Category: Level 1: 0 – 9 months

  • Beat Your Feet

    Your Child Will Learn

    Creative stimulation for touch and sound sensory experience

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Lay your baby on their back and hold a baking pan in front of their feet for them to kick

    Put PEER Into Action

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  • Contrast Pictures

    Your Child Will Learn

    Perception of contrasting pictures

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Create contrasting pairs of simple shapes on white paper with a black marker 
    2. For one shape, only draw the outline
    3. For the matching shape, color the inside 
    4. Hold
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  • Ribbon Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    Creative stimulation for touch and sight sensory experience

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather some colorful ribbons that are 5-7 inches in length
    2. Loosely tie 2-3 ribbons to the tips of your fingers
    3. Sit your baby in
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  • Sensory Bottles

    Your Child Will Learn

    Creative stimulation for sight and touch sensory experience

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Fill 3-4 small plastic bottles with water
    2. Add a few drops of food coloring, dish soap, and glitter to each bottle
    3. Make sure the
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  • Follow Me!

    Your Child Will Learn

    Observing, imitating, and responding to others’ actions.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Place your baby on the floor sitting or lying down. Tell them you’re going to play “Follow Me!”
    2. Tell your baby you’re going to show
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  • Neighborhood Walk and Talk

    Your Child Will Learn

    Varied vocabulary which is beneficial for language development.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Take your baby on a walk around your neighborhood or a shopping center.
    2. Talk about everything you see: people, buildings, animals, vehicles, and objects.
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  • Sounds Around Me

    Your Child Will Learn

    Different kinds of sounds and the objects that make them

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather some objects that make noise (like: rattle, bell, two blocks to bang together, crinkly paper, etc.)
    2. Hold an object out of
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  • On the Floor

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to play with toys and interact with people

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find a time when your baby is calm, alert, and ready to play.
    2. Lay your baby on a blanket with toys (baby toys,
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  • Kitchen Music

    Your Child Will Learn

    Different sounds can be created with kitchen objects

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Give your baby safe and shatter-proof kitchen objects like light-weight pots, pans, wooden spoons, plastic spoons, plastic spatulas, plastic bowls, and etc. (avoid objects
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  • Fast and Slow Music

    Your Child Will Learn

    Exploring movement and music

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Place your baby on a blanket on the floor. Play some music or sing to your baby.
    2. Hand your baby a scarf, tissue, or handkerchief, and hold one
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