VTech Baby Feed Me Dino | Musical Baby Toy with Numbers, Counting Music & Shapes | Interactive Light Up Toy Suitable From 1, 2, 3 Year Olds Boys & Girls, Green, 27 x 12.3 x 26 cm

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The grasping, at first, is quite clumsy but through repetition, and across time, infants become adept at grasping and develop fine motor skills. Adults can facilitate babies’ language development by playing with them, focussing on particular toys, reading books and naming everyday 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. Giving babies plenty of opportunity to explore their world allows them to enhance their memory skills. Lots of rehearsal and organisation is needed to use memory to its full advantage; repetition is an important part of both infant and childhood learning. You will often see young babies in a bath reaching with their legs towards a floating toy and kicking.

This means that children can use deliberate mental activities, such as visualisation, to increase the chances of retaining information in working memory and then shifting it to their long-term knowledge base. Spatial skills can also be enhanced when playing games that require concentration, quick responses and finely tuned motor skills. There are social skills involved in language acquisition such as realising that it is necessary to wait until the other person has finished speaking. The confidence to explore and discover new things develops during infancy and creates a healthy curiousity about the world throughout childhood.

Kicking and waving their arms while lying in their cot can lead them to discover that a kick can make a banging sound. Adults can influence an infant’s confidence about the world by encouraging and smiling at them when they approach an unfamiliar object or toy. These memory skills can be enhanced through presenting visual stimuli more than once; repetition is essential for the development of memory skills. Toys that encourage children to remember visual stimuli, answer questions and then repeat the activity over again enhance learning. Sound and movement attract a baby’s attention; if a toy is placed almost within reach of babies their movements become more animated.Social interaction is important for language development and turn-taking games are a fun and educational way for babies and young children to learn. Place one of the eight food pieces into the hungry dinosaur’s mouth to hear fun responses and learn about foods, healthy eating and colours.