How to make Money Leis

Materials Needed:
3 plastic straws to be used as spacers. CUT these evenly. the larger you cut these the farther apart your rosettes will be. The smaller they are the tighter your lei will be.

Curling ribbon 6 to 8 feet.

Scotch tape

$50 to $100 crisp dollar bills
colored card stock - cut to the size of a $1 dollar bill

STEP ONE

Crisp dollar bill.


Fold dollar bill in half length wise


OPEN Dollar


Fold dollar bill into even pleats. IT takes awhile to fold. I folded two dollar bills at one time and then seperated.


Fold all bills into an accordian style


To add variety or color to the lei, you can cut colored cardstock to the size of $1 and fold the same way.


Fold the pleated bills in half and form to make a rosette. Tape both sides to form a circle.

Take curling ribbon. Make a large loop. You will take your 6foot ribbon and fold in half evenly. This will now become a 3ft ribbon. You may add tape to the ends of the ribbon to make it easier to thread through rosettes.

Make a double-knot in the looped end of the ribbon (middle) (not the cut ends).

Put the folded bill below the knot, between the two strands of ribbon. Make a double-knot around the bill to hold it in place.


I started out trying various methods. THIS method. I did not pre close the rosettes. You take your accordian folded bill and you tie the ribbon around the middle, half knot.

Secure that down tightly.

Add a spacer. Picture of what the spacers look likes with rosettes.



and then add another dollar bill and tie a half knot and then a spacer. Slide the dollar down to the spacer. Open the dollar and tape sides to form a rosette. REPEAT

Finish until all your dollar bills are used. You can use the colored cardstock to break the color and use as stretchers, so you could use less money. Because you are using such crisp dollar bills it is irritable to the neck. You can finish the lei off by using beads, or flowers or making a yarn lei on the end.
VOILA
It makes for a beautiful gift! These are very time consuming and I realize why it
My directions may be a little sketchy. Since this was the first one I made. It comes together once you just give it a try. I will have to make another and I will have better instructions.

How to make Candy leis

How to make candy leis.
saran wrap either clear or colored
spooled ribbon to tie and
Buckets of candy, little trinkets or large candy bars, gum etc. If you can wrap it in saran wrap it can be made into a lei!



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HOW TO MAKE A CANDY LEI!
First you need to gather gum, chocolates or hard candy. You can use anything!
Use saran wrap or colored saran wrap.
Need a spool of curly ribbon, scissors

Carefully lay out about a yard and a half of saran wrap onto table.
(length may vary according to how long or short you wish your lei to be)

Lay candy across the middle of saran and space approximately 1/2inch apart

Once Candy is laid across saran, carefully fold the saran wrap up to top,
make sure candy laes flat and is secure in wrap.

Fold the saran again so that it is snug and makes a long tube with candy in middle.

Cut strips of curly ribbon into 2 inch strips.

Tie ribbon at the start of candy lei.

Continue to tie curly ribbon after each peice of candy (choc bar or gum) or candy cluster (multiple hard candies) to finish the lei off gather the end of the lei and tie curly ribbon snuggly around both ends. Then curl each ribbon by taking the scissors and pulling it tightly against the ribbon ends, the ribbon will curl.
You can make a gum lei, cookie lei whatever lei you wish. If it will wrap you can turn it into a lei.

How to make DUCT TAPE ROSE pens and pencils (3 posts 'til private)

Supplies needed: 2 rolls of ductape. One for the flower petal and green for the stem.
Scissors, and pens or pencils.

Time: At least 15minutes. AS you become more efficient it will drop.

Meet our Instructor: Yadira

Step one: Cut 20 2x2 inch squares, or 2.5 inches. It isn't crucial that you stick to these measurements. It will vary the size of your petals and no rose is perfect. (except for mine) because I worship perfection.

Step 2: Hold tape so that the long sides are up and down. You want to be looking at a rectangle tape.


Fold the right corner over, so that you leave a bit of the tape on the side, showing. The end result will look like an "L"


Step 3: Fold the left corner making a triangle and aligning with tape. You will have sticky tape showing from the bottom.



Step 4: Take pen or pencil and place in middle of tape. If you want to hide the eraser or the top of the pen, position the pen so that it is farther down the tape.


Step 5: Wrap tightly around base of pen or pencil.


Step 6: Keep adding petals. "like wrapping a bandaid. Start with petal slightly at an angle. You need to leave a bit of space with your finger but if you wrap the petal at an angle, this will allow for your petals to fall nicely. MAKE SURE YOURE PETALS ARE EVENLY SPACED!



Step 7: Cut 4 green squares and fold exactly the same way. These are the small green petals at the base of every rose.


Step 8: Measure pen and cut green tape slightly shorters. Take one strip of green tape and wrap evenly and smoothly around pen

:: If you are using a pencil, please make smaller strips and then wrap your pencil.
This will allow you to tear the duct tape off in strips so that you may still sharpen and use your pencils.

A huge thank you to Yadira for teaching us how to make these! This is how my daughters are earning money to get to Carowinds! They are selling pens for $2 each.

Bubble Bath Float

I made these bubble bath sundaes as teacher appreciation gifts and as Mother's Day gifts. They were really cute and fairly inexpensive.

Supplies needed:

Sundae cups and lids. (Go to DQ and ask if they will donate or ask any ice cream parlor)

Box of calgon powder bubble bath (pink)or if you use bath beads by vaseline.
(beads will not bubble like bubble bath.
Box of baking soda
A tube of red bubble oils. (At the dollar store they come in a sleeve of 6)
I could only find pink bath beads and not red. Red would simulate the cherry. They come in a sleeve of 10 for $1
Bath scrubbies They come in a sleeve of 6 for $1
hot glue
bendy straw

Instructions:

Fill parfait cup with 3/4 cup bubble bath powder
1/2 cup baking soda on top.
Should be layers. It should look like a float on the bottom and the foam on top.
Add scrubbie, for the whip cream
hot glue red bath bead for cherry and
insert straw.
Cover with lid, and attach a cute poem.

Make up a cute poem to go with your float and attach.
On the back of the bath bead box, it says you need to use 1/2 cup. I tried this in my own bath and it is plenty and leaves the water amazingly soft and wonderful!!! You will feel sooo soft!!!

The bath beads in a box is already colored a light pink shimmery dust.
It looks like the real MCCOY!!! Yep, I'm so tickled I almost wet my pants. roflrfol
and my clip art is of a strawberry float.
I switched the poem to read float instead of sundae!!
Find some cute cardstock and use a clip art and print the poem below.
**********************************POEM***********************************************
Poem by SHIRLEY THOMAS found at www.craftsayings.com
This very special sundae,
will leave you feeling great.
It's chock full of good things,
even though it can't be ate.

Take it in the bath with you.
Of course don't take a sip,
cause it may look delicious,
but it's made to take a dip.