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Father Child Development Activities

Children from birth to 5 years of age learn best through human contact. The Father Child Development Activities are hands-on, age-appropriate, interactive activities designed by a father to promote a strong emotional bond between infants, children, and their fathers through play.

The Father Child Development Activities are designed and developed for fathers to have fun while teaching and promoting cognitive and physical development for their children, including:

Fine and Gross Motor Skills
Creativity
Literacy
Socialization
Emotional Development
Sensory Development
Classifying
Letter Recognition

Hand-Eye Coordination
Spatial Relationship
Object Permanence
Color Recognition
Size Recognition
Physical Stimulation
Tracking
Self-Esteem

Pretend Play
Imagination
Visualization
Language Development
Matching
Self-Awareness
Shape Recognition
Communication

The Downloadable (PDF) Father Child Development Activity provides an activity for a father and child to complete together and information about the child development that may occur during the activity.

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Click on the the Age Ranges below to view a listing of the activities available.

Prenatal
Pregnancy is a very exciting time for mothers and fathers. The prenatal section has monthly activities for fathers to help support mom and the unborn child.

0-6 Months
Infants enter this world ready to experience everything for the first time. In the first months of life infants need to focus on the human face and then eventually move to images around them.

6-12 Months
Babies make dramatic steps in intellectual development. Memory is strongly developed during this stage. Babies will begin to show signs of hand dominance or preference.

12-18 Months
This period of development includes huge advancements in the baby’s gross and fine motor skills. The emergence of the word no and negativity in the baby’s vocabulary signifies another step towards independence.

18-24 Months
As babies enter toddlerhood, their unique personality and temperment is shown more. Toddlers in this age group are now using two- and sometimes three- word sentences, and "no" is still a favorite word in his or her vocabulary.

24-30 Months
Toddlers begin to develop an imagination. It's through this imagination that the child will initiate activities like: driving a car, mowing a lawn, shopping, household chores, etc.

30-36 Months
Challenging behavior is a part of the 30- to 36-month-old child’s make up. A child this age has a longer attention span, more of an imagination, and an ever-increasing curiosity.

36-42 Months
Children at this age are beginning to play with other children in a give-and-take manner.

42-48 Months
Questions, questions, questions! Children in this age group are asking questions about everything most of the day.

48-54 Months
At this age children are starting to be coordinated enough to try to use a jump rope and begin tumbling, doing somersaults, and trying things like walking on a balance beam.

54-60 Months
Communication and language have progressed to the point that children can explain what some words mean, and tell you what the opposite words are for select words.