Stripes you already own
New eyes work best on high contrast — black, red and white, and patterns most of all — and at about 20 to 30 cm, the distance from your arms to your face when you feed them. Both of those are already in your cupboard, so nothing here needs printing, buying or storing.
🧺 You need
- a striped or checked cloth
- a boldly patterned book cover
🛡️ Whatever you hold stays in your hands and stays an arm's length from their face — never draped over them, never left propped where it can fall, and never in the cot. Nothing with a ribbon, a cord or a loose thread comes to this game.
Sources: Pathways — Simple and Easy Games For Babies To Help Develop Their Sense of Vision · AAP — Infant Vision Development: What Can Babies See?
🩺 Vuila shares play ideas, not medical advice — for questions about your child's development, talk to your pediatrician.
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