How to Make a Baby Mobile Using Your Cricut

Cricut Maker or Cricut Air 2

Standard or Light Grip Mat

Felt or other fabric in many different colors

Glue (fabric glue or any other liquid glue)

Dowel or any other material for the stem

Fishing line or thin ribbons to hang the animals

Scissors

Asset #333 from my resource library

Step One - Download the Template

To start you will want to download the template (asset #333) from my resource library.

Unzip the file and upload the SVG file only to Cricut Design Space

Step Two - Design Space Adjustments

This project is going to have you use duplicate for many parts of each animal. Let’s start with the fox, then you can repeat the steps for the other animals.

The first step is to ungroup all the animals, then move them all aside and leave the fox on the canvas.

Next you will move the fox pieces apart so you can see all of them

Step Three - Duplicating

For the mobile you will want to have a fox face on the front and the back. After you separate the pieces, you will need to duplicate all the pieces except the center part.

Step Four - Flipping

In order for the animal piece to work, you will now need to flip horizontal all the pieces you duplicated. Your canvas should look like the image above.

Flipping allows you to glue the faces and match up tails and eyes on each side.

Step Five - Repeat Step 4 for all the other Animals

Make sure you keep the animal part close to each other so you make sure you have duplicated and flipped the pieces properly.

Step Six - Cutting

The colors as set in the original design will mean there are 20 different ones you will be using. Feel free to combine anything you wish. I had to substitute different colors as I did not have 20 different colors of felt material. The image above shows the different cuts.

The biggest issue you will have is figuring out what pieces belong together after it has been cut.

Step Seven - Matching the Cuts to the Right Animal

The best way to make sure you have all the right pieces is to go and look at the original file you uploaded for which pieces belong to each other.

Make a pile for each of the 5 animals before starting on the gluing process.

Step Eight - Assembling Your Mobile

For gluing, we will concentrate on the Fox. You will glue the ear pieces to the black inner piece. Glue one on each side of the fox. Next you will glue the orange pieces front and back making sure you match the tails to fit and the eye holes are in the right place..

Last you will glue the tail tip in place.

Step Nine - Repeat Step Eight for the Remaining Animals

It is sometimes easier to start with the middle and work your way forward with all the pieces on one side, then flip the animal over and do the same thing on the backside.

Step Ten - Assembling Your Daisy

Punch a hole in the top center of each animal so that you can thread or fishing line or narrow ribbon through it. Make sure you ribbon or line is long enough to have the animal suspend down from your rods.

As for the rods, I used dowels and tied them together. You can use any sturdy material you wish.

The Final Product - The Finishing Touches

This is the best part, you get to take photos and share how this project turned out for you. Be sure to share it in our Facebook group!

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I never thought it would be so easy to make a baby mobile. The most difficult part for me was the eyes, mine did not cut properly as the felt I was using was extremely cheap and inconsistent in the thickness. Other than the eyes, matching all the pieces took most of the time, the rest was easy peasy!

I sure hope you were able to follow along and make this gorgeous baby mobile!

I look forward to seeing what you will make.

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