Tummy Time Activities During Home Visits
Home visitors and others who work with families can use this resource to share information about tummy time, include tummy time in daily routines, and assess a family’s home to make sure tummy time is safe.
Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development is one of the five central domains of the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF). Resources here explore how children use their senses to understand and respond to the world, and how they develop fine and gross motor skills. This collection also features resources around children's health, safety, and nutrition.
Other ELOF domains include Approaches to Learning; Social and Emotional Development; Language and Literacy; and Cognition.
Home visitors and others who work with families can use this resource to share information about tummy time, include tummy time in daily routines, and assess a family’s home to make sure tummy time is safe.
Share this resource with families to help them do tummy time activities with their baby.
Once children are born, music and singing have important impacts on their early development, supporting brain development and skills across all areas of multiple learning areas.
Explore the amazing cognitive, social, and language learning benefits of exposure to music and rhythm during the infant and toddler years.
This video clip is part of the Magic of Music for Infants and Toddlers series.
Thrilling play, often called risky play, invites children to explore speed and momentum, height and elevation, the use of adult tools, natural elements, and rough and tumble play.
Children use blocks to erect buildings, create towers, enhance dramatic play, and so much more! Educators can provide a variety of blocks, interesting accessories, plenty of space to explore, and then watch the block party begin!
Whether it’s snowing, raining, sunny, windy, or cloudy with a rainbow above, playing in weather can be an incredible sensory and imaginative experience. Encourage children to play in all weather to learn about the world around them from rain to rainbows!
Find out how adults can support infants’ and toddlers’ motor development. Learn ways to promote daily, individualized opportunities for movement and active play.
Listen to this podcast for home visitors on helping families promote tummy time with their babies.
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