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Teach Your Child to Connect Sounds to Objects

Last Updated: September 14, 2009

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Parenting Tips for Your 17-18 Month Old Toddler

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How to Play

  • Sit together.
  • Make sounds for your child. Use your body to show action like when a jet goes “zoom,” a duck goes “quack,” a fire engine goes “ding-ding-ding,” a train goes “choo-choo-choo” and a dog goes “wuuff-wuuff.”
  • After you make each sound, say to your child, “What sound does a duck make? What sound does a dog make?”
  • You can use a picture of the objects when you play this game.


Learn more about Your Toddler: 17-18 Months from Just In Time Parenting. You can also go to our Resource Links for additional information on child care and development.


Note to Parents: When reading this newsletter, remember: Every baby is different. Children may do things earlier or later than described here. This newsletter gives equal space and time to both sexes. If he or she is used, we are talking about all babies.
References: These materials were adapted by authors from Extension Just in Time Parenting Newsletters in California, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Wisconsin.

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