Playing with Materials
This helps stimulate your baby to create different effects on the same object. Letting your baby experiment with materials like paper and play-dough sparks their creativity and cognitive growth. Hand your baby a sheet of paper and show them how to wrinkle it, stretch it, and tea
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What you'll need
You'll need a sheet of paper, play dough. This helps stimulate your baby to create different effects on the same object.
How it works
- 1~30s
Alright, let's get started! To complete this activity, you will need a sheet of paper and play dough. Hand your baby a sheet of paper and show her how to wrinkle it, stretch it and tear it. you, watch your child closely — I'd love to hear what you notice about how they responds.
Watch for: Baby copy easy actions, like shaking a rattle.
- 2~30s
Great, now let's try the next part. Let your baby try it. Next, do the same thing with the play dough. Tell me what your child does — any reaction counts!
Watch for: Baby imitate simple gestures after seeing them.
- 3~30s
One more thing to try. Help your baby see that when she takes it from two extremes and opens her arms, the play dough stretches until it breaks. During the section size, observe if your baby wrinkles or tears papers and begins to use objects adequately. How does your child handle this? What do you see?
Watch for: Baby copy facial expressions.