Once babies are either crawling or walking their mobility gives them more opportunities to explore their world.

We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. This is an excellent learning toy also as the buttons when pressed refer to the alphabet and numbers. The grasping, at first, is quite clumsy but through repetition, and across time, infants become adept at grasping and develop fine motor skills. There is such a wide range of possibilities and functions with this toy, learning has never been more fun and interactive! Adults can facilitate babies’ language development by playing with them, focussing on particular toys, reading books and naming everyday objects.You will often see young babies in a bath reaching with their legs towards a floating toy and kicking. Features a wide selection of musical melodies in various styles and fun sound effects including horn, brake and accelerator! Through over 100 interactive curriculum questions your child can learn phonic sounds, letters, vocabulary, numbers, counting and safety rules. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.

This bus will definitely be used lots over the next couple of years as my baby grows into the different activities.

But this young child is still demonstrating the basic maths ability; linking number words to actual numbers, realising that each item can only have one number word, and that the numbers have a sequence. Kicking and waving their arms while lying in their cot can lead them to discover that a kick can make a banging sound. Spatial skills can also be enhanced when playing games that require concentration, quick responses and finely tuned motor skills. After the first year, infants adopt the ‘pincer grasp’ where they use their thumb and index finger to grasp even very tiny objects. Select your destination from the school, zoo or train station to hear a sing-along song or fun phrase.

Big buttons for the younger ones to press and smaller buttons on the side that can start teaching your child their phonics. Funds raised will support Save the Children's programs to ensure children are healthy, learning and safe – transforming their futures and ours. Through over 100 interactive curriculum questions, your child can learn phonic sounds, letters, vocabulary, numbers, counting, and safety rules. Repetition is also important, for instance, singing counting rhymes over and over again gets babies used to number words and their sequence. The confidence to explore and discover new things develops during infancy and creates a healthy curiousity about the world throughout childhood.When young babies watch a mobile they are constantly moving their head, arms, legs and even their mouths in response to the movement of the toy. We also use the other modes with him, which include phonic sounds, letters, numbers, counting and safety rules. Babies begin to learn about conversational turn-taking from an early age; if a baby is babbling the adult waits for a pause and then talks to the baby.