Author: Launi

This pretty little wind chime is much easier to make than I would have thought.  And you know how I feel about doing really hard stuff–and calling it crafting.  Don’t like it one little bit. So, please trust me when I say this one is fun, fast and pretty dang easy…or it wouldn’t be here.

What you’ll need:

scissors

ruler

red, white, and blue craft foam

small hole punch

50 gold or star brads

30 small paper clips (ours were gold)

1 white hanger

24 white or clear pony beads

ribbon

13 bells (ours were 3/4 inch gold)

Instructions:

1. Cut out a 4 1/2- by 4-inch blue craft foam rectangle. Punch 4 evenly spaced holes on one of the long sides of the rectangle and 7 on the other.

2. Space the brads or stars evenly on the blue rectangle.

and affix them.

3. Cut out 7 red craft foam strips: three 1/2 by 8 inches, four 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches. Cut out 6 white craft foam strips: three 1/2 by 8 inches and three 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches.

4. Punch holes in both ends of all of the strips and thread paper clips through all the holes.

5. Attach the 7 short strips to the bottom of the blue square. Thread 4 paper clips through the holes at the top of the blue square.

6. Slide all the pieces onto the hanger–with 2 or 4 beads between–to form the flag.

7. Attach a bell to the clip on each strip.

8. Shape the hanger into a triangle shape and tie curly ribbon at the top.

Let freedom ring…or…

jingle…

if you please.

Either way.

Go USA!