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Do-It-Yourself (DIY) age-appropriate
Baby’s First Feely Book: Touching, Tasting, and Seeing!
You can make a book to stimulate your baby’s senses with leftover fabric, old clothes, or samples from fabric or the wallpaper store. Choose pieces that can be laundered.
Instructions:
1. Pick out cloth pieces of various textures and cut them to be about the same size. You can punch holes in the pieces and tie them with yarn or you can sew them together.
2. OffertheFeelybooktothebabies.Whatdoyouobservethemdoing?Dotheyimmediatelypullitto their mouth? Do they scratch on it?
3. Letthemplaywiththebookwhiletheylayontheirback.Thenletthemplaywiththebookduring tummy time, and while they are sitting up. Do they play differently?
4. Talkwiththemaboutwhattheyaredoing;“Nowyou’retouchingthebumpycorduroy”.
• discover their world as they feel the texture.
Your baby’s brain creates dendrite connections and every experience and repetition makes those
connections stronger.
The activity above was provided by CCRC’s Home Visitation Grant and is intended for children 1 1⁄2 to 3 1⁄2 months of age.
What will babies and infants gain?
• Babies are learning their senses; they look everywhere.
• They listen to everything. They mouth whatever you give them, and touch anything that comes close.
• Babies are forming the visual perception of an object. This is a mental picture of what they see and feel.
• Designing: You and baby’s parents are their first and best teachers. You are offering them a new way to
What do you need?
• Fabricofvarioustextures
• Scissors
• Holepuncher
• Yarn or shoelace
• Sewingsupplies(optional)
• Board book, perhaps one about texture