DIY Nursery Mobile

I'm finally showing you guys the nursery mobile that I made! I'm absolutely in love with it! So colorful and fun!

The materials used were a small embroidery hoop (I know, icky orange, but it was the cheapest one at Michael's), paint swatches, a circle punch, thread, and a hot glue gun.

Be sure to cut out plenty of circles! I used about two full paint swatches in order to get enough circles.

Then I hot glued them to a thread. You could hot glue two same-colored circles together, but I liked having a gap in between the circles, so I hot glued one of each color to the thread, let the hot glue dry, then glued the same color onto the hot glue in order to get a gap.

Then, string the tops of the thread in through the embroidery hoop. I put a bit more hot glue on each thread, and also around the edges of the hoop in order to ensure they stayed.

And voila! It actually took quite a bit of time, but I love how it turned out!! So cute and colorful! 

Might I suggest, however, using thicker thread. My cat somehow pulled the mobile down from the ceiling and broke the thread, and then it got super tangled up. So I rehung it up using embroidery thread, and we haven't had another incident, thank goodness!