How to Make Birthday Decorations With Tin Foil
Birthdays are days that should be celebrated and decorated. While the act of celebrating doesn’t cost anything, birthday decorations can be expensive. Tin foil, a relatively inexpensive material, can be used in creative ways to make birthday decorations. This way you’ll be able to give more presents to the birthday boy or girl!
- Make a tin foil chain to loop around lighting, banisters, or windows. Cut small strips of foil and roll them up so that the foil is one long, thin piece. Loop the first piece into a circle, bending the ends together to secure the structure. Take another one of the thin pieces you just made and thread it through the circle and secure the ends. Keep repeating this process until you have a chain of desired length.
- Use the foil to make shiny place mats. Since it is already the proper width, you just have to tear it off at the length you choose. Cleanup is also a breeze after the kids have had their cake; just crumple into a ball and throw away!
- Cut the foil into letters. You can easily make a shiny “happy birthday” sign by cutting out the letters (with a stencil or letter patterns if you so desire) and then coating them in glitter. To reinforce the tin foil characters, you can glue the foil to card stock or even cardboard before cutting them out.
- Make shiny stars or other shapes by gluing foil onto both sides of a cardboard cutout. These can be easily hung by gluing a piece of string onto the cutout before attaching the tin foil.
- Create tin foil streamers to hang from the ceiling. Reinforce a long piece of tin foil (you can vary the lengths) by folding it over onto itself several times, resulting in a strip that is one quarter to half an inch wide. Twist the strip around a pencil or a larger circular object and slide it off. Gently uncoil the piece slightly to make a loosely coiled streamer and attach to the ceiling with tape.