Spool Photo Holder
With this easy craft you can make a personalized photo holder for your favorite pictures of friends and family!
Supplies
- Wooden spool with hole through the middle, top to bottom. (A spool without a hole also works if you make a hole in the top with a hammer and nail), 1 ½ -inch or larger, available at craft stores
- Colorful twine or light-gauge yarn, 3 to 4 yards
- Alternatively: you can buy a wooden spool of colorful twine at some discount stores
- 3 pieces of light-gauge wire 12 to 15-inches long
- Clay or play dough
- Needle-nose pliers
- Glue
Directions
- Fill hole in spool with clay or play dough, pushing it well in to provide a base for the wire
- Wrap the twine or yarn around the spool to desired thickness
- Glue down the end of the twine to keep it from unraveling
- With the needle-nose pliers, roll down one end of the wire to create a small coil
- Repeat with two other lengths of wire
- Cut the three wires to different lengths to provide room for all three photographs
- Fit the three wires into the center hole on the top of the spool
- Push the wires into the clay until they are held securely
- Clip photographs into the coils
- Display your pictures!
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