Paint brushes - 1 inch foam or brushand smaller paint brush
Ruler
Pen or pencil
Utility knife
Scissors
Wood glue
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Wood puttynot shown
Sandpaper or coarse nail filenot shown
Metal flag pole from Dollar Tree
Instructions
Cut the twine cod from the signs.
Flip them over, and paint the back of both signs gray, using two coats.
Paint the paint stir sticks white.
Paint the tumbling tower blocks and wooden beads black.
Using the ruler and pencil, draw a straight line after the curve on 6 of the paint sticks.
Use the knife sto score it on the pencil line, then the scissors to cut it.
Set the signs paint side up, long way, so that the top of the signs are the narrow sides.
Use the small paint brush to apply wood glue to the back of a paint stick, and glue it in the top left corner of the signs, pointing downward.
Grab another uncut paint stick, and set it against the edge under the glued one, then use the ruler and pencil to draw a line where it meets the bottom of the sign. Use the knife to score at the line, and the scissors to cut.
Repeat these steps on the other side of the signs.
Use a cut piece of the paint stick, and glue them at the top and bottom of each sign. (There will be a gap, but wood putty will fill that in.)
Now arrange two craft sticks diagonally from the top left corner to the bottom right corner of each sign. Use your ruler and pencil to make marks at the corners to cut. Make your cuts.
Using the ruler and pencil, draw a straight line after the curve on one stick for each sign, then use the knife to score it on the pencil line, then the scissors to cut it. Glue that piece in place.
Now arrange the other sticks, then mark where it would meet the other glued one in the middle, and make your cut.
Fill all of the gaps between the wood paint sticks with wood putty. Allow to dry.
Sand off any excess wood putty.
Paint over the wood putty with the white paint.
Apply hot glue to 4 of the wood beads, and glue to the top of tumbling tower blocks. Apply glue to the back of those 4 tumbling tower blocks, then glue to the top corners of each sign.
Glue the remaining two blocks to the center of the right side of one sign, left side of the other.
Break the pieces of the flagpole, so that you are left with just the long rod.
Slide each of the barn doors onto the flagpole.
Add a small amount of hot glue to the remaining two beads, then cap the ends of the pole with them.