A mobile in a crib for newborns is a magical do-it-yourself toy. How to make a mobile for a crib with your own hands? DIY hanging mobiles for kindergarten

Ideas for making felt mobiles for a crib. Patterns, photographs.

Caring parents from infancy surround their baby with beautiful toys, rattles, and pendants. If you have imagination and a desire to do handicrafts, you can make a children's mobile with your own hands.

How is a children's mobile useful?

• A crib mobile is a pendant with various toys (dolls, animals, balls, etc.). Most mobile phones have a winding mechanism, they produce a pleasant melody or songs
• It is difficult to equip a mobile made with your own hands with a rotating mechanism with music. But instead, you can sew bells into toys that will ring pleasantly when you touch them with your hand, and other elements
• A children's mobile is not just fun for a baby. This is a useful educational toy. With the help of bright toys, the baby’s vision improves, he gets acquainted with the world around him, and develops tactile sensations
• There is no point in hanging up your mobile phone from birth. Due to its physical development, a newborn will not yet be able to become interested in it. A child will be interested in such fun starting from 2-3 months of age

Thanks to the hanging above the crib:

1. The baby can be busy for about 10-15 minutes, thereby giving the mother some free time
2. The child's tactile and visual skills develop

The mobile introduces the child to the world around him

What should a children's mobile be like?

Basic requirements that a children's mobile must meet:

1. Safety. All toys and fastenings must be firmly sewn, glued, and tied. The baby can pull the mobile with its arms, it should not fall on the child. The same goes for toys - all buttons, beads, decorations must be firmly sewn on
2. Environmental friendliness. What makes a homemade mobile so valuable is that parents can choose environmentally friendly materials for its manufacture. The pendants in the children's goods store are certainly bright and beautiful, but one cannot be one hundred percent sure of the good quality of the plastic.
3. Brightness. Many parents choose bedding and mobiles to match the interior of the children's room. Most often, wallpaper and curtains in a children's room are pastel shades. Therefore, toys on mobile phones can be found in gray, beige, and peach colors. But scientists say that toys in pastel shades do not develop a child's vision. Bright and saturated colors are much better: light green, yellow, blue, crimson

What is the best way to make a children's mobile with your own hands?

You can attach the mobile to the crib using:

• Flower hangers
• Ceiling Mounts
• Tie threads to the base of the canopy

If you have a store-bought mobile, you can replace plastic toys with homemade ones.

Making a pendant consists of two stages:

• Frame
• Toys

It is best to use as a frame (base) embroidery hoop. This is the easiest way. Toys attached to ribbons or thick threads are hung on hoops.

Mobile for the crib. Base - embroidery hoop

Another way - wooden base. In order to realize this idea, a man's help is needed in cutting out parts from wood.

Mobile for the crib. Wooden base

You can also use regular wooden spatulas. Two spatulas are folded crosswise and secured. Then you will need to tie toys to them.

Toys can also be made from different materials:

• Fabric (linen, cotton, felt)
• Yarn (knitted toys)
• Pompoms

Knitted toys for mobile

Video: DIY crib mobile

DIY mobile: patterns and stencils

Recently very popular are felt toys. They delight the eye with their beauty, brightness, and interesting design. Felt toys can be sewn not only for mobiles but also for cribs. You can also make pendants for the stroller, just funny soft toys.

Making felt toys is easy. To do this you need to have the following materials:

1. Multi-colored felt pieces
2. Scissors
3. Threads (regular or floss)
4. Chalk, pencil
5. Sintepon, cotton wool
6. Patterns

Working with felt is pleasant and convenient:

• Firstly, felt toys can be washed, which is very important
• Secondly, you can buy felt in bright colors
• Thirdly, the soft fabric is pleasant to the touch

There are many ready-made patterns. All you have to do is print them on a printer, attach them to felt, trace them with chalk, cut them out, sew the parts, fill them with cotton wool or padding polyester.

Below you will find many ready-made patterns. They will serve as ideas for making mobiles for girls and boys.

