Let’s Play with the Cubes

Materials You Need: Wooden or plastic cubes or small toys; A large container.

What You Can Do Together: To carry out this activity, you should place your baby on a mat or the floor and place three cubes and the container in front of your baby.

You must be careful that your baby sees what you are doing. Show her how to take a cube, put it inside the container, show her how to do it, and explain it to her/him.

Finally, remove the cubes and ask your baby to do the same, indicating the inside of the container with his index finger. The demonstration can be repeated as many times as necessary until your baby understands how to do it. Congratulate her on every attempt.

What Your Child is Learning: Just by manipulating the cubes, the muscles of the hands begin to be activated and at the same time put into practice the precision and coordination of their movements with the hands and fingers. This is a necessary skill to start crawling and to achieve the correct position of writing when the time comes.