Infant Play
While all children are different and may enjoy different toys and interactions, the following are suggestions for activities and toys for the infant:
- Hang brightly colored objects near your infant
- Hang black and white mobiles
What you can do as a parent:
- Sing and talk to your infant
- Play music
- Rock your infant, take him or her for walks
- Likes bright objects
- Enjoys pictures and mirrors
- Likes rattles
- Enjoys infant swing
- Enjoys car rides
What you can do as a parent:
- Sing and talk to your infant
- Play music
- Rock your infant, take him or her for walks
- Likes brightly-colored objects
- Likes to hold toys
- Enjoys rattles or bells
- Likes swings and strollers
What you can do as a parent:
- Talk to your infant
- Encourage your infant to crawl and sit by placing him or her on the floor
- Enjoys large toys with bright colors that move
- Likes to play peek-a-boo
What you can do as a parent:
- Call your infant by name
- Speak clearly to your child and encourage different sounds
- Name body parts, foods, and people
- Tell your infant simple commands
- Play pat-a-cake
- Begin saying words that tell what you are doing
- Encourage your infant to crawl by placing toys beyond his or her reach
- Enjoys looking at books
- Likes hearing sounds of animals
- Enjoys large toys that can be pushed and pulled
What you can do as a parent:
- Take your infant to different places and outings
- Play ball with your infant
- Read to your infant
- Tell your infant names of body parts
- Birth to 6 months:
- Mobiles
- Mirrors that will not break
- Music boxes
- Bells and rattles
- Stuffed animals
- Swings
- 6 to 12 months:
- Blocks
- Brightly colored toys
- Books
- Balls
- Cup and spoon
- Jack-in-the-box
- Rattles
- Teething toys
- Toys that can be pushed and pulled
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