

Features 2 beautiful sing-along songs and relaxing nature sounds. Press on his soft and squishy tummy to hear 32 soothing bedtime melodies to help baby drift into a lovely good nights sleep. These types of experiences help young children to learn about the shape, pattern, surface, texture and weight of objects through touching them.Vtech Sleepy Bear - Blue Snooze and snuggle with the VTech Sleepytime bear! Soft and cuddly, the soothing bear makes a perfect bedtime pal. Tactile stimulation and learning is also experienced when infants and young children feel the weight of a toy when they have filled it with water and then after they have poured the water away. Babies and young children can learn from handling toys in the water there are many opportunities for grasping, squeezing and squirting water from objects. Bath toys that are small and lightweight so that young babies can grasp them are excellent stimulus materials. This combines tactile and auditory stimulation they feel the vibration and also hear the sound.īath time play is an excellent opportunity for tactile stimulation. They also begin to bang objects together. Babies then gain greater motor control and begin to pick up small objects with their thumb and index finger. Toys that are made of different materials and are different shapes stimulate young infants to grasp, mouth and shake them.

They also begin to reach for and grasp objects and then move toys from one hand to another. Babies put toys and other objects in their mouths from an early age.

Toys that are have different textures and shapes facilitate infants’ learning. They learn about the sounds that different objects make when they bang or touch them. Babies are provided with stimulation from more than one sensory system at the same time this is termed intermodal perception. The sense of touch is intimately linked with other senses such as sound and vision.
