How to promote creativity with baby

Do you want to encourage your child to try new foods and encourage their creativity without a bunch of fancy gadgets? Try this simple and hilarious idea.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• High chair
• Clothes baby can get dirty or just leave them in diaper
• Three different types of pureed, canned baby food
• Camera

1. Baby has lots of new things to explore and they will love finger painting with their food. Since everythings seems to go straight into thier mouth around the ages of 4-10 months this is a great way to let them sample and expand their creativity. First, make sure baby can get dirty, because they difinetly will.

2. Place baby in their highchair and secure.

3. Spoon three tablespoons of different baby foods on to high chair top. As you do this tell baby what each one is. Bananna, carrots, etc.

4. Let baby taste while they paint and get your camera. These are the moments we remember.

5. Clean up. Of course if your baby loves bathtime then this will be easy.

Tips & Warnings

• To control mess, try putting newspaper under high chair for easy clean-up. Also plastic wrap works well.