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• This activity provides an opportunity for baby and whānau to share attention.
• Baby can reach, grasp, turn, mouth, shake, bang and look at all sides of an object, exploring and exercising their curiosity.
• Whānau can model how to explore an object and follow baby’s lead when they’re exploring something.
• Whānau can use parallel talk to describe what baby’s doing — this builds their ‘receptive’ language (language understanding).
• Whānau can use self-talk to describe what they’re doing — this also helps build baby’s receptive language.

• Find 2–3 different sized containers (for example, plastic, cardboard and metal).
• Find a similar number of small, safe objects that will fit in the containers (for example, a block, spoon, small ball, little book, toy car, rattle).
• Give a container and an object to baby, and keep a container and object yourself.
• Model putting the object in and taking it out.
• Encourage baby to copy you.
• Give the words to baby — ‘The rattle is in the box. The rattle is out the box.’
• Play ‘in and out’ until baby has had enough.

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