Fourth of July Craft Idea:
Upcycling Potato Chips Can to Flower Vase

Step 1:

Prepare your no cook play dough following our recipe.

And, clean up your chips can.

Step 2:

Knead your dough well and use rolling pin to make dough evenly flat at about 0.8 centimeter or 5/16 inch.

Step 3:

Wrap the can with dough start from the base up to the opening.

Step 4:

Continue wrapping the can with short piece of dough section by section.

Step 5:

We've done wrapping all outer can surface with teh dough. Let it dry or until the color of the dough changes to white. It took about a month. 

Step 6:

You can see the dough color is white now. Use short pieces of tape to mark the spacing of the stripes. 

Step 7:

After you are happy with the spacing, cover the area of the stripes that you don't want to paint with tapes. 

Step 8:

Use oil paints to make the red stripes. 

Step 9:

While waiting for the paints to dry, we can make the star now. I prefer to have one big star. 

You can use cookie cutter or the print out pattern to make the star.

Step 10:

Place the star pattern on a flat dark blue play dough.

Step 11: 

Cut the dough following the pattern.

Step 12:

Here is the blue star.

Step 13:

We can go back to our can and remove the tapes. You'll have crisp red stripes nicely combine with the natural dough color.

Step 14:

Paste the blue star to the can and voila! Our fourth of July craft is done.

Don't panic if your dough chip. Just add fresh dough, with plain water as your glue and let it dry. 

You can use perfection strip to help you rolling the dough to the same thickness.