I'm baaaaack! (Hopefully). Since having the baby and buying a house, it hasn't left much time for blogging, however, I'm finding myself doing lots of fun projects for the house since we are completely remodeling it and I thought I'd share. 

I wanted to make a mobile for my little guy's crib and found a bunch of cute ideas on Pinterest that I decided to put together into my own version. I had a lot of the materials already so this was super cheap and actually pretty easy, just time-consuming. My two sisters helped me and we rotated baby duty while working on it so we could finish it in a couple hours. 

 Step One:

Take a round, wooden cross-stitching holder and tie strips of fabric around it to cover. You can make the strips as long and wide as you want. Mine were about 1 in. thick and about 6 in. long. I just used scraps I had from his bedding.

We found some images online of elephants that we could copy and trace onto felt. We cut through two layers of felt for the front and back. We made 4 elephants (8 sides total) and 4 sets of ears (8 total). 

I stuffed them with cotton balls but you could use batting or whatever you have around. I cut a smaller version of the ears from the fabric scraps and tacked those on. I actually ended up tacking them on in an "x" which turned out cuter.

 Step 4:

 

I also cut out little stars from different colors of felt. We then threaded each piece with white thread. You could use fishing line, twine, or whatever you have on hand. I like the thread because it is almost invisible but it won't curl. I ended up doing 4 elephants and just a bunch of stars. I made the elephants the same length and the stars different lengths and just tied them from the wooden circle.

 Step 5:

 In order to hang it from the ceiling, we tied wide ribbon from 4 spots on the mobile base and brought them together at the top. You could also you tulle or fabric. I haven't hung mine since the nursery isn't quite finished but you could tie a bow or a knot and hang it from a hook from the ceiling.

Step 6:

 Enjoy! My little man seriously loves this thing! Can't wait to have it over his bed! I think it will make for lots of quiet time entertainment.