Bird mobile

A unique hangning mobile origami birds folded from vintage maps.

Here’s a great idea for a DIY art project you can make, inspired by the art of Mark Hearld. Hearld is a British artist whose gorgeous prints, illustrations, and ceramics depict British fauna and flora dancing with color and movement. His installation at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park is a huge flock of painted wood birds suspended over visitors— something I dreamed of hanging in my house. Alas, I’ll have to (happily) make do with this DIY bird mobile I concocted instead.

Birds

Automatic Bird Mobile: Almost everybody knows them: the bird mobiles where you pull a string to make it flap its wings. But what if we can automate it? My wife and myself gave it a try and came up with this: In this instructable we will build the bird and automate …

When I was pregnant, I found this tutorial on how to make a paper bird mobile. I decided to make a little mobile to hang above our son’s crib. I made some changes along the way, so here is t…

Tomlitoo has this lovely bird mobile that you can download for free! Found via Folding Trees.

A while back I received a Target mailer with coupons for baby items, but I was very intrigued by the picture on the front of the mailer....