How to Assemble a Mobile

Assemble a mobile as a craft project with your child.

Mobiles are not just for a baby's room. Flex your creative muscles by making fashionable mobiles for any room of your house. Mobiles make an engaging craft project for children. You might consider including your children in the assembly of a decoration for their own rooms or the family room. Mobiles can be made from card stock or decorative scrapbook paper. The mobile hanger can be as simple as a wooden dowel or something more creative such as a stuffed animal or straw hat. Assembling mobiles is something the whole family can enjoy together.

Things You'll Need

• Scrapbook paper
• Pencil
• Cutting mat
• Craft knife
• Hole punch
• Heavy duty thread
• Scissors
• Straw hat
• Eye hook

Instructions

1. Draw the outline of a cat, fiddle, cow, moon, little dog, dish and spoon on scrapbook paper with a pencil. These are all of the characters in the classic nursery rhyme, "The Cat and the Fiddle." You will hang these items from a straw hat for a whimsical mobile.

2. Place the scrapbook paper with the drawn outlines onto a cutting mat. Cut out each of the outlines with a craft knife. Punch a hole in the top end of each outline with a hole punch.

3. Cut off a length of thread for each cutout with scissors. Vary the lengths of thread between 4 to 8 inches. Thread one end of the thread length through the punched hole in each outline and tie it in a knot.

4. Punch seven holes in the brim of the straw hat with a hole punch. Space the holes evenly around the brim. Fasten one character through each hole in the brim with the thread and secure it to the hat with a knot.

5. Screw an eye hook into the ceiling where you want to hang the mobile. Hang the straw hat from the hat's drawstring over the eye hook. The cut-out characters will dangle down, providing a whimsical homage to a classic nursery rhyme.

Tips & Warnings

• Select scrapbook paper with colorful, modern prints to give your mobile a contemporary feel.

• Use caution when using a craft knife.

Resources

• Key Art Studio: Assembling Instructions
• Enchanted Learning: Mobiles You Can Make
• Microsoft Office: Create Your Own Mobile Using Clip Art