How to Make Homecoming Mums & Garters
Homecoming football games are a tradition in United States high schools. Alumni return to join current students in cheering their team to victory. Often a school will host a parade and other celebratory events. The homecoming mum and garter are traditionally worn by female students. Some male students choose to wear their girlfriend's garter on their arm. Mums can represent organizations the student is involved in, or simply have the student's name and high school represented on the streamers.
Things You'll Need
- Metal clasp pin
- Artificial silk mum
- 5 yard 2 inch wide ribbon, school color
- Glue gun and glue sticks
- Adhesive glitter letters in school colors
- Plastic school emblem, band, cheerleader, football, etc. on twist wires
- Stapler and staples
- White cardboard
- Mini cowbell
- Plastic or metal megaphone, football, etc. with slot to tie through
- Purchased satin garter
- Mini artificial mum
- 1 inch wide satin ribbon (1 yard each school colors)
- Scissors
Instructions
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How to Make Homecoming Mums
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Cut cardboard in a 5-inch wide circle. This is your mum base.
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Staple the end of a 2-inch wide ribbon in one color to the center of the cardboard.
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Create four loops of ribbon from the stapled ribbon, with the base of each loop in the center of the cardboard. Position in each quarter of the circle, cut and staple.
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Repeat looping with the second color ribbon, positioning the loops in between the previous color ribbon loops, the staple.
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Cut four or more 36-inch streamers from both colors. Staple under the ribbon loops already on the cardboard.
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Glue mum to center of loops. Staple for reinforcement.
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Using metal twists, attach plastic emblem(s) deep within the mum by twisting onto individual petals.
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Stick adhesive glitter letters spelling girl's name, high school name, organization name or homecoming year vertically down the center of the streamers.
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Tie cowbell, etc. to the ends of streamers.
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Glue metal clasp pin to the back of the cardboard.
How to Make Homecoming Garters
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Cut four to six pieces of 4 to 5-inch long, 1-inch wide satin ribbon streamers and sew/glue to the garter.
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Make eight to ten small loops (approximately 2 to 3 inches long each) and glue/sew to the center of garter over streamers.
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Sew or glue mini-mum over the center of the loops.
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Tips & Warnings
If a mini-mum isn't desired on the garter, a pom-pom of two different color ribbons can be made. Also, a single adhesive glitter letter can be placed in the center. A bow in the high school colors can be substituted on the garter instead of the streamers, loops and mini-mum. If your student has a football player boyfriend, his player number can be incorporated into the mum design or onto the garter.
