Experimenting with Babies

Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid is a 2013 non-fiction book written by Shaun Gallagher and illustrated by Colin Hayes.

The book provides a series of home-based experiments that can be performed on infants aged birth to two years to test their cognitive, motor, social and behavioural development.

[1] Each of the fifty experiments is rated in terms of its difficulty and the developmental stage of the infant; each includes details on relevant research and on the "takeaway" for parents.

[2] Gallagher was inspired to write the book by informal experimentation with his own infant sons, who he has called his "two favourite science projects".

[4] In her review for Library Journal, Julianne Smith noted that "Some will naturally balk at the title, but this book actually provides a concise and relevant look at child development...It is a graceful bridge between parenting and research".