DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Farm Mobile

This is a simple mobile made up of printed farm animals with a barn in the center. Most of the mobile pieces are made so they fold at the top.

This allows you to use them as models or place holders instead of as a mobile.
Just colour, cut them out and fold them in half.
Do not glue.
They will stand up on a table or desk. You can even take a large piece of cardboard and
- Decorate as a farm (pinecone trees, glue on sand for a path, small rocks as boulders, crumpled up tissue paper or construction paper as grass, blue paper pond, toothpick fence, etc).
- Place the folded model animals and barn around your cardboard as a finishing touch. This is a great way for older children to use their creativity with the same template pieces as the younger kids use for the mobile.

a printer,
a piece of paper... I always prefer to use a heavy paper (like construction paper), but it isn't necessary.
some crayons, paint, markers or pencil crayons,
scissors,
glue,
string or yarn.

EITHER
small paper plate or circle of cardboard (old cereal boxes are a good source of cardboard) AND two straws or sticks

OR
a paper towel roll

OR
an ice cream pail lid and hole punch

Print out the template of choice. You can print out as many as you want to fill up your mobile.
Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces along the dotted lines.
Fold the template pieces in half and glue the back and front together. Let dry.
Poke a small hole in the top of each piece and tie with yarn or string to the mobile you've chosen

Paper Towel Roll Mobile: Decorate your paper towel roll as desired: You can use paint, paper, stickers, etc to match your theme. string each mobile piece from the paper towel roll Put a piece of string or wool right through the paper towel roll to use to hang from the wall or ceiling	(this isn't this theme, but the method works the same)
Criss Cross Straws Mobile: You can let the kids decorate the circle/paper plate with paint, markers or stickers. Poke a hole through the center of the paper plate or circle of cardboard Arrange the straws in an X shape and tie with wool Tie a long piece of wool to the center of the X. Slide the circle of cardboard or paper plate onto the wool (through the hole you made) Tape the straws to the plate to keep them in their X shape and to help them balanced String each mobile piece onto one of the straws (and in the center if desired)	(this isn't this theme, but the method works the same)

Lid Mobile: Decorate your lid as desired: You can use paint, paper, stickers, etc to match your theme. Use a hole punch or sharp pencil to poke holes all the way around the lid at equal distances (you need as many holes as you have mobile pieces String each mobile piece onto one of the holes you've made String another piece of yarn from each of the holes, going up to the ceiling. Tie all of these pieces together to make a knot you can hang your mobile with.	(this isn't this theme, but the method works the same)

Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).