owl mobile (with tree template!)

Last night, one of my friends had a baby shower for her first little girl and I helped out with a few decorations.  Instead of making my usual paper decor, I decided to go with decorations she could reuse for the nursery.

First up, a little owl mobile to go with the nursery bedding she picked out:

 

After a quick pinterest search, I found tons of handmade owl mobile inspiration, but I particularly liked this mobile made by etsy seller EvelynX.

I also found a really cute template for an owl ornament on the blog, Juicy Bits - you can get the template here.   I love finding a good template.  It really speeds a project along.

Putting a mobile like this together is really easy, because it just hangs from two wooden dowels.  I marked three spots on each dowel (one on each end and one in the middle) and drilled a little hole with my smallest drill bit:

Then, thread your decorations through and tie a knot to hold the string in place.  Wrap the strings several times around the crossed dowels to keep them in a + position.  If all of your decorations are the same, balancing the mobile should be fairly easy.

And that's it!  Hang in a nursery and let baby enjoy.  :)

Get my template for the felt tree HERE

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