This sweet DIY is age-appropriate to do with children—in fact, homeowner, curator, collector and shop owner Kari Boetsch created hers with her 11-year-old daughter Molly, creating rustic stars and special memories all at once. The directions below will result in your own simply sweet paper-bag stars.
What Kari and Molly used:
- Brown paper bags of assorted sizes
- Scissors
- Glue
- Glue gun
- Hole punch
- Ribbon
What they did:
- Kari and Molly took various sizes of brown paper bags and cut the
corners off where the opening is.
They laid them out flat and cut each corner off about 4 to 6 inches on each side, creating a point (almost like an arrow). - They used a glue gun and placed several dots of hot glue on the bottom of each bag. Approximately five or six bags make one star. They glued the bottoms together and then opened each bag.
- Then they placed glue at the top, bringing the upper portion together to create a star.
• To hang them, they punched a hole at the top and put vintage ribbon through each star.
Leave them up all winter long if you’d like!
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