Activities for Nursery 1 and 2

We selected in this post several games, dynamics and Activities for Nursery 1 and 2 ready to work with their students in classroom.

There are several suggestions to stimulate the child's motor development with activities appropriate for each age.

Encouraging psychomotor, social and affective development is essential for the overall development of children

Nursery Activity – The Music of Names

• AGE: From 4 months. TIME: 30 minutes.
• SPACE: Activity room, patio or garden.

GOALS: Recognize your own name and strengthen your bond with the educator. Choose a song in which you can include the children's names. Some examples: “Se Eu Fosse um Peixinho”, “A Canoa Virou”, “Ciranda, Cirandinha” and “Fui ao Itororó”. Gather the group in a nice place and sing. Babies can also participate, as the intention is to familiarize them with the names. To those who are already walking, suggest a wheel, which is formed with those who hear their own name.

See too: Literacy Activities.

Nursery Activity – Art with porridge

• TIME: 30 minutes.
• SPACE: Activity room or patio.
• MATERIAL: Cornstarch, food coloring and water.
• GOAL: Interact with space.

PREPARATION: In a saucepan, dissolve one tablespoon of cornstarch for every glass of water. The amount depends on the number of children or the size of the space where the activity will take place. Add a pinch of dye until the mixture is the color you want. Bring it to the fire and stir until it turns into a mush. Let cool. Tell parents to send old clothes on play day. Spread the mixture on the floor of the room where the children will play. Let them walk, crawl and roll on the mush, interacting with space. Make sure everyone has fun and no one gets hurt. Encourage the various possibilities for movement.

Sensory Box to work in the nursery

The benefits of the sensory box for the child:

• Stimulates concentration;
• Develops fine motor coordination through the manipulation of objects;
• Helps build language skills by learning new words;
• Promotes spatial awareness, mathematical reasoning and scientific exploration and instigates natural curiosity;
• Assists in the development of mental mechanisms for problem solving.

Despite so many benefits the sensor box is actually something very simple. It is a box (usually plastic) with a lining (a bottom, which can be made, for example, with beans, rice, mate, noodles, water, gelatin, etc.) and interesting objects (with an attractive look and texture) and usually presented and organized from a theme.

So, the first step in creating your sensory box is choosing a theme. Then, just assemble it by creating a background and inserting the themed objects.
It is important to present the box and each object to the child and let them explore their senses with this fun activity.

Be careful when choosing the items that will make up the box, remembering that small children tend to take the objects to the mouth, which is why it is recommended to avoid very small objects and to supervise the Just kidding.

Get inspired by the examples below, use your creativity and assemble sensory boxes with the most diverse themes!

Nursery Activities – Harvest Time

• TIME: One hour.
• SPACE: Activities room.
• MATERIAL: Cardboard or cardboard, clay, paint, dice with one side of each color, miniature bird (plastic or origami) and colorful bowls or baskets.

GOALS: Become part of the group and collaborate with colleagues. PREPARATION: Glue a picture or draw a cardboard-sized tree filled with branches to serve as a board. Make berries out of clay, let them dry and paint them with the same colors as the dice that will be used in the game. On one of his faces, draw a little bird. Also make origami baskets or arrange bowls with the same colors as the die and provide a toy in the shape of a bird. Place the tray on a table and spread the berries over the branches. The bird must stay loose. Around the board, spread out the colored baskets. Game for four children. One child at a time throws the die, takes the fruit of the same color indicated by the die from the tree and puts it in the basket, also of the same hue. If the die lands on the face that brings the bird, it is the bird who gets the fruit. The objective is to harvest them all before the bird eats them.

We also recommend: Cuca drawings to color.

Play and Activities for Nursery

Check out several suggestions for playful games to work in the nursery.

Glove with bells:

• Purchase a knitted or woolen glove and nail small bells to each finger.
• If you prefer, decorate each finger with a face that can be painted or embroidered. If you want, apply pieces of wool to imitate hair.
• With this glove you can start classes by greeting children as if each finger had a name or for other class greeting games. You can also glue other materials to the edges of the glove: rice, nuts, etc.
• There are children's songs that express hand movement. For example: “Os dedinhos” (singer Eliana)

Locations for Baby Adventures:

• There are many ways to provide adventures for babies who are crawling.
• For example: tunnel for babies - made with large cardboard, different balls and pillows, buoys, plastic animals to blow, “João Bobo”, air balloons, quilts, etc.
• For the first time, let the children experience the possibilities of playing with the materials at their disposal.
• When they don't know what to do, show them how they can play first.
• Crawl inside the tunnel, play with balloons, build towers with pillows and pillows, etc.
• In the beginning all this material is naturally excessive. Maybe it's better to start with just the cardboards for a maximum of 1 hour and the next moment with the balloons, etc.

Baby Pools:

• For each group of children it is good to have approximately two pools made of rubber or plastic.
• You can fill them with balloons, newspapers (you will see that logos will tear them up enthusiastically).
• Cotton is also good for filling the pool.
• Sheets of waxed paper also make wonderful noises when they are crumpled.
• Other materials can fill them: dry leaves, straw, etc.

