Baby Activity

Faced with a fussy baby who wouldn't nap, I raided my recycling box (and wracked my brain) to come up with something that would entertain when none of the toys would.

A few lids from the recycling box and an empty wipes container (I find the Huggies brand works the best because of the soft rubber around the opening) lends itself to numerous lessons while playing.

"Hello Red!"  I say (well, in French, because we play this in French).  Then as I slide it in, I say with a lot of enthusiasm "Bye, bye Red!  Oh no! Where did Red go?"  Then we open the container and get the lid. We repeat this with the other colors.  Blue, green, yellow, and red are enough for now.

Eventually, J-jo will be able to put the lid in by himself.  (He'd rather chew on it right now.) That will be a great fine motor activity for him.

We have two of each of the color lids, plus a third lid of some of the colors that is smaller.  So we can also play "Hello Little Red.  Hello Big Red." 

I lay one red lid on the floor and say, "Here's another Red."  Then with shapes from the shape sorter, I will put a yellow shape on the red lid and say "Is this red?  No, it's yellow.  This is red." When I say, "This is red," I place a red shape from the sorter onto the lid.  I will do this again for the second lid.

J-jo loves the colors.  He loves the extra attention he's getting while we play this.  Five minutes later, he's no longer a fussy baby and will happily play ball with me. 

Note:

As J-jo gets bigger, you'll be starting to see more baby activities on Bear's blog.  I should have considered a second child when I named this blog and now that it's kind of well known, I don't really want to start a new blog or even change the name of this blog (though I may add J-jo to the title).