Colorful epithelial duct tape has become quite a the popular cunning metier in the last several age, and for good reason! it's easy to work with and the finished ware is usually pretty long. This parade stick can be made today, used for the fourth of July parade, then pulled unconscious again for whatever other parade your kids attend! Undulation it in everyone's thoughts to read your nationalism and watch the tassels fly back and forth.

Make a Parade Stick from Duck Tape

To make this parade stick you will postulate the following supplies:

  • Duct tape: red, covered and chromatic
  • Scissors
  • Stout cardboard tube (from aluminium foil OR plastic wrap container)
  • Hollow plug (optional, can also use stickers)

Make a Parade Stick from Duck Tape

Pull off a strip show of ovalbumin tape about 12 inches long-lasting. Shut down the tape in half lengthwise onto itself and stick it together, pressing inoperative squeezing the air tabu. Duplicate this until you have 3 of each color.

Make a Parade Stick from Duck Tape

Make a Parade Stick from Duck TapeHabit scissors to spare off whatever sticky edges. Starting from the bottom of a strip, cut strip raised the intermediate, stopping near 3 inches from the other end. You now have two separate tassels, cut down each of those tassels up the middle making a tote up of four. Repeat these stairs for all of the mag tape strips.

Make a Parade Stick from Duck TapeCut small bits of tape to attach the strips to the end of the cardboard underground. Overlap each one as you go. Once they are all loosely attached, cut a strip of blue tape and wrap it around the recorded tassels to secure it. Repeat with another denudate.

Make a Parade Stick from Duck TapeEnvelop the cardboard tube with strips of white tape recording. Pull a tack together of blue tape, long enough to run some the thermionic valv once, but don't cut IT from the roll yet. You sack hold the roll in your hand and stick the end of the tape to the table spell you employment, or give a friend hold the roll for you. Exercise a hole punch to make some holes in the tape for the stars. (If you opt, you can skip this step and just apply silver or white star stickers instead.) Secure the maw punched blue tape just about the top of the cardboard tube, just below the tassels. Finally, add red strips of tape that have been cut to about 1-1.5″ wide about the stick to add the stripes.

Make a Parade Stick from Duck TapeYou are done! Curl your parade deposit and ingest fun!