Pick and Place
This helps encourage your baby to store and retrieve her toys. Support your baby’s fine motor skills and cognitive development with this toy activity. Take a box and place a few of your baby’s toys inside it. Encourage your baby to pick them up and take them out,
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What you'll need
You'll need toys, a toy box. This helps encourage your baby to store and retrieve her toys.
How it works
- 1~30s
Alright, let's get started! To complete this activity, you will need toys and a toy box. Sit with your baby and take out some of his or her toys and the box. you, watch your child closely — I'd love to hear what you notice about how they responds.
Watch for: Baby take objects out of a container.
- 2~30s
Great, now let's try the next part. Place the toys inside the box and show them to your baby. Encourage him or her to pick them up and take them out, guiding his or her hand. Tell me what your child does — any reaction counts!
Watch for: Baby put things into containers.
- 3~30s
One more thing to try. Then, teach him or her to place them back in. This activity will stimulate your baby's finger dexterity and abstract thinking skills. How does your child handle this? What do you see?
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