Nursery Activities and Stimuli

Suggestions for activities and stimuli for the nursery:

• "The adult needs to present the world"
• Rattle with pet bottle, yogurt cup, yakut…
• Smell bags made with tnt cotton and various scents.
• Scented balls made with pantyhose
• Surprised box, covered and with a hole to fit the baby's little hand.
• Nescau lids with figures.
• Cds with pictures, punched and used as a mobile.
• Open a cardboard box and make a house, or a car.
• Small windows of sensations.
• Cd with songs with a child's voice, classical music.
• Sago with Anelina inside pet, you can also use Glitter, sequin...
• Clothesline of sensations.
• Baskets of treasures.
• Pendulum with ball and elastic glued to the ceiling.
• Blow (thick straw), make bubbles, teach the child to breathe through the nose (vary with colored gelatin).

Nursery dynamics, games and activities

Hide and Seek (for babies) – This game can be worked from 6 months.

• Where's the teddy bear? He's gone, but not forever.
• WHAT DEVELOPS: The notion that people and objects continue to exist even when they go out of sight.
• HOW TO PLAY: Hide behind a door or some large object and call the baby, making him look for you. Appear again. Cover your head with a cloth and call the child by name. After a few seconds, remove the cloth. Hide an object the baby likes, such as a teddy bear, and ask, “Where's the teddy? Where is he?" Encourage the child to look for you. Then show the object. This activity helps the child to understand the absence of parents when they go out, for example, to work.

Fittings (for babies) – From 6 months.

One box within another and the baby learns what is big, small, light and heavy.

• WHAT DEVELOPS: Notion of size and weight.
• TOY: Cardboard boxes and plastic pots of various sizes and shapes.
• HOW TO PLAY: Place one pot inside the other, showing that the smaller one fits into the larger one. Turn the pots upside down and place them on top of each other to form a tower. Let the child play freely with the pots and put their little hands inside them. When she picks up a pot alone or two of them (one inside the other), she will notice the difference in weight.
• You can do: Assemble cubes of different sizes with milk cartons. Cut out the cardboard and mend the sides with masking tape. Then paint.

The colors – Working from 3 months.

Blue and red foam blocks… One on top of the other and suddenly everyone on the floor!

• WHAT DEVELOPS: Motor coordination and vision, which starts to become clearer from the third month onwards.
• TOY: Colored blocks of foam.
• HOW TO PLAY: Move the blocks, place them on top of each other.
  Let the child hold them and drop them.
• THIS YOU DO: Cut the bottoms of two clear PET bottles and place shredded crepe paper of different colors and sizes into these containers.
• Tape them together. It is also possible to use water, oil and glitter. Use containers of different sizes so that your baby can see that your hand is wrapped around the object in different ways.

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Other Suggestions for Nursery Activities

• Handle storybooks (cloth or plastic).
• Handle children's magazines and magazines
• Stories in view of the pictures in the book (small stories).
• Stories told by the educator with the support of puppets.
• Retelling the stories read (teacher)
• Present papers of different textures for the child to knead, tear, roll up.
• Put name in the personal bin, the student's name and show him/her
• Offer pens, colored pencils, crayons and let her scribble freely.
• Singing or reciting speeches, poems, songs or blocks, giving the child encouragement to anticipate actions. EG: congratulations to you. The child is expected to clap his hands as soon as the song starts.
• Ask the child to anticipate gestures and actions for the day's routine activities. EX.: Pick up the lunch box at lunchtime.
• Help the student identify objects and pictures of familiar people.
• Daily work the combined with the support of puppets.
• Record the routine on the board.
• Offer inserts or cards with different product labels for the child to identify.
• Play stacking empty boxes of various packaging.
• Recite speeches, quatrains or poems on the shifts made at school.
• Imitate sounds and gestures suggested by a model.
• Drop objects into a box.
• Release and catch in the air without dropping feathers, cotton, shredded paper.
• Push boxes of various sizes with your feet.
• Line up blocks, packages, boxes, etc.
• Jumping small obstacles.
• Hitting the ball on the ground and then grabbing it.
• fit blocks

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Nursery Activities (0-2 years)

Great Nursery Activities (0-2 years) with the objective of harmoniously developing the physical, psychic and social aspects of the baby, respecting their emotional maturity. Develop the child's psychomotricity through the body and movement.

ACTIVITIES:

• Tactile stimulation (stroking the baby whenever possible and daily conversations).
• Visual stimulation, through colored objects, which allow handling with the hands and the
• Stimulation of movements such as dragging, crawling to look for an object.
• Also encourage walking, holding it with your hands.
• Verbal stimulation talking to the child all the time, playing and smiling.
• Introducing food with the teacher's patience, as adaptation is not always easy.
• Continuous changing of clothes and diapers whenever necessary.
• Pleasant baths, accompanied by conversations and music.
• Gesture songs and circle songs (sitting).
• Exercises with balls and snap toys, when the child is mature.
• Incentive to
• Setting limits, saying no, every time the child endangers himself, his peers, his aunts and the environment