One texture at a time
Pathways' suggestion for these months is a plain one: a variety of textured toys and surfaces to touch. There is nothing to get right in it — you rest one thing against an open palm, wait, and let the hands take as long as they take. Some days the knitted square is the whole session and the rest of the pile never gets opened.
🧺 You need
- 3–4 textured household things — a knitted square, a folded flannel, a board book, a silicone trivet
🛡️ Assume that whatever you hold out goes straight to the mouth: nothing that fits through a toilet-roll tube, and nothing with buttons, ribbons, loose threads or stitched-on parts that could come away. Fabric stays in your hand or flat on the floor — never draped over the chest, face or head. Do this at floor level and nowhere else: a bed, a sofa or a changing table is not somewhere to lay a baby down for ten minutes at this age, because the first roll arrives without warning. When you stop, the whole lot goes back in the drawer; loose cloth left with a baby is not a toy, and none of it belongs in the cot.
Source: Pathways — Sensory Development Activities for 4-6 Month Old Babies
🩺 Vuila shares play ideas, not medical advice — for questions about your child's development, talk to your pediatrician.
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