Category: No Mess

  • Sensory Wall

    Your Child Will Learn

    Creative stimulation for touch sensory experience

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather a combination of soft and textured objects like balloons, fabric, balls of yarn, sand paper, and bubble wrap.
    2. Tape the objects to a wall in
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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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  • Bathtime Fun

    Your Child Will Learn

    Exploring the characteristics of water

    Here’s What to Do

    1. While the tub is filling, gather plastic cups, bowls and containers in different sizes. Poke holes in the bottom of a few so water can trickle through
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  • Surprise

    Your Child Will Learn

    Sounds different objects make

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather materials: an opaque cup or box with a lid, small objects that fit inside. When your baby’s not looking, put one object in the container and put
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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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  • Rhyme Time

    Your Child Will Learn

    An introduction to rhyming words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Select a nursery rhyme from the attachment linked below, or use one you already know.
    2. As you recite or sing the rhyme, act out the words for
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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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  • Making Connections

    Your Child Will Learn

    To focus on a book and begin to make connections between books and the real world

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Pick out a board book and settle into your reading spot.
    2. Before opening the book, read
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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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