Village Home Activities

How can you make the Village experience more meaningful? Bring it into your child's life all week long! Check out these Art Games.

Foundation of Learning: "Baby's visual ability develops rapidly over the first nine months of life. Stimulation with distant, up-close, and perception games can help this development as well as provide fun moments for you and Baby."

Art Games: Baby can enjoy the Zoom Buggy! art banner in a number of ways. Ocular motility, the ability to move the eyes from place to place can be encouraged by hanging the art banner on the wall so that Baby in the crib can look at it, moving her eyes from one image to the next. Up-close vision can also be stimulated. Set the art banner up on the floor and Baby may crawl toward it, sit beside it, or lie near it. The older Baby may enjoy yet another use of the banner. Cut each image out and laminate it (or cover it with self-adhesive paper) for added sturdiness. Baby will love holding the train while you look at the train page in the zoom buggy! book and the rocket ship while you play with the rocket ship sounds. Or spread all 8 images on the floor and play a find the picture game with Baby, encouraging Baby to pick up the pictures you suggest. As baby grows, you can move through all these suggestions, increasing the value of the Zoom Buggy! home materials!

Start a Kindermusik Baby Journal: Have fun recording Baby's progress and memories by starting or including stories of your Kindermusik journey in a journal. This week's thought: Baby seemed particularly interested in the new (to her/him)...