Many 13-month-olds are beginning to get interested in mimicking their parents as they do house chores and playing games. An artist may even be budding in your house. This curriculum package helps you identify and encourage these craft and colouring skills.

Throw in chunky crayons and encourage the baby to scribble on paper. The child will also enjoy songs with counting that will help her visualise things. This curriculum is designed to help you improve child development in all areas including; sensory and cognitive skills, numbering skills, fine and gross motor skills and more.

Package Curriculums

Week One

Week One Activity

Stand in front of a mirror with infant and point her hand to parts of her body. Ask her “what is this?” Tell her the answer if she does not know and ask her again.

Week Two

Week Two Activity

PEEKABOO

[Finding a partly hidden toy]

Show infant a favourite toy. Partially hide it under a blanket as he watches. Encourage child to lift the blanket to grab hold of the toy.

Week Three

Week Three Activity

Help baby build more elaborate structures with building blocks. Reduce your level of assistance gradually.

Week Four

Week Four Activity

Fill a plastic bottle with beads, stones or beans & and another bottle with sand

Teach her to make various sounds by shaking the bottles. Make sure the bottles are sealed to prevent infant from trying to swallow objects

Week Five

Week Five Activity

Tracking hidden objects activities.

Fill a bottle with water, place a cup beside it. Let baby fill the cup with water from the bottle. Let her empty the cup and fill it again. Show her how the bottle is being gradually emptied.

Week Six

Week Six Activity

Place infant in a sitting position and ask her to stand up, sit down, come here, go there, close your eyes, open your eyes, show me your (hand, mouth etc.). Demonstrate what you are asking her to do so that she imitates you at first. Gradually, she will learn to follow instructions.

Week Seven

Week Seven Activity

PEEKABOO

[Finding a totality hidden toy]

Make playful patterns with a lit flashlight against a wall. Let baby do the same.

Week Eight

Week Eight Activity

Mirror Reflection Activities.

Stand in front of a mirror with infant and point her hand to parts of her body. Ask her “what is this?” Tell her the answer if she does not know and ask her again

Pointing to things seen around.

Point to the window, point to the door etc.

Week Nine

Week Nine Activity

Show infant a picture or drawing of a person, point to their body body parts and ask her to name them.

Lay infant

down on a large cardboard paper. Use a marker to trace around her to produce her silhouette.

Let her get up and with her help, draw her eyes, ears nose etc. onto the silhouette. Tell her as you draw each part of her body what the part is used for.

Week Ten

Week Ten Activity

Place a small toy or object in your hand and open the hand so infant sees the object. Close the hand and ask her where it is. Show her the object. While she is watching move the object to the other hand. Close both hands and ask her where it is. Repeat the game and also let her try and hide the object from you.

Week Eleven

Week Eleven Activity

With the help of infant, place a toy inside a small box that has a lid. Place that box inside another. Ask her to find the toy.

Week Twelve

Week Twelve Activity

Using 3 plastic cups or plates of different colors( eg red, yellow green) with matching color of spoons or straws. Show infant how to match spoon or straw to cup or plate. Let her do the same.

Week One

Week One Activity

Point to pictures in books and name the

various objects.

Rhyme of the week: Itsy Bitsy Spider

Week Two

Week Two Activity

Teach baby how to answer:

What is your name? Do this by asking the questions and then, pointing at the child and clapping out the syllables as you say the name. encourage the child to clap along. You can also incorporate the name into a simple a song or rhyme (e.g. twinkle, twinkle little star) that the child is familiar with.

Trace: A

Introduce the sound “a”

Rhyme of the week: I like to drink milk

Week Three

Week Three Activity

Listen to letter song &

Tracing

B

Introduce the sound “ba”

Rhyme of the week:

Do you know the ice cream man who lives on Trury lane?

Week Four

Week Four Activity

Point to pictures in books and name the various objects beginning with letter A.

