Water Bottle Fish Mobile
Activity DesignerDeirdre Smith
My son had been asking for a mobile for his room after seeing a picture of one Alexander Calder had created. We grabbed some plastic water bottles from the recycling bin and created a cool and colorful fish mobile.
What You'll Need
How We Did It
I then spray painted the branch white with red stripes to represent a piece of coral. To cut down on the mess, I spray pained outside on some newspaper.
When the center section of the bottle was covered with tissue squares, we glued a googly eye to each side of the bottle.
I threaded the fish line onto a needle. The fishing line was then seedw with a single stitch into each of the water bottles to create a line to hang the fish off of. After each fish was given a string, the other end of the fishing line was tied to the branch. We used different lengths of fishing line for each fish so the fish would hang at different levels. Some lovely "flying fish," aren't they?!