Six to Eight Months Allow your child freedom to crawl and explore. Encourage crawling, but do not allow your baby to walk to soon. Provide floating bath toys and other objects with details. Play hide and seek with toys. Whenever possible have older children play in the same room with your baby.
Babies start to imitate others as quickly as their development allows.
Eight to Twelve Months Give your baby stack and take apart toys. Provide objects they can touch, hold and see at the same time. Still encourage crawling and discourage walking. Work with building blocks, simple puzzles and rolling a ball back and forth. Provide opportunities to climb and explore inside and out.