Our Hopeful Home: How To Make A Fourth of July Garland

Today I'm sharing how to make an easy and inexpensive DIY Fourth of July garland you can hang inside your home, or on your porch or patio, to show your pride in the good old U.S. of A.

stars and stripes star cut out red white and blue tassels garland

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While I'm not a huge Fourth of July decorator (I know, I say this every year), I did, however, decide to create a Fourth of July garland this year.

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After perusing my local Dollar Tree the other day I found myself staring at all the Fourth of July decorations -- an entire aisle no less. And while I noticed a premade tassel garland that might have done the trick alone I was sure I could make a better, more interesting one.

Fourth of July tassel garland foam stars hot dog covers

So I ended up buying the unadorned, red white and blue tassel garland, along with -- wait for it -- patriotic hot dog holders (how cute is that?), and four foam star wands which I wanted to use as stencils for paper stars. Total expenditure: $3.75.

I then took a foam star and traced it onto one of the paper hot dog holders and ended up with a great addition to the garland -- a star made out of "flag" paper.

I took the thin, red and blue ribbons that were tied around the foam stars and used them to hang the traced paper stars onto the tassel garland.

kitchen sideboard patriotic banner garland

Initially I hung it up inside the house on the kitchen hutch. But it was really hard to get a decent picture of it so I moved it outside for a better view.