Friday, July 22, 2011

Butterfly mobile


  • 10 or 12 coffee filtered pre made Butterflies.
  • Light string or heavy cotton
  • Very thin wood in various sizes.
    • Wood can be doling or for a more natural look twigs
  1. Cut the string / thread so that the ends of the body pipe cleaner are able to be attached 
  2. Use a round turn and two half hitches for tying the string to the body pipe cleaner.
  3. Tie another longer piece of string to the string that is going between the ends of the body pipe cleaner.
  4. Place this attached butterfly to one side and finish tying the rest of the butterflies. 
  5. Sort out the pieces of wood.  
    1. The larger pieces will be going to the top of the mobile.
  6. Tie the butterflies onto the smaller pieces of wood.
  7. Again with round turns and two half hitches attach one piece of the next size smaller wood to the larger piece. 
    1.  Remember that both ends of the larger piece of wood should have a piece of wood attached.
  8. Starting from the smallest piece of wood - on each piece of wood find where the balance point is.  
    1. It is at the balance point that the string between both pieces of wood will be attached.
  9. now that every piece of wood has something tied to it and all in in balance and tied tightly in place with a double over hand knot tie a loop in the stop piece of string.
      1. This loop will be hooked over something on the roof.
      2. Double check that the wood or butterflies will not be in someone's way as either the butterflies move with the breezes or the people move around the room


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