Get to make this mobile so original for the Halloween party. It is a light structure made with polystyrene balls and that we will decorate them manually in a fun way. We will make two bat-shaped balls, two of spiders and another two of pumpkins that will be made in a very terrifying way.
You can see the step by step of this tutorial in the following video:
These are the materials that I have used:
- polystyrene balls
- acrylic paint in black, orange and dark green
- decorative yellow paper in strips to simulate pumpkin hair
- black card
- two sticks of the same size to hang the balls
- fine wire to hang the balls
- red, green and black pipe cleaners
- two small green pompoms
- two small red pompoms
- eyes
- a string to tie the sticks and hang the mobile
- a hot glue gun with glue sticks
- wide brush for painting
- scissors
- pencil
- some chopsticks
First step:
To make the pumpkins we cut the top to make the head flat, we do it with two balls. We paint the balls orange. In order not to get our hands very dirty, we can prick a toothpick and thus help ourselves to paint them in the best way. We also paint two black balls to make the bats and other two dark green balls to make the spiders. If the coat of paint is not enough to cover in color, we can add a second coat when the first has dried.
Second step:
Once the paint on the pumpkins is dry, we cut a few pieces of yellow paper with the toes in the form of strips to simulate the shape of the hair of the head. It we glue with hot silicone. We make A hole with the help of a pencil on the top and in the center. We take a piece of green pipe cleaner and you we hit with hot silicone. Curl the tail with the shape of pumpkins.
Third step:
In a black cardboard we draw the mouths, the eyes and the nosethat we cut and we hit on the faces of the pumpkins.
Fourth step:
To make the bats we will do first the wings. The we draw on a blank paper to take out the template and we cut. We will use this template to draw it on a black cardboard, we will draw four and cut them out. In the balls we will do two small cuts on its sides to place the wings, we will put them under pressure, it will not be necessary to glue them.
Fifth step:
We take the green pipe cleaner to make the legs of bats. We will make the smallest cuts and glue them with the hot silicone. To end we will place the ears on top, for this we will have cut out a couple of small triangles from black construction paper and we will place them on the top of the head doing two small cuts. I have also placed them under pressure.
Step Six:
We take the red pipe cleaner y we cut the legs of the spider. We choose six for each ball. We make some holes on the sides of the body of the spider with a pencil, we put a little hot silicone and we introduce the legs. With the same silicone we glue eyes and nose.
Seventh step:
We tie the two sticks with the string. To ensure their union well I have put some silicone drops so they don't move. We take the wire to hang the balls and cut eight of different sizes. The height of each one varies so that when they hang they are not all at the same height and thus varied they are much more beautiful. The wire we introduce it in the upper part of the head and the other extreme we knot in the chosen part of the sticks.