Celebrate the Fourth of July by recycling those plastic shopping bags and making a red, white, and blue pom-pom!
Materials
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• Red-and-white plastic bags (Target bags work best)
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• Stapler
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• Scissors
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• Dowel or stick (around 3/8” wide and 8” long)
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• Blue painter’s tape, electrical tape, or duct tape
Instructions
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• Stack four or five red-and-white plastic bags in a neat, flat pile.
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• Staple the bags together several times along the bottom edge, positioning the staples so that they run parallel to the sides of the bags.
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• Trim off the handle sections and the bottom folds.
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• 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.
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• 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 .
