Fun Start: An idea a week to maximize your baby’s potential from birth to age 5

Fun Start: An idea a week to maximize your baby’s potential from birth to age 5
June R. Oberlander

Give your child the best start in life with this fun, practical book. Packed with simple play activities to do with your child – there is one for every week from birth to age five – 'Fun Start' will help you maximize his or her emotional, intellectual and physical development. Each activity takes about 10 minutes and uses common household items.All experts agree that the first 5 years of a child's life are the most important in terms of learning, memory, emotions and physiological responses. ‘Fun Start’ is every parent's answer to maximize the intellectual growth and motor skills of their child and give them the best start in life.Carefully structured into weekly 10-minute activities – there is one activity for every week of every year of your preschooler's life – it shows you how to use common household items to help your child learn and grow.Exercises and games include:• The shoe box house• Feely squares• Funnel fun• Sink or float• Finger writing

FUNSTART

An activity a weekto maximize yourbaby’s potentialfrom birth to age 5

June Oberlander

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#u05782769-836a-56a9-b37e-81730ade6263)

Title Page (#uf6eac0ae-c1e4-5fbf-906a-083138a9fc90)

Preface (#u2951a241-de46-58ea-9ba6-dfa4e6b2a325)

Introduction (#ub87802d2-e8c5-5e06-8910-f76f95ddac16)

PART I (#ua0864558-ed4d-5ae1-aa35-0e35b54f3bc7)

Move the Body Parts (#u9e9bb7b0-9a02-5267-8d73-edf04711738f)

Response to Light (#u04a361c7-7d05-5ad5-85a2-3bfda11649ff)

Moving an Object (#u38445feb-5195-5135-9280-95dd5b3cc5b5)

Make a Cradle Gym (#ua49e3ffd-c43b-5d9e-904f-27941d218074)

Mirror and Pendulum (#u09f0019d-de54-54fe-b1c7-a6f2130c073e)

The Sock Ball (#u1bcc0edd-e9e1-523b-9145-5cbe26b5d234)

Response to a Noise Maker (#u343e0a2d-b824-59fa-9442-0d89b6cf3563)

Awareness (#u09ad07ad-b91e-5236-ba0c-c3af57229495)

Interaction With Your Baby With Understanding (#u7219f8e7-5ce2-5ba1-a108-7e1f72b31428)

Large Muscle Activities (#u005092c5-7b1e-5be3-8da5-a5d65ecf7d32)

Eye-Hand Coordination (#u5677146d-c0fd-54ca-91b3-ca6c27e8d755)

Observing Different Faces (#ue729fc3f-ba57-5ab6-8b82-ed331dffe022)

The Face Observation (#u145191f5-471d-5c95-9a15-fcb755cd0b69)

Stomach Position and Free Movement (#u1e490587-3b7c-5763-bb72-62458aa5ca57)

Listening to Sounds (#u1fe1351b-1bb3-5c52-bad6-4cf90c2bef46)

Developing Grasp and Eye-Hand Coordination (#ue91ab8f2-2df7-5280-b380-0a48ffaa7bba)

Listen and Do (#u643ae3a8-76be-5205-8506-b4de1c108c8e)

Nursery Rhymes (#u68fa7bd5-cb99-5743-9244-428e7df4f69d)

Reach to Grasp (#u3acbfa9b-20b0-5492-a8ff-5e0a5fae0155)

More Awareness of Hands (#u2e2ddc81-f2cf-532e-8046-d88bc88021e7)

Awareness of Fingers (#ubf166734-730a-5dcb-99c5-dd8688f1f52e)

Awareness of Toes (#ua0d0bb96-2ceb-53ae-87b6-f3406b6d4c71)

Move to Grasp (#u5c1c21ad-2bd8-54a8-8e9b-8dba013af971)

Drop and Fall (#ue4a67535-85d8-5ebb-a016-7a4eeb0f06df)

Listen to the Sounds (#u90d41a00-4e4e-5f1b-aa03-7563bcbf0744)

The Sock Ball Throw (#u9b07daeb-d9bf-5b0d-b919-5d8be635a8b8)

Toss the Ball Up and Watch (#u8123c663-1436-5f2d-975f-9c182e3d14a5)

Awareness of Feet (#u0ae93656-031f-51c5-bc2e-9377ca8def84)

Stacking and Falling (#u83d7eaed-0329-5a1f-94cc-c9d47e766bdc)

Paper Noise (#u354470c1-e041-5ff5-ace2-05f271b38a02)

Shake, Listen and Find (#u67c8c1df-eb78-5eb1-952e-3c54c50c3a3a)

Watch the Ball (#uea792432-d8fc-5919-a840-4428c1a04f37)

Bowl and Ball Roll (#u2077e16d-7095-57f9-af69-902cd284aa4a)

Sizes (#uaa0a1e20-0cac-5b1c-a5ca-696efd54119d)

Blowing Bubbles and Water Splash (#ud46d330b-15bc-5bda-97ab-3bd232b64789)

Shoe Box House (#u3d15f5b3-678e-5eb9-b08e-493e61ffc3bd)

Feely Squares (#u0224def2-84cc-5932-99e9-aca3417e8d78)

The Magic Mirror (#u75352ac3-d782-516f-9d5e-971eb6b99820)

Faces (#ue842d97f-187a-50b4-b1e0-1163e13a575a)