how to keep a baby entertained for long periods of time.

I read in a book that it is important to change out your baby's mobile frequently so their little brains stay stimulated. This weekend, it was time to give him a new mobile so we decided to make one. He loves black and white contrast so we took white cardboard and cut different sized circles out of it. We then drew on the circles with black sharpie markers. I taped a little tab on the back side of the circle and hung little alligator clips to the end of the strings, connecting the tabs to the strings so the circles were face down.

This is an adult's eye view:



Baby's eye view:



And the result? A happy, entertained baby! He loves this mobile and will talk and laugh at it for as long as we let him. And the best part is we can change the circles out when he needs new things to look at.

We are going to make one for my office and one for Nick's so he has one wherever he goes.