Senses And Relationships

Touch And Feel

1. If you gently touch a newborn baby's cheek she'll root around for nipple to feed. Her skin is highly sensitive and she responds immediately to the feeling of different textures, especially if they're unfamiliar. Perhaps surprisingly, this can help her develop highly intellectual skills, such as the concepts of opposites ( rough and smooth, for instance, or hard and soft ).

2. Making a touch-and-feel mat : They are plenty of baby play mats to choose from in the shops, but you could also make your own by covering a small blanket with a patchwork of squares cut from material of different textures. Stitch them down firmly with wool and make sure there are no loose ends or loops to catch little fingers.  

2. Baby will benefit from :

• Hand control
• Experimentation
• Concept of opposites
• Relaxing
• Anticipation
• Conversation

Baby's Activity

Puff And Blow

1. Blowing, whistling or humming on your baby's skin tickles her so you can use any of these techniques to make her laugh. But when you get her to copy you, you'll help her develop the muscles used for forming words. They make her aware of her mouth and what it can do. Combined with sounds you help her make sounds herself with her tongue and lips - a prelude to talking.

2. Baby will benefit from :

• Talking
• Conversation patterns
• Feeling
• Looking
• Listening
• Concentration
• Imitation

Senses And Relationships

Mirror, Mirror

1. From birth to the age of one year - and beyond - your baby is fascinated by faces and especially by how they're reflected in a mirror. Looking in the mirror is fun, but it's also a highly intellectual activity. At first he sees the mirror as simply a basic attachment to the human face. Then he's curious about who is behind the mirror. Then there's a dawning recognition that it's himself - very advanced !

2. Baby will benefit from :

• Recognizing faces
• Recognizing features
• Sense of self
• Memory 
• Seeing 
• Friendliness
• Imitation

Baby's Activity

Give And Take

1. Once your baby is able to grasp with all her fingers - at about 7 - 8 months - rather than her flat, open palm you can start to guide her to refine her grasp even further. Give and take games help her learn to let go of objects on purpose and accurately rather than just dropping them indiscriminately. Learning to give something to another person requires social skills too. It's the prelude to that most difficult lesson, learning to share. 

2. Baby will benefit from : 

• hand-eye coordination
• hand control
• finger control
• grasp refinement 
• letting go 
• sharing 
• observation

Physical Fun

Baby Gym

1. Before your baby can sit he spends a lot of walking time lying on his back in his cot or confined to a push chair or baby chair. You can keep him happy by providing a baby gym - a selection of visually interesting toys and objects ( choose ones that make a noise too) strung safely across his cot where he can see them and later where he can swipe at them. The gym is special because as well as exercising his arms it exercises brain. You can buy ready-made baby gyms, but you can also create your own simply by tying a variety of objects to cord or elastic.

2. Baby will benefit from :

• concentration
• understanding
• seeing
• focusing
• hand-eye coordination
• cause and effect 

Baby's Activity

Newborn Baby Jig 

1. From birth, movement games encourage every area of your baby's growth, including the intellectual and feelings of self-worth. In addition you can begin helping your baby to develop head control.

2. Baby will benefit from :

• Head control
• Movement awareness
• Bone, muscle and joint development
• Strength and mobility
• Developing brain-muscle-nerve connections
• Sense of achievement and fun 

Baby's Activity

Making Play Dough

1. All children love making things even if it's only mud pies. They see you cooking and doing other chores and even as early as eight or nine months they use pretend play to experiment with the skills they need to copy what you're doing. Play dough provides an ideal material because of its plasticity, staying power and re-usability. 

2. You will need : 

• Flour
• Salt
• Oil
• water
• Cream of tartar
• Food coloring

3. How to make play dough : Mix together 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt, 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar, 2 tablespoons of oil and 1 teaspoon of food coloring with 2 cups of water in a saucepan over a medium heat. Stir constantly until the play dough comes together. Continue to stir for a couple of minutes, then take it out and knead it for several minutes. Keep it in an air-tight plastic container. Don't let your baby eat it. 

Baby's Activity

Baby Music

1. Research shows that children love classical music by composers such as Bach and especially Mozart - it stimulates the parts of the brain that are associated with maths and logic and helps concentration and talking. Choose music with a regular beat classical harmonies, especially those incorporating string instruments. Play music from birth and never stop. 


2. Baby will benefits from :

• Listening
• Sense of rhythms
• Turning eyes and head to sound 
• Talking
• Handling emotions
• Concentration
• Later-mathematical and logical thinking

Baby's Activity

Paint Magic

1. Let her be creative once she's getting good with her hands by introducing paint and hand painting. She'll love the chance of making a mess and experimenting with the texture and colour of paint with her fingers. Later, try some printing techniques with her and if her manual dexterity is advanced enough, show her how to use a paintbrush.

2. Baby will benefits from :

• Hand control
• Hand-eye coordination
• Cause and effect
• Experimentation
• Concept of colours
• Imagination

Baby First Skills

Baby Skills

* I would like to share some golden hour activities to all the parents in order to help improve your kids's development skills. *

 Kitchen Percussion 

1. This game satisfies your baby's innate desire to bang things and  her love of rhythmic noises. And it's all so easy because there are so many objects she can use readily available in your kitchen cupboard - a wooden spoon in each hand or a pair of pan lids as cymbals to crash together. She'll learn to recognize low- and high-pitched notes by banging different materials and she'll learn to use both hands simultaneously. 

2.  Baby will benefits from : 

• Grasp
• hand-eye coordination
• hand control
• strength
• creativity
• listening