The Visual Mobiles are presented to the baby who is not yet reaching with purpose or grasping with intent. They are hung out of touching distance, but not so far away that the baby cannot focus on them.
We sell these mobiles as kits to reduce postage costs. Kits contain all elements of the mobile prepared and ready to hang on the dowels (you provide the dowel, except for the Munari dowels which are provided). A set of instructions for assembling and hanging is included with each mobile kit. Prices reflect the cost of materials used, as well as time to prepare each element. If you would like us to prepare the whole mobile so that it reaches you ready to hang, please just ask!
The Munari Mobile is the first mobile in the Visual Mobile Series presented to the child at between 3 and 6 weeks of age. It is designed according to a precise formula based on the size of the glass sphere (please note that we are currently unable to source the glass spheres from our suppliers. We are now producing this mobile with a sphere wrapped in white satin ribbon, similar to the ones in the Gobbi Mobile) This appeals to the innate sense of order and mathematical relationships that every human being demonstrates from the very beginning of life. The mobile is delicately counterbalanced and moves slowly and gently to offer the young infant an opportunity to develop his skills of visual focusing and tracking. The black and white shapes provide the greatest visual contrast for the infant's limited visual perception, in recognition of the fact that their ability to perceive colour is not fully developed at this stage. This mobile should be hung fairly close to the child since he is unable to focus his vision on objects that are far away - however it should not be so close that he can touch it.
$35 - kit includes specially prepared dowels for hanging
The Octahedron Mobile is the second mobile in the Visual Mobile Series, presented to the child when he becomes habituated to the Munari and to match his developing visual perception skills. Attraction to novelty is a tool of nature which directs the infant to seek out knowledge which they have not previously had about their world. The octahedrons are designed to lay the foundations for future understandings of geometric proportion, relationships and patterns. They are named for the ancient Greek philosopher, Plato. The octahedrons are primary coloured to respond to the baby's growing ability to perceive colour (with red being the easiest and blue the most difficult). Presented between 5-8 weeks of age.
$25 - comes as a kit with everything you need to assemble, you provide the dowel
The third mobile in the Visual Mobile Series, the Gobbi Mobile is a set of small spheres in graded shades of one colour. This mobile is presented to infants between 7 and 10 weeks old. It represents a further step in the development of the child's visual sense, in which she can now perceive more subtle variations in colour. The mobile is named for Gianna Gobbi, an Assistant to Infancy trained by Maria Montessori. Each sphere is individually wrapped in satin ribbon which, when suspended near a window, catches and reflects the light beautifully.
$45 for 5 spheres - comes as a kit with everything you need to assemble, you provide the dowel
This is a handmade, felt version of the Spiel and Holz Harmony Wings Mobile. The original mobile is made from stained wood and contains more elements and colours. We chose to modify this beautiful counterbalanced mobile to fit with the Montessori principle that more than 8 elements in any "work" presented to the infant/toddler is inappropriate for their sensory capabilities. Also, we have represented the colours as they appear on the light spectrum, to build in an element of indirect preparation for future learning.
$35 - comes as a kit, you assemble with thread provided
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