Inkling: black & white new year’s party – new year’s ball

What New Year’s party would be complete without a New Years ball? To keep the black and white party theme going, I made a decorative New Year’s ball to hang over the table.

Here’s how you make a New Year’s ball.

• Start with a Styrofoam ball. I used a small 2-1/2 inch ball.
• Poke a hole through the center of the ball and insert a string or ribbon.
• Tie off the bottom of the string or glue it so that the string will not come out.
• Take a stack of basket coffee filters and use a felt tip pen or sharpie to color the edges.
• Let the ink bleed onto the edges a little.
• Crinkle the filters from the center and start hot gluing them onto the ball.

 

• I used a pin every now and then to make sure the filters would stay put.
• Use a lot of filters – the fuller the better.

 

  

Hang your New Year’s ball and wait for the countdown.

The final black and white New Year’s party idea will be up tomorrow. Are you ready for 2011?

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