Halloween Mobile

Have fun coloring these cute Halloween characters and string them together to make a stunning mobile.	Safety Tips Young kids (3 to 8 years) should use child-safe scissors. Small craft materials such as beads are choking hazards. Not appropriate for use by children below the age of three. Watch out for this sign . It means an adult's help is needed for the particular step.
Materials A4 or Letter size printable card stock Glue Thin string Scissors Hole punch Beads (optional) Contact paper or hot laminate film (optional)

Steps

	1.	Choose from any of these Halloween templates and print them out on Letter size or A4 card stock: Bats Ghosts Halloween Cats Halloween Characters Set - jack o' lanterns, bats, cats and ghosts Jack o' lanterns Witches
	2.	Color and cut out the characters.
	3.	Notice that the template pieces come in mirror image pairs. Glue them back-to-back.
	4.	If you want to waterproof your mobile, you can laminate the Halloween characters in between 2 sheets of contact paper or hot laminate film. Trim the excess plastic film around each laminated piece.
		Another way to make a longer lasting mobile is to make the Halloween characters out of craft foam. You may use the Halloween templates as patterns for drawing the Halloween characters on craft foam.
	5.	Punch a pair of holes on the Halloween characters - one on top and one at the bottom. Make an exception for the bottom-most piece, which should only have a hole on top.
		You may also use the tip of a pen or pencil to make smaller holes. Ask an adult's help when punching holes on laminated pieces.
	6.	Connect the pieces together with a thin string. You may string some beads as you go along. The beads add weight and also give your mobile an added charm. Don't forget to tie a a string around the upper hole of the topmost piece.
	7.	When you finish connecting all the pieces, hang your mobile where it can rotate freely.
	8.	If you fancy making a multi-strand mobile, create the mobile's top support out of cardboard box. For this mobile, I cut out two identical arcs from cereal box and glued them together with the printed side facing each other. The entire piece was then painted over with orange poster paint.

More Ideas

		You may also use a long dowel or a pair of chopsticks (tied end-to-end) as the top support for your mobile. If you are resourceful enough, you can even use common household items such as these pencils used for this Plaster of Paris Beads Mobile.
		How about making a Halloween mobile with a cross top? Check out how we tied a pair of chopsticks together in this Celestial Clay Mobile. It's trickier to balance this type of mobile but you'll definitely come up with a rather interesting project.
		If you want an extra fancy mobile, you can ask an adult to help you fashion craft wire into the desired shape. For a carousel or round-type mobile, I bent 6 pieces of wire into an identical wavy shape. I then bunched them together on their uncurled end and arranged the wire pieces at evenly-spaced positions. I used another piece of craft wire to bind them together on the bunched end.
		Look how you can use other materials besides paper Halloween cut-outs. These pumpkin sun catchers are so easy to make and they make wonderful bright orange reflections when they catch the sun!

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