A Newspaper Fruit Basket :)

I just discovered how easy it is to make a basket using newspaper! It's so simple to roll paper tubes out of newspaper and then use the tubes into a basket.

1. You need to cut long strips of newspaper to about 10cm wide. Fold the newspaper horizontally in half and then half again, and use a sharp knife to cut into sections.  Place the thin stick on a corner of the newspaper at 90 degrees. This will give you longer tubes. Roll the newspaper stripe over the stick

When you reach the end, apply on a small amount of glue to maintain its stiffness.

2. Make plenty of such thin-long newspaper sticks.

3. Take a newspaper stick and roll with your fingers. You can use the stick as your base to roll.

4. Insert another stick, to the previously rolled newspaper stick's opening.

5. Continue this process of rolling, until you have a big disk of newspaper sticks.

6. Once done, apply glue to the end of the stick.

7. If you want to make the lid of basket as well, make 2 such disks.  Bigger disk for the lid and smaller one for the base.

MAKING OF THE BASE

1. Now, roll the newspaper stick to the cylindrical object to make a circular coil. You can use vicks bottle, acrylic paint bottles.

2. Make many such cylindrical coils of small and medium sized.

3. Apply glue all over to the disk's one side to make it stiff

4. Now pushup the disk to give the shape of the container. Make sure the glued side is inwards. Keep it aside for few minutes to dry

5. Stick the coils of smaller size over the container edge. Take the medium sized coils and stick it over the smaller ones, all way round.

MAKING OF THE LID.

1. Take the larger disk, and push it upwards similar to the one we did it for base.

2. Take to smaller coils[glue them to each other] and stick it over the top of the lid.

3. Cover the basket with lid.

Congratulationsss!! Your FRUIT BASKET is READYYY :)