Needle Pressing Tips for Popcorn Christmas Garland

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Katalin, the creator of Creative English in Hungary and I am here on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to show you how to make Christmas garland from popcorn. You have to be very careful with it because, of course, you have the needle and you can hurt yourself. Also, because the fresh popcorn breaks really, really easily. That's why it's very important where you actually press the needle in. Because if you press it to the edge, then it will break. And, of course, if it's the last step, it's quite hard to keep your shape together. That's why you need to be very careful about it. And, as I have already said, if you manage to open the popcorn box one day before and let it, a little bit, dry or when the popcorn is not very fresh, it's not dry it's a bit like softy and it will be easier to work with that. We need to put it in the needle and tie it at the end; otherwise the popcorn will fall off. So I try to press it into the needle. After a while your hands become a little bit slippery and it's a bit more difficult to press it on or pull the needle out. For this case you can use a tissue if you feel that your hands are a little too greasy. It's very nice, because the popcorn, especially from far away, looks like big snow flakes. If you put some popcorn decorations on you Christmas tree then it looks like it would be snowy. It brings back nice white Christmas memories."