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Newborn & up
• Follows objects visually. Gazes toward moving objects
• Recognizes voices of different persons
• Turns to sounds
• Explores hands, feet and mouth
• miles and makes laugh
• Able to sit with support
• Able to grasp
• Makes sounds to express their emotion
Suggested stimuli
• Mobiles: promote eye focus; auditory stimulation
• Bright color, bold pattern books or bumper
• Cuddling toys: tactile stimulation, security feeling
• Musical toys: build attention span; soothing
• Rattles: sound awareness
• Mirrors (non-breakable): encourage baby to lift his head, self discovery
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6 months & up
• Able to crawl, stand or walk with support
• Better pincer grasp (use the thumb and index finger to pick up an object)
• Can sit up, roll over and clap hands
• Discovering the concept of cause and effect
• Attuned to rhythm and beat to move his/her body
• Likes to pick up, open, push, pull or throw small objects around them
• Likes to babble and waits for response
• Bangs on surfaces, shakes objects to make noise
• Manages to stack up things
Suggested stimuli
• Push-Pull toy/cars: small and large muscle development
• Stacking toys: visual stimulation; small muscle coordination
• Drums
• Balls: tactile stimulus (grasping, throwing)
• Activity cloth books
• Toys or play mats with pockets or flips for Peek-a-Poo
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12 months & up
• Improves fine motor skills
• Comprehends and follows instructions
• Able to categorize and recognize different sizes, shapes and colors
• Experiments with independence
• Possessive. Hasn't learnt to share
• Able to bend at waist to pick up objects
Suggested stimuli
• Blocks and stacking toys: eye hand coordination
• Stuffed toys: learn to socialize, emotion development
• Shape sorters: visual and tactile stimulation
• Simple puzzles: develop finger dexterity and eye hand coordination
• Toys with buttons, levers, lids
• Books: enrich their vocabulary; attention span
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24 months & up
• Run full speed
• Better fine motor skills: can draw pictures
• Acquired to about three hundred words, starts to talk in phrases/sentences
• Starts to enjoy playing with other children but is still very possessive
• Imitates adults
• Takes things apart and fits them together again. Likes repetition
Suggested stimuli
• Phones, tools, computer toys: imitates adult: role playing
• Pounding sets: cause and effect and small muscle development
• Dolls/doll sets: role playing
• Art supplies: stimulate creativity and imagination
• Toys that help develop spatial concept, i.e. blocks
• Books: enrich their vocabulary; attention span
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