Appropriate for: 7 to 10 months Skills developed: Fine motor, understanding of
object permanence What you'll need: A clean dish towel, finger foods, and some small opaque cups or containers
Appropriate for: 7 to 15 months Skills developed: Understanding of
object permanence What you'll need: Two chairs and a long tablecloth, sheet, or blanket
Appropriate for: 3 months to 1 year Skills developed: Sense of cause and effect,
object permanence What you'll need: Something to hide behind
Not exact matches
Appropriate for: 8 to 18 months Skills developed: Understanding of
object permanence, fine motor
What you'll need: Cardboard, pens, scraps of cloth, scissors, glue
Well, somewhere between - I'd kind of like to say - six to eight months, babies develop
what we refer to as
object permanence, and they begin to understand that things and people exit when they're not present.
Occupational Therapist Tip: You can modify these sensory tubes to tap into your kiddo's love of
object permanence play by rolling a piece of paper inside one end of the tube to obscure
what's inside.