Babies love balls! The Patrick Ball Pit is an inflatable pool that comes with 20 balls. Babies can put the balls in the blue track and watch as they roll down to the pool. There are four holes in the pool for a color sorting game. There is also a ring toss game to train babies eye-hand coordination.
(This is not a beach / water toy.)
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.
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Objective: Fine motor skills training - grasping
Method: Encourage children to grasp and hold the plastic balls with both their right and left hands.
Objective: Gross motor skills training – playing in the ball pit
Method: Place all the balls into the ball pit and allow children to play and move around freely inside.
Objective: Strength training – throwing
Method: The balls are easy to grasp. Encourage children to throw the balls.
Objective: Gross motor skills training – rolling balls down the slide
Method: Encourage children to place the balls on the slide and watch them roll into the pit.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning facial features
Method: Teach children facial features.
Objective: Cognitive training – pointing to facial features
Method: Name a facial feature and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning colors
Method: Teach children different colors.
Objective: Cognitive training – pointing to colors
Method: Name a color and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Cognitive training – matching colors
Method: Encourage children to match the balls to the same colored hole.
Objective: Cognitive training – matching the color that you name
Method: Name a color. Encourage children to match the ball of that color to the corresponding hole.
Objective: Cognitive training – learning about size
Method: Use the different sized balls to teach children the concept of big and small.
Objective: Strength training – playing catch
Method: Play catch with your child. This also trains their eye-hand coordination.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training – throwing into the hoop
Method: Encourage children to aim and throw the balls into the hoop. You can move the ball pit further away to increase the difficulty.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training – ring toss
Method: Encourage children to aim and toss the ring around the purple post. You can move the ball pit further away to increase the difficulty.
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