Bright and cheerful bird mobile

Bright and cheerful bird mobile
Bright and cheerful bird mobile

In a flash, the colorful mobile conjures up an autumn atmosphere for any child’s room or a living room.

MATERIALS

Have ready at hand:

  • Construction paper or cardboard for the birds in blue, green and yellow
  • Construction paper or cardboard for the leaves in warm autumn colors (brown and yellow tones, dark red and olive green)
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • 5 corks
  • 5 blue or green tacks
  • 10 little googly eyes (approx. 4mm diameter)
  • Thread in brown or green or nylon thread
  • Sewing needle

INSTRUCTIONS

How to create a bright and cheerful bird mobile

    To make the birds:

    1. Use the pattern to draw the parts of the bird onto the cardboard.
      Tip: You can either print out the colored motif right away or you can you use the black and white motif as a stencil and draw on the colored cardboard.
    2. Cut out the motif along the lines.
    3. With the PowerPritt Stick glue wings, a beak and googly eyes onto the corks.

    To make the mobile:

    1. Use the pattern to draw the leaves onto the cardboard.
      Tip: You can either print out the colored motif right away or you can you use the black and white motif as a stencil and draw on the colored cardboard.
    2. Cut out the motif along the lines.
    3. Take the thread and cut it in five different lengths.
    4. Fasten one end of each of the threads to the top of a bird cork with a tack.
    5. Now glue the leaves to both sides of the thread with Pritt Stick.
    6. Take a sewing needle and pull the other end of the thread through the roof of the mobile. Finally, attach and fix the threads with a double knot and PowerPritt Stick.

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