Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Take a Break: Make Stars

For the past several days, I’ve been making stars for our Old Home Day sandwich poster boards. Old Home Day arrives just in time for the 4th of July. Hence, red, white and blue stars. Since we seem to be specializing in rain this summer, and I’m not the best painter, I needed to make them out of something that was weather resistant and would adhere to the sandwich board. And the solution? But of course, duct tape!

These are very simple to make. Take a piece of baking sheet paper-note, wax paper doesn’t work-and put down strips of overlapping red, white and blue duct tape. This type of paper is readily available where you buy lunch bags, saran wrap etc. If you are really good at cutting things out, cut out a star. I needed a bit of an assist and found a star cookie cutter to be the perfect size. You can also make a five-pointed star and use that as your template.

If you are going to trace a shape, trace it on the opposite side of the baking sheet paper from where you put the duct tape. Since I had strips of tape left over after cutting out my stars, I just peeled them off and re layered them to cut out another star. I liked the various colors and designs from layering.

With the 4th of July less than two weeks away, here are some suggestions for making more stars.

Star mobiles

3-D Stars

Make a star shaped cake using round cookie pans

Folded origami “puffed star” These are perfect for making star earrings.

And last but not least, don’t forget to “wish upon a star” tonight. If it’s cloudy, you can always enjoy Louie Armstrong singing and playing his trumpet to the Disney Classic. If Louie doesn’t do it for you, try one of the following:

Julie Andrews

Josh Groban

Michael Jackson

Billy Joel

Linda Ronstadt

Gene Simmons

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