Mobile for Croach is not the cheapest pleasure. We tell how to please yourself and your baby hand-made accessory.
Why do you need a mobile?
This accessory carries not only a decorative function: from the second month of life, the child learns to stop his gaze on individual objects, and later it considers it in detail, distinguishes colors, trains stretch, grab and touch the suspensions.
And if your homemade mobile will be supplemented with a finished base that can rotate and play ringtones, the object functionality will increase even more. Listen to the toddle melodies is able to since birth (more precisely, this skill is developing in the mother's womb).
Basis for mobile
To begin with, select the basis for your mobile. Perhaps you already have ready. If not, options are possible:
- To buy the most budget mobile for the sake of the base and replace the suspensions subsequently;
- use as the basis any suitable object (for example, the chamber);
- Make the database yourself (for example, from a twisted vine, wire, wooden rivers or ribbed branches).
Suspension
1. From felt
Perhaps the most common option for creating suspensions - felt. This natural material presented in various colors with pleasant tactile properties. It happens different thickness, it is easy to cut, sews and glued.
In addition, on the network you will find a lot of templates and patterns to create a variety of sides of the felt.
2. From unnecessary things
If you have long been on you with a needle, threads and sewing machine, you can use and less supplied materials. Surely in your house there will have a lot of things that you will not be worn. Why not turn them into mini toys for children's mobile? The more diverse colors and textures you will pick up, the more interesting it will be a child to watch the suspensions.
3. From Pomponov
If you do not like lingering and sew, refer to simpler forms. For example, pomponam. They can be made from knitting threads, jute harness, flaps fabric, fate trimming. Watching such suspensions textured and air.
4. From paper
Uncomplicated performed, the budget option, which gives a huge scope for fantasy, - Mobile with suspensions of paper. Refer to the origami or polygonal craft figures, use 2D decor or even clippings from logs.
5. From Bead.
Idea in scand-style - Mobile with beads.
Please note: to create such an accessory, it is worth choosing quite large beads from natural materials. This will protect the baby from the risk to suppress the mobile element in the event that it will take it to the suspension and disassemble it into composite parts.
Even if you suspend your mobile from the beads high enough, you should not underestimate the abilities of the crumbs, it is better to be restrained.
6. Ready suspensions
Perhaps not the most creative solution, but quite a working idea for those who have no hunt to needle toggle, as well as for those who want to save or get a accessory not like everyone else.
The suspensions can be ordered from master-handicrafts, and you can purchase in orphanages, order on Aliexpress, or use ordinary miniature soft toys.
You can create your own unique mix of all these methods: the second of such a mobile will definitely not be in any children.