Patriotic Newspaper Star Candle Holder
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Add a touch of patriotic elegance to your décor with this awesome diy newspaper tubes candle holder. It's a super easy recycle project that's inexpensive, costing next to nothing to create, and the best part, you probably have everything on hand to make.
With little more than newspaper, a skewer stick, glue and paint, you can create a festive decorative item in red, white and blue, that's perfect for any patriotic occasion such as the Fourth of July, or even in a nautical themed décor!
To make the newspaper tubes, begin by folding a full sheet newspaper into four sections horizontally and cutting out on the folds. Then open the newspaper strips and place a skewer stick at a right angle on the bottom corner of the paper. Roll the paper tip over the skewer and continue rolling the paper with fingers and hands pressed down on the surface. You might have to lift the paper tube as you roll to tighten the tube. Continue rolling until you get close to the end point. Add a bit of glue to the tip corner and continue rolling to the end and seal.
You will need seven tubes for each color - red, white, and blue, plus two extra tubes to make the star for a total of twenty three tubes.
To paint the tubes, lay down a sheet of parchment paper to paint on (a plastic trash bag didn't work well) and group the tubes together to paint. Use the palm of your hand to roll the tubes over while painting to make it easy to cover the tubes with paint. Let dry.
For the star, connect two tubes (each about 21 inches long) by dabbing a bit of glue into one end and inserting another tube together to make the length about 42 inches long.
Next, fold the longer tube into five pieces, about 8 inches long . . .
and shape into a star.
Close the two ends of the star by inserting glue to seal.
Apply glue to the inside tubes where they cross each other and clamp together until dry.
Glue on a wrapping tube a little below a star point and let dry.
Begin wrapping around the star point and straight over to the next point until all five star points are wrapped. Once all five points are wrapped in the same color, the next color needs to be added.
To add a new color, cut off the old tube at a side corner or back to hide the new connection and insert the next color tube. In other words, the red tube is cut off near the last wrapping point and glue is added and then a new, white tube is inserted.
Continue wrapping each of the five star points in a new color, following the red, white and blue order for the five star points, adding additional tubes to lengthen as you wrap.
When all star points have been wrapped many times and it's the last color of order (blue), cut off excess tube and tuck end down inside.
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Super easy and oh so unique! Perfect for any patriotic or nautical themed décor!
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Holy Cow, your gifted!
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Uh, no, I just like making crafts! Thanks anyway!
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Very clever, it's a winner! I'll use this for sure. Thank you, Paulie - Cortland, NE
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Thanks, Paulie!
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Exactly what kind of paint do u use ? Also the glue ?