they will. Sometimes done through
song.

o Cognitive: Color cards- Make up two sets of cards from

construction paper. Start with only a few colors, working your
way up to (red, green, blue, brown, yellow, orange, purple,
black, and white). If you like, write the names of each color on
the card. Spread the cards out on a table and begin by picking
up one of the cards and saying, "I have a red card. Can you hand
me the other red card?" After a while, your child will enjoy
matching the cards all by herself.
o Fine motor: Art- Children should be able to do the following
activities at this stage. Fold paper in half, Draw straight lines and
circles, Imitate you drawing a cross, Snip the edges of paper with
scissors (by 30 months), Hold crayons using the thumb and
fingers, Cut across a piece of paper (by 3 years) Have fun being
crafty with your child.
o Fine motor: play- at this stage children should be able to do the
following Build a tower of up to 9 large blocks. Put together large
linking blocks, and String inch sized beads
o Gross motor: At this stage children should Use one hand more
often than the other for most activities.
o Gross motor: Follow the Leader-Encourage your child to follow
your lead as you exercise together. Try touching toes, running in
place, swinging your arms, and stretching to the ceiling. Exercise
to music, pass a ball back and forth, or twirl a long ribbon in the
air. For a change, let your child be the leader and you follow his
example.
o Language: Jungle rhyme - Pretend to walk very carefully through
the jungle and mime the actions to suggest each animal. It's
easy to make up more verses for this rhyme.
Walking through the jungle,
What did I see?
A big lion roaring
At me, me, me!
Walking through the jungle,
What did I see?
A baby monkey laughing
At me, me, me!
Walking through the jungle,
What did I see?

A slippery snake hissing

At me, me, me!
o Language: Reading then doing- I think I can- Read The Little
Engine That Could to your child. Talk about how the little engine
thought he could make it up the hill, even though it was a very
hard thing to do. Ask your child if she thinks she can do
something that may seem hard at first, then play the "I Think I
Can" game. Ask your child to try different things like "Can you
hop on one foot?" or "Can you touch your toes?" Demonstrate for
her, then say "I think I can, I think I can" as you hop or bend
together.
o Social/Emotional: Sharing- play with children and make sure they
are sharing their toys. By this stage they should be sharing.
o Social/Emotional: Independence- Allow children to try things for
themselves first at this stage they try to be independent.
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