Baby Mobile
December 21st, 2006 by Joy
I’ve been learning a lot lately about Montessori for infants. I am excited to make my daughter’s room a fun place for her to grow and learn. In the book Montessori from the start, you are encouraged to begin with mobiles to help babies learn focus in their eyes. I have been wanting to make one for Lucy for a while. I used a floral design ring of some sort, I found it at Michaels. It is a flat ring of particle board with holes drilled in it. I decided I wanted to use ribbon and beads to hang the objects so I made my own beads using fimo and hung christmas balls from the ribbon. In the book it recomends using metalic objects to begin then moving to other ones she can bat at once she learns that she can hit things with her hands. Lucy loves looking at it for now. We mounted it on the wall with a hook for hanging plants so i can change the mobiles as she gets older.
December 23rd, 2006 at 9:31 am
Joy – that is beautiful
I love how you can change the hanging parts for the season or baby’s interests!
June 7th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Hi Joy,
I’ve been reading Montessori from the Start too for my 2nd baby! And I made a mobile of black and white geometric shapes with my 4-yr-old son’s Hama beads. Trying to work on the mobile of colour gradation balls now.
Love your mobile of metal bells!
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