How to Make a Bird Mobile

This beautiful bird mobile is a wonderful gift for new moms and a perfect way to add a little charm to any nursery.

What You'll Need

Materials

  • Bird Mobile template
  • Heavyweight paper
  • Craft knife
  • Screw punch
  • White glue
  • Embroidery floss
  • 1/8-inch armature wire
  • Brown floral tape
  • Pink and green card stock
  • Flower craft punch
  • Leaf craft punch
  • Hot-glue gun and hot-glue sticks
  • Monofilament

Instructions

  1. Print templates onto heavyweight paper. Cut out shapes with a craft knife. Punch holes where marked.

  2. Assemble birds, running white glue along the slits to secure pieces in place. Thread a 6- to 12-inch (depending on how low/high you want your bird to hang) length of embroidery floss through each hole.

  3. Cut 12- to 18-inch lengths of 1/8-inch armature wire with wire clippers. Wrap with brown floral tape. Repeat with a couple different lengths of armature wire. Attach 3 to 4 lengths together to form branches.

  4. Punch flowers from pink card stock. Punch leaves from green card stock. Punch a hole in the center of each flower and bend petals upwards.

  5. Double-knot embroidery floss a quarter inch from one end, then cut 2 inches down from knot, creating a stamen (knot and above) and a stem (below the knot). To stiffen embroidery floss, dip it into glue and run through your fingers to spread glue down floss; let dry.

  6. Feed the "stems" through the holes in the center of the petals to create small flowers. Hold a flower upside-down by stem, put a dab of hot glue onto the underside of the hole, and add a leaf. Repeat with all punched flowers.

  7. Use floral tape to attach flowers to branches. Tie birds to branches, balancing against each other, to finish mobile. Tie a length of embroidery floss or monofilament to the center of the mobile to hang.

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