DIY Nursery Mobile

Once Alex and I found our bedding it was on to the fun part of creating our Nursery; accessories and decorations baby! Possibilities are endless when it comes to adding colorful and stimulating decorations to a Nursery that we honestly had to make a top-five list since we didn't want to crowd the room with too much stuff. While this particular project wasn't at the top of our list I couldn't help but make it first!
   
While researching and finding inspiration of Nurseries that other parents had made we came across a similar accessory in almost all. A crib mobile. We later learned that our bedding set actually had a matching mobile that was not available the day we went to the store but actually ventured back the next week to check it out. At $24.99 the mobile itself was pretty cute just not something we had to have I guess. It has 1 alligator, 1 bee, 1 giraffe and 1 turtle and spins around while playing music making this a great addition to the room. The biggest issue we had with the mobile though was the fact that it was made to attach to the crib and the frame was plastic.
   
The matching crib mobile:
   

While we really wanted to add a mobile to our Nursery, we ended up opting out of getting this crib mobile and decided to make a DIY mobile that we hung in the corner of the room. Here is our step by step process of how to make your own mobile...

   

What you'll need:

• 9 pieces of 12"x12" cardstock
• 2" circle punch
• small hole punch
• 8mm jump rings
• needle-nose pliers
• hot-glue gun
• 2 embroidery hoops (8" and 6")
• fishing line
• 1 screw hook

   
It took me a good solid week to make this but I found out that it would have been made a lot faster if I had bought a 2" circle punch. Not being pressed on time though I decided to hand draw my 2" circles and cut them out by hand.
   

How to make it:

1. Cut 189 circles (I know it's a lot!) with either a 2" circle punch or by drawing and cutting by hand.
2. Punch holes about 1/8" from the top and bottom of 7 circles.
Note: For the top and bottom circle, only punch one hole.
3. String together the 9 circles using jump rings and repeat until you have made 12 strands.
4. Hot-glue the top circle of each strand to the 8" embroidery hoop; space them about ¼" apart.
5. Make 9 more strands and repeat with 6" hoop.
6. Glue fishing line to three equidistant spots on the inside of each hoop.
7. Hang from hook, with 6" hoop about 5" lower than 8" hoop.
   

The Result:

Our mobile that matches the colors within the Nursery. We choose to do three different shades of both blue, brown and green and hang them from darkest to lightest. All in all we absolutely love our mobile!