How to Make a Hanging Mobile

John Lithgow: Hello, Buzzy look at that. The flowers are blooming. The animals are frolicking. The crickets are chirping, it’s a beautiful day in Paloozaville. But there is something missing. No, it’s not my badminton set you borrowed that. No, I mean art. I want to see art dancing on the hillside. No not art by mechanic form Paloozaville motors. I mean art as in painting watercolors and sculpture I beat Suza palooza shares my upbeat vision for out door art. Carmen de la Paz: Happy spring your mayorship. John Lithgow: Indeed, it is Suza, spring has sprung and I think we need some form of art to celebrate it. Carmen de la Paz: Excellent idea! Did you have any thing in mind? John Lithgow: Just an idea. I want to create a sculpture garden and fill it up with incredible works of art. Things that capture my loves of shapes, my support for board cutting edge design and my appreciation of new talent. So what do you got? Carmen de la Paz: Well nothing yet but I’ll get right on it. Have no fear sir as you know my middle name is art. John Lithgow: I know this is unusual name for such a lovely girl. But I don’t think she means it literally. It’s a figure of speech that means she is very good with art. No, not art form Paloozaville motors. Carmen de la Paz: I think that I found a perfect kind of art for the mayor. Crystal and John Claude are artists who are famous for wrapping familiar objects in fabric to create sculpture or salad pieces of art. It took them two years to hang this giant orange curtain across the canon in Colorado. Are you ready? Children: What’s the palooza? Carmen de la Paz: We’re going to help the mayor by making wrapped art. Children: What do we need? Carmen de la Paz: Well we need something that we can use to wrap up a big chair. I’m thinking about using toilet paper, because it’s inexpensive and covers up things really, really well. What we need now are some wrap artists. That’s not what I had in mind, I don’t mean R-A-P artists. I mean artists who can wrap you know to cover things. Here’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to work as a team together to wrap this big long chair in toilet paper, okay? So what do we need? Children: Toilet paper. Carmen de la Paz: Toilet paper, you take that one and I’ll take that one and I’ll take one and come on out over here. Here we go, so you’re going to hand me the toilet roll and you’re going to hand the whole toilet roll to Tyler just like that and we’re going to pass it over and push it, come down, come down and I’m going to roll mine over in here comes. They are crossing now, roll your toilet paper over there, there it goes! Female: Perfect! Awesome. Carmen de la Paz: If you don’t watch wrap a chair, you can wrap almost anything else I n your house. Like a steps to alert even a lamp. You could also try using crepe paper or paper towel instead of toilet paper. Just let your imagination being your guide. Female: All the way into the bottom. All the way down to the bottom. You guys think it’s almost done? Let’s take a look at it. What do you guys think? I think it needs some color. Child: Me too. Carmen de la Paz: What do you think? Yeah, okay, well guess what we’ve got. Color! Ye hey! So I’m gonna take a quick piece of tape right here. Okay, go ahead put it down and finish that off. Good job! And into the middle ready one two three and ye hey good job! Hi mayor! John Lithgow: Well this is some Suza new art for my sculpture garden? Carmen de la Paz: Palooza, lovely your sculpture shape, take a look. John Lithgow: Oh my! It’s eye catching. It’s daring, it’s too apply. What an excellent start of my collection. Thank you so much Suza. Carmen de la Paz: You’re so welcome sir. John Lithgow: Now let’s think about the next sculpture we can add for my garden. Very funny Buzzy. Spring has sprung Buzzy but there’s not a lilly, tulip or sunflower in sight. Our garden is growthless. Our flowers have flaunted, our blooms have gone to us. Exactly my thought was it? Buzzy there’s only one person who can solve this problem. Get me Suza palooza. Carmen de la Paz: It’s a blooming good day isn’t it you mayorship? John Lithgow: No, not yet Suza, have you noticed lack of flowers in Paloozaville lately? Carmen de la Paz: As a matter of fact, I have. I was just thinking that even though spring seems to be coming a bit late this year, we should start planting a garden. Do you happen to have any gardening pots so we could start to plant in? John Lithgow: Of course we have plenty of gardening pots. Buzzy do you remember when we were spring cleaning the garage? Send over the ones that we left on the port. Buzzy it, run over Suza. Carmen de la Paz: Thank you sir. These aren’t exactly the pots that I was expecting. This type is more or like junk, that’s it! Are you ready? Children: What’s that palooza? Carmen de la Paz: We’re going to help the mayor plant some flowers and make a junk garden. Children: What do we need? Carmen de la Paz: We’ll need some potting soil, plants, some news paper to layout what we plant and of course our junk pots. Like this boot or maybe