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Sing

Sing your baby your favourite song, close enough for them to see your mouth move.

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Contrast

Make three contrast cards to show your baby

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Hum

Hold your baby to your chest and hum to them, allowing them to feel the vibrations

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Touch

Hold your baby to your chest and hum to them, allowing them to feel the vibrations

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Massage

Learn baby massage for feet and legs.

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Mirror

Show your baby a soft mirror as they lie on their back, move it from side to side to see if they follow

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Look and Listen

Move a shaker out of view of your baby and see if they follow

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Making faces

Make different faces at your baby to see if they react

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Tummy time

Start tummy time with a rolled towel to support their upper chest. Give lots of encouragement.

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Copying

Copy the sounds your baby makes to let them know you hear them.

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Read

Start reading and showing books with rhymes and contrasting pictures.

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Dance

Put your favourite song on and dance holding your baby

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Grabbing

Hold soft contrasting toys out to your baby to see if they swipe for them

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Go outside

Look around at different light patterns as your walk down the street.

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Tummy time

Use contrasting pictures and shakers to entice your baby to lift their head.

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Bath time

Gentle lift your baby's foot in and out of the water saying 'in', 'out'

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Talking

Lie back with your knees up, place your baby leaning on your knees, talk to them and see if they respond

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Grabbing

Place object near your baby's hands as you hold them on your lap to see if they swipe for them.

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Playing Aeroplane

Cradle your baby face down and slowly move them around the room.

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Tickling

Say 'I'm going to tickle your...' in a sing-song voice, tickle feet, hands, nose etc.

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Following

Move a shaker or contrast card side to side so your baby can follow with they head.

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Flip books

Read flip books show your baby what is under each panel.

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Hand piano

Show your baby your hand and play air piano whilst making a different sound for each finger

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Music

Play instruments, sing or play recorded music to your baby.

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Outside

If its warm outside, allow your baby's hands and feet to touch different textures outside e.g. tree bark and leaves

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Bath time

Use different objects to pour, spray or splash your baby in the bath.

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Peek-a-boo

Play peek-a-boo by holding a blanket over your face and letting it drop.

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Songs and Actions

Sing songs with your baby and help them with the actions e.g. 'wind the bobbing up...' with their feet or hands.

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Picture books

Allow your baby to examine picture books

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Tummy time

Do the plank as your baby does tummy time to encourage them.

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Copying

Copy their sounds or movements.

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Talking

Use a higher pitched voice and short sentences so your baby can begin to concentrate on your voice.

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Sounds

Allow your baby to play with objects that can make a variety of sounds e.g. crackly paper.

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Pull ups

If your baby is happy to do this, allow them to grab your finger and lift them form lying to sitting on a soft surface.

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Waiting

Begin saying what things are in the world around you to your baby.

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Inside

Loosely wrap toys in paper and see if your baby can find them

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Sit up

Use cushions to support your baby to sit up for 10 seconds

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Rolling

Help your baby to roll by placing them half way and letting them hold your finger to roll themselves

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Bath time

Use floating toys like rubber ducks in the bath

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Nappy free

Allow your baby to practice rolling with no nappy on for freedom of movement.

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Massage

Learn baby face, back and tummy massage

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Singing rhymes

Sing nursery rhymes to your baby as your change their nappy

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Friends

Find your nearest play group and go, see if your baby is interested in the variety of toys they have there

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Sitting and grabbing

Prop your baby up with pillows and offer them toys just out of reach to practice grabbing

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Tasting

Allow your baby to taste foods, some foods might take 10 tries before your baby enjoys them

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Baby gym

On the bed, help your baby to stand holding onto your fingers. Sway them back and forth.

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Face the world

Take your baby on world facing walks

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Look around

Take your baby to museums and art galleries and show them interesting objects

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Friends

Help your baby safely interact with other babies their age

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Mirror

Talk to your baby in the mirror to see if they realise its your reflection

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Weaning

Place cooked soft fruits and vegetables in front of your baby and let them play (messy!)

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Helping

Singing positive songs and tidying up

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Simple tasks

Ask you baby to pass you a toy, say thank you and pass it back to them. Give them lots of praise and maybe a hug when they get it right.

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Pushing the floor

Your baby might like pushing against surfaces already. You can position them sitting on your knee as you sit on the floor and gently lower them so they feel their feet on the floor.

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Crawling

Tummy time can be used to encourage baby to start stretching out for toys. Babies may start commando crawling a this point.

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Ball rolling

Support baby to sit up using cushions and roll a ball to them saying 'roll to you', if they reach for the ball you can try and ask for it back.

