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DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES
0 Months - 7 Years

0-4 months
  • Holds head in alignment
  • Tracks an object
  • Moves arms and legs when laying on back
  • Lifts head a little when laying on belly, can prop on elbows
  • Brings hands together when laying on back
  • Props on elbows in prone with neck extension
  • Rolls back to side
  • Grasps rattle when placed in hand
  • Likes looking at a human face more than other things
  • Responds to a smile with a smile
  • Looks into caregiver’s face and eyes with interest
  • Reaches toward and touches toy
  • Hits at dangling objects with hands
7-8 months
  • Sitting by themselves
  • Retrieves a toy in sitting and returns upright
  • Rolls
  • Crawls with belly on touching floor
  • Bangs a toy on the floor
  • Passes a small object from one hand to the other
  • Plays peek-a-boo
  • Bangs toys together
  • Feeds self finger foods
11 months
  • Cruising on and between furniture
  • Pivots in sitting
  • Standing for 5 seconds without support
  • Walks 4 steps with 1 hand held
  • Walks with a push toy
  • Pushes or rolls a ball
  • Drops small things, such as cheerios into a cup
  • Throws things just to see what happens
  • Removes socks
13 months
  • Rolls a ball 3 feet forward in sitting
  • Flings a small ball while standing
  • Enjoys looking at pictures in books
  • Imitates adult by scribbling with crayon or pencil
  • Pushes car along
  • Brings filled spoon/fork to mouth
14 months
  • Crawls up a few stairs on hands and knees
  • Hands things to others
  • Points at desired objects with index finger
  • Makes a stack of 2 blocks
  • Rolls a ball to you
16-18 months
  • Turns container over to pour or dump contents
  • Turns small knob
  • Gets spoon in mouth right-side up with little spilling
  • Selects and puts square or rectangular objects into respective receptacles
  • Puts large round pegs into pegboard
  • Helps dress and undress self
2 - 2 1/2 years
  • Throws ball underhand a few feet
  • Climbs up jungle gym ladder and negotiates a slide
  • Grasps thick crayon with thumb and fingers
  • Puts square, round, and triangular shapes into form board
  • Imitates drawing a vertical line
  • Spontaneously draws strokes, dots, circular shapes
  • Stacks 7-8 small blocks
  • Hand preference established
  • Presents arms and attempts to catch ball
  • Identifies 4 body parts on self
  • Makes small cuts (snips) on line with child-safe scissors and some help
  • Grasps spoon with fingers and rotates wrist to bring spoon to mouth
  • Washes hands by self
3 - 3 1/2 years
  • Makes continuous cuts with child-safe scissors
  • Copies a horizontal line and a circle
  • Builds a 9-block tower
  • Spoon/fork to mouth with no spillage
  • Dries hands
  • Plays by rules and in groups with increase in dramatic and imitative play
  • Completes an easy puzzle
  • Traces around the edges of basic shape templates
  • Cuts a piece of paper in half with scissors on a more or less straight line
  • Copies a vertical-horizontal cross
4 - 4 1/2 years
  • Performs a forward roll
  • Draws a person with 3 different body parts
  • Colors almost entirely within lines of 4-inch wide circle
  • Dresses and undresses when requested without much help
  • Copies a cross
  • Puts socks on correctly
5 - 5 1/2 years
  • Performs a few sit-ups
  • Skips
  • Performs jumping jacks
  • Moves fingers in fine, localized movements when writing with marker
  • Reads and writes numerals to 5
  • Matches letters in a group of different letters
  • Draws a face with mouth, nose, and eyes, and a person with 6 or more parts
  • Copies first name, although letters may be large, awkward, or reversed
  • Ties shoes (starts at 5, but may not be mastered until 6)
  • Prints a few capital letters without copying
  • Copies a triangle
5-6 months
  • Sitting using hands for support and starting to sit independently
  • Grabs both feet and hold when on back
  • Brings feet to mouth
  • Reaches to a toy when playing on belly
  • Props on extended arms when on belly
  • Holds and shakes a toy
  • Puts fingers in mouth
  • Holds hands open, rather than in fists, at least half of the time
  • Smiles at self in front of mirror
9 months
  • Starts to crawl on hands and knees
  • Pulls to stand at a table
  • Waves Bye-bye
  • Releases objects intentionally
10 months
  • Protecting reaction backward
  • Maintains sitting for 60 seconds while playing with a toy
  • Transitions to sitting from on belly
  • Bounces while holding onto your fingers
  • Takes 4 steps with support on your fingers
  • Plays in standing at a table
  • Stoops at table to retrieve object from floor
12 months
  • Transitions to stand using hands and feet (bear stance)
  • Walks 8 feet with one hand held
  • Walks 5 steps independently
  • Corrals a ball in sitting
  • Grasps thick crayon or pencil in fist as if to mark, but may not mark
  • Turns page of a cardboard book
  • Helps to pull off simple clothing and extends arms and legs to help with dressing
  • Puts objects into others, (puts blocks into a basket)
  • Pulls off shoes
  • Starting to drink from a straw
15 months
  • Creeps downstairs independently
  • Throws ball overhand
  • Marks independently on paper with crayon or pencil
  • Drinks from cup without much spilling
  • Puts something in and then gets it out of a container
1 1/2 - 2 years
  • Throws ball overhand a few feet
  • Drinks from cup independently
  • Turns light switches on and off
  • Looks independently at picture books and turns pages
  • Zips and unzips easy zippers
  • Plays individually, explores environment to learn, will play beside a peer with little interaction
  • Uses play dough, paint, and paper
  • Scribbles without going off paper
  • Builds a 4-6 block tower
2 1/2 - 3 years
  • Throws ball 7 feet underhand
  • Squeezes or pulls play dough apart
  • Grasps pencil with thumb and fingers instead of fist
  • Screws and unscrews jar lids
  • Sorts objects that vary in size only or color only when shown how
  • Undresses with help only for fasteners and pullovers with narrow necks
  • Matches blue, red, and yellow objects by color
  • Eats with a fork (with spillage)
  • Catches ball tossed gently from 5 feet
  • Completes a simple 3-piece puzzle of something familiar
  • Pours accurately from one container to another
  • Starting to play in a way that is more symbolic, dramatic, and interactive
3 1/2 - 4 years
  • Puts shoes on completely, on correct feet
  • Buttons and unbuttons large – quarter in buttons
  • Cuts on a line
  • Makes a flat, round cake by pressing and patting dough on table with fingers
  • Puts 3 things in order, such as hard to soft, full to empty
  • Traces and stays on (most of the time) a 3-inch, pencil-thick, horizontal line
  • Begins to copy some vertical/horizontal letters
4 1/2 - 5 years
  • Pumps self on swing
  • Copies and cuts a square
  • Cuts easy foods with a knife
  • Copies color/shape sequence
  • Zips most zippers
  • Traces around own hand with a crayon
  • Completes simple dot to dot pictures
5 1/2 - 6 years
  • Performs several sit ups well
  • Performs several push-ups
  • Able to perform the monkey bars
  • Names most uppercase letters
  • Brushes or combs hair well
  • Uses simple tools, such as child’s screwdriver
  • Prints all numerals 0-9 and all letters without copying
6 - 7 years
  • Able to rollerblade
  • completes a 6- to 12-piece interlocking puzzle
  • Plays simple card games, such as Go Fish
  • Competitive Play: Participates in team sports and activities that promote competition with structured rules


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