How To Decorate With Crepe Paper

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Crepe-paper streamers are inexpensive party decorations that give big visual bear upon. With cipher but a roll of streamers, scissors, and tape, you can plow almost any go-together into a festive gathering. Decorating with streamers is all most expressing your own creativity in strips of crepe paper.

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Fold the stop of a roll of crepe paper over the hula hoop. The end of the crepe paper should rest back on the streamer.
- The hula hoop will serve as the center of your canopy. All of the streamers will exist attached to the hula hoop.
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Staple the end of the streamer to itself. If you don't accept a stapler, yous may utilise tape.

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Unroll the crepe paper to the desired length and cut. Each streamer needs to span from the center of the room to an outside wall. In gild to achieve a dramatic drape, the streamer must be a few anxiety longer than this distance. Merely to exist safety, you may want to overestimate how long the streamer needs to be. This will allow you to adjust the curtain of the streamer. You can always trim it afterward.
- While you can measure this distance, y'all may find it easier to cutting one streamer as a reference. With a friends help, unroll the crepe paper from the center of the room to an outside wall. Adjust the drape of the streamer and and then cut. Utilize this streamer equally a guide.
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Repeat. Continue to add streamers to your hula hoop until it is completely covered. The streamers may overlap slightly. You can create a pattern with the streamers or attach the different colored crepe newspaper randomly.
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Append the hula hoop from the center of the ceiling. The attachment method you employ depends entirely on the ceiling. The most convenient installation method involves tying the hula hoop to a light fixture or a beam. If these options aren't available to you, get artistic. Yous can too hang a hook from your ceiling to suspend the hula hoop from.
- When y'all hang the hula hoop, make certain the staples used to attach the streamers are facing upward.
- Use fishing paper then your guests don't see the string.
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Adhere the streamers to outer walls or ceiling. Pull one streamer at a time to the edge of the room. Adjust the drape of the streamer and then secure it to the outer wall or ceiling with a piece of scotch tape. Echo until each streamer is draped across the ceiling. When it is done, the ceiling volition exist hidden past streamers.

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Streamers are fun for a crafty or coincidental effect. Nonetheless, if you're having a more high-end event, you might want to go with an alternative.

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Decide the dimensions of your back-drop. Earlier you get together the dorsum-drop, mensurate its length and width. Marker the dimensions of the back-drop with a light pencil mark, chalk, or a piece of tape.^[1]
- The back-drib may be as large or every bit small as yous'd like—information technology volition really depend on the infinite you're using and how y'all intend to capture the dorsum-drib on camera. Ask yourself the following questions: Do y'all want to have full-trunk shots or will the pictures be from the waist upwards? How tall are your guests? How many guests do you want in i moving picture?
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Adhere a piece of masking tape—sticky side out—to the wall. Stretch a piece of masking tape—sticky side out—forth the height edge of your dorsum-drop from corner to corner. To secure the tape to the wall, encompass each end with a piece of masking tape.
- The streamers will hang from the sticky side of the tape.^[two]
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Stick streamers onto the tape. Attach streamers to the masking tape from left to right. Roll out each streamer to the desired length and cut it in a straight line. As you motility from one corner of the back-drop to the other, layer the streamers slightly and vary the colors.
- Don't worry virtually cutting every streamer to the same length. Y'all will trim them later.^[3]
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Encompass the top border with a piece of crepe paper. Place pieces of rolled masking tape along the top border of the back-drop. Ringlet a single streamer along the pinnacle edge of the back-drop in a straight line. Cover the two small vertical pieces of tape on each finish in the same manner.
- This volition requite the top of your back-driblet a clean, crisp edge.^[4]
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Tape the lesser of the streamers to the wall. Stretch a piece of masking tape—sticky side in—across the lesser border of your back-driblet. Attach each terminate of the tape direct to the wall. This slice of record will forbid your streamers from moving.^[five]
- If you want the streamers to move with the cakewalk, don't tape the streamers to the wall. This volition provide you with a less structured, and maybe more whimsical backdrop.
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Trim the streamers only below the border of the tape. With a pair of scissors, carefully trim each streamer about the bottom border of the record. Y'all will cover the bottom with a streamer, so don't worry almost trimming each streamer perfectly.^[6]
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Cover the bottom edge with a piece of crepe paper. Stick several pieces of rolled masking record along the bottom edge of your back-drop. Curl a unmarried streamer along the taped edge in a directly line. When the properties is done, you will have a solid rectangle or square of crepe paper to pose in front of.^[7]
- You tin can add together two pocket-sized vertical streamers to each corner and then that it matches the top.
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Hang streamers throughout the venue. You tin can hang streamers from just about any surface—all you demand is some scotch tape. Hang a row of streamers across the peak of a doorway or window. Alternatively, you lot may hang streamers along the front of a table or the dorsum of a chair.
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Drape streamers around the room. Record one terminate of the streamer to a surface, like a table or a wall. Loosely run the streamer across the surface. As you go, periodically record the streamer to the surface itself to create a "U" shaped drape.
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Wrap streamers effectually a banister or railing. Tape the streamer to one end of the banister or railing. Wrap the streamer tightly effectually the banister or railing until the entire length is covered. Cut the streamer from the roll and record the end in place.^[8]

