When I was a baby

Ages 3 to 5 Read and do together · about 10 minutes

Read together

You were a baby once. You were very small.

Look at this photo. This is you!

Do it

1. Find a baby photo, a baby blanket or a tiny baby sock. Look at it together.
2. Tell your child the story: “You were this big. You liked this song.”
3. Compare: then you could not walk. Now you can run! Then you drank milk. Now you eat bread.
4. Draw a picture of “then” and “now”, with two boxes.

Talk about it

• What could you do then? What can you do now?
• What do you want to learn next?

For the grown-up

A child's own story is the first history. Words like “before”, “now” and “when you were little” build the idea of time.

Mark as done

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Where this comes from

This is a play and practice activity with no factual claims to source.

Written with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed. Please read it before sharing it with a child.