{"id":76,"date":"2016-01-28T22:54:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=76"},"modified":"2017-09-22T19:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T19:15:58","slug":"games-and-activities-for-infants-6-9-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/01\/28\/games-and-activities-for-infants-6-9-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Games and Activities for Infants (6-9 months)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your child\u2019s play is becoming more vigorous. He can grab two toys at a time and he has more precision when banging objects. Fine motor skills are developing \u2013 growing dexterity which allows him to pick up raisins and Cheerios. Your child will begin to notice objects still exist even when he can\u2019t see them. Your child will also become more mobile and will begin to pull himself up around nine months.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Books &#8211; board, soft, cloth (reading becomes more interactive; let your child handle the books)<\/li>\n<li>Busy boards \u2013 parts that slide, twist, spin, squeeze, make sounds<\/li>\n<li>Soft dolls and stuffed animals<\/li>\n<li>Lightweight fabric balls to roll back and forth<\/li>\n<li>Household items \u2013 plastic bowls, plastic measuring cups and spoons; let your child \u201ccook\u201d next to you<\/li>\n<li>Wood or soft blocks \u2013 show how to stack, dump<\/li>\n<li>Moving and pop-up toys; toys with springy antennas<\/li>\n<li>Water toys for the tub<\/li>\n<li>Bounce baby; dance with baby<\/li>\n<li>Play Hide-n-Seek with objects and Peek-a-Boo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your child\u2019s play is becoming more vigorous. He can grab two toys at a time and he has more precision when banging objects. Fine motor skills are developing \u2013 growing dexterity which allows him to pick up raisins and Cheerios. Your child will begin to notice objects still exist even when he can\u2019t see them. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/01\/28\/games-and-activities-for-infants-6-9-months\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games and Activities for Infants (6-9 months)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities","category-parent_resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}