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Baby Faces
Ask parents to give you a photograph of their child’s face to be used in a class
book. Or take photos of your own!
Get a small photo album and put one child’s photo on each page. Be sure to
find an album with pages that are easy to turn.
Put the album on a carpeted area and look through it with the infants. Point
to their photos and say the name of each child. Let a child try to help turn
the pages.
Point to the eyes, nose, and mouth on the faces and name them also.
Put the album with other books the babies can look at on their own.
Homemade Books
Homemade books can be just as appealing to your infants as books you buy.
Look through toy and school supply catalogs, colorful newspaper ads, and junk
mail to find large pictures of familiar objects.
Cut out the pictures and glue them onto pieces of cardboard five by eight inches.
Glue one picture on each cardboard “page.” Laminate or cover the pages with
clear contact paper.
Punch holes on the left side of each page and attach them together with round
key rings. Look for key rings where you can slide the cards onto the ring. Avoid
rings that easily snap open to avoid pinched fingers! Tie the pages together
loosely with ribbon or a shoe lace if you do not have key rings.
Make books with different themes such as animals, toys, and vehicles. Make a
cover for each book with a picture and the book title.
Look through the books with the infants and name each object. See if the infants
can point to the pictures and try to turn the pages.
A variation of this activity is to ask parents to bring in an empty food container
of something their child likes to eat at home. Cut out the labels and make a
book following the directions above. The babies will point to the familiar labels.
Put the books on the book shelf for the babies to enjoy!
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