i have a new friend who lives in our neighborhood and we have gone for walks together a few times. she has a double stroller for her two boys and it came with handles attached for kids to hold on to as they walk next to the stroller. it's genius!
love rarely rides in our stroller anymore and usually just walks next to the stroller. i have discovered that it's hard to hold onto a child's hand and push a stroller at the same time, so i decided that we needed handles on our stroller as well. i had several ideas...all which involved sewing some handles with cute fabric.
however, i decided i did not want to haul out the sewing maching and sewing supplies for such a little project. besides, i'm busy and would rather do it in a way that didn't involve sewing at all. i brainstormed about what else i could use to make them, and then it came to me - cheap elastic headbands.
i picked up a pack at the store (maybe you even have some laying around your house!), got out my duck tape (it happens to be neon pink...still left over from my color-coded organization when we moved), and within five minutes, i had four stroller handles.
all you have to do is wrap a piece of duck tape around the headband in one spot (to make the part for the child to hold on), loop it through your stroller, and walks just got easier and safer!
i wanted to use what i had (the neon pink), but they make duck tape in so many colors and patterns now that you could make them really cute.
we have two strollers. one is a lightweight single stroller and the other is a baby jogger city select single/double stroller. i attached two handles on each stroller...one on each side. i purposely used two different colors so that i can tell love "hold onto the blue handle" or "hold onto the purple handle" depending on which side of the stroller i want her to be on (away from the street).
these handles have made our walks much easier and love actually really enjoys (usually) holding onto the handle. jobot even tried out the handles when we walked at the zoo the other day, and he did really well. i also really like that they are elastic rather than just cotton sewed into a handle because i think the elastic of the headband absorbs some of the movements of the child so the stroller isn't constantly being impacted by their movements.
so, there it is. very simple.
* updated to add...today i took one of the handles off the stroller and looped it through the shopping cart at the grocery store. it was a huge help and i will be making another to keep in the diaper bag just for the store.
(by the way...the baby jogger city select is seriously the best stroller in the world. it can be a single or a double, pushes easily, has a lot of storage, and is very compact for a double stroller. we love it! i am not being paid to say that either, it's just my opinion.)
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