How to Make a Paper Cocktail Umbrella

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Use a small Dixie cup or a pudding container for your outline.

   Put it right-side up on a piece of construction paper.
   
   Carefully trace the bottom of it using a pencil.
   
   Decorate the circle that is now on the piece of construction paper using additional construction paper, markers, crayons, colored pencils, etc. ,, After locating the diameter of the circle, draw a point where the center of the circle is located. ,,, This will be the basic shape for the umbrella.
   
   It should remind you of a Chinese hat. , This hole was formerly the center of the circle, and is now the vertex of the cone.
   
   Pull the toothpick through and glue to the paper if necessary. ,
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   Step 2: Carefully cut out the circle.

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   Step 3: Use a ruler to draw the diameter of the circle.

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   Step 4: Erase half of the diameter

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   Step 5: so that you are left with one radius and the center point on that circular piece of construction paper.

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   Step 6: Cut along the radius up to the center of the circle.

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   Step 7: Fold over the circle into a cone- like shape and glue it.

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   Step 8: Use a toothpick or pipe cleaner and carefully poke a hole through the top of the umbrella.

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   Step 9: Finished.

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