L and I made these leaf prints back in October for the space above Baby J's change table. This picture is not the best but they are made up of a rainbow of beautiful fall colors.
I decided I wanted to make a butterfly mobile for above Baby J's bed like the one in the Micheal Olaf catalogue. When I started doing some research on the computer I came across this SUPER COOL idea. These butterflies are all made out of a recycled milk jug!! All you do is cut out pieces from a washed milk jug and tape them on top of the butterfly templates found on this blog. L colored in the colors with permanent markers and then I traced the outlines with a black marker. We cut them out and wound a thin pipe cleaner around the body using a couple beads for the abdomen and head.
The super tricky part was trying to balance them to hang. I ended up cutting four small pieces of invisible thread and glue gunning them to the top side of each of the wings. I tied the four pieces together and then tied a longer line on to hang them. Super complicated but they balance perfectly and are really stable.
The milk jug butterfly mobile was a hit with both L and Baby J!
3 comments:
Love the butterfly mobile. I also love how you have L involved in projects for J. I am dying to know how you did the leaf prints, they are beautiful!
What a cute idea! I love the fact that you involved your older one in the making... :-)
Greetings from Montreal,
Moni
Hi Inhaling Hope. We just put different colors of paint on a cookie sheet swirled together a bit then lay the leaves in the paint and pressed them on the canvas. So simple and beautiful!
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