Sensory experience: Provide variety of shapes and sizes for handling; primary colors in objects both different and same shape; sounds, and objects for making sounds.

Singing of little tunes, chanting of music or poetry, by attendant while she works about near by, and while dressing, bathing, but not while feeding.


Motor experience: Freedom to move,—kick, roll, creep, climb, during waking hours; not tied in chair or carriage while awake, except for quarter-hour periods

Objects for grasping, pulling, pushing, during first year

Permit to assist in use of cup and spoon after nine months.

Provide door, drawer, lock and large key, wooden mallet, volley ball, for hand and arm exercise.

Provide low, short stair, ladder, swing, swinging rope, for second year.


Concentration: Do not interrupt staring, examination of objects, intensive activity.