Happy day, my crafty friends!! It’s time for another Make and Take craft with Elli!!! Yay!!
This week we are creating a RAINBOW Mobile!!! Complete with clouds and stars and Of Course a Rainbow!!
Follow along in the video below:
For this craft we will choose a few colors of paper strips!
To achieve the magical arch of a rainbow we are going to offset the papers by the tiniest bit. The more you offset them the bigger the arch will be!! Staple the papers so that they are all caught together, longwise!
We’ll do the same thing on the other side, offsetting to create an arch! After you staple this side, trim the edges to have an even rainbow!
Let’s start building our mobile!!
Punch holes into the center of your top-most arch as well as on either side of it.
We’ll take our thin silver thread and tape it first on the underside of this arch, threading it through the center. Loop the thread around and back through the same hole to create tension! This will allow us to add a balancing piece later on!
Loop your thread through either side of your rainbow as well! We’ll add clouds and stars to these threads later!
Now we’ll create that center balancing piece! Punch three holes— a center and either side!
Loop the thread connected to the center of the rainbow through the center of the white strip. We’ll pull it around and through either side so it stays balanced! It should come out the center top and be pulled taught, knotting a loop at the very end! Leave some room so we can attach a sun later!
Take another length of twine and loop to through both of the side-holes.
You don’t need to worry about connecting it to the center string, it will balance itself when we add the clouds!
Now let’s add the most fun bits!!
Star punches of any color can be attached with a bit of double-sided tape, sandwiching the string between two stars! If you’d like you could also create raindrops from any tear-shaped punch!
These die-cut scalloped circles are PERFECT for clouds!! Cut them in half and attach the string under a pop-dot between the clouds!
Add in a sun if you’d like!! Offsetting the two colors of sun shapes creates a beautiful burst of sun-rays! Remember to fit the string between these pieces so you can see both sides!
There you have your very own Rainbow Mobile!!!
Isn’t it just MAGICAL!!
It’s so fun to watch it spin all the clouds around the rainbow, stars and all!!
Thank you so much for creating alongside us today!!
This craft is so wonderfully simple you can recreate it in any way you like the most!! If you’d like to brainstorm how to make this perfectly-yours, come by the shop and pick our brains for some fun ideas!!
Happy crafting!!
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