Paper Floral Mobile Tutorial

What’s not to like about paper flowers? They have a sculptural quality that silk flowers lack, and you can make them yourself with the pretty paper of your choosing. Using the paper flowers from my kusudama origami ball tutorial, you can make a mobile that’s ready to hang in a nursery, a child’s room, or anywhere else for a splash of color.

Paper Floral Mobile Tutorial
Paper Floral Mobile Tutorial Materials

Materials:

  • 12 kusudama flowers
  • 12″ metal hoop
  • Green paper twine or green jute twine
  • Plain jute twine
  • Hot glue gun and scissors
Paper Floral Mobile Tutorial Step 1
Paper Floral Mobile Tutorial Jute Wrap

1. Wrap the hoop with plain jute twine. This is easier to do in sections, and faster if you wrap two strands at once.

Paper Floral Mobile Tutorial Glue

2. Cut 6ft lengths of twine, fold in half and hot-glue one end to the base of a kusudama flower. Repeat until all 12 flowers have twine attached.

Paper Floral Mobile Tutorial Knot

3. For the central knot:

  • Cut 4 jute strands, each one 24″ long
  • Fold in half
  • Knot at the folded end, leaving a small loop
  • Divide the stands into 4 sections; tie around the circle evenly.

This leaves a loop in the middle to thread another piece of twine for hanging from a ceiling hook, which can be adjusted to the right height.

Paper Floral Mobile Tutorial Green

4. Tie the green flower strands to the hoop, spaced out evenly.

If you want the same spiral effect, cut the flower strands to these lengths and follow this order when tying them to the hoop, counter-clockwise. You should be able to work out the pattern: 27″ — 18″ — 24″ — 15″ — 21″ — 12″ — 18″ — 9″ — 15″ — 6″ — 12″ — 3″.

Paper Floral Mobile Tutorial Hang

And that’s what the paper flower mobile looks like when it’s finished! I knotted the green strands because the paper twine I used wouldn’t hang very straight, but I like the effect – they look even more like flower vines.

Paper Floral Mobile Craft
Paper Floral Mobile Tutorial for Nursery room

I love the look of the hanging flowers, like floating little bursts of spring color. If you’d rather not go to the trouble of making a mobile, don’t forget that you can form a ball with these kusudama flowers too!