The popular inchworm comes with a mirror, a soft teether, crinkly cheeks, eight feet, and a cuddly body! Babies can hug and babies can bite.
Senses
The fundamental senses of seeing, tasting, hearing, smelling & feeling encourage a child's curiosity.
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills are those smaller actions between the thumb and fingers or using the toes to wriggle and feel the objects.
Gross Motor Skills
Gross motor skills are larger movements involving the arm, leg, or feet muscles or the entire body.
Logic
Logical training enables babies to make connections between pieces of information.
Creativity
Colors, shapes, learning how to draw, getting familiar with music and rhythm, all goes to aid the growth of a child's creativity.
Linguistics
Linguistic Intelligence is the ability to use sound and language for expression and comprehension of others while a child is developing.
Emotion
A healthy child should be able to control and express his emotion, and interact effectively with others with mutual trust.
Communication Skills
Good communication skills lead a child to perform cooperative tasks and become productive team members.
Self-Esteem
Self-Esteem is an overall sense of achievement a child feels from the important people around him. Task basis activities could help children to build up a stronger self-esteem with a better judgment about their own worth.
*These are recommendations made under normal circumstances. Parents can determine which activities are most suitable depending on the progress of individual children.
Objective: Hugging - building a sense of security
Method: The inchworm is made from high quality materials. It is soft and comfortable, great for hugging. Hugging also teaches children to care for others.
Objective: Listening training - reacting to sounds
Method: Use the rattles, squeakers and crinkle paper to make sounds to the right and left side of your child's head. Then observe if your child moves her head or gaze to follow the sounds. This trains her listening skills and attention.
Objective: Sense stimulation - touching and feeling different textures
Method: The inchworm is made from different materials. Encourage your child to touch and feel the different textures and to chew on the teether.
Objective: Fine motor skills training - grasping and pressing
Method: The inchworm is made of crinkle paper, rattles and other small parts. Encourage your child to grasp at and shake the different parts with both their right and left hands.
Objective: Gross motor skills training - shaking
Method: The inchworm is soft and great for children to hold and grasp. Encourage children to hold the inchworm with one or both hands. Then they can shake it to make different sounds.
Objective: Gross motor skills training - crawling towards sounds
Method: Shake the inchworm in front of your child and encourage her to crawl towards the rattle sounds.
Objective: Developing self awareness using a mirror
Method: Encourage your child to observe and recognize her own image in the mirror. This builds up her self image.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning insect body parts and facial features
Method: Use the inchworm to teach your child insect body parts and facial features.
Objective: Cognitive training - pointing out body parts and facial features
Method: Say a body part or facial feature and encourage your child to point to it on the inchworm.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning colors
Method: Use the different colors of the inchworm to teach children to recognize colors.
Objective: Cognitive training - Pointing out colors
Method: Say a color and encourage your child to point to it on the inchworm.
Objective: Numbers and counting - count 8 feet or 4 pairs of feet
Method: Together with your child, count the inchworm’s 8 feet. You may also count them as 4 pairs of feet.
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