Jungle Mobile

You all had some great guesses on the giraffe, and it's a mobile for Henry's nursery. It hangs from the curtain rod at the edge of his crib. (I have no other way of putting it up because I can't put nails in the cinder block!)

I used three sizes of embroidery hoops for the bases. Then I just used embroidery floss to tie up each animal. Each animal is made of felt and then hand-sewn together with embroidery floss.

There's a lion who has gold metallic thread in his mane. He's the king of the jungle, right?

 a rhino with a braided tail

 an elephant with a braided tail and a trunk that I can't get to stay up like it's supposed to.

 an alligator (or crocodile? which one is in Africa?)

 a fabulous zebra with a braided tail and a mohawk like mane

 a giraffe with a braided tail

and lastly, an adorable monkey hanging from the smallest hoop. His tail won't stay up either, but it does look cool twisting down.

I had lots of fun putting this together, and I hope Henry enjoys looking at it when he's older and can see farther.

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