Creative Toys for Smart Babies

0:06 I'm here to give you a little tour of our Rye classroom and show you some of the toys that we use to give you ideas for what you can use at home here is a setup that we might do for very young infants just some balls and these classic cotton napkins then we have teether or two if you want to put your a foot in your mouth which I

0:37 often do and some of the wooden toys bottles you can use from home it's nice to have different areas in your playroom even if it's a small space to make a little soft play area that's Cozier and maybe put a little basket of books near it here are a bunch of Wheel

1:10 toys and these simple steps are a great climbing piece for them they crawl up them and then later they walk up and down plastic inner tube here's something simpler for the younger infants to use this platform and a ramp that you can put next to it as well and then all different kinds of bowls we have here and they use these

1:41 large cubes to crawl into when they're younger and then eventually they pull up on them and cruise on them believe it or not they recognize that as a phone and they use it as such even though it doesn't look like the kind of phones we use today um containers things they can put things in some little bags that they use as toddlers to put things in carry around these are from Frozen juice containers so you can make a lot of the stuff at home or

2:12 use Simple objects and anyway the the play Space first of all we want it to be safe and then from there this can be a time for parents to be creative and enjoy designing a space and then letting go of what happens with it and seeing what our children do they always figure out something new to do