The Montessori Inspired Mobiles - all about mobiles

This post will speak about the Montessori mobile's, how to make them and other easy alternatives for these mobiles.
The Munari Mobile:
It is a black and white mobile that appeals an infant's vision. Read here for more information and here for tutorial. Another tutorial over here.
As this mobile seems a bit difficult to make, I recommend making out mobiles that are black and white in color. The simple ones severs the best. You must not over burden the baby with complicated designs and patterns. Few simple ones that I liked are:


Simple tutorial and free printable are available here.

The Octahedron mobile:
You can find best information and tutorial for this mobile here. Making this mobile is simple and fun.

The Gobbi mobile:
Info on this mobile here and tutorial here. Check out my post here for more ideas on this.

The Bell mobile:
Some practical info here.

The Ring mobile:
Visit my post here

Butterflies/ Humming Bird/ Whales mobile:

You can find some amazing bird mobile ideas below:

1. This is pretty simple. Just draw/ print the template from here and go ahead.
2. A fun and economical cloth bird mobile tutorial here (I recommend using any available scrap cloth.)
3. If your interested in some sewing:

• A simple yet good cloth bird mobile here
• A complex yet adorable cloth bird mobile here

See here and buy here .


Primary colors mobile:
Buy here and my version here.
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These weeks...(week 33 and 34)

I have absolutely no idea what to write today. These two weeks Fatima had little new indoor activities. We have been traveling a lot and she have been a part of our journey, sometimes silently sometime joyfully, observing. When at home she had her treasure basket, her new board book and almost anything and everything available in her reach to play and learn from.
She is on her way to crawl....hoping soon she will be crawling all around.
She loved it so much at the two holy mosques. I was afraid if she would get disturb with the crowd there but she convinced me on more time...she like people.
We are more focused these days about her nutrition and weaning related stuff. My post on Baby Food here.
Looking forward to some new activities....

what are you playing with? (week 31&32)

With the end of eight month Fatima's Physical development is not disappointing. She is able to move from sitting to crawling position. Even though she dont crawl technically but she scoots backward in the commando position. Rolling over and mini push ups is her way these days. Pulling up and standing is something she wants to do all the time. There is so much movement that she hardly stays still. She is got a new book of her own, a board book with pictures of birds in it. This is not a vocabulary lesson, its just that she shows interest in books.

Check out these amazing new toys in her toy section:

These are actually the models of auto mobiles sold by the company my husband works with. These are elegant and so metallic. She spends quality time playing and exploring these metal toys.

This week she enjoyed cooled breeze from red sea- just getting close to nature.

Babbling continues... (Week 29 & 30)

Papers are of a great attraction to infants and toddlers. The ripping, turning and crushing sound of papers is so much tempting. Fatima has always been looking for papers to play with. We dreaded that she would eat them off while play, so they were kept away from her. But now we give papers to play after observing her so much love towards them. Yes! she did try to eat them away. Under supervision, she plays with a papers for like ages.

There are some new treasures added to her treasure basket. These are little bottles and a tiny cushion. Looking forward to what else can get in..

She is joining us in family breakfast and lunches. It is great time to make her see others eating and to imitate them. She has her own little plate and few pieces of chapati (flat bread) to take her lessons. Even though she is turned 7 months old, she never really showed interest in feeding her self during her meals. So we thought she must get an opportunity to practice weaning. Chapati and other finger foods are best to work with. Other fun stuff can be Murmure (puffed rice) and different kind of breads. Puffed rice are best to work on that pincer grasp. Likewise mashed food is great to encourage sensorial stimulation. Though playing with food must be avoided there can be a little sensorial work.

Puffed Rice

Babbling continues...there are lots of sounds......dadada, mamama, bababa,nanana..... and so many others.

There was also some audio addition this week...3 tiny sound shakers, one filled with rice, second with  sugar and the third one with black gram.

Sound Bottles