Sometimes I do projects at school that just find their way to my home as well. I just like how they tun out or they seem fun and I have to do them with Avery too- this is one of those projects. I am working on a very involved Creation project (which will make sense and be shared when it is complete) and I included a version of this mobile and I love how it turned out so much I had to try it with Avery and this is what we came up with!

It was pretty simple to put together and a fun and different way to work on fine motor skills. I started with tissue paper and I just cut circle like shapes, I wasn’t really worried at all about creating perfect circles.

Next, I made my own needle like tool out of a pipe cleaner. If you have a plastic needle for kids then you can skip this whole step and use that. First, I just took the piece of yarn and tied it around the pipe cleaner.

Next, I just folded the pipe cleaner at the knot of yarn and twisted it into one piece and then it was easy to poke that through the tissue paper. I didn’t find that I needed a knot at the end of the yarn because the tissue paper stays put pretty easily.

Then I let Avery just start stringing pieces of tissue paper on the yarn!

The pinching part of this activity is great for little fingers and especially early writers.

While we worked on them the pieces got all scrunched up, no worries, I just went back later to space out the pieces a bit.

Then I just tied them to a branch in Avery’s classroom and it looked amazing! This was a fun project and undercover developmental practice- the best kind!