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These recommended activities can be done daily with
your baby. Make sure to be sensitive to your baby’s
cues. At this age, baby still has a short attention
span. If they aren’t enjoying the activity, or
if they are crying, it is important to attend to his
or her needs. Once baby is calm, you can try again later!
make a book
Developmental benefits:
Visual Stimulation; Social bonding; Language
 or
click on images above to print
(PDF)
Instructions: Babies
at this age are engaged by bold, colorful images. Print
these adorable story images on your color printer and
place them in a photo album. This one has been developed
for a night-night story. Some of the pages have been
created to place next to family photos, so baby gets
a special book with her own family members. Two sizes
are available: 8.5x11 and 4x6. Baby will love to share
time reading this special book with you.
Safety Tip: Cards should
be handled by adults only. Print-outs from your computer
are not baby-proof!
finger puppets
Developmental benefits:
Bonding
click on image above to print
(PDF)
Instructions:
Print out the finger puppets provided. Cut along the
dotted lines and wrap them around your fingers with
a piece of tape. Use them to make up stories or sing
songs. This set features farm animals, great for singing
the classic "Old MacDonald had a Farm."
Safety Tip: Puppets should
be handled by adults only. Print-outs from your computer
are not baby-proof!
food painting
Developmental benefits:
Tactile stimulation
Instructions:
Let baby make a mess... Plan a food painting session
where baby can really get dirty and feel those textures.
Use jarred baby food--prunes and carrots are great.
Place a dollop of each on baby's high chair tray and
let her “go to town.” It’s finger-painting
that baby can eat!
music time
Developmental benefits:
Rhythm, Cause and Effect
Instructions:
Fill a small Tupperware container with dried beans.
Close and seal securely with strong tape such as duct
tape. Let baby use this as a special shaking toy. If
the Tupperware is clear baby can see the beans making
the sound and understand the cause and effect relationship.
Get creative with items to put in the container to make
different sounds.
Safety Tip: Never allow
baby to play with this unsupervised.
rhythm time
Developmental benefits:
Language acquisition
Instructions:
Babies are fascinated with rhymes at this age. Here
are a few. Sit with baby on your knees facing you and
recite:
To market to market to buy a fat pig;
Home again, home again, jiggity jig;
To market to market, to buy a fat hog;
Home again, home again, jiggity jog.
To market to market to buy a new gown;
Home again, home again—
Whoops! The horse fell down! (here, let baby slide
down your legs)
Here’s another
one:
Father, Mother and Uncle John;
Rode to the doctor, one by one;
Father fell off; (slide baby to the side)
Mother fell off; (slide baby to the other side)
And Uncle John rode on and on,
And on and on and on!
Safety Tip: Remember
to hold on to baby and be gentle! Never shake baby.
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