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Alert Attention

When your baby is awake, here's some fun ways to engage her.

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Aquarium

Encourage sensory exploration by making an aquarium.

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Baby Massage

A soothing activity for baby

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Baby's Bath Time

Make bath time a learning time

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Baby's Own Storytime

Make sure to add story time to your baby's routine.

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Bag Books

Make bag books for your baby to talk about what he sees and feels in each bag.

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Beach Ball Play

This activity is for infants who can lift their head while lying on their stomach and turn their hea

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Body Instruments

Show your infant that some of his body parts can be instruments.

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Cereal Spill

Help build your child's fine motor skills by doing this activity with him.

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Clapping Game

Sing this song with your infant.

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Climb the Mountain

Create a raised surface for your infant to climb.

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Connect and Calm Together

Support your infant’s developing brain and ability to self-regulate with this activity

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Dancing with Baby

Activity to help you have physical contact with your baby, helping soothe him/her.

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Discovering Natural Object Surprises

Watch baby discover new items

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Establishing a Bedtime Story Ritual

Include a story in your baby's bedtime routine from the day she is born.

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Face Time with Baby

infant thrive on positive interaction with adults. Here is a way to support your child's development

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Feeding Time is Bonding Time

When your baby is nursing, here's some ways to bond with him.

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Floor Time

Place your baby on a soft blanket, futon, or towel on the floor to give her a chance to look at new

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Food Building Blocks

Teach your child about different foods with these fun building blocks.

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Foot Puppets

Use a puppet to express different emotions

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Goodbye Ritual

Create a good-bye ritual to ease the separation and provide a sense of comfort and security.

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Goodnight Room

Try this activity to put your baby to bed.

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I See You

Although babies cannot yet communicate with words, a large part of their early brain development occ

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I See You

Interact with your infant as she discovers through play.

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Introducing Textures

Introduce different textures to your baby.

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Kick, Kick, Kick

As you do daily activities with your child use language to interact with your child.

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Labeling Emotions

Strategies for establishing a secure, strong, loving relationship with your infant.

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Leaf Sensory Bin

This nature-based activity encourages infants to use his senses to crinkle and crunch dry leaves or

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Let's Count

Strategies to use math talk with your infant.

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Let's Dance

Dancing with your baby helps to calm her, helps her feel secure, is a wonderful bonding activity, an

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Let's Play Ball

This simple and fun activity helps introduce math and literacy to your little one.

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Lullaby for Baby

When it is time for your baby to sleep, softly sing him a lullaby

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Make a Special Story Time Book

Make a special story book for your child based on the "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See" book

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Make Your Own Drum

Engage your little one with music using things found around your home.

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Make-believe Play

Play "make-believe" with your baby.

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Massage My Gums

Expose your child to gum cleaning, a precursor to brushing teeth.

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Motorboat, Motorboat

Encourage movement with your infant

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My Favorite Scent

Your scent and the scent of favorite places are comforting to your baby. When leaving your baby wit

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My First Shape Container

As your child actively manipulates them, he is learning about each shape’s properties.

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Picture Gallery

Help your infant recognize and identify friends and family members in his life by doing this activit

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Picture Gallery

Make a picture gallery with your child to develop language skills.

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Pictures and Mobiles

Place pictures or posters on the wall next to your baby's crib to engage your child.

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Play Time, Work Time

Engage your baby as you do household chores.

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Play with Sounds

During everyday routines, respond to the facial expressions and sounds that your baby makes.

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Read, Read, Read

Helpful tips to engage your baby in reading.

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Read, Read, Read

Reading aloud to your baby is an important form of stimulation, exposing her to early ways of commun

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Reading to Baby

Allow baby to see other baby's faces by choosing books that feature little ones

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Rock and Roll Rattle

Make your own rattle to encourage your baby to reach or move toward it.

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Scooping Water

Children’s first learning experiences with water usually include all kinds of pouring.

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Sensory Board

Create a board of various objects and talk to your infant about the items, using descriptive words t

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Shake It

Encourage your child to use familiar containers in different ways.

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Singing and Movement

During everyday activities, sing to or play simple games with your baby.

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Soothing Your Infant

Calming techniques that you can try with your baby when he is anxious, upset, or sad.

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Swaying, Swaying

This is a calming activity that you and your child can do together.

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Teach your Baby Sign Language

Teaching sign language has been found to benefit both normal hearing babies as well as those with a

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Texture Frames

Have your keiki explore various textures.

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Textures

Introduce various textures to have your keiki have different sensory experiences.

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Things to Taste

Encourage your child to explore new tastes and textures.

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This Little “Piggy”

Substitute your child’s name for “Piggy” in the following rhyme.

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Tummy Time

Help your infant's physical development by incorporating this tummy time activity to her daily routi

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Use Your Feet

Introduce a variety of textures to baby

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Using a rattle

There are many ways to use a rattle to engage baby.

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Watching a Toy Go Out of Sight

This interactive activity is a great activity that you can do with your infant to encourage him/her

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Wheels on the Bus Baby Massage

Your child will love this interactive activity

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You Did Something New Today

A song to build an infant’s self-confidence.

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