It is not a secret that babies love to see their face from the mirror. Although they recognize themselves from the mirror or not, giving a small mirror to a baby is a wonderful idea to see how they stay happy with it. When it comes to a toddler, they have some understanding of the reflection and they can also recognize themselves through a mirror reflection.There are lot of mirror activities for toddlers,however this is a mirror activity which my son found himself while we were at a shopping mall. 🙂
These are some photos which I captured in end of 2015 during our Sri Lanka holiday. Our son was exactly 2 years old at that time and we were in a shopping mall. He suddenly found this mirror in the fitting rooms’ area and started exploring and experimenting. As the shop was not crowded and as he was seriously experimenting the reflections through the mirror, I didn’t bother of taking him out. Instead I used the opportunity to allow him to learn, explore and experiment.
Can you see how curious he is with the different reflections through the mirror? 🙂
Benefits of Playing with a mirror for Toddlers
Playing with mirrors is one of the popular toddler activities which help them to boost different skills. Some of the benefits of playing with mirrors include focusing and identifying their image. A mirror may help developing social skills at the same time emotional development. I also found in another post that a mirror can boost the development of brain of a toddler or a baby as they try to explore and experiment different reflections.
Anyway, this was a beautiful moment for us although he was sitting on the floor of the shop thinking it as his own home. There are times which we have to forget about hygiene, but be sure to clean hands after such play time with wet tissues or hand sanitizer.(if you are traveling)
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Aww! he looked like he was enjoying himself heheh!
Have a reflectiontastic week 🙂
Aww looks lie fun in the mirror 🙂
Isnt it amazing how mirrors intrigue little ones?
Have a great day!
It makes for great Kodak moments, too.
My kids too love to play with mirrors when they were young.
We used to do that with the refrigerator as a kid! It was brown and had a shiny surface and when we stood at the side, whatever we did would be reflected in the other half. You know, if you picked your nose on one side, well the other side did too! We would get to laughing so hard, we took hours to do the dishes….
It is nice to hear about your childhood experience.I also remember our time with mirrors.It was so much fun and I was wondering who is inside the mirror which looks like me. 🙂 I guess my son also has the same doubt. 🙂