General motor and Bilateral development
• Move baby's arms and legs, separately then in various combinations.
• Raise and lower your baby while you look into each other's eyes.
• Bounce your baby gently on the bed or on your knee.
• Playfully massage baby's body with baby lotion or powder.

Visual Focusing
Place a picture of a face 20-40 cms from the baby's eyes. The face should be about 18 cms in diameter and the eyes in the face should be about 2 cms in diameter. Place the face on one side of the bassinet and change sides regularly until the age of about two months. Then hang it form the middle to the bassinet. Make sure you place the face so that the baby has the opportunity of looking towards each side of their body. Provide multi-colored objects for your baby to look at.

Place them in various positions within baby's view, giving opportunities to look in different directions. Make sure your baby doesn't face on side of the bassinet or a wall, using one eye all the time. Change the position of your baby or that of the bassinet occasionally.

General motor and Bilateral development
• Place a kickable mobile at the end of the bassinet.

Visual Focusing
• Place a plastic mirror (without sharp edges) in a place where your baby will catch a view of themselves. Roll a patterned ball towards your baby while sitting on the floor. Play peek-a-boo with your baby.

Visual Tracking
• Walk in front of your baby with a pull-toy on a string.
• Jingle a set of toy keys approximately 30 cms in front of your baby's eyes to stimulate eye-following abilities. Do this from left to right and back, then up and down and so forth.
• Tie objects onto the side of the highchair so your baby will throw them to the floor and you can retrieve them more easily. Make sure they make different sounds as they reach the end of the string.

General motor and Bilateral development
• Creep through, around, over and under a family furniture obstacle course.
• Hold your baby's hand and encourage jumping off a small step. Try to do it over a very low object.
• Play nursery games like Patty-Cake and Ten Little Indians.
• Allow your baby to climb a safe set of stairs.
• Identify objects in large baby books.
• Sort pictures of different family members. Ask your baby to identify who is who.
• Provide a grab-bag of objects to identify by reaching in, guessing what it is, and then pulling it out to confirm.

Visual Tracking
• Play ball on the floor.
• Play with balls that have unpredictable movements.
• Eye-hand co-ordination
• Stacking and Nesting toys.
• Fill-able objects and pouring toys
• Toy Xylophone/Telephone
• Binocular co-ordination: Two-eye Teaming
• Stay in front of a swing and maintain eye contact.
• Have your baby use a large plastic hammer with pegs.
• Have your baby pour water into a container. As this skill improves, provide containers with smaller openings.
• Ball or beanbag throwing onto the floor or into basket.
• Try a balloon catch.
• Size, shape and spatial concepts
• Have your baby place objects together that belong together, like all cups, all spoons, plates, cars, or dolls.
• Hide an object and have your baby find it.
• Scramble a stack of Lego blocks and then have your baby pick out only one type of block. For example, pick out all the blue ones, although there are red and blue scattered together. Or pick out all the blocks that look alike.

General motor and Bilateral development
Kiddy car
•Incline boards or varying widths
•Wheelbarrow game. Hold the child's legs (at the thigh or knees if necessary) and have your child walk on their hands.
•Playing jump on the trampoline
•Visual Focusing and Identification
•Puzzles with geometric shapes, animals and community figures.
•On a trip to the supermarket, let your child find objects you are looking for. Make sure they only have a narrow field to search.

Visual Tracking
•;Large wooden beads for stringing.
•Sort three different shapes. Place 3 cups in a horizontal row before your child. Ask your child to place the buttons into the first, marbles in the second and pegs into the third, etc.
•Living room bowling: roll a ball to knock down milk cartons.
•Visual-Motor Co-ordination (eye-hand, eye-foot and eye-body)
•Wind up toys
•Tricycle
•Slap a floating balloon (try to keep it from touching the ground)
•Finger paints and modeling clay
•Binocular Co-ordination
•Place a magnet on a string and hang it from the end of a stick. Have your child 'fish' for metal objects.
•Help feed Daddy. Put food into Daddy's mouth.
•Place coins in a coin box or piggy bank.
•Size, shape and spatial concepts
•String beads or buttons according to size and shape.
•Learn to help set the table

From this age on, most games stimulate an intricate combination of the necessary developing motor and visual skills (visual tracking and binocularity). The following games are recommended at this stage:
• Hopping
• Climbing equipment
• Tricycle
• Wagons and wheel-barrows
• Blunt scissors
• Crayons and paints
• Blowing bubbles
• Clay
• Construction toys
• Puzzles
• Musical Instruments
• Water play and sand play
• Dressing dolls and lacing shoes
• Toys with large nuts, bolts and wrench

During this stage, it is time to help with the development of visual memory. Toys and games for this purpose include:
• Match photographs to a past holiday or place visited.
• Hide an object, then have your child find it.
• Build a simple pattern with blocks and hide it. See if your child can remember and build one like it.

• Continue to describe all the things your child sees in their environment. This will include descriptions of sizes, colors, weight, relative positions, time sequence, etc.

The following is recommended at this stage:
• Trapeze and swinging rings
• Roller skates
• Cars, dump trucks, bulldozers
• Doll house
• Jump rope
• Easel and paint
• Cutting and pasting materials
• Connecting dots
• Coloring books
• Scooters (bicycles with trainer wheels)
• Construction toys such as Tinker Toys or Lego
• Tracing within a maze
• Frisbee throwing