Vtech Crawl and Learn, Bright Light Ball

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The transparent colourful number buttons light up attracting baby and the spinning disk on top spins the cute turtle triggering fun responses. Young babies are quite sensitive in their auditory abilities and can perceive all the categorical sound distinctions in world languages. For example, babies are beginning to understand that toys reliably fall to the ground and that if a toy train goes into a tunnel it will come out the other end. Young infants need to be presented with an adequate but not too great amount of sensory stimulation.

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Infants first use the ulnar grasp where their fingers close against the palm when trying to hold an object. You will often see young babies in a bath reaching with their legs towards a floating toy and kicking. A delightful example of this is when babies begin to explore gravity by dropping toys whilst sitting in their highchair. Toys that are made of different materials and are different shapes stimulate young infants to grasp, mouth and shake them. There’s also a great range of activity and play centres that grow with your baby, from lying to sitting, to standing or walking.The confidence to explore and discover new things develops during infancy and creates a healthy curiousity about the world throughout childhood. Even in their first year babies are distinguishing between musical tunes on the basis of rhythmic patterns and later they begin to recognise the same melody played in a different key. Press the chunky buttons to meet the dog, cat, bear and rabbit, learn numbers 1-5 and hear 4 songs sung by the animals and listen to 12 happy melodies.

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If babies are presented with an unexpected event where, for example, a moving toy train disappears behind a screen but does not come out the other end they will stare for a long time at the screen. There are social skills involved in language acquisition such as realising that it is necessary to wait until the other person has finished speaking. After the first year, infants adopt the ‘pincer grasp’ where they use their thumb and index finger to grasp even very tiny objects. When young babies watch a mobile they are constantly moving their head, arms, legs and even their mouths in response to the movement of the toy.VTech Baby includes soft toys, rattles and sorting toys, all with the bright, easy, interactive elements that VTech is well known for. These types of experiences help young children to learn about the shape, pattern, surface, texture and weight of objects through touching them.

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Babies are provided with stimulation from more than one sensory system at the same time; this is termed intermodal perception. Giving babies plenty of opportunities to hear music, singing, rhythm and talk enhances their learning and prepares them for the social world where they will talk, sing, play and listen to music. Babies then gain greater motor control and begin to pick up small objects with their thumb and index finger.From an early age babies use touch to investigate their world; as they learn to reach they begin to run their tongue and lips over toys and then look at them. Sensory development in babies can be facilitated through toys that provide opportunities for them to experience sounds, visuals and textures. Sound and movement attract a baby’s attention; if a toy is placed almost within reach of babies their movements become more animated. br /> From an early age babies use touch to investigate their world; as they learn to reach they begin to run their tongue and lips over toys and then look at them. The grasping, at first, is quite clumsy but through repetition, and across time, infants become adept at grasping and develop fine motor skills.