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Educational activities for 1 year old?

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  • 29-10-2013 10:05am
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    Buyingcar2012
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    We don't really do any educational activities with our 1 year old apart from reading. He does a lot of different things in the crèche but I'd like to do some more.

    With Christmas approaching our baby has a lot of generous uncles and aunts so we'd like to get educational gifts this year.

    What would you recommend? Any links to particular products would be great.


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    JJJJNR
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    You could try an android tablet or an Ipad, hours of fun from them, just get a good quality gel case for it also.


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    pwurple
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    Books books books.

    Join the library or get lots and lots of books. It's amazing how much they pick up from you reading to them. Spoken vocabulary, written words. They are little sponges for that kind of thing.

    If you have another language yourself, you can get some books in that language as well.


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    Sligo1
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    Totally agree wi Pwurple here. Can never have enough books. Our LO loves the lift the flap books aswell (hardly any flaps left now tho!). He loves jigsaws aswell. The ones with the big wooden pieces.


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    Moonbeam
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    Baking with them,duplo,play doh.


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    lazygal
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    Just interacting with them and using a wide range of vocabulary works wonders.
    I think we can sometimes bombard children with 'educational' stuff when at a year old every type of play is educational.


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    How Strange
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    Definitely books. It's the best gift you can give a child of any age.

    When our son was one he loved an usborne hard book which had buttons at the side and each button was for a specific page. He still takes it out and plays with it at 2.5yrs


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    Buyingcar2012
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    How Strange wrote: »
    Definitely books. It's the best gift you can give a child of any age.

    When our son was one he loved an usborne hard book which had buttons at the side and each button was for a specific page. He still takes it out and plays with it at 2.5yrs

    How long per day would you spend reading with him? He is down in the crèche so gets to play with play dough etc.


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    pwurple
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    Buyingcar2012 wrote: »
    How long per day would you spend reading with him?

    1/2 hour at bedtime.
    We do a story before dinnertime (whoever is not cooking does this one to give a few mins for dinner prep)
    Story in the afternoon at around 3-ish to wind down from running around before a snack at my mums house.

    I think they do stories in creche as well in the morning most days.


    They only have an attention span of about 15 mins at that age, so it's quick and often for the books. Don't be getting Ulysess out yet. :D


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    How Strange
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    As a baby we'd just read a bedtime story but now that he's 2.5 we could read stories at different times during the day as well as the bedtime one. He doesn't have a big interest in cars etc but he loves books.

    I find play dough, painting etc good things to do with a toddler but I'm not sure how great it would be with a 1 yr old. Surely they'd just eat everything.


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