Child's Lamp Shade: Measure for Fasteners

Video Transcript

"Now we want to take our lampshade with the decorations, and we want to roll it and fasten it to the opposite side. The way we do this is we're going to have to make some points, and then make some holes, and we're going to need to measure the height of our sheet of plastic that we're using, and we're going to need four points or four holes that we're going to place the fasteners inside. So what we would do is we would take an inch, make a point on top going down one inch, and a point on the bottom going down one inch, and let's say our sheet was a width of ten inches. So after we make our points, each one in from the top and the bottom, we're left with eight inches in the middle. Then we would take that eight inches, we would divide it by three, because we want to make two points, and if we make two points, that means we're going to intersect it into three different sections. So we take the eight inches, divide it by three, which equals 2.6 inches. So from the one inch on the top we go over 2.6 inches, making 3.6 inches of the entire width, and make another mark. And then from 3.6 inches, we move over another 2.6 inches, and we make another mark, and that will make two even marks in between the points that we've made already on the top and the bottom. So we need, all together, four points, we're going to make four holes, and we go ahead and measure it by first making the top point and the bottom point, and then dividing the middle into an even section. And we're going to go ahead and do the same thing on the opposite side, making sure that it lines up, and once we know that we're sure that it lines up, we can go ahead and make our holes and put the fasteners in, our gold metal fasteners, it will look really nice. So this is the way to make points on our plastic sheet, and then go ahead and make holes to fasten the ends together."