Let's Play! Chef Teddy & Tickle a Funnybone

1.Chef Teddy

Dinnertime can be another chance to learn that actions have results. This game is particularly useful when your baby seems bored or tired at meals and resists eating.

Skills developed: sense of cause and effect, a good appetite
What you'll need: a teddy bear or doll with flexible arms, a baby spoon

If it seems that being fed by you just isn't enough of a thrill to help the food go down, enlist some help from a favorite doll, teddy bear, or other stuffed creature. Bring the toy to the table and explain that a special friend is going to be serving dinner tonight. Holding the spoon in the stuffed animal's paw or the doll's hand, have the dinner guest feed your baby her food. Teddy's cajoling is guaranteed to get better results than Mom or Dad's nightly nagging. You can also sit the doll or animal next to your baby, tie a bib around its neck, and announce that you are going to "feed" your baby and her guest in turns. If she's already learned to hold a spoon well herself, let her spoon-feed her friend. (Be prepared to wash its face afterwards, though.)

2.Tickle a Funnybone

Games involving body parts are even more fun now that your baby can move his arms and legs whenever he wants. With this one, you can help him associate an arm, leg, or belly-button with a name.

Skills developed: verbal, fine motor
What you'll need: a plastic puff such as those that come with shower gel

With your baby seated in a bath seat or in the tub itself (with you right there), saturate the puff with water, then approach your baby with the puff submerged under the water. Say, "I'm going to tickle your toes," and tickle them lightly with the puff, pulling it out of reach by the string if he makes a grab for it. Approach from different directions, saying, "I'm going to tickle your knees, I'm going to tickle your back, I'm going to tickle your bottom," each time pulling the puff away through the water when he tries to grab it. Then let him hold the puff, and show him how to tickle himself with it, provided he doesn't just want to chew on it (not such a good idea when it's been in the bathwater). Or, put your hand down into the water and let him take a turn tickling your fingers.

Remember: Each baby develops at a different pace, so if yours isn't quite ready for this week's activities, don't worry — just try them again in a few weeks.

source from http://www.babycenter.com