Octahedron Mobile

Octahedron Mobile

This is the second mobile in the Montessori Series

Materials:

-Printer

-Printer paper

-Super Glue

-Scissors

-Metallic Paper (found at Hobby Lobby)

    -Gold

    -Blue

    -Red

-Wooden dowel (I bought a package of 15 dowels, size 3/16in x 12in)

-Fishing line

-Small beads (3)

-Large bead

-Ruler

-Pencil

How I made it:

First print the pattern to make an octahedron.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/octahedron-model.html

Cut out the pattern

Trace the pattern on to the back of the metallic paper

Take a ruler to draw the pattern onto the back of the metallic paper

Used sharp scissors to score the drawn pattern where there will be a fold

Cut out the drawn pattern from the metallic paper

Fold the paper 

(Not pictured)

In order to attach the octahedron to the mobile you have to tie a bead to a long piece of fishing line and make sure you put the bead inside the shape and make sure you glue the bead inside the shape.

Finish gluing the rest of the shape together, making sure not to pull the string out

Once all is ends are glued your should have a hanging shape

Tie and glue fishing line to each end of the wooden dowel

Take a smaller loop of fishing line

Tie a knot in it 

(You'll hang it from this piece)

Place a bead under the knot

Tie the other end to the string attached to the wooden dowel

Repeat with other colors of paper

Then tie and glue to the wooden dowel

I used a ruler to make sure the red and blue hung at the same height

I tied the red and blue shapes as close to the edges as I could then measured the center of the dowel for the gold shape.  

I will update with pictures of my baby using this mobile when he's here.