10 month old, how to play

[Becnog]

I am just wondering how much time do people spend playing with baby every day? Do you let them play away on their own mostly and talk to them or do you spend most of the day interacting with them? My DD used to play very happily on her own (obviously I'd talk, show her things, read etc) but she's no interest in an games or toys of late since crawling, just wants to climb.
What games do people play with their babies? How much time should I spend directly playing with her? Versus letting her play alone(when she doesn't seem to want to)?

All my 10 month old has wanted to do for the past month is climb. On me, on the sofa, on the cat...! He is just starting to come out of it and get interested in his toys again and there’s a mixture of playing by himself (but he likes me to be sitting on the floor with him) but mostly it’s me playing with him. He really likes his stacking rings at the moment and has just learnt to put them all on the spindle but needs help with the order. Loves stacking cups too and endlessly tries putting other things in and out of them to see what fits. He’s just starting to get interested in cars etc too, he has a skiphop bee car which he’s just getting the hang of pushing as opposed to chucking!

My 9.5mo still does like playing with toys. He likes musical things, things that go in one another/stack, things that can be pulled/pushed. And the perennial favourite, things that can be chewed.

I tend to throw him in the playpen a bit when I need to do things like cook but he'll only tolerate that for about 20 minutes, then I'll get in there and play things with him. This mostly involves putting things together for him to pull apart. He's quite into jigsaws at the moment, the wooden ones (it has round pieces so it's very easy for him). Or pushing his toy tractor and putting the farmer in the seat. Or attempting to read him books as he flips the pages.

But he does spend most of his 'playtime' crawling round or pulling up on the furniture, trying to cruise. There are crawling games you could play. He quite likes it if I duck behind a door then peek out saying 'where's DS?', he'll crawl at top speed towards me. Or if I say 'where's the cat?' he'll crawl after her (saying 'dat dat dat' - he's not figured out the 'c' sound yet). I'm still also his favourite thing to climb up. His dad loves trying to make him walk, but I'm not ready for that yet!

If she's happy playing on her own, then I wouldn't stress about it. I'm sure you get plenty of quality time - e.g. feeding time (I think this is approximately 30% of his waking hours), bathtime or even when you're changing a nappy (I sing a song to keep him from wiggling).