Minion is LeeAnns favorite character in the movie Megamind. She loves that fantastic fish. So for today’s activity I thought why not make a fish mobile. You can purchase already cut fish, so all you have to do is color and hang them, how hard could it be.
These works of art are actually kinetic sculptures invented by Alexander Calder. According to myth, the name mobile was coined as a French witticism, for the term means both motion and intent and as you know float randomly with the wind[1].
LeeAnn, Lorelei and I each got for fish and began to color both sides of them. I figured it would take no time at all. An hour and a half later, LeeAnn and Lorelei had left to play and I was gliter gluing the fish and fishing the mobiles.
This project is great, but better suited for larger groups of children. It works best when you can have each child decorate one character one each mobile. Then there is less work and it is completed before they get bored.
How to Make a Fish Mobile
Supplies Needed
Fish cut outs
Two dowel rods
Yarn
Hot Glue Gun
Crayons
Googily eyes
Directions (just suggestions, really its up to you)
- Have your child color the front and back of the fish cut out.
- Using your hot glue gun, glue eyes to both sides of the fish where the child indicates.
- Using the glitter glue, have your child decorate one side of the cut out.
- As the glitter glue is drying, tie the dowel rods together into a cross using the yarn by wrapping the yarn around the rods while they are in a cross shape as if you were making a bulls eye. Wrap the yarn around one stick clock wise, the next counter clockwise, then clockwise, and then counter clockwise. Do this three times before tying the yarn off.
- Once the glitter glue is dry, glue an equal length of yarn to the fish so you have a loop of yarn coming off the top of each fish with the hot glue gun.
- Next glue the top of each loop to the end of each cross arm and hang you completed mobile.
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