Developing mat with your own hands

Pregnancy, birth and upbringing of the child is the most beautiful and joyful time for any woman. And, at the same time, time full of anxiety. What kind of child will grow, how to properly raise it, what toys to choose for the all-round and harmonious development of a little man? An excellent solution to the latter issue may be the acquisition of a developing children's rug. Composed of various materials, it will enhance the tactile skills of the baby. And the elements of design of various sizes, colors, shapes and images placed on it will serve as visual examples for acquaintance with the surrounding world, its phenomena and objects, develop the motor skills of the hands and teach them how to fantasize. But factory development mats are not of high quality and do not satisfy all of the above functions, alas. Therefore, we offer to stock up with materials and patience and sew a children's developing mat with their own hands.

Where to begin?

To make a self-made children's development mat was for the joy and benefit of your child, you need to find out the following points before starting work.

  1. The size of the future product.
  2. Its shape.
  3. Types of materials, colors and decorative elements.
  4. What a rug should teach your child.

The shape of our developing mat can be rectangular or square, and the latter is preferable. On a square it is easier to place applications.

The size directly depends on the pursued functions and your capabilities. You can immediately create an area of ​​1.5 to 1.5 m, providing it with all the desired elements. And you can first make a mat in the size of 0.5 to 0.5 m with an interesting kid to a year of deformation and rattles, and then as the child grows and grows, add new squares with more complex patterns.

Materials for the self-developing mat should be taken only natural. They should not cause allergies, shedding, dyeing, having any smells and injuring fragments. Of fabrics, fleece, linen, cotton, silk, velvet, plush, tulle, drape are suitable. From decorating accessories - wooden or glass beads, fringe, finishing tape or braid, buttons, velcro, elastic. The colors are bright, but to the best of their naturalness, and they fit well with each other. This will not only serve the proper visual and tactile development, but will also teach the child from an early age to understand the beauty of the surrounding world.

Well, as for the functions, at each age they are different. Children under one year learn basic skills, sit crawling, standing, grabbing and holding. At the age of one to three, the child actively learns the world around him, learns to distinguish dimensions, shapes and colors, recognize the main objects, animals and birds. From three to five years the child learns to play role-playing games and fantasize. And from five to seven already there is an active preparation for school. All these stages and should collect in itself the qualitative, executed by own hands developing a children's rug.

Assembly

It's very simple to assemble the child's developing mat with your own hands. For the basis, take the square. First, we draw and cut all the details of applications, and then sew them on the "face" of the product. We connect the upper and lower parts along the edges from three sides, we obtain a square bag. Fill it with foam rubber or a sintepon and sew the last side. Everything, the rug is ready.

Decor

Since the self-made developing baby rug must be not only functional, but also interesting, it needs to be properly designed. If the rug is small, then depict on it some one bright story, for example, a pair of colorful birds with rustling moving wings, flowers on a rubber stalk, fringed grass and a sun with beads inside. If the size of the product is quite large, then it will be better to decorate it for squares. In one you "draw" a winter night, another summer day, in the third - a spring morning, and in the fourth - an autumn sunset over the sea. Here are the times of the year and the day for you. Do not forget about the pockets of ships, the whale with a mouth with lightning, trees with bending leaves, animals and birds with moving parts of the body, houses with opening windows and doors, a school board with numbers and letters on velcro. And all this wealth should rustle, rattle, make noise, ring and play in bright colors.

As you can see, it's quite easy to make the most developing children's rug with your own hands. Try it, fantasize, and you will succeed.