Try doing these games when your little one stays seated and can hold the ball.
These activities encourage him to crawl: if the ball escapes, he has to move to catch it.
1. Can you take it?
Sit on a mat in front of your baby. Position yourself with your legs spread out a considerable distance for the ball to roll. Show it to your son, arouse his interest in it. Then, roll her toward him in a straight line, making sure he reaches her lap. He will receive it with joy, he will take it and he may return it to you.
Get it back and keep sending it to him, make it closer to you every time. Your little one will lean forward to try to take it, a movement with which he trains his abs and challenges balance. After you’ve done it several times, toss it so smoothly it’s out of reach.
Is the baby inclined to take it, asking you to give it to him? Many children “risk” jumping forward, so they end up, surprised, on all fours. They sway a little, back and forth … It is the precursor posture of crawling. Others just watch how it passes by. Nothing happens, give it your time.
2. The goalkeeper
When you master the previous game add a degree of difficulty. Instead of sending the ball to him in a straight line, this time do it diagonally.
The idea is that the ball does not go directly to the hands but to the side. Imagine that he is the goalkeeper and you want to score a goal. “Why don’t you grab her?” You have to say.
Throw the ball to him so that you force him to turn his body and lean towards one of the two sides. With this movement the little one is working on stability and oblique abs.