1-2 months Motor Skills
- maintains fetal posture
- Generalized movement
- Hands are fist like and they dont reach for things as much
- They focus largely on reflex level
Activity
- Do baby sit-ups
- Play follow the leader
- Encourage kicking and movement
3-6 months Motor Skills
- Suck thumb (hand to mouth)
- Grasp things
- Wave arms
- Feel objects
- Pull themselves to sitting position
Activities
- make some noise, shake a noisy toy, try to get them to reach for it
- let them squirm
- sit up (put them in a C-shape pillow, encourage them to stay up)
7-11 Months Motor Skills
- crawling
- Hand-eye coordination improves
- Reaches with one hand
- Thumb and index finger together to pick up things
- Pulls self to standing
- Throw toys
Activities
- try to get them to throw toys
- use a sit to stand learning walker toy
- have them crawl from one place to another
One year Motor Skills
- controls arms, legs, and hands to do what it desires
- walks with feet apart, takes short, flat footed steps
- has great fun pulling, lifting, dragging, pushing, likes to throw things and knock things down
- climbs on, under, over, and through things
Activity
- little drummers (make music using percussion instruments)
- playing house
- go get game (send child on different errands, asking them to get shoes or a blanket)
Two year Motor Skills
- Needs toys for large muscles
- likes to paint and color by making large strokes
- piles and stacks blocks
Activities
- dress up time (have them dress up dolls in several outfits)
- all aboard (pull your child around the room and pretend to stop at different places) -balance
- ball pass
Three year Motor Skills
- RIdes trike using pedals
- can poor from a pitcher
- likes to move around, and scoop up sand
Activities
- encourge them to jump
- have them walk like an animal
- have them roll a ball at a target
Four year Motor Skills
- Can skip with alternating feet
- catches ball with ebows in front of body
- throws ball over head
- likes to dance
Activities
- play catch with them
- play hopscotch
- have them throw newspaper at a sticky spider web
Five year Motor Skills
- can jump rope
- can descend ladder with alternating feet
- can throw a ball
- can descend long stairways by themselves
Activities
- have them do frisbee toss
- bean bag toss
- jump and grab
Credits:
Created with images by AdinaVoicu - "boy toddler green eyes" • PublicDomainPictures - "adorable baby beautiful" • PublicDomainPictures - "baby background caucasian" • Theodore Scott - "Mariana" • Brett Holt - "Autumn smiling" • donnierayjones - "Reese is Thinking" • BenedictFrancis - "Rafi" • Profile - "girl baby portrait" • Gilmanshin - "girl young sitting"