Important: Don’t forget that when making a toy from felt (and any other fabric), you need to cut out two parts at a time. For example, two bodies, two stars. These two parts are sewn together and filler is placed in the middle.

Felt patterns: elephant

Felt patterns: sheep

Felt patterns: monkey

Felt patterns: boat

Felt patterns: airplane

Felt patterns: machine

Felt patterns: flower

How to make a mobile from felt?

Step 1: Making toys

• Print the patterns
• Transfer them to felt
• Cut out the required number of parts
• Sew the pieces together, leaving a hole for the filling.
• Fill the toy with cotton wool or padding polyester (preferably padding polyester, it is practical for washing)
• Sew up the hole for the padding polyester

Important: In addition to the usual padding polyester, you can put a bell, a ball, rustling paper, or a squeaker inside the toy. Such elements contribute to the development of tactile sensations and introduce the baby to different textures.

How to make a felt toy

Step 2: Attaching toys to ribbons

• Choose durable straps to hold your toys in place.
• Instead of ribbons, you can use strong knitting threads
• Ribbons can be decorated with flowers, butterflies, beads
• Sew toys to ribbons

Important: Calculate the required length of the ribbons in advance. It is very important that the mobile is at least 30 cm away from the child’s eyes. Consider this point when choosing the length of the ribbons.

Step 3: Frame

• Decorate your hoop. For example, cover them with fabric. You can also tie them with a wide ribbon or multi-colored knitting threads
• If you decide to use another frame instead of a hoop, take care of its beautiful appearance
• Tie the toy to the frame with a reliable, strong knot.

Important: Toys must be evenly spaced on the frame. Otherwise, the suspension will tip to one side.

Step 4: Secure the finished toy above the crib

Mobile for a boy: dolphins

Mobile for a boy: cars

Mobile for a boy: animals

DIY mobiles can be very beautiful. Yes, such a toy requires a certain amount of effort and money, but it’s worth it. Give your little one a fun treat.

Video: How to make a children's mobile with your own hands?

The baby needs to be developed from the very first days of life. Lying in the cradle, the baby gradually begins to see the world around. Parents should help him, make the nursery entertaining and interesting. For example, a mobile made by mom or dad with their own hands and installed above the crib will become part of a huge world that the baby begins to get acquainted with from the first days of life.

Buy or make?

The children's products industry is huge, it offers potential buyers such a variety of children's products that it is very difficult to make a specific choice. There are a lot of mobiles for cribs, strollers, educational corners and rugs. They are made of plastic, fabric, wood. But I think that a mobile for newborns, made by loving parents with their own hands, will become a real decoration of the baby’s world. In addition, the objects surrounding the baby must be safe in every sense. But you never know for sure whether the toys you buy in the store are safe.

What should a mobile be like?

All objects that surround the child help him develop harmoniously and must have the following properties:

• Be absolutely safe. All parts of toys and items for children must be reliable and safe. The baby can grab them with his hands, put them in his mouth, tug and ruffle them, but not a single part should fall off, come off or break off, otherwise trouble cannot be avoided.
• The materials and paints from which certain items for the baby are made must be environmentally friendly. Many children now suffer from allergies, and some chemicals, plastics and dyes can cause serious health problems. So, for a child, all items should be hypoallergenic and in no case emit toxic substances.
• A child learns to see the world around him, so he needs bright colors in toys and objects. A mobile made with your own hands should help the baby learn to focus his eyes on bright details and follow their movement.

Mobile materials

A mobile is a suspended structure, equipped with bright toys made of various materials, which contributes to the development of the child. Mobiles purchased in stores most often have music and rotating mechanisms. If you want to make a children's mobile with your own hands, then these mechanisms built into the frame of the mobile can be used.

Mobile toys must be safe. On purchased devices they are in the vast majority of cases plastic. But at home you can make such toys from different materials. For example, from natural wood, if one of the household members knows how to work on a lathe or with a jigsaw. You can make amigurumi toys if your mother or grandmother knows how to crochet. Or you can make a mobile with your own hands by making pendants from fabric. Cotton and linen are universal materials from which toys for children have been made since ancient times. It is also possible to make a felt mobile with your own hands.

