How to stimulate the baby's senses
Through taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell, babies begin to discover the world around them . Through fun games we can stimulate your senses, enjoying a playful activity, promoting affective bonds and developing different areas of learning of the baby's brain. How to stimulate the sense of hearin
Through taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell, babies begin to discover the world around them . Through fun games we can stimulate your senses, enjoying a playful activity, promoting affective bonds and developing different areas of learning of the baby's brain.How to stimulate the sense of hearing in babies
Through the ear the babies
are able to recognize also everything around them and they are familiar as the voice of their mother, in fact they are able to listen from when they are in the mother's womb To encourage your hearing we recommend: - Talk to the babies gesticulating a lot.
- Sing them.
- Use rattles and bells, which can help by playing to stimulate their hearing.
This stimulation will be of great help to further promote the development of language.
How to develop touch in babies
Through physical contact
babies are able to perceive various sensations such as cold, warmth or softness of objects. The touch also allows them to know the world around them because depending on how they perceive the contact with their skin, the baby is able to feel the tenderness or the security that we transmit to him, being a fundamental tool to develop the affective bond with his parents. Using hugs, caresses or massages using our hands or using an object such as a soft cloth helps to develop its meaning. We can also do it by guiding you to touch objects of different textures: soft, rough, cold or warm, smooth or rough, etc.
Tips to stimulate eyesight in babies
Newborns
can only see at a short distance and in a straight line , seeing blur until the first month of life. Until then they prefer the colors of great contrasts such as whites and blacks. It is from four months when babies begin to discriminate some colors more and until 6 months their vision is not able to perceive all colors.To stimulate your eyesight we can:
- Use brightly colored toys with great contrasts and play to bring them closer and to move them away.
- We can also gesture a lot when we look at him so he can appreciate the different features of our expressions.
- And also play with mirrors so that you perceive your reflection.
How to stimulate smell in babies
The newborn already has the sense of smell in fact through him is able to recognize his mother. To develop this sense we can offer scents of varied fruits and vegetables and help you discover new scents with aromatic herbs, spices, flowers, or even with different aromas of bath gels or creams.
Games to promote the sense of taste in babies
Babies
tend to take everything they take to their mouth and that is through the sense of taste also discover the world around them. It is highly recommended to offer the baby different soft, salty, sour, sweet flavors and also different textures to learn to distinguish them and know the variety, which will help you eat everything. Cristina González Hernando.
Editor of Guiainfantil.com
