Let’s explore – using more awake time to explore different textures

What you need 

• A few different fabrics and materials – you could use a foil blanket, silky scarf, a fluffy ‘teddy blanket’ 

What to do 

1. Lie your baby on their tummy. 
2. Place the fabrics you have found close to their hands.  
3. If they enjoy feeling the fabrics with their fingers, try lying them on a different fabric for tummy time.  
4. Take off their socks so they can feel the fabric with their feet as well as their fingers.  

Always supervise tummy time. Remember that anything you give them to explore needs to be safe for them to put in their mouth. Check fabrics for loose threads that could get caught around your baby’s fingers or toes.