Ubenami's developmental record is ready. Start by tracking a few skills or logging an observation, and the growth picture will build here over time.
How to grow these skills — activities for this child
A balanced starter set across all six domains for this age — begin here, then assess. Every activity uses low-cost materials and shows how to make it easier or harder.
Peekaboo & Hide-the-Cloth
Social & Emotional
Grows: Object permanence, secure attachment and social anticipation (learning that people and things still exist when out of sight)
You need: A soft cloth, nappy or your own hands. Free.
How to do it ↓
Sit facing the baby, close enough to make eye contact.
Cover your face with the cloth, pause, then pull it away with a warm 'Bhoo!' or 'Nangu!'.
Wait each time for the baby to react before repeating.
Next, hide a favourite object under the cloth and let the baby pull it off.
Watch for: Baby smiles, laughs, or looks toward the cloth expecting you to reappear; older babies lift the cloth themselves to find the toy.
Make it easier
Shorten the hide, add more sound and exaggerate your reappearance so the wait is very short.
Extend it
Hide the object fully under one of two cloths and let the child remember which one.
Name Song & Mirror Greeting
Identity & Belonging
Grows: Responding to own name and early self-recognition - the roots of identity
You need: An unbreakable mirror or shiny lid, your voice. Free.
How to do it ↓
Hold the baby near the mirror.
Point to their reflection and sing their name warmly.
Touch their nose, hands and tummy naming each part and 'This is YOU'.
Repeat daily so the name-song becomes familiar.
Watch for: Baby turns to their name, looks at the reflection and later points to themselves.
Make it easier
Use an exaggerated sing-song voice and lots of touch.
Extend it
Add family members' names and photos to greet in the mirror too.
Naming Walk
Communication
Grows: Receptive vocabulary - understanding many words before saying them
You need: The yard, the room, anything around you. Free.
How to do it ↓
Carry or walk slowly with the child around the centre or yard.
Point to and name real things: tree, dog, water, ball.
Let the child touch what you name.
Repeat the same words often across the day.
Watch for: Child looks at or points to the named object and starts saying some words.
Make it easier
Name just a few favourite things over and over.
Extend it
Ask 'Where is the...?' and add describing words (big tree, wet grass).
Sensory Treasure Basket
Creativity
Grows: Exploration, sensory discovery and making choices (creative and cognitive foundation)
You need: A basket of safe natural objects: smooth stone, wooden spoon, pine cone, cloth, gourd. Free.
How to do it ↓
Fill a basket with safe, interesting, clean objects of different textures.
Sit with the baby and let them choose and explore freely.
Name what they pick up and describe it (rough, smooth, cold).
Refresh the objects every few days.
Watch for: Baby reaches, chooses, mouths and explores objects in different ways.
Make it easier
Offer fewer, larger, very different objects.
Extend it
Add objects that do something (a shaker, nesting cups) to explore further.
Texture Discovery Tray
Physical
Grows: Sensory exploration and early scientific thinking about the world
You need: A tray with sand, water, grass, smooth and rough stones, leaves. Free.
How to do it ↓
Put different natural textures in a tray or on a mat.
Let the child touch, squeeze and explore each one.
Name the textures: soft, rough, wet, cold.
Watch what they do with each material.
Watch for: Child explores each texture differently and reacts to wet/dry, rough/smooth.
Make it easier
Offer one texture at a time (just water, then just sand).
Extend it
Ask them to find something rough / soft, or sort by texture.
Fill & Empty Containers
Thinking & Reasoning
Grows: Capacity, cause-and-effect and the spatial base of number
You need: Tins, cups, small bottles, sand or water. Free.
How to do it ↓
Give the baby/toddler containers and things to put in them (safe, big).
Show filling up and tipping out.
Use the words full, empty, in, out, more.
Let them repeat it as long as they are interested.
Watch for: Child fills and empties on purpose and reacts to full/empty.
Make it easier
Use one big container and large safe objects.
