Toddler self feeding. A yes or No

 Self-feeding is an important part of a child's development, as it helps them to learn more complex motor skills, as well as develop their hand-eye coordination and fine motor control. Additionally, self-feeding helps with cognitive development, as a child learns to recognize and identify different types of food and understand how their food choices can impact their health. Self-feeding also helps to foster independence in children as they learn to take care of themselves and make decisions about their food. Finally, self-feeding is also beneficial for social development, as it provides a platform for children to interact with peers and caregivers during meal times. All in all, self-feeding is an important part of a child's development and should be encouraged

Self-feeding provides a fun and easy way for a child to explore different sensory experiences and feels. This is a great opportunity for the child to play with and feel crumbly, rough, wet, squishy, spongy, and slippery textures. Foods also provide different sounds, smells, and tastes.

First load food onto your child's spoon or fork. Then give the spoon or fork to your child to put into their mouth on their own. Let your child practise often to build their skills. Give your child plenty of praise when they try using a spoon or fork.

From 12 months, Parents or the Caregivers in the daycare should always encourage the Children to practice self feeding as this will strengthen their fingers, encourage eye coordination and also helps in building independence in them

The need to Celebrate Colour days in School

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 Colours’ Day Celebration: Build the cognitive skills of pre-primary kids

The pre-primary days of children are the phase when their cognitive and motor skills take shape. Developmental and interactive abilities of the children also get noticed during this age. Hence, it is very crucial for the parents at home and teachers in the school to actively engage kids in activities which boost their cognitive abilities. A lot of activities can be done in this regard and the celebration of Colors Day is one of them which are vital to be introduced in the school.

 

The format of Colurs’ Day Celebration in school

 Different schools follow different ways of introducing colours to the children. You can choose to go with theme-based plan in which one month can be dedicated for one single colour. One particular day should be dedicated to activities and events for that colour and the rest of the days talk about that colour, its important, its presence, and others shades of that colour.

 

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Activities for a Colour Day or a Colour Month 

 

Specific foods for Colour Day:  If you are celebrating “Yellow Day”, dedicate one day for yellow colour foods like banana, turmeric, yellow rice, yellow bell peppers, lemons etc. Kids should be able to identify which foods are yellow and what are the health benefits of that colour.

Activities for a Colour Day or a Colour Month 

 

Specific foods for Colour Day: If you are celebrating “Yellow Day”, dedicate one day for yellow colour foods like banana, turmeric, yellow rice, yellow bell peppers, lemons etc. Kids should be able to identify which foods are yellow and what are the health benefits of that colour.

Play colour puzzles: These types of games not only enhance the cognitive skills of the kids but also highlight their motor skills. Ask your children to combine similar colour puzzle blocks or cards in one row and count the maximum numbers. In one activity, you would be able to develop many skills within the children.

Colour printing activities: This can engage the children in a very artistic way. For any specific Colour Day, ask the children to paint things with that colour. Colouring trees, houses, fruits, finger printing, palm printing are a few things to do. For pre-primary II, you can even ask kids to fill relative colour in given images; for example, ask to fill green colour in things which are green in nature among a group of things.

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