The little ones in the house love paper crafts and watch the mobiles that decorate their room move. They are those structures that we hang from the ceiling or in a cradle in which figurines or cartoon characters swing.
In this craft We will learn to make our own mobiles in an easy way and with very common materials that we usually have at home.
Necessary materials:
- Colored cards
- Thread or fine wool to make them hang
- Scissors
- If we have metal or plastic rods we can use them and otherwise we replace them with rods made of rolled cardboard.
The traditional way of doing this type of paper crafts What are the mobiles is with several levels made with rods and from them hang the paper figures. To do this we need a rod wider than the others for the upper part and three or four smaller ones for the other levels.
It is better if we get them to weigh a little so that the mobile has more stability. From the upper rod will hang threads with trimmings and the threads of some lower rod, there is no general scheme for their distribution since we have to compose the mobile according to the things that we hang on it and distribute its weight.
The ornaments can be any figure that we imagine, we can let the children color and paint them as they like while having fun. If we make them of paper they will move more because they weigh little, although we can also make them of wood, cardboard or other materials.
An original idea is to make origami, for example to hang beautiful cranes, boats or other figures that we know how to make.
We can also make the mobile in a circular shape instead of with rods, for this we cut a long strip of paper and stick one end to the other to make it round, from it we will hang the figures of the mobile as we can see in the Photography.
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