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MACARONI CRAFTS: CONFETTI LAUNCHER

Celebrate New Years With Your Own Confetti Launcher

By Marie Folmar, Macaroni Kid Broomfield Publisher December 21, 2014
New Year's Eve is a great time to have a party and these Confetti Launchers are super fun.

Supplies:
  • Cardboard tube from wrapping paper - cut into 3 inch pieces
  • Balloon
  • Tape - clear and duct
  • Paper
  • Markers, crayons, colored pencils, glitter glue, stickers, or other items to decorate the paper
  • Confetti (tissue paper cut into tiny pieces works great for this)
Directions:
  1. Cut paper to fit around tube. Decorate as desired.
  2. Cut the rounded part of the balloon off...discard.
  3. Stretch the remainder of the balloon around the end of the tube. Secure balloon to tube with duct tape.
  4. Tie end of balloon.
  5. Wrap decorated paper around tube. Use clear tape to secure the seam of the paper and to tape the paper to the end of the tube that has the balloon.
  6. Place confetti into open end of tube. 
  7. At midnight, pull back on the tied end of the balloon and release. Repeat until all the confetti has been launched.