# Activities

**6 HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN AND GROW!**

### AGEMONTHS

Try these fun and easy activities with your 6-month-old—a great way to have fun together and encourage your child’s healthy development.

#### Peekaboo

Play Peekaboo with hands or a cloth. Put the cloth over your face first. Then, let your baby hide. Pull the cloth off if your baby can’t. Encourage them to play and take turns. **Developmental Areas: Personal-Social** **Materials Needed: Cloth**

#### Poking Around

Your baby will begin using their index fingers to poke. Let your baby poke at a play telephone or busy box. Your baby will want to poke at faces, too. Name the body parts as your baby touches your face. **Developmental Areas: Fine Motor** **Materials Needed: None**

**NOTES:**

Excerpted from ASQ®-3 User’s Guide by Jane Squires, Ph.D., Elizabeth Twombly, M.S., Diane Bricker, Ph.D., & LaWanda Potter, M.S. ©2009 Brookes Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

### AGEMONTHS

Try these fun and easy activities with your 6-month-old—a great way to have fun together and encourage your child’s healthy development.

#### Reach for the Toy

With your baby lying on their back, place a toy within sight but out of reach of your baby. Or, move a toy across your baby’s visual range. Encourage them to roll to get the toy. **Developmental Areas: Gross Motor, Problem Solving** **Materials Needed: Toy**

#### Papers to Pull

Fill an empty tissue box with strips of paper. Your baby will love pulling them out. Do not use colored newsprint or magazines, though; they are toxic. And, never use plastic bags or wrap. **Developmental Areas: Fine Motor** **Materials Needed: Tissue box; strips of paper**

##### Want to learn about developmental milestones for your 6-month-old?

### Visit [https://bpub.fyi/CDC6month](https://bpub.fyi/CDC6month)