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Build a Heart Mobile

Materials: newspapers to cover work space; white paper; lightweight cardboard; tape; red tissue paper or crepe paper; white glue; twine; wire coat hanger; bells; crepe paper rolls transparent paper. 
Tools: pencil; scissors; foil pan; needle & thread; cello tape; stick to mix.

A MOBILE is a moving sculpture. A puff of air or a gentle touch will make it dance. With bells attached, they will play music with dance. 

Here is how to make a heart mobile for Valentine's Day 


Fold a sheet of white paper in half. Draw half a heart at the fold, making the pattern 6 inches high. Cut it out and unfold the paper.


Tape the heart to a piece of lightweight cardboard and draw a pattern.


Cut out the cardboard around the heart, make four hearts in the same method.


Using the cardboard heart as a pattern, make eight crepe paper hearts following the same directions.


Paste the crepe paper heart on both the sides of the cardboard heart. 


Mix some glue and water in a foil pan - about two tablespoons of each. (Don't squeeze glue into a spoon. Ask an older person for help in guessing how much glue to squeeze out.) Stir the mixture with a straw or a stick.


Measure out enough twine to go all the way around the heart outline. Dip the twine in the glue-water mixture.


Lay the wet twine on the heart outline, going all the way around. Stick the twine on both the sides of the heart. Cut off any twine left over.


Print the letters L O V E about 3 inches tall, on white paper. Cut them out, cut two letters from each for both the sides and glue letter in the center of each heart from both the sides. With a pencil, punch a small hole in the top of each heart.


Take a crepe paper roll for making strings for hanging and decorating a hanger.


Remove the middle joint of the hanger and bend the non-hanging side down, exact opposite to the hanging side or a hook. Then rotate the crepe paper around the hanger, use glue in between to tighten it.


Take another roll of crepe paper and do running stitches through the middle of the crepe paper roll.


Turn the stitched crepe paper round and round. 


Tie bells at the tip of the heart. It will give you a sweet sound when it move by a puff of air.


Thread strings of different lengths through the hearts and tie the strings to the wires as shown in the photograph.