Infant Games For Language Development

Infant Games on this page are special designed to develop infant's language skills. Understanding infant language is a precondition to communicate with your baby. Research shows that baby who has successful conversation with parents appears less crying,less tantrum, more sleep, more confidence and easier routine. The best way to understand your baby's language is to

learn Baby Sign Language

Besides, playing infant language games is another effective way to build up communication with your baby. Here is an example: When baby makes these sounds, make similar sounds back and look into baby's eyes and smile. As baby grows, the ability to vocalize new sounds increases, especially if they have been spoken and sung to by a sensitive caregiver. When baby engages you in conversation by making sounds, begin the sound back to baby as it might be contained in a familiar words.

Also infant language games and activities will help to develop baby's language skills as well as reading and communication skills.

Staying with this page, you will find more infant language games below

#1 Among Infant Games ---- Baker's baby

Instruction

Put baby on your lap and face you. When you hold your baby's hands, gently make them together. Then say

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man

(clap hands together)

Bake me a cake as fast as you can

Roll 'em and roll 'em and mark 'em with a B

(Roll hands around and trace letter on baby's hand)

And toss 'em in the oven for baby and me

(Point to baby, then yourself)

Lie your baby on back and repeat using baby's feet.

#2 Among Infant Games ---- More piggy toes

Compare baby sign language, this baby language game helps to stimulate baby's language sense through body touching.

Instruction

This game will give you a chance to play with your baby's adorable, tiny feet. Hold baby's big toe gently between your thumb and index finger and say:

This little piggy went to market. (big toe)

This little piggy stayed home.(second toe)

This little piggy had roast beef.(third toe, eggplant many be substituted for vegetarians)

This little piggy had none.(four toe)

This little piggy cried wee, wee, wee all the way home.(fifth toe)

When you say "wee, wee, wee",walk fingers up baby's leg, across tummy, and up to chin and lightly tickle.

#3 Among Infant Games ---- Instant reply

Material needed

Tape recorderBlank cassette tape

Instruction

Record your baby's sounds and the conversations you have together. Play them back and discover baby's response. Some babies become quite animated, while others become quite still. Older babies may want to push the buttons of the recorder. Most recorders are built to withstand the pressure of curious little hands.

#4 Among Infant Games ---- Nose, eyes, hands

Instruction

Pick one body part to focus on for an entire day, such as hands. sing song about hands, point hands out in storybooks, on people, pets, television, etc. Take baby on a walk around the house, pointing to hands wherever you see them. Wiggle, wave,clap, or shake your hands. Do the same for nose, ears, feet, etc.

#5 Among Infant Games ---- Telephone talk

Material Needed

2 play telephones

Instruction

Instead of getting baby one play telephone, get two, so baby can have real conversations with you. At first you will just be babbling to each other, taking turns of course, but later baby will begin to copy how you talk on the phone. What better way to begin to learn the rules of conversation?

#6 Among Infant Games ---- Mirror magic

Instruction

Sit on the floor and hold baby on your lap looking into a floor mirror. Touch baby's head, eyes, ears, nose, and chin, naming each part as you sing the following song to the tune of "here we go round the Mulberry Bush"

This is what I call my head,

Call my head, call my head

This is what I call my head

Listen, look, and see.

Now I know the parts of me,

Parts of me, parts of me.

Now I know the parts of me,

Listen, look, and see

#7 Among Infant Games --- Shoe box house Toys play hide and seek

Instruction

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