Images of the saints can be placed to balance the weight of school, or family members. That a mobile is both permanent and ever changing is an excellent demonstration of our faith. Demonstrate to your children as you are making the mobiles how a larger and heavier image can be balanced with a small image by placing the hanging string closer to the large object. If we make money larger, we have to be closer to the money. If we make God bigger and more important in our lives, then we also live closer to God.
Mobiles can be as simple or complex as skill, time and desire allow.
There are so many variations, I will only suggest a few. Drinking straws, thread and paper cut-outs in a simple 'water yoke' design. A circle of wire as anchor for a number of suspended images. A length of wire and suspended images in a 'planetary orbit' design. Order online starting November 1st.