Felt is a unique material. It does not crumble, is well processed, soft, but at the same time quite durable. Now you can buy felt pieces in all the colors of the rainbow, which will allow you to show your imagination when making a pendant. It’s not that difficult to make a mobile for a baby’s crib with your own hands.

Pendant patterns

Self-sewn mobile phone pendants can be very different: animals, toys, household items, cosmic bodies and even natural phenomena will become entertaining for the baby if they are made with love from bright, safe material. Patterns for such pendants can be found on the pages of publications dedicated to motherhood or needlework. For a baby, the world begins with a crib in which a mobile is suspended; it is not difficult to make patterns for pendants for it with your own hands: they are all contoured, with primitive elements. You can draw a cloud or a sun, for example, by hand, and then add eyes and a nose with dots. It's simple - on a piece of paper, draw a simple outline of what you want to see as a pendant for your mobile. Draw the toy with your own hands, thinking through its schematic designation, paying attention only to significant details.

How to sew a pendant for a mobile?

What is unique about mobile phone pendants? They are flat, there is no need to make complex tuck patterns. The volume of such toys is given by a small piece of padding polyester inserted inside when sewing. Transfer the finished patterns to felt, not forgetting to draw the second part in a mirror image, turning the pattern inside out. On pieces of felt of a different color, draw the details that are important in a particular toy, and then assemble the entire pendant using matching or contrasting threads, using a “forward needle” or “over the edge” stitch. When assembling pendants, do not forget about the braid or cord on which they will be suspended from the base. The place where the braid is attached should be sewn with several stitches so that the pendant does not break.

What to attach mobile hangers to?

You can make a children's mobile phone with your own hands using only safe materials. As a basis for attaching pendants, you can only use something that will not break under the slight weight of felt toys. You can use a frame from a mobile purchased in a store. It would be a good idea to use a wooden embroidery hoop. Fasten the braid from the pendants to the inner ring, then press it with the outer ring. The hoop can be tightly wrapped with ribbon or the same braid or cord, securing the ends into a knot and stitching them so that they do not come undone. You can use wooden sticks by purchasing them at a building materials store and securing them in a specially machined mount. It is better to ignore some recommendations regarding the use of medical wooden spatulas to make a mobile with your own hands - this is not the most reliable material for holding several pendants over a crib.

Unusual mobiles

How to make a mobile with your own hands to surprise your little one and please yourself? For example, you can put a small bell in each pendant toy - they are sold in craft stores. In this case, there is no need to add padding polyester, otherwise the bell will not be heard at all.

A mobile made with your own hands at home is not necessarily a structure mounted on top of the crib. An interesting placement of such a toy with pendants is along the top side of the crib. The basis of such a mobile is a large spring, sewn from fabric, filled with synthetic padding and with strong wire inserted inside. Pendants are sewn onto the finished base, and the mobile itself is screwed on top of the crib railings. Such a toy will bring a lot of joy to a baby who already knows how to sit, especially if you make toys from different fabrics: soft, slippery, fleecy or smooth, use rattles, not forgetting about the safety of the baby.

A unique device for a baby crib - a mobile made by loving adults with their own hands - will allow the child to develop harmoniously, and parents to be proud of the baby and their work.

If a mother on maternity leave likes to do handicrafts, or just to save money, you can sew a beautiful mobile for newborns with your own hands. You just need to show a little imagination and use available materials.

It, of course, will not spin on its own and play a melody. But children really like homemade toys, especially if the mother herself likes them and is made with love. A lightweight mobile, however, can spin and sway on its own due to air currents.

Let's figure out how to make a mobile with your own hands.

See our >>>>

1. Toys

Toys for hanging above your baby's crib should be kind, safe and bright. Various animals, birds, fish, and so on are best suited for this. Pastel colors are undesirable; the baby still does not perceive them well.

You can also take ready-made pendants - small soft toys or something else. You can make them removable so you can change them. You can sew toys with your own hands from fabric, felt or felt, and also make them from paper.

