I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! We did here at The Crafty Princess house! My living room is still a mess from all the new toys, but I love it! Now to set our eyes on New Year's Eve. This year, Bubba is old enough to get the concept of a new year (he just recently turned six) and I plan on taking every opportunity to make this year's celebration special. First on the agenda, Poppers! Some people call them crackers, but that has a very different meaning in our house, especially when The Little Princess is around. (Hello, favorite food!) I've never made poppers before but I figured they wouldn't be that difficult. First, since there are four people in our family, I went digging for four toilet paper rolls. Literally digging in the trash. Lucky for me Hubby forgot to take the bathroom trash out for trash day yesterday. (Usually a bad thing but in this case I had four toilet paper tubes in there! Bingo! Hubby you are now out of the dog house!)
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Yup, mine look just like yours. |
After removing all the little pieces of tp that were stuck to the tube I cut them in half.
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Am I being too thorough with the photos?
Nah, you can never have enough photos! |
Next I cut a bunch of strips of tissue paper to put into the poppers.
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Oooh, pretty! |
Now, after experimenting with different methods, I decided I wanted to have a bottom to my tubes, so I could stuff the tissue paper into them without worrying about the paper falling out of the bottoms while I was working with the poppers. (Here's where I get real high tech.) I cut a piece of tissue paper in the color I was using for the popper, in a square large enough to cover up the sides of the tube. Then, (this is the high tech part.) I used a glue stick to stick the paper to the tube. (What? A glue stick isn't high tech? Then why doesn't the glue stick to the plastic tube? Hehe. OK, I spend too much time with small children....)
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OK, I really don't know what happened to the top half of this photo.
For some reason it won't load. But, you get the idea. |
Next, I stuffed the two halves of the tube with tissue paper strips and a few pieces of candy. (What kind of candy? Reused Christmas candy of course. We don't need even more junk in the house!
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This is when I started fending Bubba off from the candy.
"It's ten a.m.! You can have a piece after lunch!"
"Aww, Mom!" |
Next I cut a piece of tissue paper large enough to wrap one and a half times around the tubes and just long enough to go from the end of the tube to a few inches past the bottom. (Confusing, I know. That's why I take pictures!)
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I did this to add strength to the "pulling" part of the popper.
If you are using a different kind of paper you may not need to do this step. |
Then, I cut a piece of tissue paper long enough to wrap one and a half times around the tubes and long enough to connect the tubes together, leaving enough for the "pulling" part of the popper.
We're almost done. Let's wrap this up!
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Please excuse the scissors.
At this point the tubes decided it would be a great time to get camera shy and roll away. |
Next, gently twist the ends so it looks like this.
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Looks like a great big piece of candy! |
Finally add some ribbon to tie off the ends.
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Oooh, Aaah, Pretty! |
Here are all the others I made. One for each of us in our favorite colors. You could easily make them in colors to match your party theme.
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Don't you just want to make a whole bunch? |
These were a lot of fun to make, and fairly simple. (Seriously, it took longer to write the blog than make all four of these.) I was going to let Bubba help me, but he was too busy playing with his new toys. He has already asked if he can pop one though. I guess I'm going to have to hide them for the next couple of days!
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