When the bubble machine turns on the infant’s eyes, light up, smiles get bigger and the infants spring into action. Tracking the bubbles helps develop eye movement as they watch them float around the room, to the ground and see them pop! Fine motor skills are forever building as they use their hands and fingers to try and catch them. Expressive language is being heard as the infants ask for more bubbles, when the machine stops and they all disappear. Non-verbal communication can also be seen as the infants sign for more. This activity also helps them understand about cause and effect, by asking for bubbles get us bubbles, and by asking form more bubbles when they disappear gets us more bubbles. This also builds on their social skills, as they work on a common goal to watch and pop the bubbles in the classroom.
