Warm hands, slow strokes
Everything a baby touches goes into the picture they are building of the world, and sensory games like this one build tactile awareness and body awareness. Your hands are the whole kit.
🧺 You need
none — your hands, warmed first
🛡️ Warm your hands before you start, and work over their clothes if the room is cool. Keep to arms and legs — nothing on the tummy, the face or the cord stump area — and use a flat, slow palm rather than fingertips. A pull away, an arch or a face that turns from you ends it there, on that arm, without finishing the pattern.
Sources: ZeroToThree — Activities for Bonding and Learning from Birth to 12 Months · ZeroToThree — Babies and Their Senses
🩺 Vuila shares play ideas, not medical advice — for questions about your child's development, talk to your pediatrician.
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