Origami Mobile

This is a quick and easy origami mobile I made from an old potato masher.

My now 21 year old grandson has been making origami cranes since he’s been 4 or 5 years old. When he worked with us at that age, he would start folding paper and making all different sizes of his cranes.

Fast forward to last Christmas when Zachary made me an entire family of cranes. I had them sitting on the TV stand until I came up with the idea to turn them into an origami mobile.

When thinking about making the origami mobile, I went through my stash of things I save “in case I can use them later” box. The first thing that I pulled out was my grandmother’s old potato masher. Doesn’t every one save things like this?

I used blue braided fishing line and carefully poked a needle in the center of each crane and pulled the fishing line through. I made them different lengths and tied them around the holes in the potato masher.

It was that simple, now I have the origami cranes floating around the air instead of sitting around on the TV stand and my grandmother’s potato masher was put to good use.

Do you have a collection of small items you are looking to display in a different way? I collect angels of all sizes and this is how I displayed some of my smaller ones. Again using a potato masher, I attached ribbons to the angels and hung from the holes. I love coming up with creative ways to repurpose things not being used any more.

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Martha DeMeo

I started my blog on Christmas Day 2014 mainly to review products I received. Since then it has evolved into many other categories of lifestyles, family, money saving ideas, low cost, delicious and healthy meals plus other surprise posts. My granddaughter has her own category, Alex's Articles and the latest addition to my blog is my great granddaughter now has her category, Lia's Likings The Baby Blogger! Lia started blogger at 8 months old and she now has a Friday Story Time blog you won't want to miss! I welcome you to join the conversation, ask a question, give a suggestion or leave a comment on any blog post. I hope you enjoy Lia's Likings, she has some great posts that will make you smile!

12 Discussion to this post

  1. Camilla says:

    Interesting idea of displaying the cranes. I’m not creative enough to think of using kitchen utensils outside of their original purpose.

  2. Jace Downey says:

    How fun! What a great idea!

  3. vidya says:

    that is such an inventive way to make a origami and those paper cranes your grandson made are perfect.

  4. Amanda Gene says:

    I love how pretty the pictures are. 🙂

  5. Bing says:

    Innovative! I would learn how to make origami one day! That’s a promise to myself.

  6. Rich says:

    So creative

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