Games to visually stimulate babies from 1 to 3 years

Babies between 12 months and 3 years of age have acquired many visual skills . They have gone from seeing blurry and even black and white to capture all the shades. They are able to focus on what they have near and far and they handle peripheral vision, which is the one that reaches almost 180º. How

Babies between 12 months and 3 years of age have acquired many visual skills. They have gone from seeing blurry and even black and white to capture all the shades. They are able to focus on what they have near and far and they handle peripheral vision, which is the one that reaches almost 180º.

However, his vision is not yet fully developed. They will have to wait until 5 or 6 years for both eyes to work in a coordinated and precise manner.

Activities to stimulate the vision of babies from 1 to 3 years

Parents can help our children to complete that visual development with some simple games that we can develop at home:

- Sit on a small stool so you can support the soles of the feet on the ground. Place near him some toy or item that catches your attention so you have to get up and reach it. F - Encourage him to walk by placing objects at a distance that

forces him to move and grab him. - To reinforce your balance and your perception of your body, in addition to making it

work the approach , to do so, put objects on the ground and thus have to bend down, in this way you will have to calculate the distance to which the element. You will also be stimulating eye-hand coordination.- It is good to stimulate the fine motor skills, for this you can give the child pencils or waxes so that

draw, doodle or make lines of free form. - Work visual memory by touch

, for this we can offer the baby objects of different sizes and textures so that he can discriminate without looking. - You can also start working with simple puzzles.All these simple actions contribute to training the

muscles of the eyes

of the children to strengthen it and favor that both work together and accurately. With the collaboration of:

Teresa Molina and María Valencia