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What makes your baby laugh?

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Stillmonday · 13/11/2019 20:17

I think my baby is getting bored. He's 10 months and peekaboo & me pulling faces doesn't make him laugh anymore.
What makes your baby laugh? I run out of ideas!!

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bananallamas · 13/11/2019 20:24

Turn him upside down
Tickling
More advanced peekaboo - hiding behind sofa etc and then popping out in different places
Making funny noises, blowing raspberries
Pretend to eat his feet/tummy etc making gobbling noises!
Pretend to be asleep and snore and then "wake up!" Or anything that makes him jump slightly (not too much or too scary!)
Funny dancing

Loads more... my DD laughs a lot, she's a little loon!

bananallamas · 13/11/2019 20:26

Thought of some more:

Put funny things on your head eg box, pillowcase
Hold his hands and do heads, shoulder knees and toes and gently make him do the actions
Hold his hands and clap with him quite quickly
Sit him on your knee and sing songs with actions like row row your boat, jelly on a plate etc and bounce him around as you sing
Throw him in the air!

mumof2masterofnone · 13/11/2019 20:34

General playing around with toys.
Books when read in different voices.

You shouldn't have to 'force' it just have relaxed fun together.

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Timeless19 · 13/11/2019 20:36

We play drop the baby, she thinks it’s hilarious, only don’t actually drop the baby...

transformandriseup · 13/11/2019 20:43

You could try laughing loudly at nothing at all, my baby loves that. Also pretending to eat her hands/feet.

MrsBertBibby · 13/11/2019 20:46

Head in the belly. Never fails.

Probably still work now he's 15.

Chip22 · 13/11/2019 20:50

DD is 9 months, at the moment this is what she finds funny:
-Clapping one of her hands against mine while I shout "clap clap clap..."
-Giving high fives
-DH doing headers with her soft toys
-When I make her bath toys dance along the edge of the bath then jump happily in to Humpty Dumpty like she does at swimming lessons
-Piling up soft toys on inflatable cylinder thing and shaking so they fall off
-Any variant of peekaboo, particularly finding her way out from under a blanket

Chip22 · 13/11/2019 20:52

Also, fake American accents and someone else laughing- think she likes to join in!

Maltay · 13/11/2019 20:54

Putting blankets or clothes in and off her head

EpcotForever · 13/11/2019 20:56

Pretending to eat him up
Doing the Peppa pig 'snort!'
Peekaboo
Tickling him
Smelling his feet Blush
Wizzing around
Using him as a weight
Row the boat

MrsBertBibby · 13/11/2019 20:59

Oooh, do " this is the way the gentleman rides". Mine LOVED that.

Mybobowler · 13/11/2019 21:16

My daughter is 10 months old and is quite picky about what she finds funny - she definitely gets bored of the same old gags. Current comedy-gold includes "round and round the garden", jogging while she's in the (parent-facing) pram, baby aeroplane (basically just zooming her around a bit, preferably towards someone who'll give her a kiss) and, a weird one, when I flip my hair upside down before I tie it up. Giggly babies are the absolute best.

EnigmaticIcelandShopper · 13/11/2019 21:30

My little boy used to laugh when I had hiccups (so sometimes I'd just fake them), when I pretended to disappear in a cloud of smoke (no actual smoke involved) or when I pretended to fall over, hahahaha! Babies have the best humour.

BringMeThatHorizon · 13/11/2019 21:31

Doing round and round the garden on his tummy, sniffing his feet/socks and pretending they're really smelly, letting him start to crawl away from me on the bed and then pulling him back towards me, letting him stick his fingers in my mouth and then pretending to bite them, playing peekaboo around furniture, letting him throw toys out of the bath and pretending he's got me really wet, putting random objects on my head...

Mine is also a little terror and giggles like mad whenever he thinks he's got a clear run at the stairs, if he manages to get his hands on a set of our keys and when he throws food on the floor or toys down the toilet after I've told him not to! He's 13 months.

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