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Lullaby for Baby

Incorporate cultural words into your everyday conversations. Teach words such as “T?t?” and “?

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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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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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Car Wash

Allow your toddler to use soap and water to wash the car.

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Cardboard box hand drums

Create a hand drum with a recycled cardboard box that allows infants to bang or shake, stimulating t

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Chore Tunes

While your child does daily routines, have them add a little music to their routine.

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Clapping Game

Sing this song with your infant.

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Clean Up Time Song

Introduce a song to make clean up time fun.

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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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Copy Me

When your baby is watching you, encourage her to copy you.

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Counting Poem

This is a fun poem to help your child learn to count.

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Counting Steps

Be creative with your child when doing this activity. Make up your own steps.

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Create a Piggyback Song

Use a familiar tune to create songs your child enjoys

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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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Drying Song

Make learning fun, even while taking a bath!

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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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Find the Sound

Create a hide and seek type game using an alarm clock or timer.

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Finger and Thumbs, Legs, and Toes

Help your child explore their body parts by singing this rhythm.

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Finger Cymbals

Encourage your toddler to reproduce rhythms by clapping or tapping objects. Homemade instruments lik

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Flower and Candle Breathing

Teach your child to practice deep breathing to calm her nervous system, reducing anxiety.

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Follow the Leader

A fun activity you can do with your child that encourages following directions and hands on learning

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Following Directions

Make following directions fun by using games, music, and dancing.

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Foot Rub

Use this activity to bond with your child

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Freeze

This activity encourages listening skills and self-regulation as she practices stopping and starting

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Fun with Finger Play (2)

Finger plays for you to do with your little one.

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Fun with Finger Play (3)

Finger plays for you to do with your little one.

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Fun with Movement

Movement activity to do with your child.

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Fun With Nursery Rhymes

Share nursery rhymes with your child, adding hand motions that go with the rhymes.

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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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Handwashing with the Slippery Fish Song

Sing this fun song and do the motions while you wash your hands together

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Hickory, Dickory, Dock

Nursery rhymes such as this one supports language development for young children.

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Holiday Colors

As each holiday or special celebration comes around, talk to your child about what it represents and

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I Can Do It! (Copying animal movements)

Use a book to encourage movement

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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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Jan Ken Po (Junk an’ a po)

Teach your child Jan Ken Po to decide who goes first when taking turns

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Keeping the Beat

Introduce your child to rhythms and beats.

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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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Kolea (Golden Plover)

Look for the kolea in grassy areas around your neighborhood and do fun activities to learn more abou

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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 Pretend

The sky's the limit on what you and your child can pretend to be or do.

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Let’s Sing

Here's a variety of songs to sing with your child.

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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 It a Game

During clean up time or another challenging transition, bring in a little excitement by asking your

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Make Your Own Drum

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

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Mama or Papa Animals

Encourage movement by pretending to be an animal

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Massage My Gums

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

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Mop It Up

Make cleaning a learning opportunity

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More Fun with Movement

Movement activity to do with your child.

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Motorboat, Motorboat

Encourage movement with your infant

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Panpipes

Create a Panpipe iinstrument using straws of different sizes.

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Pantomine (Charades) for Kids

Movement activities for your child

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Picker-Upper Vacuum Cleaner

Simple clean up activity that encourages physical activity

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Poetry in Motion

Movement activity that encourages your child to act out the poem.

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Poetry in Motion

Introduce poetry to your toddler.

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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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Shake and Sing

Make your own noisemaker to use as an instrument while singing songs.

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Shake It

Encourage your child to use familiar containers in different ways.

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Sing While You Work

Sing songs during routine activities to make them fun.

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Singing and Movement

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

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Soothing Rhymes

When your infant seems fussy, try singing a rhyme or a song

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Sounds and Rhythm

Let your child experiment with making different sounds.

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Swaying, Swaying

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

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Syllables

Recite words to poems or songs to break down words into syllables.

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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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The Challenge Game

A fun word game to help preschoolers practice self-regulation strategies

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This Little “Piggy”

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

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Thumb-in-the-Box Finger Play

Fun finger plays that you can do with your child.

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Using a rattle

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

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Weather Watch

Look outside and talk about the weather.

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You Did Something New Today

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

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