Explain Two Developmentally Appropriate Materials

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Briefly describe 2 developmentally appropriate materials or activities you would add to the environment to address skills for this age group.
1. Infants need a variety of toys that they can manipulate. This includes soft rattles, stuffed animals, and plastic stacking rings. This will promote development in multiple domains, while supporting their growing spatial awareness and attachments.
2. A developmentally appropriate activity to do with 0-1-year old’s, is to sing to them. Music offers Infants skills such as to learning and practicing self-regulation, how to understand their emotions, balance, body awareness, bilateral coordination, thinking, memory, observation of differences in music sounds and patterns and spoken language. Briefly describe 2 changes you would make to the physical design of
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This helps children to work on their fine motor skills and their hand-eye coordination skills. Children can use marshmallows and dip them into different colors of paint and dab them on construction paper.
2.Some other materials that are appropriate for this age group to use play with blocks. Playing with blocks allows children to work on their fine and gross motor skills. It also helps children by improving their creativity, imagination, self-expression, problem solving, language, literacy and their social-emotional growth. Playing with blocks also gives children an opportunity to explore spatial, mathematical, and role-play possibilities. Briefly describe 2 changes you would make to the physical design of the classroom to promote optimal learning through play?
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2. Briefly describe 2 adaptive materials or areas you would include to meet the needs of a 2-year-old toddler who has difficulty with hand-eye coordination.
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Briefly describe 2 developmentally appropriate materials or activities you would add to the environment to address skills for this age

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