At the age of eight months the child can distinguish many of the objects surrounding him. He is able to play with different things, toys, estimating them, comparing quality. In process of acquaintance to the world around also mental capacities of the kid develop.
Wherever there was an eight-months child, he tries to survey as much as possible extensive territory. With any subject he is capable to be engaged long, tries to investigate it from various foreshortenings, to wave with it in air, to taste. The adult's task – in playful way to try to acquaint the child with properties of objects, to teach to concentrate attention, to perform small tasks.
What games can be offered the eight-months child
"Call a hand bell" - the child is given a hand bell and show, how exactly it is necessary to ring it. It is possible to tie multi-colored ribbons which it is convenient to pull to a uvula of a hand bell.
Tactile game – in a small box put pieces of different fabric which will be interesting to be touched. It is possible to pick up pieces of rigid matter, soft, silky, smooth, fur and so on. Include a piece of linoleum, dense paper, a big stopper in set – taking out objects from a box, feeling them, the kid learns to distinguish them osyazatelno. During the game talk to the kid, call objects that the child could get acquainted with concepts "smooth", "rough", "soft" and others. "Turn a toy" - before the child display toys in unusual situation, for example, a doll – facedown. If the child himself does not try to improve situation, it should prompt it. To a palm of the kid it is possible to paste a piece of an adhesive tape. Children with great interest tear off it and try to fit back.
Games for coordination improvement
The most known of children's games – "pat-a-cake". It can be diversified: having clapped in palms, handles of the child cover with a blanket. Children with interest observe how hands disappear and appear anew. To take for a drive a ball – towards the child the adult pushes a ball, induces the child to return back it in the same way. The pyramid – if to show to the child once as to put on ringlets a core, he will try to do it again and again. The task can be complicated, shaking a core here and there – for this purpose choose a pyramid with the semicircular basis. In playful way the child can explain performance of many daily affairs. For example, to teach the kid to use a cup, show how to give to drink from it a bear, a doll, a doggie. Kids, as a rule, try to repeat actions of the adult. Such games – a good step before more developed games with the imagined actions extended among children are more senior. Cooking process is interesting to children of any age. Even very small child can be involved in him. The tiny cook is handed a pan, a spoon, packages and jars from under products. Copying mother's actions, he will "shake out" rice from a bag in a pan, to stir a spoon "porridge".