It is very important to develop the physical characteristics of a young child: the more work is done with him, the faster and more confident he will go. Working with children after a year will make it possible to make the baby more coordinated, dexterous and agile, which is a prerequisite for proper development and a happy childhood. In order to properly engage in gymnastics with a child, a certain set of exercises and tasks is required, which the baby must perform daily.
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Children who are one year old already have a considerable stock of skills and knowledge and want to expand and improve it even more. Thanks to the help of parents, they may have such an opportunity, it is only important to get down to business seriously and for a long time. Charging for children 1-2 years old should be uncomplicated but exciting, because the basis of a kid's activity is a game.
In order to choose the right exercises, it is important to analyze the child's activities and focus on what is not yet working out.
Based on the age characteristics and physical development of children, you can build classes with a baby based on the following knowledge.
- At 12-14 months the child should already walk well enough, climb a meter-long ladder, climb on all fours and overcome obstacles in this way, jump in one place and throw the ball with two hands. If some type of activity does not work out or goes with great difficulties, it is worth coming up with a set of game tasks for the development of problem skills.
- For children 14-16 months, free stepping over an obstacle, throwing the ball at a distance, descending and climbing stairs with an additional step, as well as climbing a low hill become the norm. Classes with a baby can take place both at home in the form of exercises, and in the form of active games on the playground.
- When the baby is already 1.5 years old, he can cope with obstacles, the height of which is at least 10 centimeters, climb on a log or a small stump, throw a ball in a certain place, jump in one place and walk on a small hill: curb, bench. The emergence of new abilities can help build a more complex set of activities for the child.
- At 1.6-2 years old the kid can cope with walking on an inclined surface, climb stairs more than a meter high, step over an obstacle up to 20 cm high, throw the ball to the right place from a place at a distance of up to 70 cm, actively run and jump. At this age, it is useful to include a large number of active games with movement, since the baby is already quite developed.
- 2-3 years old a child can observe the ability to walk on an inclined surface with a difference of 20-30 cm from the floor level, climb on a stool, step over obstacles of any size and diameter, not exceeding 30 cm in height and 20 cm in length. In addition, he can throw the ball far enough, actively run and jump. For matured and matured babies, you need to create a full-fledged morning exercise complex, which, in addition to games, will already include sports exercises.
Exercise will have a positive effect on all areas of the child's development, he will be more fun, active and inquisitive. With the help of parents, she will be able to master many more skills that some peers will not yet be able to do. By choosing the right exercises for children of different ages, you can achieve positive results.
Charging for the little ones
Morning gymnastics helps to drive away sleep and bounce back faster, which is important for both an adult and a child, especially if he goes to kindergarten or school. However, you can start working with children much earlier. At 1 year old, you can carry out preventive massages before training, and in conclusion - a little stretching and exercises to relax the child's body.
The essence of work at this age is reduced to the simplest tasks.
- Collect items in a basket of the corresponding color. The task helps not only to develop physical activity, but also to learn colors, which is very important at this age.
- Throw the ball into the bucket (simulate basketball). If you have children's basketball, you can throw the ball into a special hoop.
- Find the hidden toy. Mom hides a medium-sized toy nearby, the child must find it.
- Come into the circle. Put the hoop on the floor and ask the child to enter and exit. It can be presented as a game: when it is raining outside, you need to hide, when the sun is out, you can leave the circle.
- Be sure to dance a little with the baby, developing a sense of rhythm and raising the child's mood.
Classes with children from one to two years
At a year and a half, you can complicate the complex of activities with a child.
- Walking, not straight, but around an object. It will be good to sing songs or recite a rhyme in the process of movement.
- The game of catch-up. The parent directs the hoop to roll forward, and the child needs to get to the finish line faster using only walking, not running.
- Jumped into a puddle. The same hoop is used, the task is to jump over the rim with two feet and get inside. To make the baby more interesting, you can imitate jumping into puddles.
- Agility exercises. Put the hoop on the floor, the child must immediately go through it, then jump into it, and at the end - crawl through it on all fours.
- Basketball. With the help of the hoop, which the parent holds like a basketball hoop, it is possible to train the dexterity and coordination of the baby standing with the ball. The child's task is to correctly throw the ball with one or both hands and get inside the hoop.
- Exercise on the floor. Lying on your back, raising your legs up, you need to carry out circular movements with your legs, as if scrolling the pedals of a bicycle.
- Exercise on the stomach. It is necessary to simultaneously raise your legs and arms, imitating a boat floating on the waves. It is important to keep your feet and hands close to each other. The task of the baby is to hold this position as long as possible.
- As a hitch you can use an exercise to develop the muscles of the foot: while sitting on a chair, with your toes, pull the hoop towards you in turn with each leg. When the child will be able to cope with this task easily, you can use small toys that you need to move with your foot from one place to another.
Such an active and at the same time fun work with the child will very soon bear fruit, and the baby will be more active than his peers, more coordinated and dexterous, which will help in preparing for classes in the kindergarten and the future sports section.
If we talk about classes with children at the age of two, then for them the complex becomes even more complicated, and may look like this.
- Walking using an artificially created elevation or slide, which you need to go and get off. For the first attempts, it is important to accompany the child and lead by the hand, later - only to be present nearby.
- Jumping exercises. Carrying out jumps different in direction and height with reciting rhymes about a bunny.
- Exercise for coordination and flexibility. Pull the rope or put a gymnastic stick at a low height and give the task to crawl under it without touching it.
- Ball exercise. Learn to work with the ball with one hand, leading it behind the head. The maximum range should be about a meter.
- Balance exercise. Build a path with obstacles and ask the child to walk along it, carefully stepping over everything that comes his way.
- Exercise lying on your back. Raising the legs up, alternately right and left, try two together.
- Exercise lying on your stomach. Give the child the ball and ask him to raise his hands up so that the ball is off the ground. The number of repetitions is from 2 to 5.
- If there is a Swedish staircase at home, then it is worth working on it, asking the baby to slowly climb to a safe height and slowly get off.
- Cool down with the help of finger games using verses and warm-up of the fingers.
The set of exercises can be very diverse, because it is based on the state of the child's physical development and health. If there are any contraindications, temporary or permanent, then it is necessary to use exercise therapy, if possible, train with the baby in the pool and do everything so that the child develops normally.
For more information on gymnastics for children from 1 to 2 years old, see the following video.
