My baby is not using her one hand. Should I be worried?
Observe your baby to check whether they are using both hands.
Babies 0-6 months
Importance of encouraging your baby to use their hands from birth
How infants use their hands to grow their brains
Activities for getting a baby to pay attention to a hemi hand
Learning to pay attention to a neglected hemi hand: a first step towards getting an infant to use the hand.
Babies 8-18 months
All the differnt ways babies and toddlers use their hands
A list of all the hand tasks you can expect babies and toddlers to master at different ages
What I keep in my toy box
Objects from around the house and from the recycling: bottles, bags, boxes and lots more
Training activities for babies 8-18 months
Easy posting activities using balls and pegs - videos
Use a yogurt tub and ice cream box to make easy ball and peg posting activities.
Cardboard tubes for training grasping, holding and stabilizing
The cardboard tubes found in rolls of wrapping paper or tin foil are just the right size fro training little hands
Games using tubs and jars with screw on lids
Videos illustrating 5 activities using a collection of jars with screw on lids
What babies can do with their hands
- Tracking progress birth to 6 months
- How babies use their hands 8-15 months
- Baby hands 0-6 months
- Baby hands 6-10 months
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Baby hands 0-6 months
- Encouraging early reaching, looking and grasping
- How to set up a play gym for encouraging early looking and reaching
- Sitting in a reclining seat with toys in reach
Baby hands 6-10 months
- A routine for exploring toys
- Lily playing with a bell on a ribbon
- Shaking games
- Banging and drumming
Toddler hands
- Tips for training toddler hand abilities
- Toddlers love to move big objects
- Posting games
- Ball games provide many opportunities for learning
- Games with scarves
