Developmental Montessori - Inspired activities for one year old baby.


Let me share with you some activities I was introducing to my one year old girl at home. Let me tell you a secret, I do not spend every night preparing activities for her for the next day, not even planning.. My favourite style is to play it by ear. I always keep in mind that it is important to engage all five senses when introducing her to different toys, also offer her something that will help her develop deep concentration and is age appropriate. I try to connect our work at home to events that took place recently in our life. For example, after travelling I set up this station:





After visiting aquarium Aisha loved playing with sea creatures and look in the book I found on our shelf.


I introduced Aisha to threading. She is just grasping an idea at 19 months of age. This activity does not last long. But I found this wonderful information on how beading is beneficial for children's development. Have a look: 


Beading as an excellent leisure activity, promoting children' development in the following areas:

Fine Motor Skills:

Grasping: Various sizes of beads promote different grasps. Larger beads often promote the "3-jaw chuck" grasp, similar to holding a large pencil or marker. Smaller beads encourage children to use their pincer grasp, thus strengthening the small muscles of their hands.

In-hand manipulation skills: Many components of making a beaded craft increase strength and coordination in the small hand and finger muscles. For example, picking a bead up from the beading tray, and then manipulating it in one's hand until it is pinched between your thumb and finger, involves translation, shift and rotation movements of the bead within the hand.

Visual Perceptual Skills:

Visual Discrimination, Scanning, Visual Memory: The child must be able to remember the beading pattern to determine the bead they want to use. Once they know what bead they want, visual discrimination assists them in selecting the bead that fits their mental image of the desired bead. Finally, the child must scan across many different beads before finding the desired bead.

Visual Motor Skills:

Eye-Hand coordination: Threading beads onto a string involves bilateral coordination of the child's hands, and requires their eyes and hands to work together.

Cognitive Skills:

Planning: What style of necklace does the child want to make? What pattern will they choose? Where are all the materials needed to complete this beading activity? By answering these questions, the child develops his/her planning and problem-solving skills.

Math Skills: How long will my necklace, bracelet, or keychain need to be? How many beads do I need to complete this project? How can I create and maintain this beading pattern? Encouraging children to think through these functional math problems is a motivating way to improve academic skills in this area.
Social Skills:
Beading Parties promote sharing and cooperation, as children choose beads and complete their projects in a group setting. 
Overall Developmental Benefits of Beading: 
* Improved fine motor, visual perceptual, visual motor and cognitive skills
* Improved dressing skills (especially clothing fasteners, like buttons and zippers)
* Improved pencil grasp and pencil control during colouring and writing activities
* Improved visual perception and better planning often help a child to become more organized (e.g. Where is that sock? Where did I put my pencil case or favourite toy? Do I have everything I need to complete my homework?)
* And last but not least, Beading can provide a sense of accomplishment in completing a project that offers freedom of self-expression and camaraderie with other party-goers. This sense of "Occupational Fulfillment" can contribute to improved self-esteem.
**In other words, Beading is just plain FUN, and FUN is good for kids!!** Source
On the same note, check out my Pinterest Board with Beading and Threading activities for children here.




Just a short and incredibly exciting fine motor activity that entertained my daughter for two weeks. Usually nothing lasts that long...



Art appreciation. After visiting Russia I saw how much Aisha has actually enjoyed looking at world famous paintings we saw at the galleries and museums there. So I put a few pictures on walls for her. I tried to match them by colour. 

Play dough prints game with objects we found on our nature walks. I mixed play dough with a bit of beetroot juice and put a few cloves in for nice smell.



I was jokingly telling my husband: check it out, our homeschooling has begun: here is a botany hands on lesson;) 



Another fine motor activity. Working fingers, grip, visual and hand-eye coordination.



I let Aisha help me with meaningful and age appropriate tasks at home whenever I get a chance. It brings her joy, confidence and satisfaction. I also try to give her tiny responsibilities, like taking care of her own belongings. She takes her shoes of the shoe shelf and puts it back in when we arrive back home. When we leave she knows where to find her hat and puts it back straight after coming back.



And classic lid matching job..





There are our small adventures of the day.. Keep in touch and see you around!!!!!




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