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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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Turn the handle and up it pops – comment to help your baby link words, actions and events

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Here’s my nose, where’s yours? 

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Kitchen objects give your baby something new to explore

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Bash the ball – can your baby make the ball roll?

This might be a good activity for outside, or somewhere with plenty of room. Find a large ball and give your baby time to explore it, they might want to hold it or push it away. Give your baby some other objects, this could be another ball or one of their toys. Give them time to look at and explore these, then show them how if you hit the ball with another object the ball moves. Do this gently at first and pause to give your baby time to watch and think about what has happened. Move the ball close to them and see if they want to have a try themselves.  

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Flap books – exploring hidden pictures at storytime

As your baby has grown to understand that things and people can’t actually see at a given moment, they are learning to anticipate what is going to happen next, based on experience.  

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What shall we read today? Making stories part of your routine

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Time for blocks – beginning to explore placing blocks on top of each other

As your baby is starting to explore putting objects together, and inside each other now might be a good time to get some simple wooden blocks. Blocks are a toy your baby can use in different ways as they grow and develop and for now, they might just be interested in picking them up and having a good look at them.

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Tidying together – involving your baby when you put toys away

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Reach out – find some interesting objects for your baby to explore

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What will happen next? Playing toys or games with a predictable outcome to help your baby link events

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