Everything is new and fascinating—let your baby squeeze, feel, and explore different textures and sounds.
These activities build tactile discrimination, strengthen grasp reflexes, and support the sensory processing that helps your baby make sense of their world.
Your three-month-old reaches for things now, which transforms sensory play from passive to active. They grab at dangling toys, squeeze soft objects, and bring everything to their mouth. This multi-sensory exploration — seeing, touching, mouthing — is how they build a complete understanding of objects.
Offer a variety of safe, graspable objects with different textures, weights, and sounds. A crinkly fabric, a smooth rattle, a soft stuffed ring — each one teaches something new about the physical world.
Active multi-sensory exploration at three months integrates touch, vision, and oral sensation into a unified understanding of the physical world.
Your baby is reaching for things now! Hang a toy within arm's reach and watch them bat at it—this is hand-eye coordination in action.
Shake a rattle to one side, then the other. Your baby is learning to turn toward sounds and track moving objects—building foundations for attention.
First laughs are happening! Play gentle peekaboo and make silly faces. These joyful moments are actually building social-emotional circuitry.
Place your baby on an inflatable water mat and watch them press, pat, and track colorful floating toys — tummy time with a sensory twist.
Let your baby splash tiny hands in warm water for a soothing sensory experience that introduces temperature and water play.
Place different textured balls within reach during tummy time to encourage reaching and tactile discovery in young babies.
Set jiggly, colorful gelatin on a tray and let your baby squish, poke, and mouth this completely safe sensory material.
Seal paint inside a zip bag and tape it down — your baby presses, squishes, and watches colors blend without any mess on their hands.
Gently brush soft fabrics across your baby's cheeks and hands to awaken their sense of touch — a calming sensory activity for newborns.