Create outside colourful bunting out of plastic drinking straws

Great garden or indoor decoration project, made of plastic straws. 

Needed:

1. Packet of Plastic drinking straws
2. Garden twine
3. Scissors

We bought the materials from the Pound Shop and it cost us £3.00 (£2 for 2 packs of mulitcoloured plastic straws, £1 for the garden twine) 
Love a bargain!
This little project will be great for decorating your garden as it's water proof, children's rooms, birthday parties and so on. Get your children involved, they'll love it as my daughter did. Working on it will improve their eye-hand coordination. I made this one double flagged, but you can start by making single flag bunting. Also you can make sections of only one or two colours you may want for special occasions.
(not suitable for children under 3 years of age)

Outdoor bunting made with plastic straws. TheaCaldwell.blogspot.co.uk©

Follow these easy steps to create the bunting:

Outdoor bunting from straws . TheaCaldwell.blogspot.co.uk

Just follow the above steps. Make bunting sections of about 2 m in order to be more manageable. You can tie the sections together after they are ready. If you want to make single flag bunting, please use step 1 and 2 only (using two twine strings).  When cutting the size of the twine when starting, please cut one and a half longer that the bunting length for the first twine string, two and a half the length of the send string and for the third row please cut three and the half times the length of the bunting required. Example: If you intend to make 1 m bunting, your first twine string should be at least 1.5 m; the second twine string should be at least 2.5 m and the third one should be at last 3.5 m. As for the length of the straws please note it is only a guide, you can cut them they way you want them, give it a go and try.

£3 for materials from the Pound Shop

Great Garden wind catcher and decoration

Tie a knot and repeat steps 1 to 3 again.

You can see the three twine strings and the length of the straws.