Here are just a few ways that you are helping your little one’s development while playing with the bubbles that are included in every Beki Games Bag:
1. VISUAL TRACKING SKILLS
Because bubbles are eye-catching and slow-moving they are a great way to help your little one learn to use her eyes to fix, focus and track, thus developing vital visual tracking skills that are needed at a later stage, especially in school.
2. GROSS MOTOR SKILLS
Bubbles provide motivation to move. As your developing baby starts to crawl, creep and cruise he will love chasing after bubbles. Crawling over, under or through obstacles to get to bubbles is a great way to encourage body and space awareness and problem-solving for your baby.
3. FINE MOTOR SKILLS
Once your little one is able to grasp the wand, he will also want to help create the magic of bubbles. Warning - it will get messy, but practice makes perfect. Being able to grasp, hold and manipulate the wand in and out of the container helps the development of fine motor control, which is so important for the development of the correct pencil grip, writing and working with tools in the future. Let both hands have a turn.
4. HAND-EYE and FOOT-EYE COORDINATION
Popping bubbles, be it with the whole hand, two hands, a finger, a foot, or a toe all help the development of hand-eye or foot-eye coordination. These early movement experiences form the basic building blocks of catching, hitting, throwing and kicking skills involved in ball sports.
5. ORAL MOTOR SKILLS
Help your toddler to learn how to blow the bubbles themselves. This activity is usually learned between the ages of 2 and 3 years. Blowing is a fantastic way to develop the muscles of the jaw and mouth and is used fairly often in therapy to help kids that drool or dribble a lot, as it increases the muscle tone around the mouth and helps young children to be able to elicit different sounds of speech.
6. SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Bubbles are a wonderful social tool for groups, like siblings, baby friends or a baby/toddler stimulation class. In groups, children further develop body and space awareness as they learn to move around and pop the bubbles without bumping into each other.
