Crafting for Baby - Pom Pom Baby Mobile from Something Splendid

AAGH! Our Crafting for Baby series is almost over! Can you believe it's the end of the month already? Without further adieu, here's our second to last project... 

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Hi Everyone! I am Emily from somethingsplendidblog.com. I am the red head in the middle. Our blog is about sharing fun crafts, recipes, fun activities, and beauty ideas- all on a budget. We celebrate every holiday to the fullest, throw lots of themed parties, and travel everywhere we can together. All 3 of us are in college, and while we do not have kids now, we do have nieces and nephews that are spoiled with a lot of our creations.

 

 

We have a really cute mobile to share with you here today. Now our idea may not be the most original, but when I perused pinterest left and right for a tutorial and could not find one, I knew this project needed to be out there.

 

Supplies:

-6 pieces of felt (1 for each pom pom)

-Small embroidery hoop

-Glue gun

-Bakers twine

 

 

 

First cut out 1 small circle and 8 big circles from each piece of felt. I freehanded mine, but I made sure to do each color of felt in a different size.

 

 

To create the pom poms, fold a circle in half and in half again and place a small dot of glue to hold it together.

 

 

 

Glue four of the circles to each side of the smaller circle and spread them out to create a pom pom.

 

 

With your embroidery hoop, take your bakers twine and cut 6 pieces of twine in different sizes. Tie them to the hoop around it and then glue your pom poms to each piece of string.

 

 

 

 

 

To finish off the mobile, tie more strings to the hoop to connect at the top and tie a knot. After I took one last piece of twine and tied it to the top of the knot and then to a pin to tack to the ceiling.

 

 

Now you have a super cute baby mobile that you can customize to the colors and gender of your baby.

 

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What a sweet, perfect little mobile! I've falled head over heels for grey, so the pink and grey is just adorable! Thanks, Emily!

Don't forget to check out all of the other posts from our Crafting for Baby series and the Crafting for Baby Link Party. So many good ideas!!

 

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See the Bats in the Belfry Mobile.

Reader Submission Highlights!

I get quite a few submissions, and unfortunately, I'm not able to feature all of them. So today, I am highlighting a some submissions I have received in the past week. Thanks for everyone who submits ideas. I hope I don't offend when I can't show your projects off. That is one of the main reasons I have link parties!!!

There are SO MANY items you can create using cupboard doors (and they all turn out beautiful!) Super Saturday Crafts And More madeover this cupboard door into a sign/keychain holder. Lovely!

With fall around the corner, a leaf mobile is perfect for inside your house! Homework :Be Inspired created these leafs using fabric! They won't crumble to pieces! Darling!

What a fun, flowery necklace this is. I Heart Jenny's Art made it out of scraps!

I don't show many room remodels, but I looking at before and afters! This is a great bathroom makeover! See it at The Little Brown House.

Stop your mouth from watering. These are not as they appear. Suzy's Artsy-Crafty Sitcom created this box of chocolate pin cushions! Seriously, a yummy idea! Very creative!

Easy Baby Mobile and CRICUT GIVEAWAY!!!

I love this idea of a mobile where the object is visible when the baby is looking up. Often, mobiles are cute from the sides (but not neccessarily the bottom - which is most important.) Find out how to make this at Women Who Do It All. Go HERE.

While you are at this great site, Women Who Do It All, enter to win in three different AWESOME giveaways.

First is to win a CRICUT!!!!! I'm not joking!

Next, is to win a $50 gift card at JCPenney Photo Studio.

The third is to win a toe ring from Lia Sophia.

Click on the highlighted word to go to each post, read what you need to do to enter and enter. Yeah for giveaways!!!!