Child Development Activities

• talk to baby
• play with the baby
• Showing the baby toys with different textures and colors
• sing to them
• let them watch colorful videos and pictures
• tearing up paper can be expanding your babies mind.
• Have a mobile hanging over baby's crib for him to look at
  

Toddler Activities

• reading to your toddler
• giving them "jobs" to do with help.  
• Set out 2 or 3 different pieces of colored paper then give your toddler or young child a handful of objects. Help the child sort these objects by placing them on the piece of paper with the matching color.
  
• Begin working with your toddler to learn to count from 1-10
• Begin teaching your toddler how to spell his or her name
• Sing songs with your child! Buy a child's CD or simply show them song videos from YouTube.
  

Early Childhood

• In early childhood reading to your children is a great activity for cognitive development.
• Have your child count things in his environment.
• Set up pretend stages and have you child act out their favorite book or movie.

Middle Childhood

• Give your child a  photo and have the "write this story"
• Give your child a bottle of diet soda and a mentos, instruct them to go outside and drop a mentos into the bottle of soda and write about what happened and why they thing it happened.
  

Adolescence

• Visit a local museum with your child
• Go see a movie and ask your child questions about the validity of the scenario and what he or she would've done if they had been in the place of the main character.