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Starburst decor is very trendy right now, but often comes with pretty silly price tags. It's quite easy to put one together, especially if you're like me and have loads of extra wooden skewers in the utensil drawer! All you need are some skewers, paint, and half a Styrofoam ball. I used an orange paint for the center, then a light orange, and a yellow on the sticks to make it look like it was a gradient explosion.
Total Time: 1 hour, plus paint dry time
Yield: 1 starburst
Supplies:
- 24+ wooden skewers
- tin snips or heavy duty scissors
- 1 Styrofoam ball
- serrated knife
- 1 colour acrylic paint
- paintbrush
- 2 colours spray paint
Steps:
- Cut the wooden skewers in half.
- Cut the Styrofoam ball in half.
- Save one half for another purpose (or make 2 starbursts).
- Use acrylic paint to coat the entire outside curved surface of the ball. Let dry.
- Paint one half the length of the skewers with a base colour. This will be the colour closer to the ball, so paint the skewers with pointed ends this colour, as well.
- Paint the other half the length of the skewers in the second colour. Use a skewer to keep rotating all the pieces to ensure they are coated in paint. Let dry.
- Poke the Styrofoam ball with the skewers, starting from the center and working your way out. Use the pointed bits to drive nice holes into the foam for the skewers that have flat tips.
- Work your way to the edges. This decor can be set flat on a table or hung up on a wall.
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