Touch is one of the first things your little one uses to explore their environment. Various textures help them learn differences in soft, hard, scratchy, rough, cool, warm and so much more.
While we tend to use our hands when thinking about feeling different textures. You’ll want to use feet and even your baby’s face when exploring textures with them.
Introduce different textures in their toys, from soft snuggly stuffed animals to cool hard surfaced toys. Allow them to crawl across different types of flooring – carpet, tile, hardwoods.
Textures can even be found in food. Allow them to finger bread, crackers, cereals, even pudding and yogurts.