Container play, water play, and textured objects—your seven-month-old can't get enough sensory input.
These activities develop advanced object manipulation, introduce concepts like full/empty and wet/dry, and support the proprioceptive awareness that helps your baby control their body.
Your baby experiments with objects in increasingly systematic ways — dropping things to watch them fall, banging different surfaces to compare sounds, pouring water from one container to another. These repetitive experiments are your baby's version of scientific research.
Set up simple sensory stations: a water table with cups and spoons, a container of dry oats with scoops, or a collection of objects that make different sounds when banged. Your baby is learning about physics through hands-on experimentation.
Systematic sensory experimentation at seven months builds the observation, comparison, and hypothesis-testing skills that are the foundation of scientific thinking.
Crawling is coming! Place favorite toys just out of reach to motivate your baby to move. Celebrate every army crawl and scoot.
Container play is a hit now. Babies love putting things in, dumping them out, and doing it again. Simple cups and blocks are all you need.
Repetition is learning, not boredom. Your baby wants the same game 20 times because each round strengthens a neural pathway.
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.