Tips for Art With Tots (ages 2 and up): Recycled CD Mobiles

Recycled CD Mobiles
I love a good recycled art project. Kids love art that moves. So combine the two, and create a recycled CD mobile! Using two, three, or more CD's create a series of collages. The sky is the limit to the materials you can use to decorate them. I have found the kids love stickers and paint for this project. Older kids love to cut their own sticker shapes out of sticky back mylar and create designs with colored tape. Younger kids love the foamie stickers in shapes of all kinds. Offer scissors and let them change the shapes as a way for them to add their creative stamp to the project. Don't forget the other side! Use paint dobbers for applying additional color and texture. Lastly help string the CD's together with yarn. Roll tape around the ends of the yarn and let the kids add beads (cut straws work great). You can hang them in a window and see how the CD's refract the light.

Materials:
Old Cd's

Foamies Stickers (Geometric shapes)

Colored tape

Sticky Back Mylar

Colored Yarn
Paint Daubers (Triarco® has Tempera Marker Sets)
Beads (cut straws work too)
Safety Scissors (I like the Fiskars brand)