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 an interest in playing a pretend game

 listening skills

 vocabulary

 visual skills

 association of the name and object of different things

Use a piece of cardboard approximately 20 × 30 centimetres to draw an outline of a mirror with a handle. Cut a round hole where the glass mirror would ordinarily be in the frame. Look through the hole and pretend that it is a ‘magic’mirror. Look at the baby and say,‘I see (call the baby by name).’ The baby will delight in seeing your face peeping through the hole of the ‘magic’mirror. If other members of the family are present, pretend to see them in the ‘magic’mirror and call them by name. Use the ‘magic’ mirror and name objects in the room that are in clear view of the baby. For example,‘I see a table.’ Continue to do this as long as you have the baby’s attention. Good voice inflection will serve to retain the baby’s interest.

Put the ‘magic’mirror up to the baby’s face. Make sure the baby is looking at you and say,‘(Baby’s name) sees Mummy’. Encourage the baby to hold the ‘magic’mirror and look at different things that you call by name. If he does not understand, show by touching the object and repeat its name. This activity teaches the baby the names of different things. Although he may attempt to say some of the words, he will probably just listen.

This activity may seem ridiculous to you, but you are playing a game with your baby. The baby realises that a face and other objects can be seen through the hole of the magic mirror, and this fascinates him.

As an extension of this activity, use the magic mirror at various times with the child up to age five or six to play the game ‘I Spy’. It can also be used when teaching a single colour, shape, size, number, letter or word.