katehart Posted September 9, 2010 Share Posted September 9, 2010 Hi Everyone I am a family support outreach worker and was wondering if anyone had some really good ideas for baby activties for my Bumps and Bundle group that i run at the children centre. Thank you Kate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 hi Katehart Im in cc too and next week starting a new baby group 0-9 mths! So this thread will help me as well!! I am planing on using treasure baskets, resources such as silk scarfs and feathers, simple songs and various CDs. Unsworth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 Hi Katehart, I also work in a CC. Our baby group is for babies aged 0-18months and is very popular! We often put out treasure baskets and these are very popular amoungst the babies! metal, wooden, brushes etc. Next week we are going to have a sensory session. We had a huge box left over from a delivery and painted it all black, we then put foil blankets inside with a sensory treasure basket and some fibre optic lights and torches. Foam baths mirrors and small blocks with mirrors are great fun. We also do lots of messy play too, cornflour and shaving foam being the more popular. Water play is also fun, our mums strip babies down to their nappies and put them into the water tray! Hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katehart Posted September 12, 2010 Author Share Posted September 12, 2010 (edited) Hi Katehart, I also work in a CC. Our baby group is for babies aged 0-18months and is very popular! We often put out treasure baskets and these are very popular amoungst the babies! metal, wooden, brushes etc. Next week we are going to have a sensory session. We had a huge box left over from a delivery and painted it all black, we then put foil blankets inside with a sensory treasure basket and some fibre optic lights and torches. Foam baths mirrors and small blocks with mirrors are great fun. We also do lots of messy play too, cornflour and shaving foam being the more popular. Water play is also fun, our mums strip babies down to their nappies and put them into the water tray! Hope this helps Thanks guys I have used treasure baskets already, we spread them all around the room and the parents and babies can help themselves. my baby group is only up to 6mths ish, up to when they are crawling/moving. So most of my babies at the moment are new born or slighly older. My mums are quite happy to sit on the floor and play with baby and chat to parents, they seem to be content doing this. I am happy for them to do this as well, because I know when they start the next group which is called toddle time the actitivies completely change. I do offer baby message during this session and the health visitors come in once a month to talk to the parents. We did take bumps and bundles outside during the summer, which was a great success. I laid the big parachute out and put baby mats down on it. The parents loved it. We do song time at the end of each session and a good bye song. We also use mirrors, optic lights etc too. I am a little worried about putting food actitives out for the babies of this age, because they don't start weaning to 6 mths. and I am worried this may be a hazard to the babies. Is there anything else I should be doing for this age??????? Hope you can understand this kate Edited September 12, 2010 by katehart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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