Massage mat with your hands from pebbles, plastic covers, buttons

Everyone knows how useful it is to walk barefoot on the ground, grass. This achieves foot massage, which is very useful, as it stimulates the influx to the active points on the soles, which in turn improves the functioning of the body as a whole. Also, the massage stage is an excellent prophylaxis of flat feet, which affects most of the population. But the opportunity to walk barefoot on the ground and grass is only a few months a year, and not everyone uses it. To get such a foot massage all year round, you can create a massage mat yourself. This is especially true for small children, whose feet are only formed.

For children, such a rug can be made bright and colorful, that would be a little kid was interested in running around it. Massage mat can consist of various elements. For adults, coarser massage elements, such as, for example, plastic bottle caps, can be used. For small children's legs it is better to use more sparing elements, for example, buttons, beads.

There is a variety of options for massage mats. Each of them is discussed in detail below.

Massage mat from smooth pebbles

This massage mat is ideal for a bathroom, as it is not afraid of moisture. How pleasant it is to get out of a warm bath and step on a cool pebble. So, how to make a massage mat yourself with the help of pebbles( pebbles).

For this you need the following materials:

• Smooth pebbles or pebbles;
• Adhesive;
• Base under the mat. If the future rug is intended for the bathroom, then the basis is better to take a rubber mat, which will not get wet. If such a rug in the future will be in the room, then for its basis you can take a thick cardboard.

Now that everything is prepared, the simplest thing is to assemble the carpet. To begin with, it is recommended to lay the pebbles on the base, pick them up in color and size, to imagine what the rug will be in the future. Then the process of gluing itself takes place. Glue pebbles better the smoothest side down. For more detailed study of the process of creating such a rug, you can see the video on the Internet on this topic.

Massage mat from plastic lids

Creating an orthopedic mat with your hands from the lids, you will need to spend a lot of time collecting them. It is desirable that they would be of different colors, then the rug will come out nicer.

What materials are needed for the rug:

• Covers from plastic bottles. The size of the future rug depends on their quantity;
• Thread or line for sewing lids and fixing them to the base;
• An awl or drill with a thin drill;
• Adhesive;
• Base under the mat.

To begin with, you need to come up with a pattern from different colors of the caps, design it on the base. Further in each of them holes are made, in the manner of buttons. The holes can be made either with a warmed awl, or with a drill with a thin drill. Now you can proceed to the formation of the rug. Covers, like buttons, are sewn to the base. Or they can be glued. Then there is no need to do in every hole.

Mat for massage from buttons

This mat will gently massage the feet. It will require:

• Many different buttons and in shape, size and color;
• Sewing thread;
• Basis for the

carpet Making a massage mat, you can recycle the buttons and the rest of the fabric. The basis is better to make not from a thin fabric, but from rather dense. You can pull the fabric on the cardboard. Next on the prepared base are sewn on the buttons, sufficiently tightly to each other. The buttons should be sewn tightly, that they would hold well.

Children's massage mat

Creating a children's massage mat, you need to take care not only of the massage effects of the rug, but also that the mat would be bright and interesting. For a child's version of the rug, you can make a fabric path with various fillers.

Before you make a baby massage mat with your own hands, the photos below can give you the right idea. You can think of anything, the main thing is that it would be fun for the child and at the same time run along such a path with advantage.