Learning Skills

When your baby bats at the mirror, suspended in the crib or stroller, they begin to understand that they are making it move or rattle, laying the groundwork for understanding cause and effect.

Knowledge Acquisition

When your baby sees the mirror from different angles – suspended overhead in the crib or stroller or propped up before them on the playmat – it allows them to begin to grasp the concept of object permanence.

Imagination

Interacting with the quirky animal looped around the mirror, ignites your baby’s imagination. Narrate a story using the animal, animate it to engage with your baby, and make silly faces into the mirror.

Fine Motor Skills

As your baby grabs the various parts of the mirror, like the animal’s ears and legs, they are refining their fine motor skills. Model for baby all the exciting parts to also discover, like the teether in the rear.

Gross Motor Skills

During tummy time, prop the sturdy mirror up on the mat. The baby’s reflection in the mirror will encourage repeated head lifting, strengthening your baby’s head and shoulder muscles, and gross motor skills.

Senses

The mirror’s colors, shapes, animal face, and baby’s own face enhance visual focus, visual acuity, and depth perception. The different textural sensations offer tactile experience and promote sensory development.

Cooperation & Sharing

While your baby plays in front of the propped-up mirror or lies under where it is suspended overhead at just the right angle, snuggle close and look at it together. Interact with the reflection and share the experience.

Communication

Children naturally seek out faces, so their own face in the mirror (and the animal’s face alongside it) will nurture this instinct for communication, engagement, and eventually empathy.

Confidence

Building– and breaking – a tower, makes a child feel capable. Also, breaking and rebuilding the tower reinforces the positive importance of trial and error and places the natural desire to break things within the safe context of a game.