📚 Learn🌱 Montessori-inspired📚 Language
🪞 Who's That Baby?
Naming noses and hands in the mirror — the first vocabulary lesson.
Ages
0–2
Duration
10 min
Cost
Free
👶 Kid challenge
Easy
🧑 Parent energy
Light · no prep
⚠️ Safety first
Stay within arm's reach. Shatterproof mirror only, laid flat or firmly fixed.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Self-recognition
- ✓Vocabulary
🌱 Montessori-inspired · Language
What you need
Shatterproof mirror
How to do it
- 1Sit together in front of a mirror.
- 2Name what you see: your nose, their nose, their hands.
- 3Wave, and wave back.
How it actually goes
The honest version — including what "going well" looks like at this age.
- ⏱ 30-second set-up
- Thirty seconds: put shatterproof mirror on a tray or a clear bit of floor, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do
- Look, listen, point, and eventually put their own words on it.
- ✅ What success looks like
- Under 1, watching, mouthing and batting at it is the whole activity. Two minutes of real attention is a good session.
- 🧺 How to put it away
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it
- Older? Ask them to tell it back to you, or to a younger sibling.