Space Crib Mobile

With only 2 months until my son arrives, we needed some things to dress up his room. We are going with a space theme and I decided to create a space mobile.

Items pictured above

1. Mobile Kit.

Purchased through amazon

2. Styrofoam 12" x 1" disk.

3. 1 yard of solar system fabric.

4. 1 spool of yarn.

5. Items to hang off of mobile.

I used 5" kaleidoscope rockets from amazon as well as a Tesla Roadster Hot wheels car..

6. Washers to counterbalance after hanging

I used large washers I had laying around, anything to add weight to balance will do.

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7. Elmer's glue

8. Stapler

9. Hotglue and gun

Place the Styrofoam disk down and cut a circle about 3 inches larger than the disk.

Cut the top layer the exact, or even slightly smaller than the Styrofoam disk.

Fold the bottom sheet around the disk creating folds at equal distances to take up excess fabric. Pin the folds with the pins pushing in at an angle to pull the fabric tight.

Glue the fabric on top down with Elmer's glue. adding glue liberally to soak into foam and fabric.

After giving the glue a few days to dry, remove the pins from the fabric.

Staple in a circle around the top edge being carful not to apply too much pressure and smash the foam.

Glue a piece of string in a circle around placing a bead of glue on the top of each staple.

Use a yarn needle to thread a line of yarn through the fabric and Styrofoam. The a knot at the top of the disk. Leave the string hanging down longer than you think you need so that it can be adjusted later.

Find the center of balance on the items that you are going to add. For this rocket the center of balance is right at the beginning of the fins. I glued the string on this rocket just behind this point to cause it to point downwards.

Add the rest of the yard in an x pattern, with one in the very center.

Glue the rest of the items. I glued items with variety of center of balances to cause my rockets to point in different directions.

The mobile will likely not hang evenly, unless you have everything perfectly in balance.

With the mobile hanging, place the washers along the edges until you can get everything balanced. I wanted mine slightly off balance to show the fabric off a little more.

Carefully pull back the fabric by pulling up the staples. Hot glue the washers in the locations that balanced the mobile, the push the staples back into the foam.

Pull the strings up until the items are hanging at a desired height, then tie the strings and trim the loose ends.

Everything should hang correctly, and can be adjusted if needed.