a mug or an old junky jar. Any think that can hold some dirt and a small plant form the nursery. All right guys are you ready to make to make a junk garden? We’re going to decorate this cool stuff we found to make some really, neat looking planters. This is the ultimate recycling. We’re using old materials in a new fun way. Here we go. I’m going to use the boot and all we need to do is fill it up with some dirt. Now this can get pretty messy so make sure you get some help form your mom or dad. Then I picked this fabulous flowers and I’m going to use this one right here. Put it in, put the plant into the dirt and just a little bit more dirt all the way around it to hold the plant in place. And now all we need is a little bit of water because a plant needs water to grow. And now we’re ready to decorate our pot. You can use plastic marbles, you can use shells, you can use any thing you want around the house wax are great. I’m going to use these little plastic bags and put down right here. I’m also going to put this little caterpillar as if it was crawling out. And now we’re ready for a true junk garden. John Lithgow: Excuse us, Suza. Just one ring if you found any daffodils or daisies for my poor garden yet. Carmen de la Paz: Well things are coming up. Rose is here sir. John Lithgow: Oh, Suza inch closer to the screen. Are you replanting tulips in a toilet roll at one child put a petunia in a Paloozaville patriot’s mug. Carmen de la Paz: Isn’t it paloozastic? John Lithgow: Well what happened? Where are the pots we sent over? Carmen de la Paz: What pots? Buzzy sent overall of these stuff, so we thought we’d use it to plant. John Lithgow: Excuse me a moment. Buzzy I need the pots we found in the garage and all the junk for the garage sales that we left there on the porch. I’m so sorry Suza Carmen de la Paz: Oh, your gardenship. I think that the things that we used are even more special. Thanks to your blooming, brilliance Paloozaville would become known for its gardening greatness, home of the proud planter of Paloozaville. John Lithgow: That’s me? For me that’s something to clue them about. Well Suza, I think we should make my garden into a blossoming junk garden, right there in palooza park makes at the statue of George Washington palooza and thank you Suza for making the world a more flowerful place. Carmen de la Paz: Thank you sir. John Lithgow: Buzzy, I just realized that was my boot! Buzzy, Buzzy! I know you’re in here somewhere, oh there you are. Yes I can see that my Paloozaville recycling campaign is a huge success but no I have find some place to put at the recyclables other than the mayor’s office or the mayor’s home. Get me Suza plaooza show now what to do. Carmen de la Paz: Good morning to you mayorship John Lithgow: Oh, I wish it Suza, but what I’m going to do with all these boxes and tubes and rolls and containers? My office had become cardboard city. Carmen de la Paz: That’s it! I’ve got an idea that will make Paloozaville proud. Send them on over your recycleship. John Lithgow: Excellent. I know I never loseza with Suza. Buzzy remove the recyclables. Please remove the recyclables. Very funny Buzzy but my clothes are not recyclable. Carmen de la Paz: Are you ready? Children: What’s the palooza? Carmen de la Paz: We’re going to take boxes to the rolls, curtains and anything else we can think off and make Paloozaville. Well not actually Paloozaville but a smaller version made out of all of this great stuff. Children: What do we need? Carmen de la Paz: Besides all of the recyclables, we’re going to use some construction paper. Maybe some wrapping paper, tape, scissors and markers. And there’s something else we need. What is it? Oh yes, we need architects. Architects are people who design building and cities. People like Frank Gary or Frank Lloyd Wright. Every city has its own special look. Its buildings create what we call a skyline. Some of the most famous sky lines in the world include the Empire State building in New York City. The amazing Eiffel Tower in Paris, France and Big Ben in the houses of Parliament in London, England. We’re using Paloozaville as our skyline here but you can use any city or just make up one of your own. Let your imagination be your guide. Let’s make palooza vile. I’m using an empty cardboard serial box. But you can use any recyclable, may out of plastic or cardboard. I wrapped mine up in silver wrapping paper but you can use construction paper. I found mine in a junk pin at the store. I’ve wrapped mine up which is a little bit of tape on the back side just like this. And on the bottom in, I’m purposely leaving it open so that my building stands up straight and wont tape over. On the top of it I’m wrapping my box like a birthday present. Your mom or dad help you wrap. And I’m going to put just another little piece of tape on it right here to hold that in place. Now, it looks like a building but it doesn’t have any windows or doors, so we got to make them. I cut out of construction paper a couple of squares, just like this and by adding a cross right into the middle of them just like this I’ve