Taking the recycling initiative a bit further, you can use magazines with colorful pages for the next step: make the wreath fluffy. But in this case I used some Japanese paper which we bought from the dollar shop.
Umm... that's my son Jo-Lo's foot right there :-)

What you need: a pen, a circular container, a pair of scissors, homemade paste. I found the 1/3 measuring cup perfect for this purpose.

Repeatedly fold the paper until you get a thickness that you can still cut through. Draw a circle on the folded paper and cut. This way, you get many circular papers in one go.

Using the pen, press its flat tip onto the center of the circular paper and wrap these up, like so:
Now take a piece of circular paper, place the flat tip of the pen at the center, and dip onto the paste such that the center gets pasted up.
Press onto the wreath and repeat.

Yeah, this is the part where your persistence is practiced. It's not really so bad. I do it a couple of hours each night while watching / listening to the news on TV.

I learned that the best approach to this is to fill up the outermost and innermost areas first. It can become quite tricky when you do the easiest parts first (the top) then more into and outside the sphere.
As you can see, I am no longer doing the opposite side because it will hang against the wall anyways.
So far I have spent a total of 10 hours in this routine, and I am nearly done...

Itutuloy...

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