DIY children's rug

Making a children's rug with your own hands is quite simple. All that is needed for this is material, desire and opportunity. Below we suggest you familiarize yourself with some of the models of these rugs for children.

Bedside braids

The purpose of these small rugs is to protect your feet from the cold floor and have a slight massage effect. The shapes of carpets can be varied - they are both round and rectangular. It all depends on your taste. You can read more about massage mats for children in another article.

To make such a bedside rug for your feet, it is enough to perform a few simple steps with some old knitted thing.

First you need to cut the thing into wide strips of the same length. For edging, fold the shreds along the long side. Divide them into three piles - in the future we will make three ribbons out of them.

We sew the top of the strips and weave the braid to the very end. After that, it must be rolled up in a spiral, sewing on the sides.

For a long service of such a patchwork rug, it is better to sew on dense fabric from the seamy side.

Tactile tracks or rugs

Designed for the prevention of flat feet in young children.

The child's foot begins to form from the first days of his life, and this process ends by 6-7 years. In this period of time, we can positively contribute to the normal development of the child's legs with the help of these rugs.

For toddlers, paths with small dimensions are perfect: 40x60 cm. Material: everything that comes to hand. It is desirable, of course, to use jeans as a basis - it is quite durable. You can come up with any design using beads and leftover fabric.

You can make two different types of such rugs: single-layer and in the form of filled bags.

The pouches are usually filled with cereals or peas. In order for the cereal not to crumble, you can additionally use adhesive tape - it holds well.

Single-layer rugs are used in conjunction with decor in the form of stones, flowers or rings. Round stones are sewn into them.

Newborn rugs

They help the child's development and are very comfortable in everyday life.

Such products are used as a trainer for training memory, concentration and learning to think logically. As the main elements, you can take the simplest figures that come to mind.

Also, replaceable elements, which can be thought over additionally, will help parents bring fairy-tale characters to life with the help of staging fairy tales or performances for their child.

The product is usually made round. However, do not dwell on this, it is better to complete the original design of the rug - more complex. Thus, your kid will be able to learn to perceive non-standard elements, learning the world through play.

It is better to choose the material for the craft from natural fibers, for example, natural cotton. Synthetics can cause allergic reactions in a child.

For ease of use, you can equip the baby product with a zipper or adhesive tape - so you can get the filler out of the mat without any problems. For the interior, natural wool or another equally dense material would be ideal.

Applique decor is a great idea

Anything can be here:

Cars, airplanes, tanks.
Asterisks, snowflakes, rainbow.
Animal world.

Any idea that comes to your mind can easily become something big with the help of such a simple idea.

Knitted rug options

From the mass of options for knitted rugs, we will choose, perhaps, the most interesting and easy. You can read a more detailed description of how to do this below. In the meantime, we'll tell you what you need for this.

Every housewife has several unnecessary holey tights and socks - with their help we will make a useful product. It will take about 15-20 tights and the same number of socks for this business.

The result is an interesting design of a carpet made of unnecessary things, consisting of a four-sided chain with a total length of more than 12 meters.

During knitting, the whole process is done automatically, so you can watch TV in parallel.

Volumetric pom-pom rug

Children will especially like this option for floor decoration. After all, this is not only a beautiful decor, but also a soft toy. In order to get a cool rug, you need to make pompons and a base. The material can be: fabric fibers, bags or yarn. This mat can be used for baby crawling.

Not only beautiful rugs can be made from pompons. They are also used to make pillows, blankets, bedspreads. Acrylic yarn is the best option for this. Using the simplest embroidery patterns will simplify your work and save your nerves.

You can read more about this unique specimen below.

Sensory

This rug helps the child perceive the world around him through sensations. There should be new unusual and his favorite soft toys. Also, a variety of stripes are welcome, which he could touch with his hands.

With the help of such a product, the baby will learn to concentrate his attention and develop independently, while being in constant motion.

Massage

There are many options for creating such a carpet. This can be a buttoned mat, a gymnastic version, a walking or hardening option.

Such a little thing is a base made of some material and elements protruding above the surface. In the store you can find rubber products with pimples - this is the massage mat. The sensations when walking on it will depend on the height of the protruding parts.

The advantages of this carpet:

Correct development of the baby's foot.
Prevention of flat feet.
Improving the functioning of the immune system.
Stimulation of speech development.
Relaxes and relieves stress.

We do it ourselves: master classes

We will tell you how to make some interesting do-it-yourself rugs.

Knitted from tights

So, above we talked about what it is and what material for the craft is required. Now let's try to describe in more detail how to make this quite interesting carpet design element.

After assembling all the necessary material (tights, socks, needle, thread), we proceed to the production of the carpet.

Step one - cutting off the socks of the tights.
Step two - cutting the tights into strips.
The third step is to make a ring from the cut part. You should get several of these rings.
The fourth step is loops. A ring with 2-3 turns in the crosshair is wound around the thumb and forefinger.
The fifth step is to use the other three fingers of the hand. Having wound the next ring on them in several turns, we throw it over the thumb and forefinger with a crosshair.
The sixth step is to remove the bottom loop from the thumb, and the top loop remains in place. Do the same with the index finger.
Seventh step - do this until the tights and socks run out.

Here is such an interesting and very easy technology.

Pompom mat

Making pompons

There are several ways:

Using the table legs. The yarn is wound on the legs, tied with threads. It is cut in the middle between the dressings. The yarn is straightened and the pom-poms are trimmed. Thus, you can get a huge number of pompons.
With a fork. This item is used to make small pom poms. A piece of thread must be left for tying. So, we wind the yarn. The ends must be crossed and tied. We cut the side windings, and we cut the ball itself. This method is good for a large product. As a result, neat dense balls are obtained, which can be used to make a rug in the shape of a bear, butterfly or flower.
Using cardboard. Two circles of the same size are drawn. Cut out a small circle in the middle. A thread is placed between them and crossed. She is the tying link of the pompom. The yarn is then wound tightly over the template. Please note that the stiffness of the pom-pom ball depends on the thickness of the winding. The threads are cut from above, the cardboard templates are moved apart, the ends are pulled together, and a pompom is tied. This method is cheap, but laborious.
With a tool. Templates of various sizes can be purchased in specialized stores. The yarn is wound and cut to form a ball. Such a device is quite expensive, but it pays for itself.

To check the density of the balls, they must be compressed. If the shape remains the same, then the pompom can be used. The ends of the threads that you use for dressing should not be cut - they are needed to tie to the warp.

Preparing the base

To do this, you can purchase a special canvas, a net for greenhouses or knit a sirloin mesh made of polypropylene.

And now we directly turn to the manufacture of the rug. Let's make a beautiful product in the shape of a bear.

To do this, we will first perform a test pompom.

We measure the dimensions

Now we will draw the following elements on the fabric:

The torso is in the form of a trapezoid.
Hind oval feet.
Two semi-oval - front legs.
The circle is for the head.
Two semicircles for the ears.

According to the templates, we knit the patterns and sew all the parts to the fabric base with the exception of the body. Sew the eyes and nose to the head, to the front paws - 4 fingers in the form of circles. On the body, you need to tie 9 rows of pompons in the following order: 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 8, 9, 8. Next, you need to sew all the parts.

This principle can be used for almost every animal or insect.