Exploring different books
Benefits
Vision , language and sensorial development
Age
After 5 months
Materials needed
Books with different colored images and various textures.
- This book has different textures and he likes to touch and explore the same
- It gives a great sensorial feel to the baby
- He loves doing it.
- If the baby is not sitting, tilt the book and present it to them.
- It is easy for the baby to raise the hand and touch it.
- It is a great language development tool.
Whenever the baby looks at book, try to talk about the picture and words in them. Babies need to hear a lot to develop their language
Water play
Benefits
sensorial development
Age
After 7 months (or after baby starts to sit on their own without support)
Materials needed
Plate with water.
- Please be with the baby while doing all activities, especially with water. *
- Place a plate and fill up with water, say 1 cup maximum .
- Let the child play and explore with it.
- Water play is a great sensorial activity and it gives much of calmness to the baby.
Hanging objects
Benefits
Vision, Sensorial development
Age
After 6 months
Materials needed
Books with different colored images , various textures
- Hang different harmless objects to baby height
- As they are swinging , babies gets excited to watch and touch the toy.
- Let them touch and explore it .
- He loves watching the movement and plays with it.
- He is playing with this toy for more than 2 months now.