Babies love to watch movies, but many parents worry that videos and DVDs will create a baby couch potato. Encourage an active, healthy lifestyle for baby with a sports theme video or DVD. The following videos expose your baby to all sorts of sports and activities, and will make baby want to move along with the people and characters they see on the screen.
Athletic Baby Walk, Run & Play is a great, basic DVD that will make your baby want to move with the other babies on the screen. New walkers and younger babies may like this DVD because the tasks shown, such as running, hopping or skipping, are more within reach for a young toddler than playing an actual sport. This DVD will get baby started on wanting to be active and enjoying all of the wonderful things his or her body can do.
Monkeydoos has fun characters that will get older toddlers moving in a DVD that combines jungle adventures with kid-appropriate exercises. Toddlers can follow along as the Monkeydoos search for jungle animals and practice jumping, hopping, reaching and walking on all-fours to imitate the animals. Babies will enjoy the colorful DVD and fun songs well before they are able to actually move along with the characters.
If you're a fan of dance, the Nursery Tap: Hip to Toe DVD will be as delightful for you as it is for baby. The music is engaging, and parents will even find themselves tapping their toes along with the rhythm. Babies will enjoy watching the dancing feet on screen, where dancers, shown only from the waist down, are performing several different types of dances in colorful, visually interesting costumes. An audio CD is included so you can take the unique music with you on the road.
Let's Make a Splash is a quick course on having fun in the water for baby, showing other kids splashing, swimming, floating, blowing bubbles and even surfing. The water activities are set to a nice array of exciting classical music from Handel, Sousa, Mozart and Bach, and voice instructions tell baby how to practice some of the movements on their own.
An animated tiger is your baby's guide to golf in this fun DVD from SportyBaby. The DVD focuses on teaching baby the repetitive motions involved in the sport, like swinging a club. Learning these motions can help your baby develop motor skills. The beautiful scenery is also engaging, showing lots of golf courses and outdoors settings, and toddlers will enjoy watching other aspects of the sport such as golf carts and sand bunkers.
Athletic Baby's Basketball DVD gives the littlest all-stars a chance to see bigger basketball players in action, as well as a chance to learn age-appropriate basketball skills. Your baby can practice rolling and tossing a ball, and maybe even learn to dribble (a basketball!) in a new way. This colorful DVD is a must for any basketball-loving family.
The followup to the wonderful first volume, Nursery Tap: Hip to Toe Volume 2 has more of the exciting music and dance shown on the first DVD, and also adds some additional Chinese and French cultural music and dance. Babies and toddlers will love watching the enchanting tapping and whirling of the dancers' feet, and will learn many new songs, beyond the standard nursery rhyme songs.
Let's Play Ball is set up to show babies and toddlers how they can play ball sports now, as well as what they can aspire to in the future. You can choose on the DVD menu whether you want to watch other babies and toddlers play ball, or whether you'd prefer to watch older children playing, professional ball players, or all of the segments of the DVD. The progression of the DVD segments helps young toddlers see how the skills they learn now can be put to use later.
