ENTERTAINMENT
DIY Projects
by Andy McBride
There are times where you really don’t want to go anywhere and you feel content staying at home. You just don’t know what to do with your time.
SPARKLERS!!!
Here’s How: 1. Mix the dry ingredients with enough dextrin solution to make a moist slurry. Include the strontium nitrate if you want a red sparkler or the barium nitrate if you want a green sparkler. 2. Dip the wires or sticks in the sparkler mixture. Be sure to leave enough uncoated space at one end to safely grasp the finished sparkler. 3.Allow the mixture to dry completely before igniting the sparkler. 4.Store sparklers away from heat or flame, and protected from high humidity.
Clouds
Cotton Batting Paper Lanterns Battery Powered LED lights Hot Glue Gun Instructions 1. Pull at the cotton batting until it looks fluffy, light, and cloud-like. 2. Hot glue the batting to the outside of the paper lantern in various places, making sure it’s fluffed to your liking. 3. Place your LED lights inside each lantern. 4. If you’re using small, battery powered LED lights, you can affix them to the internal structure of the lantern and hang it wherever you like. 5. As another option, you could make a chain of several clouds, connecting them with Elemental LED’s RGB 4-In-One LED Puck Light Kit, which would enable you to create color-changing-LED lit clouds remotely controlled with an RGB controller!
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