Age 10 - 12 months
Age 10 – 12 months
This daycare curriculum package offers activities that engages in the infant in activities that aid sensory development, cognitive skills, numbers work, social and emotional skills, craft and colours skills.
Activities like building a 2-layer structure with the baby using building blocks encourages gross and motors skill development.
Engage them with this curriculum package for proper child development.
Package Curriculums
Week One Activity
Give baby 1 block or object of a small size to play with on a table. Replace the object with a bigger one and tell baby, “This is bigger.” Let her play with this for a while. Replace with the smaller one and say “This is smaller.”
Week Two Activity
Get 3 large plastic bowls or cups. Line them up in front of baby and place a small toy underneath 1 of them while she is looking. Switch the positions of the bowls around. Open the first 2 to reveal that the item is not there. Then let baby open the 3rd one to find object. Celebrate her finding it. Repeat till she loses inter
Week Three Activity
Turn light switches on and off so baby can see. Encourage baby to do the same.
Take a walk with baby around the classroom and compound.
Name Items as you get to them.
Show baby how to open and close a door. Stress the words open and close as you do so. Let baby do it too.
Week Three Activity
Partially hide a toy behind a cupboard or under a cushion or other furniture while baby is watching. Encourage baby to find and bring it out.
Week Four Activity
Use 1 small and 1 large plastic cup to show baby how objects fit into each other then let her do same.
Week Five Activity
Place a toy outside the door of classroom or play area while baby is watching. Close the door, open it and pick up the toy to show baby. Repeat but only close door halfway and ask baby to go and bring the toy.
Week Six Activity
Trace and cut out a large triangle, circle and square from a hard cardboard piece. Let baby play with them as you tell her the name of each object. Keep the cardboard from which you cut out the pieces for future use.
Reflection Activities, using mirror
Week Seven Activity
Let baby place each triangle, circle and square into the holes from which you cut them.
Week Eight Activity
Place a toy out of reach and pull it towards you with a stick. Hold baby’s hand and help her pull the toy. Then let her do it by herself.
Week Nine Activity
Let baby look at her reflection in the mirror and point out each body part.
Week Ten Activity
Fill a plastic container with toys, let baby dump them on the floor. Start putting them back in with her help. Encourage her to throw toys out again and pick up by herself.
Week Eleven Activity
Fill a plastic container with sand, let baby dump it on the floor. Start putting back the sand in plastic with her help. Encourage her to throw sand out again and put it back in by herself.
Week Twelve Activity
Pile some blocks over one another or build a simple structure with baby. Knock them down. Repeat and let her take the lead in building and knocking down objects
Week One Activity
Using either a picture book or toy animals (e.g. cat, dog, cow, pig etc.) make sounds that each animal makes and encourage baby to do same.
Week Two Activity
Point to picture of different animals and ask baby to make the sound
Hold Baby’s hand and trace
A
Week Three Activity
Read to baby from picture book
Listen to Letter Songs.
Hold baby’s hand and draw letter A
Week Four Activity
Tell the baby a story using toys to demonstrate. Speak slowly
Trace letter
b
Week Five Activity
Read to baby from picture book
Draw letter B
Week Six Activity
Read to baby from picture book
Trace letter C
Week Seven Activity
Read to baby from picture book
Colour letter A
Week Eight Activity
Read to baby from picture book
Colour letter B
Week Nine Activity
Read to baby from picture book
Colour letter C
Week Ten Activity
Read to baby from picture book
Trace A, and B
Week Eleven Activity
Read to baby from picture book
-Tell baby a story using toys to demonsteate.
Tracing A, B, and C
Week Twelve Activity
Read to baby from picture book
Tell baby a story using toys to demonsteate.
Colour A, B & C
Week One Activity
Rhyme:
Old McDonald Had A Farm
Week Two Activity
Rhyme:
I Saw a Little Rabbit/Bunny
Week Three Activity
Rhyme:
Clap Your Hands
Week Four Activity
Rhyme:
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Week Five Activity
Rhyme:
Baby Shark
Week Six Activity
Rhyme:
Where, where, where are the duckies? (hide and seek song)
Week Seven Activity
Rhyme:
Twinkle, twinkle little star
Week Eight Activity
Rhyme:
Wheels on the bus go round and round
Week Nine Activity
Rhyme – (Humpty, Dumpty)
Week Ten Activity
Rhyme:
One Little finger
Week Eleven Activity
Rhyme:
The wheels on the bus
Week Twelve Activity
Rhyme:
Pussy cat, pussy cat
Week One Activity
Show baby how to blow kisses. Encourage her to do same.
