Baby Activity Gym
This DIY Baby Activity Gym is an easy inexpensive alternative to an expensive activity gym that you would purchase from a store. Change out the toys to keep baby interested during play!
Materials needed:
-
Three
small pool noodles
-
Scissors
-
Ribbon
- Colorful infant
toys
-
A
permanent marker
Instructions:
1. Cut one
pool noodle in half.
2. With
one of the halves of the pool noodles, determine where halfway is and mark it
using the permanent
marker.
3. Using
the end of the other half of the pool noodle, trace the end in order to draw a
circle where halfway
was marked.
4. Repeat
steps 2 and 3 with the second half of the pool noodle.
5. Cut
both circles that were traced on both halves of the pool noodle making sure to
not cut all the
way through the pool noodle but just on one side.
6. Cut the
second pool noodle in half.
7. With
one of the halves of the pool noodle, mark two inches below one of the ends.
8. Using
the end of the other half of the pool noodle, trace the end in order to draw a
circle where two
inches below the end of the first pool noodle was marked.
9. Repeat
steps 7 and 8 with the second half of the pool noodle.
10. Cut
both circles that were traced on both halves of the pool noodle making sure to
not cut all the
way through the pool noodle but just on one side.
11. Using
one half from the second pool noodle, insert the other end of the half that does
not have a circle cut out of
it into one of the halves of the first pool noodle where a circle was cut
halfway.
12. Repeat
step 11 using the second halves from the first and second pool noodle.
13. Cut
the third pool noodle in half.
14. Insert
one end of one of the halves of the third pool noodle into one half of the
second pool noodle
where the circle was cut out two inches from the end.
15. Insert
the other end of the half of the third pool noodle into the second half of the
second pool
noodle where the circle was cut out two inches from the end.
16. Using
the ribbons, attach infant toys to the top of the floor gym in order for them
to hang.
The project above was completed by one of our Master's of
Occupational Therapy students at
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and posted with permission.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and posted with permission.
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