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Physical Development- Suggested Activities

Infant Activities
1. Standard- Cooing and vocalizing
- Encourage infants to imitate animal noises and sounds.
2. Standard- Show interest in people and objects in direct
- Provide a variety of brightly-colored plush animals in and around infant’s
learning environment.
3. Standard- Crawling on hands and knees
- Encourage infants to imitate animal movements.
4. Standard- Use vision and hands to explore large and small objects within their reach
- Encourage infants to manipulate a variety of brightly-colored plastic and plush
toy animals.
5. Standard- Place small items or objects in to a box
- Encourage infants to place plastic toy animals in a box.

Toddler Activities
1. Standard- Shows interest in people and objects in direct environment
- Provide a variety of brightly-colored plush and plastic toy animals in and around
toddler’s learning environment.
2. Standard- Begins to put away toys, when clean-up is announced
- Encourage toddlers to put away toy animals in correct place and at appropriate
time.