Children's Marching Drum: Tie String Around Fasteners

Video Transcript

"Now we're ready to put the string around the gold metal fasteners that are going along the strips at the top and at the base of our drum. We start by just taking anyone of the fasteners and putting a string around it. We should hook the string around the fastener and then just tie a knot. And take the excess string, the ends that are hanging out and just wrap it around; trying to wrap it underneath the gold fastener. If you need some help, you can take one of the wooden skewer or the sharp point that we're using to make the holes. And just kind of tuck it in behind the gold fastener. And then start weaving it around the next fastener that's on the opposite side. As you go around, you don't have to tie another knot. But you can just take it and wrap it around one time, one or two times around the fastener. And then go ahead and continue to the bottom. So each time just catching the fastener wrapping it around one or two times and then going up to the top on the opposite?s side. And we're going to put a few different, go around the entire drum a few different times. And that will give us a look of real drum. We can see now how important it was to line up the gold fasteners properly to make the effect of the string going at an angle. And once we finish going around with one string, we can go ahead and wrap it around that last fastener. Go around a few times. And then you can just go ahead to cut it close to the fastener. And that should keep it in place. You don't have to make another knot. For the project I'm doing with you today, I'm just going to go around one time on the drum. But if you have second color of string, you can go ahead and put another, go around once again the entire circumference of the drum with another color of string. And it just highlights a little more. Puts a little bit of different effect in. But I'm just going to use the one single layer of string going around the drum. But I've shown you now how to go and put another added decoration. Kind of an important decoration because it really makes the look of the drum. And I've shown you how to do that by taking a string and go around the gold metal fasteners that we've applied on to the top and the bottom of the drum."