Introduce the sound “be”

Trace

C

Rhymes

of the week:

The farmer iin the Dell”

Please and Thank you song

Week Five

Week Five Activity

Point to pictures in books and name the various objects beginning with b

Read aloud [changing your voice for different character]

Introduce the sound “bi”

Rhyme of the week:

Oh where, Oh where has my little dog gone?

Week Six

Week Six Activity

Working with

D

Cut out and paste on

book.

Introduce the sound “bo”

Rhyme of the week: Did You Ever See A Bunny?

Week Seven

Week Seven Activity

Mastering letter song.

Trace

A & B

Introduce the sound “bu”

Rhyme of the week: Little bunny bum bum

Week Eight

Week Eight Activity

Trace

B & C

Work with the sounds: “ba, be, bi, bo bu”

Rhyme of the week: If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands

Week Nine

Week Nine Activity

Reading Aloud

C & D

Introduce the sound “pa, pe, pi, po, pu”

Rhymes of the week:

My Head,

My Shoulder, my knees, my toes

How Much Is That doggy in the window?

Week Ten

Week Ten Activity

Pick a toy from one corner or end of a room. Give it to the infant. Making sure she is facing the direction of a table. Point to it, ask her to take toy to the table. Introduce the sound “da, de, di, do, du”

Rhyme of the week:

This Old man

Week Eleven

Week Eleven Activity

Read to baby from picture Ask the toddler questions that she can respond to even if is is by pointing. E.g. where is the door?”

Introduce the sound “ta, te, ti, to, tu”

Rhyme of the week:

I Saw A Little Rabbit/Bunny

Week Twelve

Week Twelve Activity

Point to familiar objects and ask the toddler “what is that?” wait for her to make attempts to say what it is. Then say the name of the object several times after she tries.

Rhyme of the week:

Here are my ears – (identify parts of body)

Week One

Week One Activity

Let the child listen to the ticking of a clock. Sing the rhyme “Tick says the clock” You can also create sounds by opening and closing

doors, windows, or drawers.

Week Two

Week Two Activity

Take infant around the classroom and touch a table.

Put her hand on the table as you say the word “table.”

Repeat with other objects in the room.

Week Three

Week Three Activity

Let infant finger print on white

cardboard with little assistance.

Using emoji’s that you find on your phone as guide, draw happy, sad, grumpy etc faces. Show the toddler the drawing, then demonstrate with your face and encourage her to do same.

Week Four

Week Four Activity

Dance as you sing together.

Sit at the table with toddler and hand her a stuffed toy to play with. Ask her to give it to you saying “please”. Say thank you when she hands it to you. Return the toy to her and ask her for it again. Repeat till she loses interest. Remember to reinforce all the ‘magic’ wards at every interaction.

Week Five

Week Five Activity

Building Blocks

Role play: various animals. Act like various animals and encourage reaction to them e.g a lion is scary, a dog is friendly, a cat is cuddly, a monkey is funny etc

Week Six

Week Six Activity

How to use Handkerchief to clean the nose. Demonstrate by blowing into the handkerchief loudly so that she know what you are doing and ask her to do the same.

Week Seven

Week Seven Activity

Play Hide & Seek game with her. Encourage her to hide and also find you.

Week Eight

Week Eight Activity

Building Blocks

Using a doll or stuffed toy, show toddler how to feed a baby, hug it or put it to sleep

Week Nine

Week Nine Activity

Lay four or more cushions and/or pillows up in a line on the floor. Get on your knees and start crawling on the cushions encourage baby to join you. It is a fun activity for bonding which also helps motor skills.

Let toddler play stacking game without assistance

Week Ten

Week Ten Activity

Decorate empty fruit juice boxes by pasting plain paper on them and then painting with the toddler.

Week Eleven

Week Eleven Activity

Sit on the floor with toddler, hold a doll or stuffed toy in your lap and sing to it. Give it to toddler and encourage her to do same.

