Lamaze Play for iOS

We all know that its important to stimulate baby and that amazing strides are made in the first 18 months. But how can toys help shape development? How do you use a toy to play with baby to encourage thinking, physical, language and social skills? The Lamaze Play App will answer these questions and give you trusted information backed by experts and science that is easy to understand and apply.

The Lamaze Play App is brought to you by the experts behind the award-winning Lamaze toys. This free, science-based resource is designed to help you learn how to use Lamaze toys to play with your baby using the developmental features of each Lamaze toy. This simple, enjoyable app delivers evidence-based information created by child development experts to help guide you in using Lamaze toys to engage your babys senses to spark creativity, introduce discovery and support healthy sensory development. Get access to expert-curated articles, videos, exclusive content and play guides that are specifically designed to be a tool for you, your baby, and Lamaze toys.

With the Lamaze Play App, you will learn how to use our toys to:

Help develop important social-communication skills for baby, which play a critical role in early literacy

Support your babys language and cognitive development

Promote school-readiness skills

Stimulate face-to-face interaction to help baby learn about his own emotions

Help develop fine and gross motor skills

Bond with your baby in different ways

Much, much more!

From babys first smile to the first real laugh you share together, you and your little one are bonding through play. Play is important even the simplest games help enhance cognitive, social and emotional skills. Much of what you learn about your baby as well as what baby learns about the world comes through play. Through games of peek-a-boo, mirror antics, and more, babys personality begins to unfold and a marvelous journey of discovery for both of you is underway.

Special Features:

Use your devices camera to detect a target marker included with your Lamaze toy. Activate videos or text that detail how the features of the toy are beneficial for baby, and how to use the toy to engage baby and make playtime special for both of you

Search for toys based on specific age ranges, theme or developmental features in the visual catalog

Exclusive play guide with information only found in the app

The app was created based on the Lamaze Infant Development System, which is endorsed by and based on the Lamaze International philosophy of natural childbirth and healthy parenting, and designed in close conjunction with child development experts.

About Lamaze Toys:

Lamaze toys are designed to spark little triumphs at every stage of babys development. Created in conjunction with child development experts, Lamaze toys inspire healthy play and learning. Lamaze toys encourage baby to grow and develop through features that promote together time between parent and baby and activities that encourage baby to explore and learn independently. The high quality, bright colors, friendly faces, crinkly fabrics and contrasting patterns of Lamaze toys have made them a favorite of parents, babies and experts for more than two decades.

About Lamaze International:

Lamaze is a nonprofit organization that promotes a natural, healthy and safe approach to pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting. Your purchase supports education and advocacy for safe and healthy pregnancy, birth and early parenting around the world. Learn more at lamaze.org.