Reddit mentions of Baby Play And Learn: 160 Games and Learning Activities for the First Three Years

I got this book free from my insurance company when I told them I was pregnant. It has really come in handy. I understand that feeling of being sort of at a loss on what to do with this eating, pooping, peeing, sleeping creature when they take a moment to not do those things and are looking at you, like, well, what have you got for me?

One thing that our baby liked early on was books. Fuzzy Bee and Friends was a book given to us by some friends that was a big hit from the start. The Sassy Look Book (without putting photos in it) also has been a big hit.

Another thing I did early on was to assemble a bunch of photos of faces of all our family and friends (cropped the pictures in my digital photo library as needed to show the face close-up) and make a slide show for our baby to watch. Babies love faces, and from early on, ours would stare at the photos as they faded from one to the next. We are, for the most part, a no-TV/minimal screens family (when it comes to our kids anyway), but the slide show is something we do let our baby watch.

Do you know any Mother Goose nursery rhymes, like Humpty Dumpty or Mary Had a Little Lamb or any of those? When I'm out of ideas I'll sing/say a nursery rhyme while swaying with or bouncing the baby. That's actually how I got my first real giggle from my boy: I was bouncing him while saying Humpty Dumpty. It was great!

In general, young babies are pretty easily entertained. Just about everything is new, so just hanging out with you is usually enough to keep them engaged.

Congratulations!