Make Your Own
Baby Mobile -
5 Great Reasons Why



Do you know you can use a baby mobile to start your infant's career on a certain success route?

How Much?

Now you're already bracing yourself for the bone-crushing high asking price.

But you're wrong! Very few parents realize that you need not necessarily fork out a lot for the latest hyped commercial plastic.

In fact... to prove it, here's a simple, easy-to-make, yet exceptionally reliable mobile to give your child the ultimate start in life.

So...

"How About A
Super-Stimulating Mobile
At A Mere Fraction Of The Cost?"

Here's just some of the magic you'll discover...

  • You can vary the stimulation of this mobile to guard against overstimulation
  • Baby's attention can always be kept high for optimum development by changing the objects dangling from the baby mobile
  • Baby's visual attention is expanded since the hanging objects move slower and are easier to follow
  • Grasping with one hand and using both hands together is intensely encouraged with this baby mobile
  • Rarely do other mobiles allow… discovering the texture and shape of the dangling objects

    You see, the single most important goal of your baby's early learning process is to get several senses and skills to work together on one single object. Typically these are seeing, feeling, tasting, reaching and hearing.

    This mobile does all of this… quickly, easily, playfully... at a mere fraction of the cost.

    How To Make A Potent Mobile
    In 8 Easy Steps
    1. Find a long dowel rod (at least 12mm, ½", diameter) or even a normal yardstick to use as suspender bar for the baby mobile's crosspiece.
    2. Fix this dowel or yardstick (suspender bar) to the top of the cot approximately above Baby's chest.
    3. Use a piece of cardboard or plastic tube, wooden clothes hanger (removing the wire hook) or even rubber hose as the crosspiece. No sharp objects allowed.
    4. Tie a strong piece of string to the middle of the crosspiece. Hanging the mobile by tying the other end to the suspender bar at the top of the cot.

    5. Tie a piece of string to each end of the mobile's crosspiece.
    6. Tie small objects to the end of the string tied to the crosspiece. The object must dangle at the distance of Baby's outstretched hand when lying in the cot.
    7. Tie other small objects to the same crosspiece, making sure the crosspiece still balances.
    8. Finally… make sure that the swing of the crosspiece is such that when Baby grabs an object, he can put it in his mouth.

    That's it... a simple, cheap, exceptionally effective baby mobile

     

    Here's another DIY baby mobile option you can check out.

    The best objects to hang from the baby mobile's crosspiece are colorful booties, blocks, rattles, squeaky toys, small plastic bottles and teething rings. In fact… you can use almost any child-safe object as long as it's colourful, have different textures and contrasts light and dark. You can even tie colorful ribbons to old and dull toys.

    Tie fewer objects to the crosspiece at a time, but change them more often… maybe once or more often per week. This eliminates overstimulation and also keeps Baby's curiosity and interest for much longer.

    This simple, yet exceptionally effective baby mobile encourages and teaches all of Baby's senses to work together. Only once this skill has been fully mastered, can he then progress to learn what objects are for and what he can do with them.

     

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