Art and Design

Introduction

Mobiles

Task

You will need lengths of wire or dowel, glue, monofilament or string, heavy card, cutting board and knife, something to hang the mobiles from.

Make a mobile to try out balance with different shapes. Cut shapes out of the card and hang them from the wire or dowel with the monofilament. Hang the mobile with monofilament from the ceiling or a bar.

  • How different can you make shapes that balance one another?
  • Does it change things if the balance point is off-centre?