How can you decorate your bedroom or classroom for Earthday with a tree branch, string and recycled items? Make them into a mobile. Fluttering butterflies and twinkling stars are just a few of the objects you can include in this project.
One way to make a difference in saving our planet is to recycle. It is important to make sure you know what you can recycle in your area. I found all the information I needed by checking out the website for the recycling program in my area.
What can be made from recycled paper?
Another way to make a difference is to reuse, which is what we will be doing here.
Before making the Earthday mobile, go out and find a tree branch. Next, look around your home for interesting items such as scraps of paper and foil from candy wrappers. It should not be necessary to buy anything to make this project.
YOU WILL NEED:
- Different colours and patterns of paper and foil
- Pencil
- Glue
- String or yarn
- Hole punch
- Scissors
- Branch
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Make two simple butterfly patterns with one being slightly larger than the other. SEE PHOTO 1. Trace the shapes out on two different colours of paper. If your paper has a pattern on just one side, glue another piece to the back.
- Put a line of white glue down the middle of the larger butterfly.
- Place the smaller butterfly on top of the larger one.
- Fold up the wings of the smaller butterfly so they stand up. SEE PHOTOS 2, 3 AND 4.
- Punch a hole anywhere you wish on the butterfly and loop the string through the hole and knot it.
- Tie the other end to the tree branch.
Make several butterflies in different colours and add them to the branch.
This mobile can be made with any shapes. One suggestion would be stars. See photo 5 of the complete star and butterfly mobile.
[Photographs by Linda Dunbar. Reproduction prohibited]
