A small leather ball is probably one of the simplest yet most versatile and fun toys for children. Although it’s round and looks like it doesn’t have any magical function to the eye, it can exercise a variety of abilities in young children, stimulate the body’s nerves and promote physical development. Today we will introduce you to several fun ball games. 1, I scratch scratch for age: 3 ~ 12 months Role: stimulate the sense of touch Play: Prepare two small balls, a massage ball with “thorns”, a smooth leather ball or cloth ball, let the baby directly grasp, massage the ball on the uneven stings can give the baby to provide rich tactile stimulation, is conducive to the coordinated development of sensory integration. Smooth ball can let the baby feel and massage ball different ball surface, more exercise baby’s ability to grip. 2, hanging small ball Suitable age: 3 ~ 12 months Role: exercise visual tracking ability Play: Prepare a rope and a small ball, with the rope to the small ball hanging up, in front of the baby shaking, to attract the attention of the baby. This method can exercise visual tracking and attention, the larger the baby saw the ball in front of the swaying will reach out to grab, which can exercise his ability to grasp and hand-eye coordination, while also exercising the baby’s visual tracking ability and attention. 3, I climb climb climb Suitable age: 6 ~ 12 months Role: to promote the baby crawling willingness to play: to prepare any one brightly colored ball, the size of the ball to the baby’s two small hands can hold appropriate. Let the baby lying on the bed or on the wooden floor, the ball placed in front of him about 1 meter; with two hands on top of the baby’s feet, to encourage him to crawl forward. After the baby will crawl, parents can put the ball farther away from him, to attract the baby to crawl over to get the ball at a faster speed. This movement can also stimulate the baby crawling and two small hands grasp ability, while promoting the development of limbs and hand muscles. 4, than who picks up more Suitable age: 18 ~ 30 months Role: to improve the coherence of the action Play: prepare colorful, similar to the playground ocean pool in the plastic ball or table tennis. Spread the ball on the ground, mom and dad with the baby to pick up the ball, put it into the designated box, see who picks up more. You can also mix different colors of the ball together, let the baby pick up and put into different boxes. This game can exercise the baby squatting, bending, standing up and other movements of coherence, but also to develop the baby’s observation, attention and patience. 5, you throw me to catch For age: 24 ~ 30 months Role: exercise hand-eye coordination Play: and the baby stood 1 meter apart, by the baby will throw the ball to mom and dad. Mom and dad return the ball to the baby and repeat the action. After the baby mastered, gradually increase the distance between the two. You can also let mom and dad throw the ball to the ground, let the baby catch it with both hands when it bounces up, and then let the baby throw the ball down by himself, and mom and dad catch the ball. Mom and dad throw the ball in the best part of the baby’s shoulders and knees, too high or too low will increase the difficulty of catching the ball. Training for a period of time, gradually increase the distance, and then intentionally throw the ball to the left or right from the baby has a certain distance, let him turn his body to catch the ball. This movement can not only exercise the baby’s hand-eye coordination, but also cultivate the baby’s concentration. 6, with the feet to play the “bowling” For age: 24 months or more Role: to improve foot and eye coordination Methods: At the beginning of the baby kicked in the mobile ball is not so easy when you can first let him play a game similar to the “bowling” game, put the Plastic empty bottles on the ground in a row, so that the baby in a certain distance away, the ball to the empty bottles kicked over to see the baby can kick down a few empty bottles, even if the kick to an empty bottle, the baby will also be very happy. You can also invite neighboring children to play together, compare, see which baby kicked down more empty bottles. Again, this game will continue to improve your baby’s foot and eye coordination.