You'll Need:

  • Lots of pages from a book
  • Scissors or paper cutter
  • Large needle and a thimble, or tiny hole puncher

Here's How:


1. Laminate your pages and cut them into squares and retangles of different sizes.
Don't Worry: If your shapes aren't "perfect." It doesn't matter if they are, so you can't go wrong with this!

2. Using your needle or hole puncher, poke a hole in two opposing ends of each laminated square and rectancle.

3. Insert the ends of one hook through the holes of two squares or rectancles. Hold up one of the shapes and thread another hook through its other hole. (You're creating a chain of squares and rectancles.) Continue creating chains of shapes until you think you've made enough to cover your fixture (you can always add more if it's not enough).

Hint: Have fun with the pattern of your chain by alternating squares and rectangles!

4. Tape the stripes to the metal part of your light fixture.

5. Shorten and lengthen the strips until you get the size you like, then enjoy how you've beautified your light fixture!



Excerpted from "The Big-Ass Book of Crafts" by Mark Montano. Photography by Auxy Espinoza. Copyright © 2008. Reprinted by permission of Simon Spotlight Entertainment.