Treasure basket activites with babies

I have just been looking at the articles on this website: www.kathybrody.com. I was particulary impressed with the article called 'treasure baskets'! It is a simple, cheap way to engage your baby/child. How does this link to phonics? Well listening to the sounds treasure makes is the first step to hearing sounds in words. The first thing your baby needs to do is explore the materials independently. Then as they develop speech hide the objects and ask them to guess which object is making the sound? Does the wooden spoon banging on the metal pan sound the same as the metal spoon? Can they guess which spoon made the sound?

Try it out and let me know what you discovered. Have fun x