Children at the age of 1 year and 3 months are very active and inquisitive, and mothers should try on literally on themselves a role of the animator that the child did not miss and spent time with benefit for development. Fortunately, there is a set of ways to occupy the kid.
Walks
At this age children usually are already able to go, but do it not really surely. For fixing of this skill arrange foot walks more often. It is desirable to walk not only on the asphalted city streets, but also on forest footpaths that foot of the child adapted to overcome roughnesses. With the same purpose it is useful to go on the inclined planes, to climb children's short flights of stairs and hills. The main thing is to be near always to catch the kid when he loses balance. Without knowing, than to occupy the child, always go for a walk, on the street it will never not be boring for the kid. Take a ball and toys for a sandbox, in the winter in the summer – a children's snow shovel. At the same time do not forget that in 1 year and 3 months the child quickly is tired to go independently therefore for distant walks nevertheless it is better to take a carriage, differently it is necessary to take the baby on hands.
The developing circles
The child in 1 year can already visit the developing circles. Fortunately, the set of the developing centers functions today, and you for certain will find one of them within walking distance from the house. On such classes of children learn to draw, form the dough, put puzzles and many other things. Mothers will gather a set of the interesting ideas for house classes with the kid here, learn new games for children. Besides in the children's developing center the child will receive the first skills of communication with peers. Thanks to it, it will be easier for child to adapt to kindergarten in the future.
House games
Many mothers do not know, than to occupy the child of the house, and there is a set of ways with benefit to spend time. Buy finger-type paints in children's shop and you teach the kid to draw. Usually this occupation carries away kids for a long time, however, then to mom it is necessary to wash clothes and to wash furniture from paints therefore in advance think where and in what look it is better for child to draw. If the child in 1 year and 3 months did not form the dough yet, it is a high time to acquaint him with this remarkable material. It is the best of all to buy special children's dough for a molding, it bright and plastic, but it is possible to manage also improvised materials, having made flour and water dough. Dough perfectly develops fine motor skills, and it is possible to use it in several ways. So, it is possible to form the dough into figures of animals, and it is possible to stick together sausage, to give to the kid a children's knife and to show how to cut it on pieces. It is also possible to get a special album for the test where on each page there will be tasks. For example, to tear off small pieces of the test, to skatyvat from them balls and to glue on the drawn apple-tree, as if these are apples.