Here are some ideas for toys made of felt and fabric (photos can be enlarged in a new tab by clicking):

You can come up with such toys and cut them out yourself from pieces of multi-colored felt or scraps of bright fabric. It is most convenient to fill them with a small amount of holofiber, as well as padding polyester and other fillers. All this is available in sewing stores and is inexpensive.

Toys, you can also make a children's mobile with your own hands from paper or other bright materials at hand. The main thing for a child is different bright colors and mobility of toys.

2. How to make a mobile frame

The frame is what toys are attached to; it can be made from different things. The easiest way to buy an embroidery hoop is with a diameter of 25 cm or larger.

Wooden hoops look especially beautiful. You need to remove the central ring from the hoop; it will serve as the frame for the mobile.

The ring can be left in its original form or wrapped with a ribbon or woolen thread.

You can use two rings of a larger and smaller diameter in the design, but you will have to work hard with balancing. But it will turn out very beautiful!

The frame can also be made from wooden sticks. These could be fragments of branches, popsicle sticks - anything.

The frame can also be made from thick wire. You can make a ring out of it by wrapping the ends with electrical tape, or build one of the following structures (the dots indicate where the toys are attached):

3. We hang the toys on the frame

To do this, you can use various threads, decorative thin laces, ribbons, and fishing line. You can string beads onto a fishing line. And if you use elastic bands instead of threads, this will give the mobile additional mobility.

When finishing our children's mobile with your own hands, it is important to maintain balance. When tying toys, make sure that the frame of the mobile is parallel to the floor. You can attach a hook for curtains or just a cord to the frame and attach the mobile under a canopy, under the ceiling, or tie it to something.

I hope you understand how to make a mobile for a newborn with your own hands - our ideas and inspiration will be useful to you! In general, use your imagination, inspiration and available materials, but do not forget about the safety of the baby. Avoid small parts that could come off or come off.

Every mother tries to prepare for the birth of her baby as best as possible. Nowadays, there are many children's products on the market, but, unfortunately, they do not always meet all requests for quality, design and price. Therefore, parents often purchase only the essentials, and avoid goods from the “additional” class. One of them is a mobile for a crib. In order not to invest money in a thing that does not even meet your requirements, you can make it yourself.

What is a children's mobile

A mobile is a suspended composition of various elements (in the case of a children's mobile, these are usually small toys), which move in a circle due to air flow or using a small mechanism with a built-in motor.

Translated from English, mobile means mobile, moving, self-propelled.

Creating a children's mobile is a creative process, the result of which will certainly delight

The children's mobile serves as decoration and great entertainment for the baby at the same time. In the first months of a baby’s life, there are not many things that can entertain him, and toys of different colors attached to a mobile phone can occupy him for a few minutes when the mother needs to leave and help him fall asleep. Mobile phones also contribute to faster development of the child.

Table: advantages and disadvantages of a mobile in a baby’s crib

Types of children's mobiles

Mobiles are divided into 2 main groups:

• musical ones - with a built-in mechanism (usually such mobiles, due to the same mechanism, also spin, like a carousel);
• non-musical - the mobile consists only of toys suspended from a holder and moves due to natural air currents.

• tree;
• plastic;
• textile materials (most often felt or plush is used);
• yarn (knitted elements);
• rubber;
• rubber, etc.

Some mobile phones have a built-in function for projecting light images onto the ceiling

Also, some mobiles have an additional built-in night light so that the baby is not afraid of the dark, and the mother can see the baby if it is necessary to adjust his pacifier or feed him at night.

What should a children's mobile look like?

In order for a mobile phone to truly bring only benefits to both mother and child, it must meet a number of requirements:

• made entirely of safe materials, preferably natural ones: wood, rubber, wool, felt, etc.;
• have a safe design of the suspension and fastening system;
• all hanging elements must be securely fastened;
• if there is a built-in music system, the melodies should not be too loud, calm and soothing;
• if the mobile has a built-in rotating mechanism, then you need to make sure that the speed of movement in a circle is not too fast, otherwise it can frighten or overexcite the baby;
• if the mobile has a built-in night light, its mechanism must be safe;
• If the mobile is supposed to be hung above the crib in which the baby will sleep, it is better to refrain from overly bright colors and prefer pastel shades, so as not to overexcite the child’s nervous system before bed.

