Who doesn’t love to play with the baby. Playing with a baby doesn’t need any sort of fancy toys or perfectly designed playing ambiance. You can play with them with the things that are already there at home. You can use your own unique and creative way of performing good activities for one year old.
At the end of the article, you will come across the list of things that you can do with a one year old baby. Scroll down and read in the article.
Activities For 1 Year Old Baby:
Here are a few activities that will keep your baby active and engage throughout the day-
1. Circle The Object:
This is one of the easy and supper active things to do with a one year old baby. This activity you can do at indoor anywhere at home. This will make the baby learn about the size and shape of an object and recognize or identify the object.
How To Do:
- Get a picture magazine of shape, size, object, animals, flower etc
- Give it to the baby with a pencil or pen.
- Then ask the child to circle the object that you ask them to show.
2. Make Pasta Necklace:
Yes, true you can make necklace from pasta and this is one of the best activities for 1 year old. It helps a lot to develop the fine motor skill of the baby as they put more level of concentration on it.
How To Do:
- Get one long cotton thread and give to the kids.
- Firm the string with one piece of pasta then add one by one.
- You can add two or more colour pasta as it will look more beautiful
- Once it is done, tie the knot in the form of a necklace.
[Read: Activities For 2 Years Old Babies]
3. Straw Drawing:
Drawing is always fun and interesting for the kids. This is one of the creative forms of drawing as it is through using any sort of object. This develops the creativity of the baby and gains the interest of size and object.
How To Do:
- Give some straw to the kids
- Ask them to start making shape of the triangle, rectangle, square, etc.
- Use the straw and complete the shape.
4. Cat Walk The Ribbon:
Here is another activity to stimulate one year old baby. It also helps in the walking skill of the baby. The kids will enjoy a lot while doing this activity and it keeps them engaged.
How To Do:
- Take few different colour of ribbons
- Tape them on the floor either in curved or straight line.
- Mark a starting point
- Then ask the child to walk on the ribbon.
- If they walk outside the ribbon them they are out.
5. Water Bead Game:
This is a superb activities for 1 year old baby at home. The kids have too many good times while playing this game. It helps the child to understand the concept and recognize the color. They also come across the texture of the object.
How To Do:
- Get some water bead of different color
- To it add some water so that it will allow them to open up.
- Then ask the child to separate each color at different plate or jar.
6. Trace The Letter:
With the help of activity you can make your toddler to learn the letters and alphabet. This will improve there writing and cognitive activity of the baby. You can trace the size, shape etc.
How To Do:
- Take the doted page of writing paper with alphabets
- Give that sheet to the child.
- Ask them to join the dotted line to complete the letter.
- While tracing asks them to repeat.
7. Cotton Snowman:
This is regarded as one of the best one year old baby activities that you can do especially in winter times. This increases the creative skill of the baby and keeps them engage throughout the time.
How To Do:
- First outline a snowman in a chart paper
- Then take a few cotton balls and make them small pieces
- Paste it on the inside the outline
- Once it is done with a full image with the cotton ball draw the outline, eyes, noise arms with other papers.
8. Telephone Talking:
This is one of the major ways to stimulate a one year old baby. This will helps to improve communication skills. As the kids love to blabber at this stage they will simply love it.
How To Do:
- Make the toddler to hold the telephone
- You pretend to speak in your cell phone
- And try to have a conversation with them.
9. Bobble Tunnel:
This is one of the fun filled indoor activities for 1 year old baby. The baby learns about gross motor skill and learns object tracking skills. It is a quite engaging activity for the baby.
How To Do:
- Take some toilet roll and stick to the door one after one to form a discontinuous vertical tunnel.
- Then put the pom-pom to the top of the roll.
- Then allow it slowly fall inside the tunnel
- You can increase the toilet roll if you can.
10. Colored Cup:
You can make your baby play a lot of stuff with a coloured cup. This is one of the ways to stimulate a one year old baby. The baby come to understand the color of different stuff and they develop their creative skill.
How To Do:
- Take few colour cups of same size or paint few cups
- Pain one color for two cups.
- Once it is done ask your toddler to hold the cup and see things through it.
11. Painting The Window:
Giving any object to paint , the kids simply love it. The kids more love to pain on real object. This will to develop or explore there own creative skill. The kids simply get loss into it.
How To Do:
- First select a window in home.
- Stick the transparent plastic sheet to it.
- Give colour and brush to paint in the window whatever they want.
12. Toss the Ball:
Kids always love to play with balls. The kids gets the chance to develop the object training and gross motor skill. This is one of the good activity for one year old.
How To Do:
- Take a tub and fill half of it through water.
- To it add few plastic ball
- Make the toddler stand few distance from the tub
- Then ask the toddler to throw the ball to the tub.
- The ball should trow in the tub.
The kids learn life skills through games. I hope this article has given you a good number of option of the things to do with a bone year old. Try it and make your baby enjoy it.
