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Chimes for Outdoor Decor and Ambiance

A great way to spruce up your outdoors and add ambiance to any patio is a set of wind chimes. These little beauties can cost relatively little or a lot. But if you like to change things up, try making your own from…rubbish.

If you use canned foods of any kind or canned juices (even frozen) save the lids. (Caution: For safety, make certain that kids that are removed from cans have a safe edge by using a can opener that upoens under the lip.) When you have an abundance, use a nail and hammer to punch a hole in each lid.

Now, you can used stickers, glue, glitter, decopage, markers, paints, string/yarn, fabric, natural collections, etc to decorate the lids. This is FUN for mom’s AND kids! Make this a family project!

When you have finished decorating the lids, spray them with finishing spray to help protect. This should be done outside or in a WELL ventilated area. When dry, flip and repeat spray. Once this step is completed it is time to think about arrangement.

Sticks are a fabulous and thrifty base for your chimes. They can be found on the ground in many shapes and sizes that work well for such an inspirational project as this. Finishing line or other string will be the material used to attach the lids to the sticks. You can either configure the sticks together with string, fishing line, or rope in a configuration that leaves plenty of different areas for hanging your lids. Or you can attach a few lids to each stick and hang many sticks in close proximity to one another. Be certain to hang different sized lids with different lengths of string, but in a way that they will knock into each other when the wind blows.

This is an FUN and easy project that costs about nothing to make! It keeps rubbish from the landfills and beautifies your home. It provides an activity for all to work together in a creative manner. Spring is coming, how about palnning that project now?

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