The mobile must be made of safe materials and have a reliable design

A little bit of history. The ancestors of modern mobiles were hanging amulets, which our ancestors made from various herbs, straw or wood to protect their children from evil spirits.

Requirements for materials for the manufacture of mobile phones

All materials for the manufacture of a children's mobile must meet the following criteria:

• high quality;
• safety;
• maximum natural composition;
• hypoallergenic.

You should only buy materials from trusted brands that have proven themselves well in the market. It is these brands that have an untarnished reputation that can offer parents of newborns the highest quality product, and as a bonus, they always write the truth on the labels, since they value the trust of their customers. Even in the stores of manufacturers included in the category of the best, the most attentive and responsive staff always works, who will help you find the right product and try to answer your questions.

Important! High-quality products should not have any odor, of course, unless we are talking about wooden blanks. But even in the latter case, the smell will be insignificant, since the raw material has gone through several stages of processing and cannot have a pronounced odor, like freshly cut wood.

DIY mobile: advantages and disadvantages

There are both advantages and disadvantages to making a mobile for your child yourself. The advantages of the created design include:

• the selection of materials, colors and design is entirely up to the parents; any idea can be brought to life, which cannot be said about ready-made products offered in the store;
• each element that will be involved can be personally checked for quality and safety;
• since the mobile will be created by your own hands, you will be confident in the safety of the design;
• if the baby has already grown up, then parents have the opportunity to make a mobile based on the preferences of their child;
• by devoting time and effort to inventing things for your child, you are putting love into this process, which will certainly have a positive effect on your relationship with your child;
• By making a mobile for your child yourself, you can save a lot of money than buying a ready-made one.

Flaws:

• you will have to spend a lot of time and effort on choosing and thinking through the design, selecting suitable materials and on the actual creation of the mobile;
• If you have never done handicrafts, difficulties may arise during the manufacturing process, so you will have to apply a lot of patience and perseverance.

No matter how unknown and mysterious the world of needlework may seem to you, all fears of creating a new thing will pass when you carefully review the instructions for making a specific product and understand how to proceed. Everything is not so difficult if you show a little patience and perseverance, including when producing a children's mobile.

The process of creating a design can be divided into 2 parts:

1. Making a frame base.
2. Making pendants.

For an older child, you can make a mobile with hanging letters and numbers

Master classes on making frame bases

The frame base is the part on which the pendants will be attached from below, and from above, with the help of a small device, it is attached to the ceiling, canopy or any other planes, depending on how convenient it is for mother and child.

Cross wooden frame

Wooden bases come in different designs; to make the best ones you will need a man's help, but there is also an easier-to-make option that even a child can handle.

Materials for making a wooden frame:

• 2 wooden chopsticks (can be used for Chinese food);
• glue “Moment Crystal”;
• dense thick thread (clothesline will do);
• decorations as desired.

Progress:

1. Measure the prepared wooden sticks using a ruler and mark the middle. If you are using Chinese food sticks, you will first need to make equal ends on both sides of each stick, trimming the desired side like a pencil with a knife, and then sanding it so that it becomes smooth.
2. Align the marks on both sticks and glue them together using Moment Crystal glue.
3. Take the prepared rope/thread and securely wrap it around the fastened area, in the middle of the process make an upward loop so that at the end you can easily attach the structure to the desired plane.

It is also possible to additionally put pompoms on the edges of the sticks or wrap the tree with satin ribbon.

Idea! This design is well suited for creating a mobile in a marine style. Just leave the sticks without any decorations, and use red or blue or blue and white striped thread for winding.

Circle frame

A mobile based on a circular frame is less mobile, but its production is much simpler.

The following materials will be required:

• embroidery hoop;
• scissors;
• thick rope or satin ribbon, etc. (for wrapping).

