Slow tracking arcs
⏱️ 5 min📦 nothing needed🏠 indoor🤲 on their back🧠 Cognitive👐 Sensory
Around three months, eyes are learning to hold on faces and close objects and to follow moving things. Smooth following is genuinely hard work at first, and a slow arc at the distance they see best is where it is easiest to practise.
🧺 You need
- your face (best toy available)
- high-contrast toy (optional)
🛡️ If you're using a toy rather than your own face, keep it in your hand and slightly to the side of the arc rather than hovering over the face — whatever you hold up is whatever lands if it slips. When their eyes give up and drift, the session is over.
Sources: Pathways — Parents' Guide to Baby's Vision Development · 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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