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Activity Ball
6-36m
Activity Ball
An exciting new electronic Activity Ball for encouraging baby to sit and crawl.
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Instruction Sheets
(PDF)
Features
Peek-a-boo magnetic hand
Rattle
Crinkly areas
Variety of textures
Jittering and rattling peek-a-boo head and legs
5 fun sounds
Moving beads
Uses three 1.5v button-cell batteries - included.
The Senses
The
Activity Ball
provides a wonderful, enjoyable way for baby to perfect the coordination between her senses.
There are various appealing objects to gaze at to stimulate her sense of sight, and when baby strikes it, the
Activity Ball
will make five different sounds, and the other parts make a pleasant rustling sound for auditory stimulation.
The activities are all made from different materials, offering a varied tactile experience to stimulate baby's sense of touch.
As baby looks at, touches and plays with the
Activity Ball
, she is busy developing her senses and the coordination between them.
Gross Motor Skills
The
Activity Ball
helps baby progress in the initial phases of the crawling phase.
When she pushes the ball, it doesn’t roll away and escape, but rocks and moves slowly, encouraging her to pull herself forward to reach it.
Baby enjoys feeling the
Activity Ball's
soft texture and grabbing onto long horns, which support her and help her bring herself to a sitting position.
Fine Motor Skills
The large variety of activities offers a plethora of play possibilities that help develop baby's fine motor skills.
These include using the fingers, the muscles of the fingers, coordination between the hands and hand-eye coordination.
For example, pulling the feet requires baby to hold the ball in one hand and pull the feet with the other: an excellent exercise requiring coordination of both hands.
Cognitive Skills
The
Activity Ball
provides numerous opportunities to stimulate baby's curiosity, and her urge to discover and learn new things.
The activities on the Ball demand that she figure out ways to reach them.
Her developing memory enables her to remember where the activities are located.
The gradual integration of the concept of cause and effect help her to understand that in order to reach an activity that she sees, she must push or roll the ball to get to it, or pull the head out to bring up the smiling face, etc.
Object Permanence
The
Activity Ball
has several activities that illustrate the concept of object permanence.
When baby sees the horns and eyes, and then pulls to reveal the complete smiling face, in this enjoyable peek-a-boo game, she sees that she can make the face appear and disappear again and again.
Age Tips
6-9m
9-18m
18m+
At this age, baby will climb and explore the
Activity Ball
, strike it to receive feedback, push it, and crawl towards it.
She will use her hands and fingers to grab the horns or play with the different activities.
Baby also discovers the enticing peek-a-boo games of objects appearing and disappearing.
Playing with this toy
Show your baby all the things that can be done with the
Activity Ball
: rolling, climbing on, pushing to make sounds, etc. Pull the head by the horns and the feet, while explaining what you are doing, and say the names of the limbs out loud.
When you pull the head out, say “peek-a-boo!" and when the head springs back in, ask your baby "Where's the head?"
After learning to crawl and move to a sitting position, baby moves easily from one to the other while playing with the
Activity Ball
.
The improved control over her hands and fingers enables her to pull the head and legs, to reveal them completely, and watch how they spring back.
She can now also activate many of the finer activities, which require delicate use of one or two fingers.
Peek-a-boo-type games are extremely pleasurable to babies at this age and, as she uncovers and hides different parts on the
Activity Ball
, her understanding of the concept of object permanence gets stronger.
Playing with this toy
Point out to your baby the funny character’s body parts (eyes, ears, nose, legs, etc) and explain what each one does.
Give the character a name and then ask your baby "Where is So and So”. Pull up the head and accompany that with a game of peek-a-boo. When the head springs back in, ask your baby "Where's the head? Here's the head!"
Show your baby the character from the back and ask her to find the butterfly, or with the face forward, ask her to find the sun.
Baby can now coordinate movement between both hands, so that one hand can hold the ball and the other can move or play with something on it.
She can now operate any part of the
Activity Ball
as she wishes.
Baby's developing imagination makes the
Activity Ball
an attractive playmate, with its face, hands and feet, a source for endless peek-a-boo games.
Baby's improving memory also helps her remember the sequence of sounds the various activities elicit and how to make them occur.
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