Activities for Newborn
Foot Rattles With Towel Roll Under Bottom
Balloon kicks
Tissue paper kicking
Hand rattles
Kicking a Ball
Oil leg rub
Rocking on a beach ball
http://ryanandmarsha.com/diy/rainbow-sensory-bottle/ - Rainbow sensory bottle with water beads and baby oil
Source - http://everyavenuelife.com/2012/07/7-activities-to-do-with-your-infant-0-6-months/
Tummy time activities
Source: http://www.candokiddo.com/news/boppy-pillow-for-baby-play
Float a Bath Toy In a Pan of Water
A Touching Pan of Fresh Herbs
Play With Flashlights
Tummy Time Finger Painting
Muffin Tin Play
Sensory Bags Taped to the Floor
Grasping Baskets with easy-to-hold toys
Look at an Accordion-Style Book
Turn Pages of a Board Book
Sensory Play with Gourds
Ribbon box play activity
Textured Balls
Tactile, sensory inputs to babies. Bright colours for visual stimulation.
Clutch and sensory Teether
Promotes clutching and two-handed play. Middle cube contains rattle sound. Also a perfect teether for babies.
Rattles
Set of wooden rattles to promote clutching, shaking and noise recognition. Also works well as teether.
Stretchy wooden caterpillar
Stretchable and twisty
Helps with vision and coordination development
Water beads and baby oil Sensory bottle
Books
High contrast Black and White books to start off with. A newborn could only see black, white and shades of grey. So, these are very ideal books to start reading to a newborn.
Moving on, from 3 months onwards, a baby would be able to identify bright primary colours.
Eric Carle books are very apt to start reading at this stage. They are very colourful, illustrative and contain very less words in each page.
The Bad Tempered Ladybird
The Very Busy Spider
Very Hungry Caterpillar
Polar Bear Polar Bear
That's not my books series by Usborne. Each of them feature a character and has sensory pages for the baby / infant to touch and feel!
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