DIY Firecracker Banner

Make a fun firecracker banner for your next 4th of July event or photo booth!

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• empty toilet paper tubes
• red paint
• white paint
• blue paint
• scrap paper
• yarn (or twine, or whatever you'd like to use for the "fuses" & string)
• paintbrushes
• glue

Paint the toilet paper tubes red, white, & blue.

Allow to dry.

Paint the scrap paper the color of the tubes (optional).

Allow to dry.

Cut or punch a hole in the center & glue onto the top of each tube. (I'd recommend cutting them into smaller pieces, a bit bigger than the tube openings before making the holes).

*I recommend adding the "fuse" before gluing this paper on. (See the next step.)

Once dry, cut the paper around the tube.

Cut approx. 7" lengths of your "fuse" material. Make enough for the number of "firecrackers" you're making.

Loop & tie each, then place through the paper hole.

*Recommendation: do this before you glue on the paper. If you do it after, just use some small scissors or something to help poke it in.

Next, cut small-ish pieces of matching tissue paper & adhere over the paper using glue & a paintbrush or your finger. Allow some overhang. Paint over the tissue paper with a thin layer of glue.

Trim the tissue paper edge to a rough circle, leaving some extra.

Glue around the edges & smooth down, gluing over that as well. You can use a paintbrush or your finger for this as well.

Allow to dry.

Cut a piece of tissue paper a bit bigger than the bottom opening of the tube.

Spread glue around the ring of the tube & place the tube on the tissue paper. Adjust as necessary.

Trim around the circumference & glue around the edge like you did with the top.

Cut a long length of the material you used for your "fuses." Loop & arrange the "firecrackers" as you like & display your banner!