Activities for one year olds in daycare setting?

Question

We must do 3 activities a week with these children and after so many you run out of ideas. Any ideas will be appreciated. Next month I start in a room with 5 months to 11 months, to me thats too big of an age diffrence. I will have 8 infants and one helper.

Answer 1

Please do not attempt anything to do with letters and numbers with babies this age. Give them lots of sensory experiences-things to touch, see and listen to. Read them books 1:1 and name simple objects. You don't have to read all the words, just use simple language. If a child can sit, roll a ball back and forth. Use cause and effect toys such as a busy box. Provide toys that make noise when touched. Make sure they have plenty of time down on the floor to explore and move around. Put them down on a variety of surfaces-from soft blankets to bubble wrap. Play Patty Cake. You don't need to "teach" them anything. You need to give them opportunities to learn from interacting with the environment. And avoid the "baby as tool" school of art. Don't do activities that involve you holding and manipulating the baby to create something. It's dishonest and inappropriate.

Answer 2

It is good to use a theme, like do a letter for 2 weeks. We don't start doing activities with the children until they are sitting by themselves. We do one at a time also. Some good things to do with this age group is with foods. Use cool whip and food coloring and allow them to finger paint with it (if they eat it it is okay). An example for the letter A is do apple paintings, cut an apple in half and put paint on it, place the apple in the child's hand and help them to make apple prints on a paper. When you have a theme to go by it is easier to think of things, they also have books with activities for this age group. This is when they are learning to color with big crayons (make sure you take the crayon out of their mouth and say no when they try to eat it, because they will try).

Answer 3

for 1 year olds do activities that have them reach across like put a toy in there left hand and set another toy in there left side and try to have them reach for it with there right hand call it "balance activities"

for 5-11m try anything with sound,lights,color, black and white and diff texture for them to fell and read to them (i use the touch and fell books)