Senses

Smooth Ride (5 Minutes)

Materials: 2-3 Blanket

Instructions:

1. Lay the blankets on top of each other on the floor.

2. Place your baby on their back on top of the blankets.

3. Hold onto the corners of the end of the blankets and gently pull them around the house, going from room to room for a "tour".

4. Describe the rooms as you visit each one.

Shake, Shake, Shake (5 Minutes)

Materials: Rattle Instructions: 1. Place your baby on their back. 2. Shake the rattle on one side of them, waiting to see if they will turn to the sound. 3. Repeat on the other side.

Megaphone (5 Minutes)

Materials: Paper towel roll

Instructions:

1. Start a conversation, read a book, or a sing a song as you normally.

2. Stop a little ways in and begin again but this time through the roll, trying different volumes and voices.

Rainbow Colors (5 Minutes)

Materials: Small toys (ex: beads, buttons, sequins, or toys), 5 water bottles, food coloring, and water

Instructions:

1. Fill the bottles with water 3/4ths of the way. In each one, drop a few drops of coloring (each bottle a different color), and adding a few of each toy).

2. Place your baby on their tummy and stand the bottles in a line in front of them.

3. Give them a bottle one by one to explore.

Tip: If you fill the bottle all the way, the objects will flow more gently like a calm down bottle, and filling it 3/4th a way will allow the objects to make more noise within the bottle.