Huon Aquaculture Activity Sheet Make it! Nature Mobile Make a hanging mobile with an under-the-sea theme using items you find in your yard or in your house. You’ll need: • Sticks or a wire coat-hanger to make the frame • Wool, string, twine or rope to tie it together and to attach your objects • Leaves, feathers, pine cones, gumnuts, shells, pebbles or any other items you can find at your house Hint: you can cut fish out of cardboard boxes and decorate them or use pinecones instead. Use your imagination! Step 1 Fix the sticks together using your string, you will need to wrap it around lots of times. We have used two sticks to make a cross shape but you could make a square or even use a wire coat-hanger.
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Huon Aquaculture Activity Sheet
Make it! Nature Mobile
Make a hanging mobile with an under-the-sea theme using items you find in your yard or in your house.
You’ll need:
• Sticks or a wire coat-hanger to make the frame • Wool, string, twine or rope to tie it together and to attach your objects • Leaves, feathers, pine cones, gumnuts, shells, pebbles or any other items you can find at
your house
Hint: you can cut fish out of cardboard boxes and decorate them or use pinecones instead. Use your imagination!
Step 1 Fix the sticks together using your string, you will need to wrap it around lots of times.
We have used two sticks to make a cross shape but you could make a square or even use a wire coat-hanger.
Huon Aquaculture Activity Sheet
Step 2 Choose the pieces you want to hang from your mobile and attach a piece of string to each of them.
You’ll be able to make a hole in some items to hang them, but others will need different knots to attach them.
Here is some information of different knots, we use most of these on our marine farms: https://www.scoutactivitycentres.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/factsheetSimpleKnots.pdf