Progress:

There are other options for fastening systems made of fishing line on a circle (see photo).

Using the presented diagrams, you can make an unusual mobile

Photo gallery: ideas for unusual mobile frames

If you do not have the opportunity to print the details, then you can carefully redraw them on paper with a pencil

Attach the resulting paper stencils to pieces of felt of the desired colors, pin with safety pins, carefully trace and cut out.

A huge advantage of felt is that its edges do not fray, so there is no need to make additional allowances for seam allowances or finishing edges.

Sew the two parts of the body, placing the beak between them in the right place. Fill the figure with padding polyester, cotton wool or scraps of fabric.

Don't forget to fill the bird with padding polyester before making the final stitches.

Sew on the remaining parts of the bird and glue on the beaded eyes. Sew a loop of ribbon or thick thread on top to attach to the mobile.

If desired, you can decorate the bird

The bird is ready.

In the first weeks of life, babies see everything in black and white, and then they begin to distinguish between bright red colors, so a mobile with red elements is a powerful developmental tool.

Photo gallery: patterns for felt toys

If at this stage you have any errors in your work, it is better to immediately dissolve and correct them, since it will be much more difficult to do this later

Now, using bright threads of medium thickness, make marks at the narrowing point, this will make it easier for you to count the rows.

Markings can be made not only with threads; there are special marking rings for this

Next, knit according to the following instructions:

The finished whale body should look like this.

Due to the fact that we made decreases on only one side, the body bends itself, but for a better result you can use a wire

Now you need to tie the tail separately. To do this, knit according to the instructions:

• 1st row: 2 sc;
• 2nd row: 2 increases (4 sc);
• 3rd row: increase, 2 sbn, increase (6 sbn);
• 4th row: 6 sc;
• 5th row: decrease, 2 sc, decrease (4 sc);
• 6th row: 2 decreases (2 sc);
• Row 7: 1 decrease.

You have one half of the tail, now tie the second part using the same pattern.

Sew both parts of the tail to the body of the whale.

All that remains is to tie the fins. This needs to be done as follows: 2 air loops, in the second we knit 3 double crochets, then 1 double crochet and 3 double crochets. Let's close. You have one fin. Now, using the same pattern, tie the second one and sew both fins to the body of the whale.

Sew on the whale's eyes.

The finished whale looks like this.

This knitted whale will delight your baby

Knitted toy: owl

Materials:

• yarn of different colors (below you can see what an owl knitted according to this pattern will look like, and determine how many colors you need);
• synthetic fluff;
• hook;
• a small piece of white felt (if not, you can take any other dense fabric that does not fray);
• one black eye or bead;
• glue;
• threads;
• scissors.

Step by step guide:

1. First of all, you need to tie the eyes. We do it this way:
   • Row 2: 6 sts (inc) (12);
   • Row 3: (sc, p) – 6 times (18);
   • Row 5: (3sc, p) – 6 times (30).
2. Finish knitting the 5th row with a connecting stitch and cut the thread quite long in order to later sew the eyes to the owl’s head.
3. Now take the felt pieces and cut 2 circles about 2cm in diameter.
4. In one of the resulting circles, make a small hole in the middle and insert the prepared eye into it.
5. Then connect both pieces of felt with knitted circles.
6. On the piece that is left without an eye, embroider a winking eye. At this stage the eyes are ready.
7. Now we knit the body of the owl. You need to start from the top according to the following instructions:
   • Row 1: 6 sc and connect into a ring (6);
   • Row 2: 6 sts (12);
   • Row 3: (sc, p) – 6 times (18);
   • Row 4: (2sc, p) – 6 times (24);
   • Row 5: (3sc, p) – 6 times (30);
   • Row 6: (4sc, p) – 6 times (36);
   • Row 7: (5sc, p) – 6 times (42);
   • Row 8: (6sc, p) – 6 times (48);
   • Row 9: (7sc, p) – 6 times (54);
   • Row 10–17: 54 sc (54);
   • Row 18: (7 sc, y (decrease)) – 6 times (48);
8. If you want your owl to be two-color, take a lighter yarn and continue knitting further:
   • Row 19: 48 sc behind the back wall of the loop (48);
   • Row 20–21: 48 sc (48);
   • Row 22: (6 sc, y) – 6 times (42);
   • Row 23: 42 sc (42).
9. Don’t forget to fill the toy with synthetic fluff.
10. Sew the previously prepared eyes to the head and continue knitting the owl’s body:
    • Row 24–27: 42 sc (42);
    • Row 28: (5 sc, y) – 6 times (36);
    • Row 29: 36 sc (36);
    • Row 30: (4 sc, y) – 6 times (30);
    • Row 31–32: 30 sc (30);
    • Row 33: (3 sc, y) – 6 times (24);
    • Row 34: (2 sc, y) – 6 times (18);
    • Row 35: (sc, y) – 6 times (12);
    • Row 36: 6 at (6).
11. Finish knitting, completely fill the owl’s body with synthetic down and tighten the hole.
12. Next you need to tie the beak. Do it like this:
    • Row 1: 4 sc in amigurumi ring (4);
    • Row 2: (sc, p) – 2 times (6);
    • Row 3: (2 sc, p) – 2 times (8);
    • Row 4: (3 sc, p) – 2 times (10).
      

