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DIY nursery Mobile

I am continuing on with sharing parts of the nursery today.  If you missed the previous posts, you can check out the board & batten squares wall treatment and the nautical dresser makeover.  Today, I wanted to share how I made the mobile for over the crib.  Since the nursery is fish themed, it definitely seemed appropriate that I make a fish themed nursery mobile to go with it.  Making the mobile is so easy!

DIY mobile

Supplies needed:

  • Colored cardstock
  • Fishing line (or clear thread)
  • Large embrodery hoop
  • Ribbon
  • Tape or glue

I began by weaving the thread around the hoop to create a sort of grid to hang the fish from.  When I originally started this project, I thought it would be fun to have “bubbles” in the middle of the mobile, but it turned out to be too heavy.  It worked, but I really didn’t want something heavy to be hanging over the top of my baby’s crib.  Without the bubbles, the mobile weighs practically nothing and I definitely feel better about that.

DIY fish nursery mobile

Once the grid is in place, I cut various lengths of string with the longest in the middle and the shortest on the outside of the hoop.  I cut all of the fish out using my cricut explore machine which made it really easy.  I taped the fish onto the string by putting two fish together with the tape and thread in the middle.  I also made it so that all of the green fish were together in the middle, then the orange fish around them, finished off by using the blue fish.

Fish mobile

Last, I added the ribbon to the hoop by tying it in four different places and then attaching it to a longer piece that hangs from the ceiling.  It is all really simple knots but definitely secure.  In the end, I love the pop of color hanging above the crib and think it looks pretty cool when the heater turns on and the fish look like they are swimming around.

 

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