What do you do with those old, unwanted or scratched CDs? Rather than tossing them or letting dust pile up, your child can actually put them to good use. Make your teen collect as many as he can get from family and friends, and turn them into a hanging, decorative curtain.
What You Need:
❑ Ruler
❑ Old CDs
❑ Permanent marker
❑ Drill with 1/8″ bit
❑ 10 mm jump rings
❑ needle-nosed pliers
❑ safety glasses
What You Do:
- Make your teen figure out how many CDs he needs. A 15-inch row takes 3 CDs.
- When he has enough CDs, make him use a permanent marker to mark four points evenly spaced around each CD; think north, south, east and west on a compass.
- Next, put on safety glasses. Drill a hole at each mark he made. Repeat the drilling process, until each CD has been drilled.
- Make your teen lay out the CDs in the shape of the hanging curtain he wants to make.
- Starting with the top row, make him put a jump ring into the left holes of all of the CDs except the one on the far left-hand side (you don’t need to hook anything onto the left side of that one).
- Now, ask him to put rings into the right holes of all of the CDs except the one on the far right side.
- To complete the attachments, make him use more rings to join each CD to its neighbour.
- Finally, he’s ready to connect the rows! For the top row of CDs, put jump rings into the bottom holes. For the bottom row, put jump rings into the top holes. For all others, put jump rings into the top and bottom holes. Use additional rings to join each CD to the one above or below it.
- Lastly, loop fishing line through the top holes in the top row of CDs. Then, your teen can hang his creation from a tension rod. Watch it sparkle!