Benefits Of Activity Blankets For Babies

For the newborn to have a good sensory, cognitive and motor development, a good idea is to have an activity blanket at home. These tips can help you in the choice.

Babies connect with the world through their senses. In its first months, the exploration is purely sensory; hearing, touch and sight are the gateway to discovering what surrounds them. The activity blankets therefore become an excellent tool.

Thanks to the activity blankets, babies have the possibility to integrate textures, sounds and colors in a comprehensive way. Knowing some of its advantages and peculiarities will help parents to equip themselves with everything their little one needs.

Although there are devices to place in the crib, it is the floor blankets that the baby takes most advantage of in its development. These covers have a wide range of colorful and flexible accessories that promote play and learning for the child.

Generally, this type of gymnasiums for babies have bars for exercises, from which different elements hang that the newborn can investigate at ease.

Activity blankets for babies should have defined shapes within easy reach. Face down, day by day you will be able to raise your head a little more and you will acquire greater mobility in your hands.

Benefits of activity blankets for babies

Free movement is essential for babies to begin to know the possibilities of their body. From a young age, placing them face down on the blanket helps to strengthen the neck and back muscles, a necessary step to be able to sit up.

The proximity of different colorful objects of different shapes and textures will give the child an enthusiasm for learning and continuing to discover. The teethers, mirrors, objects with bells and various sounds are some very useful elements that will contribute to the entertainment of the little one.

The so-called ‘baby gyms’, with soft arches crossing their surface, allow to find different stimuli when stretching the arms and legs. This promotes coordination, as well as allowing all the muscles of the body to be exercised.

In this way, sensitive development is accompanied by cognitive development, with toys that promote cause-effect relationships. With all this, the baby will gradually gain autonomy.

Finally, it should be noted that, by being on the stomach, postural plagiocephaly is prevented in the baby. When they spend most of the day on their backs, the back of their heads may become flattened. This can be perfectly prevented with the blanket on the ground.

Variety of activity blankets for babies according to age

When choosing an activity blanket, in the market we will find many different options:

• Play mat from the third month: At this stage, the baby begins to feel for the first time the need to explore the world, after two months curled up and sleeping. Although it is not able to differentiate colors, it can distinguish the contrast between one and the other.
• Blankets with toys up to 6 months: It is admirable the way in which the relationship between movement itself and the world is assimilated by babies. By stretching their hands and finding an object, they will experience all kinds of sensations: auditory, tactile, visual.
• If the object catches their attention, they will repeat the game several times. Little by little, they will recognize their own toys and will choose their favorites among them.

• Play blanket from seven to eight months:  At this stage, activity blankets are ideal for babies that offer different textures: soft, smooth, crisp, soft. Your fingers already act conscientiously and will be able to differentiate each surface.

• Between seven and eight months, the gray matter of the child evolves in surprising ways. An age of profound reflections on the world begins that lead him to create his first categories and mental orders. You will be able to perfectly dissociate which sounds, colors and textures are more or less pleasant. Activity blankets for babies have the particularity of stimulating several senses at the same time.
• Up to 24 months: Beyond the fact that the ground is one of the favorite places for children when it comes to playing, the activity blanket should not be underestimated, even if they already know how to walk. These blankets do not take up much space and your child will find it comforting to have a space of their own.

In short, activity blankets for babies provide incalculable benefits for little ones. From three months to at least two years, this conglomeration of colors, textures and shapes will accompany you step by step in a healthy development.