thread: Baby games - what are your favourite games to play with your baby?

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    Baby games - what are your favourite games to play with your baby?

    Just publishing an article about activities and games with babies (i.e. under 12 months of age)... would love to know what your favourites are that your baby seems to love, so I can add them into the article and have a discussion here
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    What age of baby?

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    Babies under 12 months of age
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    Definitely peekaboo, mostly round the corners of walls or doorways over and over again.

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    Some ideas of things my kids and I enjoyed as babies off the top of my head (not sure whether you want games specifically or just activities and things)...

    Fine motor skills: Ribbons threaded through two sides of an object then knotted to be pulled
    Transferring objects from one thing to another (pasta, rice, lentils, pompoms, buttons etc). Start with hands then introduce other things like spoons or tongs.
    Hammering golf tees into styrofoam
    Pegs
    Threading pipecleaners in strainer
    Posting paper into slots or blocks into holes or coins or rocks (shape sorting)
    Stacking - cups, boxes, blocks etc
    Tearing paper

    Sensory: Jelly with hands
    Cooked spaghetti (with or without paint)
    Finger painting
    Sand and mud
    Bubbles
    Ziplock bags filled with different liquids (shaving cream, liquid soap, glitter water etc)
    Texture cards

    Music: Shakers with rice, rocks, bells etc
    Pots and pans for drumming
    Rubber bands taut over boxes for plucking

    Miscilaneous: Hiding objects underneath things, peekaboo
    Mirrors
    Photos of family members
    Hiding objects in bottles of rice so they need to twist and turn it around to find them (more advanced is magnetic objects and using a magnet to find them)

    I recently made DD2 a busy board which has been popular and could be adjusted to suit younger (or older) ages. Here it is and in action.

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