Learning Skills

Rattles introduce your baby to the cause and effect process. Model shaking the rattle for your baby and express delight at the sounds that emerge, emphasizing the process, and they will become more aware of it.

Knowledge Acquisition

As your child holds the rattle in their hands, they feel its texture and weight and begin to make a connection between the feel of an object and its appearance. Emphasize this by touching different rattle parts and saying, “smooth” or “soft.”

Curiosity

Each time the rattle is activated, one of three different sounds may emerge. The surprise element of these different outputs – and whether it will be animal sounds or music at any given point – ignites your child’s curiosity.

Fine Motor Skills

As your child grips the rattle and moves it from hand to hand, their fine motor skills are strengthened. Its lovable face and charming responses invite your baby to pick it up again and again.

Senses

Playing with the rattle develops your child’s motor and auditory skills. Touching it, putting it in the mouth, seeing its shapes and colors enhances tactile and visual stimulation.

Coordination

Reaching for the hanging rattle or batting at it to elicit the sounds and music, improves your baby’s hand-eye coordination. Anchored with the Yookidoo Fun Link, the rattle remains steady and accessible while baby experiments.

Imagination

When your baby interacts with the rattle’s music, quirky animal sounds, and the animal figure itself, their imagination is ignited. Narrate a story using the animal and sounds, and animate the animal to engage with your baby.

Communication

Children naturally seek out faces, so the big eyes of the rattle’s animal will nurture this instinct for communication and engagement. You can model communicating by facing it and asking it questions, like “What should we do today at the farm?”

Confidence

For toddlers, every little win is a huge confidence boost, and the spout offers many simple accomplishments that were developed for their precise abilities – from aiming the water stream and ‘catching’ it with the tumblers, to stacking the cups.