Many parents of children don’t actually know that before the age of six, the baby’s vision and visual development are staged. During this process, parents must use scientific methods to exercise and protect their babies' vision, so as to help their babies grow healthily.
Babies aged 0-2 months like to see high-contrast patterns
The baby’s visual nerve has not yet matured and can only see blurry images. Babies love bright colors and strong black and white contrast.
At this stage, show your baby more toys and patterns in black and white or bright colors. The best distance is 20cm in front of the babys eyes.
Babies between 3 and 5 months old like to look at moving objects
The baby’s vision develops rapidly, and he can look at them for a short time, and his eyes will follow the moving objects. It is especially sensitive to red, orange and yellow colors.
At this stage, the focus is on training the baby’s eyeball rotation, showing the baby more moving objects, and at the same time preventing the baby from squinting and tilting his head. The method is to change the position of toys and patterns more often, and do not let the baby look at one thing for a long time. direction.
Take the baby outdoors to see our living environment between 6 and 8 months old
The baby’s vision tends to mature, the color perception is richer, and the baby has a sense of distance and distance. , will look at things near and far, and grab things they like with their hands.
At this stage, parents should take their children to see more outdoors, train the baby to observe different people and things, cultivate the babys interest in the surrounding environment, train the baby to crawl to get favorite toys, and strengthen the hands and eyes. Coordination ability
9-12 months to train the baby to grab the brightly colored toys around him
The baby’s vision has been very perfect and he starts to pay attention to some small things. For example, insects. Babies at this stage are very curious and will use their eyes to actively look for things they like and begin to identify basic geometric objects.
At this stage, parents should pay attention to what colors and toys the baby likes, use these things to attract the babys interest and let the baby take the initiative to grab them, and show the baby more colorful patterns or toys with rich graphics to deepen the babys ability to distinguish things. Ability.
Encourage babies between 1 and 2 years old to pick up a paintbrush and scribble on paper
From the age of one year old, the baby’s vision is already very sharp, and the eyesight has gradually improved. Use your eyes to guide body movements. At this time, babies like to touch favorite things, observe details for a long time, identify basic shapes, and like to imitate the expressions and body movements they see.
At this stage, parents should increase interactive play with their babies, play with geometric building blocks for their babies, train their babies to observe the structure and details of things, guide their babies to see colorful pictures, and teach their babies to recognize things.The four basic colors are red, yellow, black and white. Provide your baby with paper and pen to encourage him to doodle and draw.
At this time, the babys vision develops rapidly, and the visual clarity has improved significantly. He can already identify the center of a circle, a square, a triangle, Basic shapes such as rhombuses, and learn to draw simple shapes such as straight lines, crosses and circles, and begin to try to use different colors to draw. During this period, children are keen to observe the surrounding environment and can think and remember by themselves.
This stage is the golden period for cultivating children’s interest in painting. The baby already has a preliminary sense of spatial orientation and can draw using a combination of points, lines, circles, squares and other graphics. Parents can read more childrens drawing books to their children, draw with them, give more praise and encouragement, and build up their childrens self-confidence.
At the age of 5-6, children learn to observe objects carefully and practice color matching
The baby’s vision has gradually matured, and the vision has basically reached the level of adults, and they can recognize and distinguish colors. His ability has been greatly improved, he can recognize 5-10 colors (red, yellow, green, blue, white, brown, purple, orange, gray), and initially has a sense of color matching and three-dimensional space.
At this stage, the focus is on letting children use different colors to draw, guiding children to draw some three-dimensional things such as cups, boxes, etc., teaching children to carefully observe the size, shape and color of objects, and cultivating children to use them skillfully. Drawing expresses what the mind wants to draw. At the same time, parents should also pay attention to cultivating their childrens imagination and creativity, so that babies can draw their beautiful dreams without restraint!
