Aluminum Art Mobile- Periodic Table of Elements

For this project you need: heavy duty aluminum foil (we used Reynold's wrap), permanent markers, rubbing plates, scissors, wire cutters, wire (we used florist wire), pliers, ribbon, beads, bells, glue gun, hole punch and cardboard (from a cereal box).

Place the foil on the rubbing plate, press with your fingers to get the imprint onto the foil, then color with the permanent markers.

To strengthen the foil, I hot glued cardboard to the back of the foil art. Then I punched 4 holes.

To assemble the aluminum art together we discovered it was easier to do this on the floor. We simply wired the pieces together adding beads and aluminum bells between each piece as we went along.

We punched 5 holes to the bottom piece and added a lot of pretty beads and bells.

We added a big ribbon to the top of the mobiles and hung them from our Hawthorn tree.

To give credit where it's due, I got the idea to hang the aluminum art in a mobile fashion from Pepper paints. To learn more about aluminum visit Aluminum and Literature. Visit Anet at the Purple Squirrel for another idea with aluminum.