Parents may start reading out to their children as early as 6 months of age. Introduce your child to book reading, storytelling and story narration. Motivate your child to ask questions, make them recall the events, describe experiences that can stimulate language development, stimulate the speech and language centres in the brain. Learning to play an instrument or sing can stimulate language areas of the brain, improve attention span. They learn their texture by touching that stones are hard, mud is soft, ice is cold, the paper can be torn with hands, rubber bands are stretchable & so on. Allow your child to play with mud and stones in the garden, things like tasting sour lime, smelling a flower. These sensory activities can stimulate the brain. Multisensory activities involve touch, feel, smell, taste while being sensorily aware.

There and many more such brain gym activities which can be fun for children during teaching sessions. More such activities like moving the Right hand in the clockwise and left hand in an anticlockwise manner can improve concentration. Drawing a lazy eight means a figure of eight on a piece of paper or in the air using their hands can enhance your child’s eye coordination, eyesight and peripheral vision. This activity increases their body balance, coordination, relieves stress and improves concentration. Another simple brain gym exercise is cross crawl where the child will touch his left hand to the raised right leg while balancing his/ her body. These activities can activate their brains, make them more alert to listening, boosts their self-esteem, confidence, improve memory, concentration, attention, coordination, and body orientation.Ī child can perform simple brain gym activities like double doodle, bilateral drawing, wherein a child tries to draw two images with both his or her hands, it improves their learning accuracy and concentration. Before starting routine teaching, school teachers, parents, or caregivers can introduce certain brain gym activities. If the activities are fun, children will be motivated to perform those tasks. Every parent wants their child to be intelligent and be able to learn new things.

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