How to Make Patriotic Fourth of July Firework Swizzle Sticks
Quick and easy Fourth of July table decoration crafts are a fun way to add color to your holiday party. These fireworks swizzle sticks are made using 12×12-inch scrapbook paper and bamboo sticks to create a fun pattern of overlapping stars. Party on!
Quick and easy Fourth of July table decoration crafts are a fun way to add color to your holiday party. These fireworks swizzle sticks are made using 12×12-inch scrapbook paper and bamboo sticks to create a fun pattern of overlapping stars. Party on!
Fourth of July Swizzle Sticks Photo Credit : Rea, Nat
Materials for Firework Swizzle Sticks
4th of July craft template (linked below)
printer
cardstock
sharpened pencil
paper in various reds, whites, and blues (plain sheets and/or 12×12-inch patterned scrapbook sheets, such as double-sided scrapbook paper)
Stack two sheets of patterned paper. Place the template over the area you want to see in the finished work. Trace with a pencil.
Trace the pattern. Photo Credit : Nat Rea
Cut out triangles carefully along the lines through both sheets, all the way to the ends. (If the triangular slots are too short, the fireworks shape won’t align.)
Cut a deep slit (through both sheets) into the center of the fireworks shape.
Using heavy-duty kitchen scissors, snip just the tip of the blunt end of the bamboo skewer. Then run the blades up the skewer, splitting it along the grain, about 3 inches.
Carefully slide the blades of the scissors along the skewer. Photo Credit : Nat Rea
Rotate the skewer 90 degrees and repeat. The goal is to split the end of the skewer into 4 equal parts; it’s a little tricky, and you might break a few before you get the hang of it. Luckily, the skewers for this craft are inexpensive!
Now take one of the paper fireworks shapes and feed it, uncut side first (that is, the side opposite the deep, narrow slit), into one of the splits you made in the skewer.
Take the second piece of paper and feed it, narrow slit first, at a 90-degree angle into the narrow slit in the first paper and the second split in the skewer at the same time.