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Double-up your streamers. Instead of hanging merely one streamer, you tin can add color to the space past hanging 2 streamers at the same time. Select two different colored streamers.
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Layer the streamers. Set the 1 streamer on top of the other and so their ends meet and record the ends together. Curl out each streamer to the desired length and cutting.
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Secure the ends together. Staple each end of the layered streamers. If you lot don't have a stapler, y'all tin can tape the 2 streamers together.
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Hang the streamers. Attach ane end of the layered streamers to a surface. As you walk to the other attachment point, rotate the streamers then they twist. Attach the other end to a surface.
- In order to see both colors, you lot must twist the streamers.^[nine]
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Fold the streamer over itself to create multiple 12 inch (thirty.48 cm) layers. This will allow you to fringe the entire length of the streamer very quickly and efficiently. One time you reach the desired length, cut the folded streamer from the curlicue.
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Fringe your streamers. With a pair of scissors, make multiple cuts upwards and down the two long edges of the folded streamer. To avoid severing the streamer, cease the pair of scissors just shy of the center every fourth dimension When you're finished, the streamer will have a festive, thin fringe running up and down both edges.
- A standard streamer is ane.75 inches (4.45 cm) wide. Your fringe should exist approximately 1/ii inch (1/27 cm) long.
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Unfold the streamer. As you lot unfold the streamer, yous will see 2 continuous edges of fringe. Be careful non to rip the fragile crepe newspaper.
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Hang the fringed streamer. Attach one terminate of the streamer to the surface of your option with a slice of scotch tape. Walk the streamer to the other end point, twisting the crepe newspaper every bit you go. Attach the other end of the streamer to a second surface. The fringed streamers will add together flair to any party.^[10]

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How many feet of streamers do I demand if I desire to twist them for ornamentation?

Information technology depends on how big the space you lot are decorating is. Measure the distance you plan to hang the streamers and multiply it by one.five.
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Practise streamers sag after hanging for a few days?

Yes, especially in areas of high humidity.
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Volition tripling the streamers piece of work like doubling them?

Not likely. The center strip will be sandwiched betwixt the two other strips and volition be hidden from view.
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Where may I find metallic streamers?

You can buy some metallic paint and some streamers, but there is a chance of the color bleeding.You tin DIY them at abode, but you'd need to soak them in water to remove the dye so information technology won't bleed. Then paint with your choice of metallic paint and and so laminate it.

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Select a streamer colour or colors that match the occasion. For example, if yous're decorating to picket a sports game or celebrate a win, choose your squad's colors; utilise red, white and blue streamers to decorate for the 4th of July; orangish and blackness for Halloween; scarlet, green, silvery and white for Christmas; and neutral tones for Thanksgiving.

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Things You'll Need

Hula Hoop
Streamers
Scissors
Tape
Stapler

Multiple rolls of crepe paper in different colors
Masking tape
Record measurer
Scissors

Crepe Paper
Tape
Scissors

2 rolls of crepe paper
Tape
Scissors

Crepe Paper
Tape
Scissors

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To decorate with streamers, endeavour draping them around the room by taping one end to the wall and creating a "U"-shaped pall beyond the wall every few anxiety. If there is a bannister or railing, you tin wind the streamers effectually them until it'south covered along its length. For a multi-colored expect, layer two different-colored streamers together and staple the ends, twisting it every bit you hang them so that you tin can run across both colors. For tips on how to make a back-drop out of streamers, read on!

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