Sometimes purchasing a new toy for your baby is just not possible. After taking into account all the monthly payments that need to be made, finding that little bit extra can be hard.
However, as Pampers® Institute expert and educational psychologist, Tshepiso Matentjie says: “Play and interaction with parents is important for brain, social, physical and emotional development in babies.”
Pampers® has come up with a solution to this dilemma. By making use of the items that you already have in your home, and your Pampers® Active Baby-Dry nappies, you don’t need to buy toys for your child to be able to play and learn.
Nappy changing time provides you and your child with some uninterrupted bonding time. The new Pampers® Active Baby-Dry nappies feature a host of new characters – the Pampers® Buddies. Use the Buddies to teach your child colour, animals and texture.
Here is a creative idea of how to make an educational toy from household items:
Animal Pompoms
What you need
- Wool in different colours
- Cardboard
- Scissors
- Buttons and beads for eyes
How to make the pompoms
- Draw a 2cm circle on a piece of cardboard then draw a bigger circle around it. Cut out the bigger circle– Keep in mind that the size of the cardboard that you use will determine the size of the pompom.
- Cut a slit to the inner circle then cut out the inner circle. At this point the cardboard should look like a ring..
- Wrap wool around the cardboard ring until you are satisfied with the thickness. It’s important to leave some wool for later.
Optional: For the manufacture of two-coloured pompoms, first wrap the ring in one colour of wool, and then the second.
- Once you are done wrapping the wool, cut the wool around the outer edge.
- The wool should now be look like the lower image on the right. Take the extra wool you saved and wrap it around the loose wool. Your pompom is now complete.
Making different animals
Chick - Use glue to stick on two black eyes (use beads or buttons) and two cut out triangles to form a beak.
Cat– Glue on ears, a tail, button-eyes and a nose. (The ears and tail can be made from paper)
Frog – Glue two legs and two white circles – which will be the eyes – to your pompom. In the middle of the white circles draw (or glue) two black beads. This will make big, expressive eyes. Use a small length of black wool to form a mouth.
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