Nurturing Activity 4-6 months

This Little Piggy

Why Do This Activity?

• To Provide babies with tactile stimulation
  

• To encourage babies to play with their feet
  

• To allow babies to experience the BRAIN BUILDERS:        Sequencing and Cause & Effect
  

How to do this activity

1.With your baby lying down or in an infant seat, hold   the baby's foot up so he can see his toes.

2.While saying the following rhyme, wiggle baby's toes,   1 at a time for each line.

SOURCE:  Growing Great Kids:  Birth to 12 months, Great Kids, inc.  2004.  (Elliot & Flanagan)  

This Little Piggy

This little piggy went to market (Wiggle baby's big toe)

This little piggy stayed home. (Wiggle baby's second toe)

This little piggy had roast beef. (Wiggle baby's middle toe)

This little piggy had none. (Wiggle baby's second smallest toe)

And this little piggy went, wee, wee, wee, all the way home

(Creep fingers gently up baby's body to underneath chin, or tickle baby's tummy with his foot)

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