DIY Tassel Garland

Filed under Be Creative DIY Projects on May 11 12 by Allison Forshey

It’s officially summer (well, here in Florida at least), and that means lots of parties and barbeques. Here is a quick and easy project that will inject some color and cheer into your celebration. This tassel garland is made from old magazine pages to help Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. If you don’t have any magazines, any flexible colored paper will work—even tissue paper! You can even make this with fabric if you would like to hang the garland outside.

Supplies

• Old magazines
• Scissors
• Stapler and staples
• String, yarn, or ribbon

Directions

1. Carefully tear pages out of the magazine that are mainly pictures with little text.

 
2. For long tassels, cut slits in the page leaving a 1-2 inch border at the top of the page. For short tassels fold the page in half and cut slits leaving a 1-2 inch border at the top. Remember, you can fold the page either vertical or horizontal so you can have a total of 4 different sizes of tassels depending on which way it is folded.

 
3. Staple the tassel at the top (the 1-2 inch un-slit part), and then staple each tassel onto the string/yarn with your desired spacing. I placed mine about 6 inches apart.


 
4. Hang and enjoy!