Nothing matters to parents more than their baby’s laugh. A mom always wants her baby to have a smile on his/her face. That’s what gives the inner satisfaction and happiness. Babies love to laugh, it is a new sound that they create.
Normally babies start to laugh after three months. A certain activity like playing games, singing songs and tackling are some of the good ways to make your baby laugh.
Check Out These Amazing Ways To Make Your Baby Laugh
In this article, we will focus on the various ways to make your baby laugh.
Ways To Make Your Baby Laugh:
1. Make Funny Movements:
You can try doing things such as dancing, clapping, or other gestures to make your baby laugh(R). Try something like using a hand puppet and making it dance and sing for your baby which will make him giggle. Making funny hand gestures isn’t usual and your baby will notice. It’s funny because your baby doesn’t expect it to happen, so that makes your baby laugh.
2. Making Funny Sound:
Babies love funny sounds because that gets their attention. Most parents find making an unusual, funny and strange sounds easily inspires baby to giggle. Be it by changing your voice to a higher pitch and lower pitch, or slurping really loud, or talking in funny ways, that leads to grabbing the baby’s attention. All these unusual noises make your little ones laugh hysterically.
- Sing a song that has hand or body gestures will make your baby giggle. Try the “Itsy-Bitsy Spider” or even the “Hokey Pokey.”
- Play a funny sound. Kids like sounds that are odd or silly such as farting noises. Kids also love animal sounds, so try copying the family cat or dog.
- Try not to make these sounds too loud or startling. This might scare the baby.
3. Interacting with Animals:
To babies, animals are amusing with their movements, furry coats and strange noises. Just get your baby to watch the activities of a pet for a while and you will see soon the baby is starting to laugh. Seeing the pets yawn, having them licking at their face, or touching their furs, all these little interactions with the animals bring happiness and laughter to your little ones. No worries if you don’t have pets at home, bring your babies to the zoo or aquarium, you will get a laugh out of your baby.
4. Playing with Siblings:
Children have a natural tendency to laugh among each other. Spending time with siblings or other playmates is something that keeps the babies happy at all times. The babies tend to find everything that their older brother or sister does really funny and make them laugh. All the sibling or playmate needs to do this is by themselves. Babies are often happy watching their sibling playing, dancing, or singing and likely to break out into laughter every now and then at their antics. If there is no sibling, then cousins and the neighborhood kids will also do just fine. The best part is you don’t have to tell the older children what to do to make your baby laugh, they will have it in their own way to make it.
5. Chasing Some Physical Games:
These kinds of physical games help to build a physical bond between you and your baby, and that serve to make him laugh and be happy. Making a foot out of yourself sometimes is the best moment of parenthood that you can experience with your little one.
- Chase your baby. If your baby is crawling, then get down on the floor and crawl after her and don’t concentrate on how silly it looks. Make sure you’re smiling so that your baby will as well.
- Kiss your baby and make raspberries by blowing bubbles on his tummy or face, and you’ll get a laugh out of your baby. You can also try kissing your babies on toes or fingers.
- Capture his nose and pretend as you’re stealing his nose. Try to show him your thumb between your fingers (his “nose”). He’ll giggle at the thought.
6. Playing Peek-A-Boo:
Your little ones will be happy and enjoy it very much when you play peek-a-boo with them. This is one of the favorites with babies since ages. Simply hiding your face and popping out in front of them drives the babies into crazy giggles. One of the tips that parents find useful is to play peek-a-boo(R) with the help of a blanket. Experiment and try it in whatever ways you could to evoke the laughter from your little ones.
7. Get Some Exercise:
Put your baby on your back and slowly stretch out an arm and a leg, with a preference from opposite sides. Then, move those limbs back towards the chest and repeat with the other set of limbs and see how your baby responds. While the baby is on your back, hold both legs with your hands and move them in an air pedaling motion. This will help you to get rid of any excess gas that could have accumulated and make them happy and giggly.
8. Blowing Against Their Skin:
One of the ways to make your baby laugh is to blow against their skin. This is quite similar to tickling your babies. Blowing against their skin is another form of physical touch that makes them laugh and happy. Try blowing on their tummy or the soles of their feet, those spots will easily burst your little ones into laughter.
9. Tickling Your Babies:
The things that make babies laugh is by tickling.
A plus point is that it is a fun activity for you too. Some babies have a few ticklish spots on their body while the slightest touch can set others off. So, find what sets off your baby and get ready for some laughs.
Some physical touch gets your baby laughing easily, especially by gently tickling your baby’s feet, chin, armpits or inner thighs or giving them feet massage.
10. Pretend Biting Them:
Another important tip to make babies laugh is to pretend “biting” their fingers or “eating” their toes. Babies will just squeal and laugh over it. Again, try to experiment in whatever way that’s comfortable for the babies and most importantly appropriate to them. We don’t want you to “bite” at their sensitive body parts even if your intention is a good one.
11. Laughter From You:
As human nature, we laugh when we see others laugh. Happiness is contagious, so is laughter. The best way to make your baby laugh is to laugh together with them, and experiencing the joy of growing up with them. This moment is the most precious moment you could have with your little ones, so engage yourself in it as much as possible.
Making a baby laugh is not just fun or easy. It is also a better way of spending some quality time which helps to bond with your child one on one. It is not just the baby who will be having all the fun, seeing your baby have a good time makes it a memorable and enjoyable occasion for you too.
