How to Track Baby Growth

Tracking your baby's growth is easy and fun. If you are unable to use the traditional marker-on-the-wall method, there are plenty of alternative ways to keep a record of your child's growth and development.

Things You'll Need

• Piece of fabric or wood, approximately 4 feet tall by 4 feet wide
• Fabric marker
• Ruler
• Glue
• String
• Colored markers or other decorative supplies (optional)

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Instructions

Make Your Baby a Growth Chart (Ages Newborn-2)

• 1

  Lay the fabric or wood on the ground, spread out entirely.

• 2

  Measure two feet on the bottom width, and use a ruler to draw a straight line across the bottom.

• 3

  Use the ruler to make a three-foot line on the height of the fabric or paper, forming an "L" shape with the line you just made for the width.

• 4

  Label the width. Set aside two feet per year, and make a four-inch vertical line to designate "Newborn" (at the very beginning of the line), "Age One" (two feet into the line), and "Age Two" (at the end of the line).

• 5

  Continue labeling the width. Every two inches, make a two-inch line for every month in the year. You should have 11 lines between "Newborn" and "Age One" and 11 lines from "Age One" to "Age Two."

• 6

  Label the height with inches and feet.

• 7

  Start tracking! Once a month, lay baby down on the fabric or wood with his or her feet at the base and mark accordingly.