SIMPLE PLAY

10 month old baby boy sitting up and holding stacking cup toys with hands while looking at camera.

image of paperback book on shelf in foreground with baby laying awake on blanket on the floor in the background. cover of book reads : Begin With a Blanket - creative play for infants by Rachel Coley, MS, OT/L

A playing baby is a learning baby…with a smiling parent.

As a pediatric Occupational Therapist specializing in development in the first years of life, I wrote Simple Play: Easy Play For Babies as a quick baby play resource for busy parents.

A book you can flip open and in a matter of seconds find a play-based learning activity corresponding to your baby's developmental stage - sitting, crawling, standing or cruising (pre-walking).

And because I wrote it as a fellow new parent, I kept all 40 activities totally do-able - minimal set-up, no special toys, no craftiness or planning required!

-Rachel Coley, MS, OT/L

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Simple Play Book cover : subtitle reads easy fun for babies ; by Rachel Coley, occupational therapist

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digital version of Simple Play book cover displayed on table screen: title reads Simple Play - easy fun for babies by Rachel Coley, occupational therapist

Simple Play includes 40 ways to play that promote healthy cognitive, motor and sensory development. You’ve probably looked up when your baby is expected to meet certain milestones - crawling, pulling to a stand or taking those precious first steps - but this book explains just how that progress happens, PLUS how you can help.

What others are saying:

"Bonus: this book is not JUST ideas to play with your baby. It contains great information on how these activities are promoting baby's development also. So if "easy," "simple," and "entertains baby" are not enough, you can also feel good that it is "good for baby."

"This book is absolutely one of the best resources I have and we use it all the time for spur of the moment fun or planned invitations to play when I need to get something else done. Every idea is so simple and almost every resource is something you have laying around the house anyway."

"Rachel really understands kids. I can say that with confidence, as a developmental psychologist myself...In fact, I showed this book to some occupational therapists, speech therapists, and early intervention folks recently and they were so taken with it. They said they wished they could provide it to all of the families who they work with and they'd soon be out of a job! If that isn't a ringing endorsement, I don't know what is. Highly recommended!"