What do you do with your 10 month olds?

[Hayloftt]

Just that really! I'm looking for some inspiration. We tend to go for walks, the farm etc. but would like some ideas for things to do at home

Blowing bubbles, rustling/playing peekaboo with a shiny survival blanket, sensory play with squirty cream or cooked spaghetti or yoghurt died with berry juice.

'Bowling' with home made discovery bottles, roll a ball down a ramp and show her how it causes the bottles to fall down. She won't have much clue about it yet but will enjoy the sensory experience of the bottles and playing with the ball, and you can have fun scoring points with the bowling!

Singing and playing with musical instruments, games like 'This is the way the lady rides' and 'Round-and-round the garden'

Reading, books with simple large flaps (the felt ones are good for this age) and sensory ones like 'That's not my...' are god for this age.

Treasure baskets, and exploring safe household items, more interesting than baby toys.

Going round to a friend's with a similar aged child, or ahving them to yours. Playgroup.

Going swimming

Going to the playground (she can sit on your lap down the slide, and will like the swings)

Flying a ribbon kite on a windy day

Exploring an obstacle course of couch cushions, pillows, and tunnels made with blankets over chairs

Going to the library. Our local one has toys as well as books.

Going to the shops, talking about all the different items colours, textures.

Dancing. You can make a living room disco by drawing the curtains and draping some flashing fairy lights around, and playing cheesy pop while you have a lovely dance together.

'Art' activities with squirts of different coloured paint in ziplock bags, well sealed with Sellotape, for her to explore.

Pretending you're both dogs and crawling around chasing each other, panting and woofing

Birdwatching. Hang a bunch of bird feeders in the garden and carry her out to watch them.

Go on a bike ride together, preferably in a park or woods with a cycle trail rather than the road

Forest school? You can get sessions for parents and babies

DD is 12 months but at that age we did similar things to now, park, free sing a long class at the library, visited library for books, went to baby Gymboree class, soft play, swimming, parent and toddler group, visited family, had to get out every day really! But mornings and evenings at home we read books (especially noisy ones, lift the flap, textured, or with sliders etc, mostly from the library) she uses baby walker and vtech play table thing, make a ball pit in the play pen, stack cups and blocks for her to knock down, play peekaboo with a blanket, sing songs with actions, play with stacking rings, let her practice climbing the stairs (staying close behind obviously), play music and dance with her, play with puppets/ soft toys, make noise with the drums or rattles, put things in bags or boxes for her to pull out, roll or bounce balls, she likes looking in the mirror, putting shapes inside shape sorter, FaceTiming family, watching videos of herself that I have taken, giving her a bath.

Sorry I should have separated that out a bit I didn’t realise it was going to be such a long block of text when I started!

Turn some pans upside down and give baby some wooden spoons 😄

Put things in baskets and other things for baby to pull out. Pull tissues out of tissue box. Pull books off bookshelves. Pull pipe cleaners out of sieve holes.

Pull post-it notes off walls.

Put melty buttons into ice tray grooves to practise pincer grip.

Roll toy cars over baby I dunno mine loved that for some reason.

Watch parenting Instagram accounts they're always doing creative stuff

Honestly, mine basically crawls around the house finding random stuff while I do housework. Then we go to a play group or something. Feeding takes a long time as she is a slow eater. We pick the older one up from school and that takes a while too.
they’re all lovely suggestions above, but don’t feel pressure to do creative intensive things. Being present and engaging them a bit and going out every day to do a baby thing is likely enough.

Thank you for this! Honestly some days we barely get out of the house. I’m trying to study as well and reading those lists made me feel like I’ma terrible parent.

We’ve not gone to lots of groups either.

This. Mine crawls around grabbing things. Her toys are scattered all over the place and I interact with her between cleaning, getting ready to go out, etc. We bang drums. Stack cups. Read her flap books. Etc etc. I take her out for a walk in the pram/to visit someone most days (but not all!)

All the above suggestions are great - I am yet to meet one mum that actually does all of that stuff. My baby is perfectly happy and chatty and meeting milestones and I‘ve never and will never cook and dye spaghetti to just throw it all over the place.

I have another baby that just likes to crawl around the house pulling and touching random things I do take her out to the swings, farms, soft play now she can crawl and climb, swimming, baby group once a week, play dates with friends and also just walks to look at trees and touch the plants. Planning on getting a puddle suit and some shoes and letting her crawl on the grass when we go for walks as she is getting bored of the pushchair!

Lots of messy play and sensory activities as described above. I do as little housework as possible and only when my husband has baby so mine doesn't crawl around watching me at all. Also lots of books. Absolutely loves choosing them off the baby shelf at the library!

...our nearly 10m DD just potters around the house if we're at home. Chews

I hope my suggestions don't make anyone feel bad! They're coming from my point of view as a nanny so asides from keeping the place tidy, doing a bit of laundry and caring for pets its how I fill my days - not because they're essential for baby raising but because they're a way to kill time and do some fun stuff with little one if you've nothing else to keep you occupied!!