Week Twelve

Week Twelve Activity

Lay out three or four toys on the floor, and let toddler choose one of them to play with by herself.

While playing music, dance along with toddler. Wave and shake different colorful scarves to the music and let her imitate you. You may also hide behind the scarves to play peekaboo. Let her have a go with the scarves too.

Week One

Week One Activity

Counting and tracing No 1

Rhyme:

1,2 Buckle my shoe e.t. c

Week Two

Week Two Activity

Counting and tracing No 1

Rhyme:

1,2 Buckle my shoe e.t. c

Week Three

Week Three Activity

Counting

of Numbers.

-Tracing & Coloring number 2

Week Four

Week Four Activity

Counting

of Numbers.

-Tracing & Coloring number 2

Week Five

Week Five Activity

Counting of Numbers.

Tracing &

coloring no 3

Week Six

Week Six Activity

Counting of Numbers.

Tracing & coloring no 3

Week Seven

Week Seven Activity

Mastering number Song cut & paste 2 on cardboard

Week Eight

Week Eight Activity

Mastering number Song cut & paste 2 and 3 on cardboard

Week Nine

Week Nine Activity

Counting: Trace & color

4

Week Ten

Week Ten Activity

Counting

Trace & color 5

Week Eleven

Week Eleven Activity

Hold baby’s hand to Counting Trace 1-5

Week Twelve

Week Twelve Activity

Color & cut

1-5

Week One

Week One Activity

Make a fist and fold your right thumb into it while baby is watching. Show her how to do the same. Repeat with the left hand, then both hands at the same time.

Week Two

Week Two Activity

Clap after Teacher Activities: Clap one time and let her to do the same. Then gradually increase the number of times you clap and encourage her to clap the same number.

Let toddler play with water color and brush or marker on a piece of paper.

Week Three

Week Three Activity

Do knocking down activities with baby.

Also do picking up and putting into a container activities

(picking up paper and putting into trash can)

Rhymes: “Pieces of paper”

Week Four

Week Four Activity

Let toddler stack of cups and and plates.

Show toddler how to fasten and unfasten various types of buttons. Encourage her to do it herself.

Week Five

Week Five Activity

Clap to the tune of a nursery rhyme and encourage her to do the same.

With your shoes and the toddler’s shoes off, sit on the floor and let her sit beside you. Stretch out your legs and make different movements with your, legs, feet and toes. Encourage her to do whatever you do.

Week Six

Week Six Activity

Light Show: let her make patterns on the wall with a flashlight.

Using an uncovered baby bottle, show toddler how to insert popsicle sticks into the bottle. Let her spill the sticks out and put them back in.

Week Seven

Week Seven Activity

Walk outside with baby and point to things you see and name them. Encourage her to do the same.

Get containers with different kinds of lids and put small toys inside them. Show toddler how to get them out by opening the lids. Let her do it.

Week Eight

Week Eight Activity

Clapping and counting

Activities.

Show baby how to roll play- dough back with a rolling pin or small empty bottle back and forth. First hold her hand and do it then let her do it herself.

Week Nine

Week Nine Activity

Stacking and Knocking down activities.

Let toddler sit opposite you with her feet and yours wide open. Push a ball towards her and encourage her to push it back to you.

Week Ten

Week Ten Activity

Lay a track on the floor with rubber tiles or cardboard cut into tiles and encourage the toddler to walk on the track.

Place a toy on chair with a secure back. Put some obstacles like cushions and pillows around the chair.

Encourage toddler to fetch the toy by scaling the obstacles.

Week Eleven

Week Eleven Activity

Play head, shoulder, knees and toes with infant.

If infant is already walking steadily on her feet, put a ball in front her while holding one of her hands and encourage her to kick it.

If not, do it when she is sitting down.

Week Twelve

Week Twelve Activity

Sit at the back of the infant, facing a wall. Guide her hand to throw a ball at the wall.

Place two small items some distance away from you and encourage toddler to bring both to you at the same time.>