I don't know if you have ever encountered this situation, want to make a good meal at home, the baby always has to rush into the kitchen to make trouble. Waiting for a meal bar in the mall or restaurant outside, the baby is impatient for minutes. Aside from mobile phones and pads, is there any better way to get your baby to sit quietly and play by himself?
Just use your brain, there really is.
Today I will introduce you to a few small games that you can play while waiting for meals to help your baby pass the boring time.
Babies like to follow their mother to the kitchen, but maybe their idea is not to make trouble, but to help. In the face of this intimacy, we can let the TA show it in a different way. For example, let your baby make a clay dish.
You only need to print the plate template in advance (there is a way to download the material at the end of the article), and then prepare the colored clay, straws, small beads, toothpicks and the like, so that the baby can DIY on the table. (To avoid accidental swallowing and other potential dangers, it is best to do it under the supervision of parents)
The shape of clay is ever-changing, and if kneaded into small balls and slender strips, it can be saladd as a vegetable. If pressed into a circle, it's an ice cream ball or dessert. Sprinkle a little bead at this time, that is, chocolate color needles, and it looks more delicious.
In the same way, you can also let the baby make their own pasta, birthday cake, etc.
In addition to doing it, the food itself can also be used for play.
See, small donuts can transform into octopus legs. You can first teach your baby to recognize the numbers, and when the numbers are recognized, you can let them fill in.
"Baby, fill the 5th leg of the octopus."
"You can also try The 7th."
At the same time as the long skill, but also exercised the fineness of the small hand, isn't it?
Donuts can also be used to play small games of round matching.
Get ready to print out the underwater world in advance, and then let your baby paint it with a paintbrush. When the picture has become colorful, let him put a doughnut on top of the protruding bubbles of the small fish.
When the baby has done all this, I believe you can also eat.
While waiting for a meal, clay can be used to make a variety of interesting facial expressions in addition to making delicacies.
It can be achieved with the face template we have prepared for everyone. The person can be crying or laughing.
We can also test the baby, can you pinch out the appearance of mom and dad.
A variety of snacks can also be added to the face making process.
For example, make hair for a face template with less hair. The ingredients can be fries or cheese fries.
As for what kind of hairstyle this person will be in the end, it all depends on the baby's imagination!
If you have some fruits and vegetables around you at this time, it is better, let the baby play on the expression plate.
Broccoli, carrots, kiwis, cantaloupes... It looks better than usual.
Since it is waiting for a meal, it is advisable to use this time to let the baby know more about food.
Mom and Dad can prepare the vegetable template and guide the baby to color it with a paintbrush. For example, carrots are orange and tomatoes are red, which strengthens the baby's recognition and cognition of vegetables.
In addition, each vegetable has a corresponding English name next to it. After painting, you can also take your baby to read it several times to increase his English vocabulary.
A similar gameplay is Food Rainbow.
Since it is a rainbow, then everyone can tell the baby that the color of the vegetables and fruits on each rainbow should be the same. For example, the red one has strawberries, watermelons, and apples, and the yellow one has corn and oranges.
After painting, the baby has a more holistic and intuitive impression in his mind.
Just distinguishing from the color, it seems that the difficulty is not enough. If your baby can sort all kinds of foods, that's really great. There's a mini-game of food classification.
There are fruits, vegetables, proteins, and cereals on the template, and parents can let the baby put the small cards into the corresponding categories first. If you misplace it, remember to correct it in time.
In order to prevent the baby from eating everywhere, usually the mother will give the TA a placemat. But don't underestimate this little object, it also has a new way of playing.
For example, let your baby paint the placemat template himself. Seeing his own work, the baby may eat an extra bowl of rice.
Of course, the placemat can also play triple chess, and you can also let the baby record or doodle what today.
In foreign countries, there is also a more popular dinner time mini-game.
Print out the dinner template and prepare an empty plate and two dice. Have your baby cast the dice in an empty dish first, match the number of points thrown with the number on the placemat, and then play truth and answer the corresponding questions on the template.
Like, what was the funniest/saddest thing that happened to you today? After the baby answers, the mother answers again, so that both people can know how the other is doing today.
Most of the questions on this dinner time template are open-ended, so the answers you get may be different every day. Accumulated in a month, while gaining a full sense of accomplishment, it is also a good way for family members to get to know each other.
After watching the above meal games, do you suddenly feel that the time before eating is no longer difficult?