Make a Heart Mobile

Do you want to show someone special how much they mean to you? This heart mobile is easy to make and is a perfect gift for Mother's Day, birthdays, and Valentine's Day.

To make a heart mobile, you will need:

Thick cardboard

Heart pattern

Markers

Pretty wrapping paper or other pictures

Hole punch

Eight 9 inch pieces of fishing line

Four pieces of foot long heavy wire

One piece of six inch long heavy wire

To make it:

1. Place your heart pattern on the cardboard. Trace around your heart pattern and then cut out a cardboard heart. Repeat this step until you have eight hearts.
    

2. Color the edges of your hearts with your markers.
    

3. Place your heart pattern on the wrapping paper. Trace around your heart pattern and cut out the wrapping paper heart. Repeat this step until you have 16 wrapping paper hearts.
    

4. Coat one side of a cardboard heart with glue. Glue down one of the wrapping paper hearts. Repeat this step with all eight hearts.
    

5. After the first side of the heart is dry, apply glue to the second side and glue down another wrapping paper heart. Repeat this step with the remaining hearts.
    

6. Make sure all of your hearts are completely dry.
    

7. Punch a hole in each heart about 1/4 inch from the top.
    

8. Thread a piece of fishing line through the hole in each heart.
    

9. Fasten your four long pieces of wire together with the short piece of wire so that they look like spokes on a bicycle wheel. The short piece of wire should have a bit left over at the top so that you can hang your mobile.
    

10. Bend the end of each spoke into a little loop.
     
11. Tie your hearts to the loops.
     
12. Surprise someone special with your mobile full of love.

(If you do not want to use cardboard hearts for this project, you can buy wooden heart shapes at your local craft store.)

-Katelyn Thomas

Katelyn Thomas is a freelance writer who has been making handmade gifts for friends and family for many years. She enjoys creating special gifts using materials she finds in the garden or around the house. She also writes for the gardening site at bellaonline.com and for her work from home site at workinginpjs.com.