Recommended Right Brain Training

Motorskill training is important and critical for baby from 10 months above. In order to allow our children learn fast, we need to provide good environment and useful toys to train their motorskills.

I have experienced many problem on how to train my 18 months old toddler motorskill. I have tried many ways to train him, such as motorskill training toys, send him for Montesorri School etc. I find it very hard to make him pay attention to the training in the class, due to him short attention behavior. Finally, I decided to train my 18 months old son at home. Here I share my seven easy methods of motorskill training for you to D.I.Y at home with your toddler.

Method #1 Cutting exercise.
Material you need for this is newspaper and a pair of toddler scissors. I bought toddler scissors from craft store, it is child safety scissor made of plastic. Draw a straight line on newspaper, ask your toddler to use the scissors to cut according to the straight line. The important thing is teach them how to hold the scissors to cut the newspaper. Parent have to demostrate to them many times on how to do it, before they master the skill.

Here, I recommended a few product for your reference.

Motor skills training
Melissa and Doug Cutting Food Box
Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Birthday Cake
Melissa and Doug 60-Piece Standard Unit Blocks
Melissa and Doug Geometric Stacker
Classic Wooden Abacus

Method #2 Pouring water.
This method is inspired from Montesorri book I read. Prepare a A3 size tray, three different sizes of cup and water. Fill the medium size cup with water, ask your toddler to pour the water from medium cup to big cup, then to smallest cup. Ensure they are doing this exercise within the A3 size tray area to avoid water splashing all over the place.

Method #3 Tearing paper.
My son enjoy this exercise the most among all the exercises. Prepare newspaper or recycle papers, the bigger size the better. Ask your toddler to tear the paper from big to small size, tear as many different sizes as possible.

Method #4 Tranferring beads.
Buy some different sizes of beads from craft store. Collect some empty juice bottles at home. Ask your toddler to transfer beads from bottle to bottle, either pouring method, or use hand to pick the beads one buy one to fill up the bottle. Both ways are also exercising they motorskill.

Method #5 Scribble on newspaper or recycle paper.
Prepare a big piece of newspaper by joining four pieces of newspaper into one big piece. Let your toddler choose one crayon, and let them scribble on the paper. You can demostrate to them how to do circular, how to draw straight line etc.

Highly recommended this for two purpose of training, motorskills and music. I love this music band set when I was young, really enjoy a lot playing with my siblings...
Melissa and Doug Band in a Box

Hope you can try above five methods at home with your toddlers!

Besides Motorskill Training, learning environment is also important for your toddler...
Setup an art and craft environment also important for your kids art learning.

Art and craft environment / equipment
Melissa & Doug Deluxe Standing Easel
Melissa & Doug Deluxe Easel Companion Set
Alex Artist Apron - Long Sleeves
Artist's Smock

You may buy some clay dough for your children. Note playing clay dough also nother creativity training. Their right brain are trained thru making an elephant using clay dough by recalling elephant shape and size during creation. Highly recommended full complete set for this learning...
Play-Doh Creativity Center

Besides that, puzzle also another motor skill training plus right brain training tools. Here I've recemmended a few puzzles suitable for toddler age from 12 months to 4 years old... always remember, the more puzzle they work on, the more connection of their right brain cells...

Puzzle for Right Brain training
Melissa & Doug Giant Fire Truck Floor Puzzle
Melissa & Doug Deluxe Mix 'n Match Peg Puzzle Bundle
Melissa & Doug Large Shapes Jumbo Puzzle

Also recommened another brain games and puzzle
Melissa and Doug Construction in a Box

Words Recognizing and Learning Skills
While I was teaching my toddler to recognize words.. this IlluStory Kit is also help a lots in your toddler words learning progress while they are building story book...
IlluStory Make Your Own Story Kit

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