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Recycling

Wash and dry some recycling items and give them to baby to make sounds, bite or throw around.

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Stacking cups

Stacking cups are fairly cheap, you can count as you stack and encourage baby to push the tower over.

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Sensory games

Give baby a torch and show them how to turn it on and off

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Push ups

Encourage baby push ups by shaking a rattle or making noises above them as they are on their tummy.

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Parcels

Loosely wrap a toy in paper and see if baby can unwrap it. Make this increasingly difficult for them and give lots of encouragement.

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Toy rotation

This could be starter earlier or late. Take away some toys for three weeks, then swap them back in. Baby will forget about them and will be more interested in playing with them again

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Actions

Sing a simple action game with baby e.g. wind the bobbin up. Move their hands for them to 'wind the bobbin'

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Get dressed

When getting baby dressed help them to relax by saying what you are doing in a sing-song voice e.g. one arm in, two arms in, over your head

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Edible messy play

Give liquid-y foods to play with on a big tray. You could also try adding cornflour and utensils. Baby will probably try to eat as well as play with anything you give them so make sure its all food safe.

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Go outside

Hopefully the weather is nice enough to let your baby loose on some grass, ideally with bare feet and legs to feel new sensations.

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Obstacles

If baby is mobile, try placing a leg or an arm in their way so they can practice clambering over you

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Hiding

Go behind an open door, remain in sight of your baby and make sure their are no hazards they could injure themselves on. Say 'find mama' and keep them interested by peeking out at them quickly.

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Temperatures

Give baby objects of different (safe) temperatures to feel. E.g. a warm flannel and something from the fridge and freezer.

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Makaton signing

There are courses online on how to start makaton (baby sign language). You could start doing makaton for food and drink and animals. Your baby may start signing the animals when you read.

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Mirror peek-a-boo

Play peek-a-boo in the mirror with baby or place a soft mirror between you and lift it up

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Playing drums

Play music and get pots, pans and wooden spoons to bang like baby is playing the drums.

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Standing

Encourage standing by saying 'hold on' to them as they try to hold onto the edge of the couch (for example).

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Pretending

Start playing pretend with your baby. Pretend to feed a soft toy with a spoon and see how they react.

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Pushing off

During tummy time give baby your arm to push off of with their legs.

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Balancing

Think about how to do this safely. Sit baby on a tilting surface and tilt slightly, watching them readjust their weight

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Asking of things

Encourage communication by doing something to amuse your baby (e.g. winding a wind up toy) and asking them 'again?'

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Massage

Learn baby massage for back and belly. You may find a baby massage class in your area.

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Library

Go to the library and show baby different books. Pick the book to read that the are taking an interest in.

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Mimicking

Mimic your baby's sounds to encourage them to make more.

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Clapping

Play pat-a-cake with baby and show them hand clapping.

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Soft foods

See if baby is ready to try lumpier foods or very soft pasta.

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Bath time

Make bath time more fun by using a spray bottle or squeezy toy

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Bouncing

Show them bouncing a ball on the ground and say 'bounce'. Bounce them on the ball and say it again. Exercise balls are good for this.

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Waving

Start to wave hello and goodbye and baby will start to copy.

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Reading

Keep reading baby a book a day. Point out different images in the books and make different noises to engage them

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Tasting

Make a plate of foods with different flavours e.g. lemon (sour), pear (sweet), courgette (bitter) and taste them with your baby, making different face reactions together.

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Reaching

Whilst baby is standing holding onto furniture, place a toy a little away from them so they can safely reach for it

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Reading

Read a book together in different positions, e.g. both on tummies or both on backs

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Animals

Take baby to a farm or zoo and show the animals. Say the animals name.

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Bath time

Move baby into bigger bath instead of a baby bath or take them swimming. Encourage splashing

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Singing

Sing 'old macdonald had a farm' and do all of the animal noises. Add clapping. Ask baby to make animal noises to see if they copy e.g. 'what does a cow say'

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Say hello

Say hello to toys, body parts, food, people

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Pillow mountain

Safely stack pillows and allow baby to climb.

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Passing toys

Ask baby to pass toys from their toy box or in the path and stretch out your hand e.g. pass me the duck

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Chasing

Try and get baby to chase you by ticking them and stepping away and saying 'chase me'

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Talking about textures

Make a tray of different objects. Describe each object to baby e.g. this foam cube is really light, this mug is heavy, this carpet is soft, this sand paper is rough. You can also categorise the objects.

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