WHAT YOU NEED Supply: Cardboard Toilet Paper Rolls Raid Location: You can get this from your bathroom or better – the recycle bin. Alternatives: A plastic cup with the bottom cut out, a tin can, a piece of cardboard shaped into a cylinder Supply: Red and Blue Electrical Tape Raid Location: Tool Box Alternatives: Strips of construction paper, red and blue paint, ribbon Supply: Brass Fasteners Raid Location: Mom or Dad’s Desk Alternative: Pieces of recycled foil formed into small balls Supply: White Party Streamers Raid Location: Party Supply Box or “Things to be Recycled” Craft Box (I’m the first person to save these streamers after a party. You can use leftover streamers for all sorts of things!) Alternatives: Leftover ribbon or yarn Supply: Red Ribbon Raid Location: Christmas Wrapping Stash Alternatives: Ribbon, yarn, pipe cleaners OTHER STUFF
White Craft Paint Foam Paint Brush Hole Punch Scissors
Let’s Put It All Together
How to Celebrate
You can definitely let the kids run around with these windsocks during the Memorial Day parade or picnic. Can’t you just see the streamers trailing behind as they zip past the parade? You can also hang several of them in front of your window for a nice patriotic effect. When the wind catches the streamers, it looks really awesome. If you’re going to use them as outdoor decoration, I’d only hang them on the day-of your picnic or the day-of Memorial Day. And be sure it’s not going to rain. These don’t hold up in wet weather. The last thing we want is for a soggy windsock to get tossed into the trash. FYI, these windsocks are easily packed away and saved for next year’s patriotic celebrations.
Keep Embellishing So yeah, this is an awesome Memorial Day craft project. But how can we switch things up for the Fourth?
I love the idea of adding silver ribbon to the hanging streamers. How about cutting out some cardboard stars, wrapping them in leftover foil and gluing them onto the base of the windsock? How cute would that be! You could also simply use the windsock you made for Memorial Day as a craft example for the kiddos who are attending your Fourth of July picnic. Set up a craft table for them, show them your windsock and let them try to recreate it. Remember, you have pretty much everything you need right there in your house.
Save Your Tubes Hold onto your craft-hats – a very big toilet paper maker is now making TUBELESS TP rolls! This is amazing news for the environment as millions of these cardboard rolls are thrown away every year. We eco-crafters embraced the cardboard tube years ago and have transformed them into all sorts of gems. Of course, we always want what’s best for the earth…but I know I’ll be a little sad to see them go. Until then, I will hoard them like there’s no tomorrow! Once all the other companies figure out that going tubeless saves money, manpower and Mother Nature…then we’ll really have to get crafty!
