Newborn Babies starts processing their universe through their senses before they are born. Initial in the gestational time, when the sac is only a very few inches, they feel the trembling from mom’s voice echo from her body. Newborn Babies take in information from the universe by watching, listening, taste, smell, feel, and the pressure on their body. Babies grow their skills more by contacting with their world and implementing their sensory developing skills. Nowadays many baby toys and products are superior than others for giving these chances to explore and sharpen their sensory processing skills.
Here are some popular baby toys/ ideas for sensory development:
Newborn Babies explore most of the things by mouth in their initial months. They grasp a lot of things about the universe by putting some objects in their mouth and tasting it, evaluating the appearance, thickness, shape, and size of the things whichever is there in their hands. Some things are interesting to them, and they can explore more details.
The whole universe is a sensory garden for a newborn baby. With the right directions and exposure to safe things, babies can be provided with chance to increase their sensory processing skills.
- Looking Glass/ Mirror:
Some Examinations shows that babies like to see at parents’ faces, other babies’ faces, and their own face in a glass or mirror more than anything else, so glass or mirrors are very visually reflecting for babies and also it provides the sense of vision.
- Rattles:
Babies begins to understand the effects at a very initial age. Therefore wrist rattles and bootie rattles are a beautiful way to teach that. When your baby moves their arm and listens the rattle, then turns their head in that direction and try to hears the sound, Babies are not only learning the effects but body consciousness as well. This is an another crucial part of sensory processing that gives the base for gross motor skills and synergy to them.
- Balls:
Balls are an awesome toy to help your baby develop a sense of stability, soundness, and body consciousness. Do some garden activities with the balls. First a fall, position your baby on the ball on their belly or back and roll forward and back and side to side. Make sure the their body as she/he tries to move head slowly and try to learn things easily. Then, make sit the baby on the ball and gently bounce up and down while you support the baby. You are there to make them learn ball balancing, and most importantly sensory skill.
- Books:
Books that make crinkle sounds when moved stimulate baby’s sense of listening, touching, and educate cause and effects. Babies grasp fast that they can make that sound and re-make it.
- Wrappers/ Quits:
Wrapper/ Quits gives a tactual feel that babies love. The silky fabric is soft to their skin, and the small tags are amazing for tiny finger touch.
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