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An even dozen more activities for developmental stimulation

  1. Get carried around the lake. Look at the plants. Grab a leaf and crumple it up.
  2. Crawl in the grass. Pull up handfuls of it.
  3. Look at flowers. Get carried around the neighborhood where there are lots  of gardens.
  4. Go to church. Look at all of the pictures and candles. Listen to the music and the people talking.
  5. Play with stuffed animals. Look at them. Wave them around. Crawl over them. Chew on different parts of them. Drop them on the floor.
  6. Get carried around the kitchen while people make coffee. Watch the water run. Stick your hands in the water. Stick your feet in it. Listen to the coffee grinder.

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7. Go to the grocery store. Look at all the different kinds of food and all the different colors and sizes of boxes and bottles.

8. Get carried into the kitchen and have someone pull out all of the different jars of spices and hold them under your nose so you can smell them.

9. Get taken to the playground. Have someone swing you. Get taken down the slide. Go on the bridge on the climbing structure and see what the world looks like when you are up higher.

10. Have someone sing to you. Songs that have the same pattern over and over are good, like Ten Bears in a Bed. Songs where you do something, like the Itsy Bitsy Spider, are good too.

11. Have people read you a book and point out the pictures in them.

12. Go to the lake and look at the waves. Smell it. Put your feet in it.

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