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DLTK's Holiday Activities for Kids
Valentine's Day Spiral Mobile

This project includes heart templates to hang from the spiral mobile.  Alternatively, you could hang Valentine's cards you've received, small pictures you've drawn or hearts you've cut from construction paper.

If you glue the spiral template onto a thin piece of cardboard (old cereal boxes work well) or use a paper plate, it will stretch a bit less than ours did.  

We used strings that were each about 6 inches long.  If I did it again, I'd cut them in half (3 inches long each).

 

Materials:

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paper

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glue

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scissors

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string, wool or ribbon

Directions:

bulletPrint out the template of choice.  I like printing the B&W version on colored paper.
  
bulletColor (where appropriate).
  
bulletCut out the template pieces.
  
Assemble the mobile:
  
bulletCut the spiral out of the circle template.  
  
bulletYou could cut a spiral out from a paper plate or a circle of construction paper you trace using a dinner plate.
  
bulletAttach a piece of string to the center of the circle to hang the spiral from the ceiling. (I put a small dot on the template as a guide, but you can position it yourself if using a paper plate). 

bulletCut out one of the heart couples, fold them in half and glue together (so the pattern is on both sides).
  
bulletCut up (or down) the solid line once the glue is dry.
  
bulletRepeat with all of the pieces.

bulletPick out a heart that's cut from the top and one that's cut from the bottom
  
bulletSlide the hearts together, top to bottom  
 assemble
  all I have is a snowflake image to show you how it's done

bulletAttach a string to each 3D heart.
  
bulletAttach the other end of the string to the spiral circle (I put small dots on the template as a guide, but you can position them yourself if using a paper plate)
  
bulletRepeat for all 6 3D hearts

 

 

Templates:

bulletClose the template window after printing to return to this screen.
 
bulletSet page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

 

 

Valentine's mobile template 1    (color)   or    (B&W)

Valentine's mobile template 2    (color)   or    (B&W)

Valentine's mobile template 3    (color)   or    (B&W)

 

 

 

Printable Version of these instructions