Give baby a piece of food or fruit to hold. Guide his hand to his mouth to encourage self feeding.
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week Two Activity
Teach baby to say bye bye.
Place food that is easy for baby to pick up on a plate in front of her and encourage her to eat it by herself.
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week Three Activity
Encourage baby to pick and put away toys after playing with them.
During meal time, give baby a spoon and show her how to use it to feed herself.
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week Four Activity
Help baby learn to play with his image in the mirror.
Show baby how to drink from a cup by holding her hand to the cup as you lift to her mouth
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week Five Activity
Work with Building Blocks.
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week Six Activity
Hide in an easy to find place, call out to baby and let her find you. Encourage baby to hide too.
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week Seven Activity
Place baby on the floor, motion for her to come to you. As she gets closer, move further away. Let her touch you then repeat the game.
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week Eight Activity
Draw a face on your thumb with a
marker. Hide the thumb under your
other fingers. Then reveal it to baby.
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week Nine Activity
Hold a toy and play with it as if it is a a baby. Pretend to rock and feed it. Tell baby what you are doing. Give baby the toy and encourage her to do same.
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week Ten Activity
Throw a ball across the room. Encourage baby to get it. Clap enthusiastically when she does. Try to get her to repeat it. Stop when she loses interest.
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week Eleven Activity
Hold baby’s hand to scribble with crayon on a piece of paper. Let go of her hand and let her scribble by herself.
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week Twelve Activity
Put several light items and toys like stuffed animals in a container on the a smooth part of the floor, say “One, two, three, push,” and then push the container. Repeat the counting and encourage the child to do the pushing.
Hold baby and dance to
Music
Week One Activity
1,2 buck my shoes Song Working with no-1
Week Two Activity
Number Song Working with 2
Week Three Activity
Cut & Paste
a
and picture of 1 apple
Week Four Activity
Number Song Mastering
1&2
Week Five Activity
Cut & Paste a
and picture of 2 apples
Week Six Activity
Number Song working with
3
Week Seven Activity
Recognizing Coloring
1, 2 & 3
Week Eight Activity
Recognizing Coloring
1,2 & 3
Week Nine Activity
Mastering Numbers Song working with 4
Week Ten Activity
Cut and paste 3 & 4
Week Eleven Activity
Mastering Numbers Song working with 5
Week Twelve Activity
Cut and paste 4 & 5
Week One Activity
Build a 2-layer structure with baby using building blocks. Let her then build it by herself.
Week Two Activity
Make a hole of about 1 inch in diameter at the top of an empty fruit juice container. Show baby how to insert a straw into the box through the hole. Let her take out and insert the straw herself.
Handprint Craft on Cardboard
Week Three Activity
Show baby how to open and close a small box e.g match box. Place 3 or 4 small toys in an empty container. Empty them one at a time into another container. Encourage baby to pick up the items one at a time and place into the other container
Week Four Activity
Let baby stack three or more tiers of building blocks and knock them down.
Let baby stack 2 small and 3 large plastic cups. Add 2 medium sized ones and challenge her to figure out how to stack them.
Week Five Activity
With help of baby, cut &
Paste B
for Ball picture on a cardboard.
Let baby play with several containers of different sizes, shapes and textures e.g plastic, cardboard etc. They should all have lids so that she learns how to open and close them.
Week Six Activity
Let baby pick put objects e.g Plastics and put into a box
Place baby’s hand in water color and paste it on a page. Let her try and do it by herself
Week Seven Activity
With help of baby Cut & paste C for Cup picture on Cardboard.
Place baby on a mattress or cushion and bounce her up and down gently to encourage her to find her sitting balance
Week Eight Activity
Help Baby mold a ball, and other simple shapes with play dough
Week Nine Activity
Sit with baby between your legs, a little distance away but facing a wall. Make sure there is enough distance between you and wall to bounce a ball against it holding baby’s hand. Bounce the ball with baby’s hand as it returns to you. Encourage baby to bounce the wall without your help.
Week Ten Activity
By this time baby should be standing while supporting herself by holding onto furniture and moving from place to place. Encourage her by placing stools or chairs strategically to make her walk while holding on to the furniture.
Week Eleven Activity
Get a rod of about 2ft long. Help baby hold onto it. While also holding onto the rod facing baby, move slowly backwards so that baby moves her feet along.
Week Twelve Activity
Place a scarf across baby’s chest, bring the ends of the scarf under her armpit to her back. Hold them together behind her. Place a toy in front of her and guide her to walk towards it while you hold on to the scarf to support her.