You can easily make tall corn stalk decorations for your Halloween or fall celebrations and parties.
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Steps
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Get a magazine.
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Remove the staples.
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Take one of the pages and lay it on the table.
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Overlap a second page near the end of the first one.
- Overlap only about 2 inches.
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Start loosely (about one inch diameter) rolling paper #1 and when you get to paper #2 it will be rolled up as well.
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Before paper #2 is completely rolled, get another sheet (paper #3) from the magazine and overlap paper #2 with paper #3 about two inches before the end of paper #2.
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Continue and repeat the above steps, overlapping until you have done about 20 sheets of paper.
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When all the paper is rolled up, it should be about one to two inches in diameter.
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Tape the outer paper (the last one you rolled) to the roll, so that it stays together like a baton.
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Carefully take scissors and cut 1/2-inch-wide, 1 1/2-inch-long sections in one of the ends of the "baton.
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Insert your finger into the cut end of the paper, and pull out the inner papers so it comes out like a long cone (or light saber, if you're into sci-fi!).
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Bend down the "leaves" along the entire length of the "corn stalk.
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Your final product can be folded at the wide end (the base of the "stalk") to provide support.
Kraft Paper Corn Stalk is Six Foot Tall
I saw this idea and it is great!
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- I happened to have on hand a 100yard roll of brown kraft paper and used the technique with that. The result looks fantastic and is six foot tall. I will make 30 or so and bind them at the top and flare at the bottom to make tepee shaped corn stands as a fall church decoration. The roll is 24" tall. I got mine at Office Depot on clearance for $3. The label says 40LB Kraft Roll 24 in. x 900 ft. 47002-OD.
- 1. To start unroll at least a six foot length of paper.
- 2. Make a roll about one and a half to two inches in outer diameter with an inside diameter of at least one inch (two finger widths)
- 3. Make at least 11 turns. You can use up to 20 turns- any more and you cannot complete cuts.
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4. Make three eight inch cuts down from the top evenly spaced around the sleeve.
slits cut into paper
- 5. Secure the bottom with glue (Rubber bands should also work) and twist the paper a bit.
- 6. Pull the sleeve out from the top.
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7. Spray paint as desired with deep fall colors.-
Tips
- Be careful not to cut yourself.
- Try over if your first attempt does not work.
Warnings
- Put the scissors away.