A simple and original idea to keep a baby distracted This summer is to make yourself an original rattle made with objects that you can find on the beach. Many times when we travel, we cannot take our son's entire repertoire of toys, so we must give free rein to our imagination to make toys with whatever we have on hand.
With a simple plastic bottle, some rice and beautiful elements that you find on a beach, you can make a baby a homemade toy with which you will be distracted for a good time: a homemade beach rattle.
You will need a plastic bottleYou can do it with anyone you have on hand but think that your baby should hold it with the little hands. The neck of the bottle should be wide enough to pass the objects we want to introduce.
To make the beach rattle we will need:
- plastic bottle
- funnel
- rice (or any other small food, such as lentils)
- elements that you have found on the beach: scallops, shells, mollusks, sticks, conch shells, pebbles ...
With the help of the funnel we will pass the rice, fill the 1/4 bottle. Then we will add our beach objects.
This game is very practical because we can take it with us wherever we want, your baby will love it because in addition to making noise, it hides small treasures that will appear as the bottle moves.
You can play with your son to look for a specific object, to count them ... If your child is starting to crawl, with the bottle you can stimulate them to chase her on the ground while she rolls.
If you want to see more photos of the process you can visit the website where I got the idea: baby.co.uk