Extend it
Ask 'which holds more?' and let them pour between different sizes.
Development across the six domains
Social & Emotional
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0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 7 not yet assessed
Track 7 skills ↓
Learns that they are lovable and likeable even when they challenge boundaries ELDA1 Aim5
Recognises and begins to name feelings such as sad, glad, happy, angry and frightened ELDA1 Aim5
Actively seeks out the company of others to share experiences ELDA2 Aim3
Shows affection for familiar people ELDA2 Aim4
Begins to respect self and others and responds to praise for helping ELDA1 Aim5
Shows excitement or fear when the environment changes and looks to adults for support ELDA2 Aim4
Participates in predictable routines and knows what to expect ELDA2 Aim2
Identity & Belonging
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0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 6 not yet assessed
Track 6 skills ↓
Develops an interest in the people, places and objects around them ELDA2 Aim1
Learns about themselves and what they can do ELDA2 Aim1
Wants to participate in self-care routines (dressing, bath) and tries to do things on their own ELDA2 Aim2
Actively seeks out others to share experiences ELDA2 Aim3
Shows greater awareness of similarities and differences and affection for other people ELDA2 Aim4
Sees themselves as part of a family or cultural group ELDA2 Aim4
Communication
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0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 8 not yet assessed
Track 8 skills ↓
Says simple words and puts two or three words together ELDA3 Aim2
Recognises more words than they can say ELDA3 Aim2
Follows simple verbal instructions ELDA3 Aim1
Pays attention when spoken to and asks simple questions ELDA3 Aim1
Starts to use personal pronouns such as 'me' and 'mine' ELDA3 Aim2
Loves listening to stories and songs and playing games with sounds ELDA3 Aim1
Recognises that writing is different from pictures ELDA3 Aim3
Acts out their experiences in make-believe play ELDA3 Aim4
Creativity
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0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 7 not yet assessed
Track 7 skills ↓
Experiments with handling objects, toys and puzzles ELDA5 Aim1
Asks questions and explores how things work ELDA5 Aim1
Plays make-believe games, often about home life ELDA5 Aim2
Enjoys creating structures with boxes, containers and blocks ELDA5 Aim2
Starts to draw recognisable circles, lines and human-face shapes ELDA5 Aim3
Listens for sounds and rhythms (high/low, fast/slow) and moves to them ELDA5 Aim4
Starts to cut and paste with round-ended scissors ELDA5 Aim3
Physical
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0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 9 not yet assessed
Track 9 skills ↓
Walks independently by 18 months RtHB danger-sign threshold; ELDA1 Aim4
Walks up stairs with help and begins to run ELDA1 Aim4
Refines large-muscle skills: stands and walks on tiptoe, climbs and kicks ELDA1 Aim4
Uses small muscles to pick up small objects, stack blocks and scribble ELDA1 Aim4
Shows an interest in washing hands, face and utensils and imitates hygiene routines ELDA1 Aim2
Begins to recognise new and different foods and helps set out plates and spoons ELDA1 Aim1
Begins to understand basic safety rules and responds to warnings of danger ELDA1 Aim3
Feeds self with fingers and begins to use a spoon and cup ELDA1 Aim1
Continues to grow steadily on the Road to Health growth chart ELDA1 Aim1; RtHB
Thinking & Reasoning
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0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 7 not yet assessed
Track 7 skills ↓
Develops an awareness of categorising and grouping things ELDA4 Aim1
Uses number language like 'one', 'two', 'more' ELDA4 Aim1
Sorts objects that are the same, for example the same colour or shape ELDA4 Aim2
Shows greater awareness of shapes and patterns ELDA4 Aim3
Focuses on features of objects and how to do something and enjoys repetition ELDA6 Aim1
Is interested in pushing and pulling things and begins to build ELDA6 Aim2
Understands time in experience-based ways such as 'now', 'later', 'before' ELDA6 Aim3
Developmental observations
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