• The Gymini® Duet stimulates a variety of senses:
• Baby’s hearing is stimulated with classical music and cheerful tunes, as well as a range of other sounds made by the various toys.
• The colorful mat with contrasting color images, the mirror and colorful dangling toys surrounding baby stimulate his sight.
• The assorted textures (textiles and soft plastic) stimulate his sense of touch.
• The Gymini® Duet contributes to gross motor skill development by providing fun stimuli for your baby while lying on his back or on his tummy.
• The colorful images on the mat and the mirror encourage baby to lift his head in order to see them, strengthening his neck and shoulder muscles.
• As he lies on his back, encouraged by the dangling toys to reach out with his hand, he bats the toys and causes them to sway back and forth, and to even practice his grip. This is how fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination develop.
• When baby bats at the toy causing it to swing back and forth, he learns the connection between his actions and the effects they cause.
• The quality music has a soothing effect, which favorably contributes to baby’s emotional intelligence.
• Listening to the classical music contributes to the development of baby’s language skills.

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• While your baby is lying on his back ensure that the toys are within arms reach so that he can reach out his hand to touch and bat them.
• Occasionally place your baby on his tummy so he can lift his head and look at the images on the mat.
• From time to time expose the other mat and let your baby lie on it on his tummy so that he can see the musical surface. Activate it and let your baby watch the lights flashing to the sound of the music. This will encourage him to lift his head.
• Place him on his back or his tummy facing the mirror and let him watch his reflection. Place the mirror at different angles and allow your baby to see the images on the mat together with his own image reflected in it.
• Activate the music of the Lights & Music Touch Pad to develop your baby’s hearing.

• Baby’s developing senses enable him to play and enjoy the various types of music and sounds that are emitted by the toys and the mat (whistling, rattling and so on).
• Flipping the side of the mat over reveals new and interesting stimuli for baby to look at and watch, as well as to enjoy the flashing lights on the Lights & Music Touch Pad. Baby’s developing vision allows him to clearly see the toys hanging close by, as well as those hanging further away.
• Baby develops his sense of touch when he grasps a toy and explores it with his hands and mouth, or strikes and caresses the various stimuli on the mat.
• As baby lies on his tummy, he looks in the mirror and enjoys the reflections, as well as his own, strengthening shoulder and neck muscles.
• The dangling entice baby to reach out for them. He stretches out his hand and … finds himself rolled over on his back.
• From baby’s fifth month he will begin to hold the dangling toys. He will shake them cheerfully and bring them to his mouth for further exploration.
• From the sixth month or so, the Lights & Music Touch Pad stimulates baby to thump it to play the music or to pull the jitter car with his hand, in this way practicing shifting his weight onto one hand and leaning on it.
• The music soothes baby, contributing to his emotional intelligence.
• The mirror allows baby to lie on his back as well as on his tummy to see the face of the baby reflected back at him. As he looks at himself, he learns about the structure of the human face, which is the basis of his self image.
• The Gymini® Duet offers several cause & effect experiences, such as shaking the toys, tugging on the sun (to see how it shrinks back), or activating the Lights & Music Touch Pad.
• When baby lifts the flap on the mat he reveals the squirrel hiding beneath (appearance-disappearance), creating an enjoyable peek-a-boo game.
• Listening to the classical music contributes to the development of language, and looking into the mirror encourages your baby to babble at the baby in the mirror (himself), and babbling is the foundation on which language is built.
  

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• Show the other side of the mat with the more complex drawings and allow your baby to look at them.
• From time to time change the position of the hanging toys to draw baby’s attention and urge him to reach out and try to grab them.
• Place your baby on his tummy in front of the mirror and encourage him to interact with his reflection.
• Draw your baby’s attention to the other activities on the mat, such as the jittering car. Urge your baby to try pulling it on his own.
• Place him in front of the Lights & Music Touch Pad and encourage him to strike it with his hand in order to activate the music and lights.
• Activate the music of the Lights & Music Touch Pad to develop your baby’s hearing.

• Baby lies or sits on the activity mat, explores the various stimuli with his hands or mouth, developing his sense of touch, or activates the Lights & Music Touch Pad to listen to the different tunes and watch the flashing lights for developing his senses of hearing and sight.
• Activating the Lights & Music Touch Pad entices baby to crawl to reach it, developing gross motor skills, and pulling on the jittering car and playing with the other toys develops a variety of fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
• Baby learns about cause & effect when he causes the music to play and the lights to flash when thumping the Lights & Music Touch Pad, and how pulling the jitter car and letting go, causes it to “drive” forward.
• There are hidden animals on the mat for baby to find, creating enjoyable peek-a-boo games and learning about object permanence.

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• Remove the arches and let you baby play on the mat as an activity mat.
• Encourage him to activate the Lights & Music Touch Pad and hum the tunes with him.
• Play peek-a-boo with your baby as you lift and drop the flap to reveal and hide the squirrel.
• Remove the toys from the arches and allow your baby to play with them individually, to explore them with his hands and mouth and learn to play with them by himself -- let him to pull the jitter car, explore the sun and flower, and so on.
• Activate the music of the Lights & Music Touch Pad to develop your baby’s hearing.