Family Spectrum's Creative Corner: Patriotic Pom-Poms

Celebrate the Fourth of July by recycling those plastic shopping bags and making a red, white, and blue pom-pom!

Materials

• •    Red-and-white plastic bags (Target bags work best)
• •    Stapler
• •    Scissors
• •    Dowel or stick (around 3/8” wide and 8” long)
• •    Blue painter’s tape, electrical tape, or duct tape

Instructions

• •    Stack four or five red-and-white plastic bags in a neat, flat pile.
• •    Staple the bags together several times along the bottom edge, positioning the staples so that they run parallel to the sides of the bags.
• •    Trim off the handle sections and the bottom folds.
• •    For the fringe, cut 3/4”-wide strips into the unstapled end of the bags. Stop your cuts about an inch or so from the stapled edge.
• •    Cover a dowel or stick with blue painter’s tape. Wrap the stapled end of the bags around one end of the dowel and use more blue tape to secure it.

Source: Disney’s Family Fun. For this craft and other ideas, visit Disney’s Family Fun website www.familyfun.go.com.