Materials:
a color printer
cardstock
thread
a needle
scissors
a bamboo skewer (or a straight stick)

Directions
1.  Print off the mobile (both front and back) onto the cardstock.  You can also print it onto paper & then glue it to cardstock.

hortencegiles.pdf  (448K)
hortencegilesback.pdf  (436K)
 

2.  Cut out all of the pieces.

3.  Glue the pieces together. (back to back)

4.  Using the needle & thread poke a hole through the top of each piece and tie some thread to it.  For mine I tied a few snowflakes together, but you can use whatever order you like. Experiment. (If you are making ornaments you can tie a loop and hang on the tree!  Yay, you are done.)  For the mobile proceed to step 5.
 

5.  Tie a long piece of string to the middle of the skewer.  Then proceed to tie all of the cutouts to the skewer.  You will have to experiment with positioning so that the weight is distributed evenly (it will take some fiddling to balance it.) 

6.  Hang it in a place where it has room to move!

You can also download the "Fall Colors Mobile" here (follow directions as above):
mobilefront.pdf (532k)
mobileback.pdf (540k)

*All images ©2003 Keri Smith

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