      Amigurumi is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small soft animals and humanoid creatures. Amigurumi are usually knitted from yarn using a simple knitting method - in a spiral and, unlike the European knitting method, the circles are not connected.

      Wikipedia

13. Finish the last row with a connecting stitch. Fill the resulting beak with synthetic down and sew it to the owl's head, right between the eyes.
14. Tie two ears:
    • Row 2: (2 sc, p) – 2 times (8);
    • Row 3: (3 sc, p) – 2 times (10);
    • Row 4: (4 sc, p) – 2 times (12);
    • Row 5: (sc, p) – 6 times (18).
15. Sew the resulting ears to the owl's head.
16. Next, connect the two wings:
    • Row 2: (sbp, p) – 6 times (12);
    • Row 3: (1 sc, p) – 6 times (18);
    • Row 4: (2 sc, p) – 6 times (24);
    • Row 5: (3 sc, p) – 6 times (30);
    • Row 6: (4 sc, p) – 6 times (36);
    • Row 7: half double crochet in 1 loop;
    • Row 8: double crochet in 2 loops;
    • Row 9: 2 double crochets in 3 loops;
    • Row 10: 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet in 4 loops;
    • Row 11: 2 double crochets in 5 loops;
    • Row 12: double crochet in 6 loops;
    • Row 13: half double crochet in loop 7;
    • Row 14: connecting stitch in 8 loop.
17. Sew the resulting wings to the owl's body.
18. Tie the tail according to the following pattern (2 parts):
    • Row 1: 6 sc and connect into a ring (6);
    • Row 2: 6 sts (12);
    • Row 3–5: 12 sc (12);
    • Row 6: (2 sc, y) – 3 times (9), here finish knitting the first part;
    • Row 7: Take the thread from the first part and connect the two tails and continue knitting, knitting 18 sc (18);
    • Row 8: 18 sc (18);
    • Row 9: (4 sc) – 3 times (15);
    • Row 10: 15 sc (15);
    • Row 11: (3 sc, y) – 3 times (12);
    • Row 12–13: 12 sc (12).
19. Sew the tail to the owl's body.
20. Now you need to knit the last two parts - the paws:
    • Row 1: 6 sc in amigurumi ring (6);
    • Row 2: 6 sts (12);
    • Row 3–4: 12 sc (12);
    • Row 5: (2 sc, y) – 3 times (9);
    • Row 6–8: 9 sc (9).
21. Sew the legs to the body.
22. Additionally, you can embroider crosses on the owl’s belly.
23. This is what the finished owl should look like.

    This owl can be knitted in any color scheme

Photo gallery: making a knitted bear cub

Knitted toy: star

To knit a star you will need the following materials:

• yarn;
• hook;
• filler;
• scissors.

