What to give a child from 1 to 6 months?

There can be a lot of reasons for the celebration up to six months - these are the bridegrooms that many parents, according to grandmother's traditions, spend after the baby is a month old, and are baptized, and a tooth. Many (well-educated!) Adults consider it their duty to buy something just by going to visit a family with a small child.

Sensory organs are improving - sight, hearing, tactile sensations. In 1 month, the baby begins to try to focus on things, and the short intervals between sleep, which takes the lion’s share of his life, parents may well devote to the development of their son or daughter.

Gifts for such crumbs should be useful so that mom and dad can use them in developmental activities or for the physical development of the baby. A two-month-old child is already quite easily considered bright toys, while a three-month-old child turns to the sound source. In six months, many kids begin to sit, they are well able to hold objects in their hands, grab, pick up, if dropped. These skills can and should be remembered when choosing a gift.

In order to please both the child and his parents, one should know that the colored toys should be according to their age - the children begin to distinguish between yellow, blue and red first, and then all the others. The sound toy should sound gently, without injuring the loud sound of the infant's delicate ear.

All gifts for children of any age are divided into several types:

• Developmental. These include large pictures that develop bright rugs, fitball, hanging musical carousels, rattles with an elastic band for a stroller.
• Toys Rattles, tweeters and pyramids are popular at all times.

• Practical. To this type include teethers for teeth, playpens, diaper packaging, baby care kit, which includes powder, baby cream, baby soap. If there is an opportunity, it is best to buy what the parents are missing - it can be a highchair with a tabletop “for growth”, a stroller, a child car seat.

From a cute animal in a couple of weeks you get a dangerous dust collector. There is no need to give too complex interactive toys - now there is no use for them for the kid.

Choosing a gift for such a small child, you can break the gift etiquette, which does not imply the discussion of the gift with those who give it. It would be better to directly ask the parents what exactly is required for the baby. If they can not answer, then you need to include your imagination and imagination.

You can donate something from the following "cheat sheet for the giver":

• Kits or individual child care products. These include hypoallergenic children's laundry detergent for baby clothes and bed linen, conditioner for washing baby clothes.Such brands as “Eared Nannies” and “Aistenok” proved to be very good.
• Baby soap, baby cream, bathing aid, powder and massage oil - this is what your baby needs every day. Today in children's stores you can find all these tools, already packaged in gift sets.
• Appliances. A great gift for young parents who want to raise a healthy child (and there is no other way!) Can be a useful household appliance for a baby. A good option - a humidifier, hygrometer (a device for measuring the relative humidity in the room). A blender for chopping food will come in handy when mom starts killing the toddler. Juicer will come in handy sooner when the child starts to give juices.
• Adaptations for the baby. Usually, such gifts cause my mother a real delight, because they allow her to at least a little free her hands for other household chores. This is an electronic swing for the crumbs, carrying "kangaroo", cradle.

• Educational gifts. A great gift for a baby from 1 month will be sets containing Glen Doman methodical materials. These can be pictures showing shapes, colors, a little later (from 3 months), the baby can begin to examine images of animals, birds, fruits and vegetables. The cost of a set starts from 100 rubles. The most complete set, covering the development of several age periods of the first year of life and older, will cost from 1900 rubles and above.

• Suspended rattles will be useful from about 1.5 monthswhen the baby begins to learn to consider objects. There are special sets, which include 3-4 rattles and rezinochki on which they can be hung with adjustable height. While the crumb will simply examine them, he will begin to try to grasp them later.
• Developmental mats for toddlers can be interesting for a baby from about a month and a half, if they have flexible arms to which rattles can be hung. Rugs without handles will surely appreciate the crib closer to 3 - 4 months, when it starts to lie on their stomachs. The most popular rugs with mirrors, bells. The most time-tested brands and mothers are Bright Starts (from 2,500 rubles), Tiny Love (from 3,000 rubles), Fisher-Price (from 1,700 rubles).
• Sounding toys (from dolls to squeakers) can be started after 3 months, at this age, the baby already knows how to determine which side the sound is coming from, and it will be interesting for him to deal with what is capable of making sound. Familiar to children who grew up in the USSR, the red tumbler is produced, by the way, by the Tambov powder factory. Today, the choice of such toys is great, it is dolls-ducks, and dolls-bear cubs and a lot of other cute characters, including Smeshariki and Peppu Pig. The starting price of such toys - from 250 rubles.

• For kids, you can buy socks with bells sewn to them, they will please the crumb for several months. For the development of tactile sensations are recommended rag bracelets on the handle, sewn from a variety of shreds.
• Bed linen, clothing. Choosing underwear, remember that too bright kits can be dangerous to the health of the baby, because textile dyes often cause an allergic reaction. It is better to buy linen from natural fabrics, white. With regard to the choice of clothes, the same rule applies - everything that a child will wear should be made from natural fabrics, not dyed or irritate the skin. When choosing costumes and sliders, it is best to check the growth of the child with the parents.

You can make a gift with your own hands, such gifts for christening are especially appreciated, as they will remind you for a long time about the donor and an important event in the life of the baby. If you can sew, sew a patchwork quilt or a developing rug with your own hands. The baby will love to touch the bags that you sew from different materials and stuff in groats of different sizes (peas, beans, buckwheat, rice).Bags need to be equipped with hooks that will allow mom to hang them at a distance to which the baby is able to reach because of age.

The hands can make rattles. Rattles from birch bark sound very melodiously, unobtrusively. From the same material are obtained beautiful hanging carousel - birch bark - a classic of the genre, relevant to this day.

With an embroidery, you can transform an inexpensive simple white shirt for a baby purchased from a store. For the girl, she can be decorated with pink ribbons, and the boy with blue or blue. Booties - also a classic gift. They are usually tried to crochet or sew a cap, made in the same style. If the child is swaddled, you can sew a set of diapers - thin and warm. Men can make a stand with mounts - hooks for hanging toys, a high chair - a transformer, an arena.

The video below will help you find the right toys for children in their first six months of life.