This is how your child develops at the age of 3 to 4 years

Development of motor skills in children (3 – 4 years)

By the age of three, your child can already climb stairs with one foot per step. Movements such as riding a scooter or swimming can now also be learned. It can now easily run up to 15 meters without falling. A run-up jump over a marking on the floor or a two-legged jump from the last step will also succeed with a little practice.

Development of language skills in children (3 – 4 years)

A rapid development can now be observed in the language ability of your child. He easily speaks sentences consisting of four or five words. By combining speaking and understanding, he is able to compare objects with a picture or sort the building blocks by color. It may not work all by itself, but it will if you demonstrate this task. Also, children of this age can understand and perform a two-part order. They can also distinguish whether you say: “Please give me a clothespin” or “Give me many”.

Your child still asks a lot and acquires so many more words. He can now articulate most sounds correctly and his sentence structure becomes more and more complex.

Development of children’s mental abilities (3 – 4 years)

Your child will show increasing interest in helping you with your everyday activities and will acquire many new skills. For example, it learns to fold paper or pour a drink from one cup into another. The crayon is now held correctly when painting. You will probably soon be presented with the first “cephalopod” pictures: circular structures with many feet sticking out on the sides. But gradually the number of limbs is reduced until there are only arms and legs. Typical of this representation is the waving of the torso, which is why they are called “cephalopods”. This development phase is very important for your child, as it is now the first depiction of a human being or living being. And you will see: after a while your child will also learn to draw other forms such as squares – and finally the bellies are added to the pictures of people. In this creative phase, your child also learns to concentrate on a specific activity over a longer period of time.

At this age, your child will also recognize places they have been to before. Likewise, it recognizes its own clothing or a certain activity, for example playing ball, which is shown in a picture. It now also finds things that you hide from it.

Social contacts of children (3 – 4 years)

It is now also able to communicate and play with other children, an enormously important step in its development and on the way to its own personality! It learns to cooperate, but also to articulate and enforce its own will. As a result of this development, it can now also feel jealousy of other feelings. The child also develops an understanding that sometimes they have to wait their turn. It also likes to make grandma or aunt laugh and enthusiastically carries out tasks assigned to it. Children of this age like to play in the role of an animal, such as a cat or a sheep, to imitate movements, sounds and behavior.