Marching Drum

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  Step 1

  Gather your supplies and prepare your work surface.

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  Step 2

  Start by taking your 2 cardboard piecse and fold them in half length wise

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  lay the ends of the cardboard pieces onto a piece of masking tape, making sure you have enough to go around

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  Step 4

  it should look like this

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  Step 5

  tape the other 2 ends in the same manner, forming a boat shape

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  Step 6

  tape popsicle sticks every few inches vertically inside the ring

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  Step 7

  break a few popsickle sticks in half and lay them on your masking tape

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  Step 8

  tape the broken pieces horizonally along both edges of the cardboard, forming a ring

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  Step 9

  cut 2 pieces of strong wire and tape them to the egdes of the cardboard ring, tape 2 pieces of wire on the inside of both edges as well, this will hold the shape of the circle

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  Step 10

  fold your vinyl in half and place the ring on top

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  Step 11

  cut a circle around the ring a little larger than itself

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  Step 12

  make slashes in the vinyl, fold pieces up one side and tape down with masking tape

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  Step 13

  Here I cut out leopard print wrapping paper and using my spray adhesive attatched it to the inside to hide the ugly tape

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  Step 14

  using asharp object, poke a hole in the drum, take heavy nylon string and add a key ring to it

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  Step 15

  triple knot that sucker on the inside, you wont be able to see it if you match it to the paper

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  Step 16

  finish the opposite side the same as you did for the first side, and then duck tape the ring solid

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  Step 17

  using spray adhesive, attach fabric to the ring, trim the excess of the edges

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  Step 18

  next using craft glue, tack on trim and set drum aside

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  Step 19

  this will be fo rthe drum sticks, cut out 2 circles

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  Step 20

  hand gather the edges, stuck with fill, glue in a dowel, triple knot and wala.

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  Step 21

  two drum sticks to match! after I finished the drum sticks, I added a piece of trim to each edge, covering any unsightly flaws and attached the lanyard.

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