Progress:

Video: knitting a voluminous star

A very easy way to make pompoms

In order to make pompoms using this method, you will need the following materials:

• yarn;
• scissors;
• chair with backrest.

Step by step guide:

Advice. If you want to make even more pom-poms at once, find a wider back than the chair. For example, use the headboard.

You can also make hanging elements from wood. These could be, for example, balls or flat contour toys; their blanks will have to be ordered or purchased in specialized stores for creative supplies. All that remains is to paint them and hang them on the mobile. Hanging elements can be made of thick paper or cardboard. It will be even more interesting, due to their lightness they will move often, which will definitely attract the baby’s attention.

Video: making a carousel for a crib

Video: DIY felt children's mobile

Photo gallery: ideas for making mobiles

The marine theme is common in the creation of a variety of things, and a mobile made in this style looks very lively and unusual. Despite the fact that the gray color has always been considered boring and depressing, in products for children, complemented by more “live” colors, it looks harmonious and balances any composition. A mobile made in delicate pastel shades looks very gentle. To make the mobile look more interesting, you can diversify the usual base - a circle with a braid glued to the base of the circle. An interesting idea is a mobile with sheep, created on the basis of the well-known method of falling asleep by counting sheep

Today, a lot of crafts and various toys can be seen made from felt. Today I will tell you how to make a crib mobile with your own hands. For this we will need to cut a ring from plywood with a diameter of about 40 centimeters, but this is at the discretion of everyone, you can make it smaller. We also need felt in different colors: yellow (you can have 2 shades, for the moon and for the stars, so that they are slightly different from each other), blue, white, pink, beige. To make the toys voluminous, you will need filler. For each felt color, select threads of the same color. You will need satin ribbons of various colors and widths. I took ribbons: pink, 5 cm wide; blue, 1 cm wide; white - 0.7; bright pink - 2 cm; beige - 1.5 cm. For decoration you will need buttons, I took buttons in the shape of a flower, in different colors. Well, you also need a black bead for the nose, multi-colored beads for the stars - 72 pieces, a glue gun and threads (iris), with the help of which our details will be held on the ring, I took the yellow color.
We prepare the ring; it needs to be decorated. We take two ribbons - beige and hot pink, distribute them evenly over the ring and wrap the ring, periodically attaching the ribbon with a glue gun.

The ring is ready, let's move on to the toys. Take a moon pattern and cut it out of yellow felt. The moon is approximately 15 cm high.

You will need 2 parts. We sew them together manually using a blanket stitch.

Don't forget to periodically fill the toy with filler.

This is how the moon turned out.

Now let's sew a bear. All patterns are easily found on the Internet.

We cut out the parts from felt. The bear itself will be made of beige felt. There is a white oval on the face, the sliders will be pink.

We put the sliders on the body of the bear and sew the details on both sides.

We place the parts on top of each other and sew them with an overcast stitch.

Fill with filler.

In the same way we sew and stuff the front and back legs of the bear cub.

Now we begin to collect the face. Sew white onto the beige oval.

Sew on the bead and sew on the eyes.

Apply the ears, and then the second beige oval. We sew with an overcast stitch and fill the head with filler.

Sew the body to the head.

Sew an openwork ribbon along the edge of the pink rompers.

Now we sew on the front and back legs.

The bear is ready, we sew it to the moon.

We cut the clouds, 3 white clouds - 6 parts and 3 blue clouds - 6 parts.

We put the parts on top of each other, stitch and fill.

In order to sew the stars, we cut and sew beads onto each star. There will be 6 stars, 12 parts.

We put on the parts, stitch and stuff.

The parts for the mobile are ready. Now, one by one, we first string white clouds onto a thread (iris), making the thread approximately 22 cm. We tie the other edge to the ring, at equal intervals.

Then blue clouds, make a thread of 16 centimeters. And stars - a thread of 28 cm.

Now it's time for the satin ribbons. From a wide pink satin ribbon we cut strips 18 cm long, you need 6 such strips.

Sew the edges of each strip.

Using a machine, sew a seam in the middle of the resulting part using a low thread tension.

]
We tighten the threads to form a bow.