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Learning Skills

  • Sound discrimination
  • Sound imitation and language development
  • Sound location

Mouth Music

Bet you didn't know you had a whole music machine right in your mouth! Your baby loves to hear a variety of noises, and your mouth is just the instrument necessary to make a perfect symphony.

Materials

  • Your mouth, tongue, teeth, and lips

Instructions

  • Hold your baby in your lap, facing you so he can see your face clearly.
  • Begin making noises with your mouth, such as
    • Kissing and smooching
    • Clicking your tongue
    • Making raspberries with your tongue
    • Blowing your lips like a motorboat
    • Growling, squealing, gurgling, cooing
    • Whistling, singing, humming
    • Making animal sounds, such as a duck, dog, cat, horse, cow, pig, chicken, rooster, monkey, snake, bird, donkey, or wolf

Safety

If you use any instruments, make sure they are safe for your baby to try. Don't make noises too loud, or they could damage your baby's hearing. If a noise disturbs your baby, don't repeat it.

* Play and Learn activities reprinted from “Baby Play and Learn” with permission of its author, Penny Warner, and its publisher, Meadowbrook Press (1999).