Holistic development refers to physical, emotional, cognitive, language, and social development. These skills are essential to lead a healthy life. It is important to understand that every child is unique. The technique to teach children should also be different for every child according to the individual need.
The best approach to promote learning in children is the use of learning by play method. In this way, children learn easily while having fun. They enjoy learning and make efforts to get to know different things and they learn in the same way. There are many activities based on the learning by play method for the children. Here are some activity ideas for holistic development and growth of the children.
Physical Development
Physical development is important for young children to move around and engage in various physical activities. It is a vital part of growing up and mastering their body to move and play. Children are active when they spend time in outdoors rather than indoors. It includes activities such as running, jumping, walking and fun activities like ‘walk like animals’, ‘catch the ball’ etc.
Emotional Development
Emotional development is done to make sure children understand what they feel in different situations. It makes them realize about how to interact with others and know themselves and their feelings properly. Some emotional development activities for children are: Pretend play, make faces like emoticons and sand play, etc
Cognitive Development
The cognitive skills of children refer to the skills they develop while observing others. It could be a way in which a child learns, acquires knowledge, and interacts. Parents and teachers should encourage the cognitive development of children by simple activities like puzzles, identifying noises, practicing counting, etc.
Language Development
Language development starts with sounds then words and sentences. The language can be developed by talking a lot with your child and listening to her when she tries to communicate. Engage with her in activities like storytelling, rhyming, reciting poems, etc. This way, the skill of language can be developed early and smoothly.
Social Development
At the age of 3 or 4, children interact with other peers and develop their sense of confidence. They got to know about themselves and start socializing, it is called social development. There are many activities to develop the skill of social development such as singing, painting, drawing, turn-taking games, etc.
Conclusion
It is important to take care of children from a very young age. Making your child multilingual is not good enough, you should make sure that their cognitive and holistic development is being done in the right way. You can use the above mentioned activities to make sure of that.