Babies love to spend time in nature, feeling the wind in their hair, sun on their skin (just a little bit!) and watching leaves move in the breeze!
- Simply lying under a tree watching the leaves blow in the wind provides better stimulation than any ordinary baby mobile.
- Go on a nature walk. Carry your baby and walk through the bush or local parkland, talking to your baby; naming animals and trees.
- Find a quiet place, sit and listen to the sounds in nature.
- Walk or put baby’s bare feet in the sand, wood chips and on the grass to explore the different textures under their feet.
- Allow your children to explore and experience leaves, sticks and grass with all their senses and yes, even their mouths!
Mother Nature Bubs Playgroup - Visit or make your own sensory garden. Touch, smell and taste various herbs like rosemary, basil, lavender.
- Collect and look at the different leaves, rocks and flowers.
- Throw pebbles into the pond.
- Finger paint with mud.
- Draw with sticks in the sand.
- Splash with bare feet in the lakes, streams, rock pools, puddles and waves.
- Beach combing; collect items on the beach after a stormy day.
