The language cube is a toy for children from 6 months to 2 years old. At this age, children are like sponges they absorb everything you want to teach them. By playing this game we are not only reviewing the vocabulary, but we are also implementing visual discrimination, and we are working on attention.
It helps you have a wide vocabulary:
• Talk and communicate with your baby, thus stimulating their language.
• Convey love and emotion by verbally responding to their sounds, it is a way to motivate them.
• Complete the sentence that he wants to tell you. For example: if the baby says “pa”, you say “papa”.
• Allow yourself to be wrong and celebrate your achievements.
• Ask him questions and encourage him to be curious.
• Give him a chance to do it at his own pace and don’t interrupt him when he’s playing.
Use of the toy:
- Make the language cube sound, and you will get their attention.
- Allow him to pick up and look at the shapes on the 6 sides of the cube. Give him his playtime.
- Name the shape of the toy and count the sides. For example: “look it is a cube and it has 1, 2… 6 sides, it is a cube of many colors.
- Name the shapes on each side. For example: “I see an apple, it is red and round.” Do you want to touch it? Play as far as the baby allows it.
- Put the items in the language cube on a table or blanket.
- Roll the cube and let him mention the name of the figure that appears (1 to 3 years old)
- Have the kid look through the blanket or table for the item shown on the cube rolled before.
- Let him make a comparison between what is real and what is in the cube.
- This makes the activity more fun.
