Handmade ideas for wall-mounted toys for 0-year-olds
You’ve probably seen wall-mounted toys quite often in childcare settings or kids’ areas at shopping centers, right?
In this article, we introduce DIY ideas for wall-mounted toys designed for 0-year-olds.
These ideas will be helpful both for parents who want to add them to playtime at home and for caregivers who want to increase the variety of toys on site.
We’ve gathered ideas that can be made with familiar materials, so you can arrange them in many different ways with a bit of creativity.
Let’s create wonderful toys that children will love to play with again and again.
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[0-Year-Olds] Handmade Wall Toy Ideas (1–10)
Rolling Slope
A handmade rolling slope toy using cardboard, milk cartons, and capsule toy containers.
It’s a toy that makes you want to roll the ball down again and again as it tumbles along.
If you put a bell or cut straws inside the empty capsule containers, children can enjoy the sounds and colors while playing.
To prevent accidental swallowing, be sure to check that the balls are not damaged before play.
Children can follow the balls with their eyes, watch how they roll, and enjoy various ways of playing that suit their individual personalities.
If caregivers join in, they can have fun while communicating with the children.
Velcro remover
Let’s let kids enjoy that satisfying peel of hook-and-loop fasteners! All you need are a floor mat, some card sleeves, illustrations to put in the sleeves, and hook-and-loop tape.
Stick the tape on the back of the card sleeves with the illustrations inside, and you’re ready to go.
The tape on the card sleeves will attach to a floor mat hung on the wall.
Kids can take them off, stick them on, and arrange them however they like.
You’ve got a highly flexible wall-mounted toy ready to play with!
sensory bag
When it comes to handmade toys you can look at, touch, and listen to, sensory bags are a great choice.
They’re toys you can play with just by putting items like balls, potato starch, and decorative pom-poms together with gel inside a bag.
Using materials in a variety of colors makes the bag even more vibrant.
With features that stimulate the senses—like the soft, squishy feel when touched and the unique sounds—sensory bags are perfect for children’s early childhood activities.
If you’re making one to hang on the wall, try drawing illustrations inside the bag.
Give it a try and make a sensory bag that kids can freely touch and play with.
Handmade Wall-Mounted Toy Ideas for 0-Year-Olds (11–20)
Wall-mounted ball drop
I’ll show you how to make a wall-mounted ball drop.
It’s a toy where you put a ball into a case and enjoy watching it fall.
Materials: a towel stocker, cardboard, bias tape, construction paper, string, glue, packing tape, and colorful balls.
It takes a bit of effort to cut the cardboard that goes inside the towel stocker into a box shape, but please do make it to increase the overall strength of the toy.
Cut the hole for inserting the ball slightly larger than the ball and sew bias tape around the edge.
Even if the hole tears from the balls, you can quickly repair it with vinyl or a clear file, so you can play with it for a long time.
infinite stringing
This is an endless string-pulling toy made from two plastic bottles and raffia tape! Cut each of the two bottles in half, face the sides with the bottle mouths outward, and join them together with duct tape.
Next, tie several colors of raffia tape together to make a single strand, feed it into one bottle mouth and out the other side, then tie the emerging end to the opposite end—and you’re done! By looping the raffia tape, you create a mechanism where the more you pull, the more string comes out.
It’s simple to make, so you can put it together in a short amount of spare time.
Finger play board
Let me introduce a handmade finger-play board.
The idea is to buy a commercially available board and decorate it with your favorite toys and knickknacks.
If you choose items that feel pleasant to the touch or make sounds when moved, children will be able to focus and play.
First, think of the kinds of things they usually seem interested in and pick those out.
When making it, be sure to attach any small parts securely to prevent swallowing, smooth out any splinters on the board, and make adjustments so it can be played with safely.
Exciting Post
This is an exciting “Wonder Post” that lets children feel the fun of taking on challenges and the experience of success.
They can enjoy dropping balls or cards into holes and watching items come out from below.
Use cardboard and empty milk cartons to build the main post.
A handy tip when making it is to leave the tunnel section open so kids can see the balls rolling.
Next, secure everything with packing tape, then attach construction paper.
Finally, add decorations and close the top to complete the post.
Adjust the height so children can stand and play while maintaining their balance.
Try creating this toy to promote fine motor skills by having kids release balls and think about the orientation and height of the cards.