White House Inspired Shooting Stars Table Topper
Level:
Intermediate
How-To:
Table Setting, Home Decor
Seasonal Event:
Christmas
Coleen Christian Burke, author, “Christmas with The First Ladies” book available wherever books are sold.
Coleen Christian Burke - First Lady Inspired Paper Crafts - Home & Family
MATERIALS:
- Cardboard tubes
- wrapping paper tubes and/or paper towel tubes
- Wrapping paper
- Tissue paper
- Craft stars
- thin wooden dowels
- Paint & glitter stars & dowels
- Styrofoam balls to fit tube
- Paint, sparkles, embellishments
- Wreath
- Small piece of foam core
- Decorations
- Hot glue
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Plain cardboard tube (wrapping paper and/or paper towel tubes)
- Cut tubes in half on an angle
- Wrap tube in colorful paper
- Hot glue tubes together in sets
- Set aside
- Paint & glitter the stars
- Hot glue the star onto a dowel
- Insert styrofoam balls into tubes
- Insert star/dowel into styrofoam balls
- Arrange tissue paper surrounding top of tube
- Add more tissue as needed
- Nestle the green roping in the center of the wreath
- Gather both groups of “shooting star tubes” and arrange them vertically or you can angle them.
- Glue tubes to a small piece of foam core and conceal it in wreath.
- Decorate wreath and surrounding table
