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Time for you – supporting your baby by thinking about self-care

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Look at those hands! Using reflection to encourage your baby to play on the floor and notice their hands

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Did you know that getting dressed promotes your baby’s head movements?

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Group ideas for you and your baby

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Sing a song about you- use your baby’s name in some favourite songs and rhymes

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Hey baby – have a chat and help your baby develop awareness of their face

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Involve your baby in finding a solution

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Fascinating faces – holding your baby so they can focus on your face

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Plant pot tower – simple stacking fun

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Picnic time – set up a picnic so your baby can practise picking things up, moving them and putting them down

Set up a picnic by placing a piece of fabric on the floor and setting up plates and snacks. Say to your baby that you are having a picnic and you would like them to put food on the plates. Point to a plate and say, “What food are we putting here?” If your baby doesn’t look at the plate, lift it a give it a jiggle to attract their attention. You could always say, “This plate needs food, what could go on there?”

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Bathtime explorer – finding out that toys can be handled in different ways

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Moving and possibly stacking – exploring and investigating the parts of stacking toys

Provide your baby with stacking cups or toys. Give your baby time to explore the toys and move them around. Stacking toys are designed to encourage your baby to pick up and place objects in a particular place. This is a difficult task as your baby will have to coordinate numerous actions while moving and positioning objects but don’t worry, you are looking for purposeful movements of objects, regardless of where the toy ends up in this activity.

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Squeeze a sock – making a simple fine motor toy for your baby

Building up the strength in your baby’s hands will help them to develop the fine motor skills needed to turn pages in books. Encourage your baby to press, squeeze and squash objects during their play to give their fingers a range of challenges. Dough or clay is a wonderful resource for this, but if you aren’t in a place to handle the mess you can try filling a sock with a small amount of flour and letting your baby explore this. It’s a great texture for squeezing and squidging! Always supervise your baby when they are playing, as they will explore the items with their mouth.

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This is puzzling! How will your baby lift the pieces up?

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All in a day’s work – reaching out and putting away

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Ice, ice, baby: little fingers and ice cube play

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Let’s play pets! Great for developing your baby’s hand control

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Dropping a beat – making music by dropping objects

Collect a variety of (non-breakable) containers made of different materials. Cardboard boxes, metal pans of different sizes and plastic storage boxes are all great options. With your baby, experiment with dropping balls or small toys into the containers. Notice what kind of sound it makes and encourage your baby to repeat the dropping action over any sounds they really enjoy! Add another layer of interest by putting different bases in some of the containers – plastic bags, fabric, tin foil and even water (as long as you have a towel nearby!) will all give different sounds as your object lands.

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