created a window with four pins. And of course a building isn’t a building without a door. So this purple square is going to be my door and I’m going to put a black circle right there to make a doorknob and now we’re ready to dress our building. And I think the Paloozaville needs a dentist. So with a little piece of cardboard I written dentist on that and I’m gonna put another little piece of tape on the bottom of it and instead of putting it in the front of my building, I’m going to put it on the top of my building and I’ve got to have a name for my doctor and who better for a dentist then Doctor Smile. And to create a whole city, just make more buildings. Like a library, a hospital or even a city hall. Let the recycling begin. John Lithgow: what is the news there Suza? Carmen de la Paz: Yeah mayor of the city, welcome to Paloozaville! John Lithgow: Oh my! It’s grand it’s palooza, it’s paloozarific! Carmen de la Paz: Thank you sir. John Lithgow: Suza palooza you are too much. But this was we can put a tiny campaign poster right there. You know I am running for reelection next year. Recycle, vote for the mayor again. Very cute Buzzy. Buzzy, have you all even wonder if that’s scratchy static between radio stations is really a message form outer space? What if we could flash into the solar system and search of the unknown. Land on the surface of an alien planet where no man has ever walked before. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Yeah, that’s a good question. What I’ve done in Paloozaville have space program. Get me Suza palooza on mayor Carmen de la Paz: Happy launch you mayorship. John Lithgow:: It’s certainly yes Suza. Buzzy and I were think that Paloozaville needs its own space program. Carmen de la Paz: That’s out of this world sir. John Lithgow: I’m thinking we should launch a Paloozaville space light to find out if we can find life on Mars. Is that something you can do Suza? Carmen de la Paz: Well sir, I’ve never build a rocket before but I’ll be glad to try. John Lithgow: Now, that’s the attitude. That helped Robert Gutter the father of American rocketry launch his first rocket form a cabbage patch in the 1920’s. Good luck rocket here. Carmen de la Paz: thank you sir! John Lithgow: Buzzy, does Paloozaville have a cabbage patch? Carmen de la Paz: Are you ready? Children: What’s the palooza? Carmen de la Paz: We’re going to make a control panel for our rocket ship. Children: What do we need? Carmen de la Paz: Here’s what we need. Some short boxes, paints, buttons, markers, glue, construction paper and tape. Of course you will also need astronauts. Astronauts are people who travel in space like Alan Shepard. The first American to fly in space or Sally Ride the first American woman in space. Welcome space adventurers! In order to get to Mars, let’s make our control panel. Now I started my control panel with the plain old shirt box. You know one of those are to wrap up a birthday present in and what I did is let me prop this up for you here so you can see what I did. I looked at my car and I figured out all the different gadgets and controls. There’s speed, there’s pressure, there’s distance too. For this case, I’m going to use distance to the earth. Now you might want to add fuel, oxygen, whatever it is that you want and then once I determine that and pick where I want all those to go, I wrote them in. Then I’m going to look around my house for different construction paper and I’m going to add a speed control just like that so I can see how fast I’m going. Then I’m going to add a pressure gauge, so I know how much pressure we have in our cabin. And then to really figure it out and keep track, want to put a little gauge marker there so I know how fast we’re going. Then I need to figure out how far I am the distance to earth so I draw little construction paper on all the world’s continents on that and glue that right there and then I wanted to have a little bit more dimension and I want it to be up and down and high and low so I look for different buttons. Here I’ve got one that I found this one at the hardware store and the junk bean. You can do anything that you want as long as you make it your control panel. Let me show you how I finished my mine off. Just like this. So I’ve got the speed, and the gauge, the pressure on my buttons, I added some more information zero through one two three four five and zero through seven. I added more stickers, then I toke some colored tape and I put it all the way around it and there we go we now have a control panel. We’re ready to go to Mars. John Lithgow: Ready for blast off? Of course I am. Carmen de la Paz: Mayor control, this is palooza one ready for blast off in five four three two one zero. John Lithgow: As tell our day in Paloozaville history. How long do you think it will take you to get to Mars? Carmen de la Paz: Well sir in 1992, it toke the Mars observer about 11 months. John Lithgow: Oh my! That’s gradually long. I think you should aim for moon. Carmen de la Paz: Changing course for the moon. John Lithgow: On small turn for Suza, one giant trip for Paloozaville.