HOW TO MAKE A PUPPET

You will need: A small ball of dense material, a piece of cloth, thick wire, wool yarn, or straw, buttons, beads or cheap sewing buttons, cardboard, pencil, glue, thread and needles, a small bottle, awl, tape, fishing line, cardboard, wooden slats, a pair of scissors.

1. So, having prepared everything necessary to start making dolls. You should start with the head. Take a small ball of hard material, for example, a tennis ball, and wrap it with a thick cloth, tying the ends of the united threads. Next, take the wire and pierce it on the head at ear level and the ends fold in loops.

2. Next you should decorate your head. The eyes, nose and mouth you can draw, make out of cardboard, buttons or beads and glue or sew to head. Hair can be made from straw or thick woolen threads. Divide your hair so that they covered wire-lugs. The head is ready.

3. The doll body can be made from a small plastic bottle, like bottle of shampoo or mineral water is the ideal one. With an awl make four punctures in places of fastening of arms and legs and insert into the holes pieces of wire length of 15-20 centimeters. Once again puncture the bottle on the back of the legs and also insert your wire. The wire may be fixed to the bottle with tape or sticky tape. On the ends of the wire make loops, as in the head.

4. Next, make the arms and legs. Small pieces of fishing line (15-20 centimeters) wrap the cardboard or heavy paper and roll into a narrow roll. You can do the legs and arms of two connected rolls, and then the limb can bend at the knees and elbows. One end of the roll, fasten with tape, the other attach to the body for the wire loops. Hands and feet can be made from colored cardboard.

5. Then you need to sew doll clothes from fabric. Clothing should be loose, so as not to embarrass the movements of the puppets. On the head can wear a hat or decorate your head wreath of flowers and leaves.

6. Our doll is ready. Next you need to make the hardware, managing its movements. Take three wooden planks with the tailor measuring tape, one of them with a length of 25 centimeters, the other 15 inches, and the third is 13 centimeters. First drill a hole at one end, while the second has one hole at opposite ends, and the third with two holes at opposite ends. Now connect the strap to the second and third strips are perpendicular to the first.

7. Connect the fastenings and loops on the fishing line puppet. Fishing line should be of different length: for hands – 50 cm, head is 40 cm, for 90 cm, back – 70 cm. If your child wants to control a puppet, the length of the lines can be proportionally reduced.

Care for Newborn Navel

If everything of your infant is alright without complications, all you need to learn are a few simple rules for the care of the navel.

Try to ensure free access to the umbilical cord of the air, which is the best way to dry the umbilical cord of your infant. It may be recalled that the air bath for a few minutes will be beneficial for booties baby. And you should know that it is wrong to take your infant to swim with the baby pool ring too early.

Make sure that the diaper would not RUB or made a difference to the umbilical cord area, which is really important. In view of that, you should better keep the diaper just below the navel or to use disposable diapers with the notch for the umbilical cord.

We are of the opinion that, while the newborn baby is still remnants of the umbilical cord, it is better not to bathe him in the tub (so as not to immerse the navel in water) and be limited to washing with water only part of the body or by wiping your baby's skin with a damp sponge. Or you could use the baby navel band to protect the umbilical cord. When an umbilical wound heals, you can start to bathe baby in the tub or adult tub.

Don't make the umbilical cord to fall off on purpose, since it should happen naturally without any help. It has been suggested to wipe the umbilical cord with fluids containing alcohol. However, modern research has proven that it is not necessary, the process of drying the umbilical cord can be accelerated only by increasing the time of exposure to air.

After surgical clipping or falling away of the umbilical cord stump for several days in the umbilical wound may cause the formation of transparent yellowish or bloody crusts. They should be removed from the wound because it's the perfect breeding ground for pathogenic microbes. To do this, use hydrogen peroxide. Using a pipette, pour a little peroxide on the crust and Pat dry with a cotton swab or gauze pad. Repeat the procedure several times until the wound clears or until the crust will not be easily separated. Remove their cautious movements with a cotton swab and then lubricate the wound with an antiseptic solution (brilliant green). A similar procedure should be carried out 1-2 times a day.

Make the Home Safer for Your Baby

The first months of life your baby leads a virtually sedentary lifestyle. You can safely leave him in the crib or the playpen, car seat, and baby will be safe to play their toys. Of course, according to this case, you should make everything in the home safe for the baby to have such a pastime. But even if he never for a moment cannot stay without your company, you can always put him in the sling and to perform household duties.

But there comes a time when the little man starts to develop, he has learned somehow to move independently at home, awakening in him the great explorer and it’s impossible to hold it in place. This moment is important to ensure the safety of children at home. So that the situation was sudden for you, better prepare for it in advance and think about purchasing a need to protect your baby's things. Here are some things that you should pay attention to.

Cabinet doors, interior doors are a very interesting child. However, the baby is not able to properly open and close, so easy to pinch your fingers. However, we should not deprive the child of fun to learn new things, such as the process of opening and closing something. In order to do that, but just to protect your child's hands enough to put on a special baby door stopper.

If your home is decorated in this style, you have a lot of glass, transparent interior, mirrors. Mostly furniture has sharp corners that may hurt your baby. So the glass table protectors will be essential for your baby’s safety. And obviously, it does not improve the safety of children at home. Therefore, sharp corners definitely need to put a special silicone or plastic lining. To protect the mirrors and glass there are transparent protective film.

A little advice for safe home for the child – all glass and transparent objects it is better to stick merry and bright pictures because the baby may simply not notice this object and in pain about to hit. And stickers will help to detect the object in time.

Choose the First Pair of Shoes for Your Baby

Urgent need in the shoes of a baby occurs when he's about to do his first steps. Until that time, you can put on all sorts of slippers, booties and thick baby socks on his little feet, and it must be really cute. The type of shoes that your baby need is totally depended on the season and the weather. And modern moms would love to dress their kids fashionable and stylish with toddler princess shoes. But as soon as the baby grows, the choice of footwear should have certain rules.

The signal that it's time to hide the cute knitted booties in the closet and go for this shoes for a child, will be your baby’s first step. This usually happens between 9 and 12 months. Sandals, shoes, shoes or boots model depends on the time of year and the weather outside the window. For walking down the street is enough for one pair of shoes. But you should care and about what the baby will move through the house. Socks and booties you can wear for a child who is going to stand up. But for individual children as house shoes for the first time, it is better to choose ordinary street shoes. They will protect fragile legs from damage.

There are tips that you should know about, as you are going to choose the first pair of shoes for your lovely baby. First of all, the soles of the shoes should be thin and flexible, and the shoes should have thin heels about 5-10 mm, which will help to prevent the falling back, in which you can get a serious head injury. The insole should be removable, so that if necessary you can replace it with another insole. Socks shoes in any case should not be narrowed, because the feet need to grow properly. Shoes "for growth" you can buy, but wearing it ahead of time is not necessary, the leg should not go inside.