This week, with Christmas approaching, Roy wanted to make something quick and easy, but festive, to decorate his home. Roy loves old fashioned Christmas decorations, and he recalled his Grandma telling him that when she was a little girl, she would make foil bells using the foil from the milk bottle lids. Roy wondered if you could do something similar using normal foil, and enlisted Grandma’s help to find out. The results were very pretty indeed, and so Roy decided to share them. So this week, Roy Creates Silver Bells Using Foil and a Lemon Squeezer!
You Will Need:
- A lemon squeezer
- A roll of foil - use the thickest you can find. You can even use foil takeaway containers!
- A bottle or cup
- A pair of scissors (this is optional, Roy discovered you could just tear the foil)
- A wool needle
- Wool in festive colours
Method:
- Start by cutting a round from the foil. Use the bottle or cup as a guide for the circle and cut around the bottle – it doesn’t have to be neat. In fact, Roy discovered it was just as easy to tear the foil! Make your circles whatever size you like.
- Now, squash the foil over the ‘bell’ shaped section of your lemon squeezer. You will need to be a little gentle, to stop the foil from ripping
- Thread a length of wool onto the needle and carefully, going from the underside of the bell, push the needle through the foil. Tie a knot to stop the bell falling off.
- If you like, you can add extra bells to your wool – just make sure you tie a knot above each bell (by about 1 inch or more) to stop them falling down!
- Display your bells wherever you like. Roy thinks they would look very pretty outside in a tree, and being foil, they should be just fine outdoors.