Play and Learn Family Activities

Roaming Spotlight

To help your baby enhance his visual skills, play a game of Roaming Spotlight. This is a quiet game you can play at night, just before your baby goes to sleep, or to calm him down.

Materials

• Dark room
• Flashlight

Instructions

• Find a room that can be made completely dark.
• Sit on a chair or on the floor, with your baby in your lap.
• With the lights off, turn on the flashlight and shine it on the wall, catching your baby's attention.
• Say something about the light, such as, "Oh, look at the light!"
• Move the light beam around slowly, resting it on interesting objects.
• Say something about the object as it lights up, such as, "There's baby's teddy bear!"
• Continue moving the light around until your baby grows tired of the game.

Safety

Don't shine the light in your baby's eyes. If your baby becomes afraid in the dark, turn on a night-light, which should not diminish the flashlight's beam too much.