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Make Your Own Feis Bucket
Great for keeping all your feis stuff in one place
and having a place for your dancer to sit without creasing
that beautiful dress!
There are many variations to the bucket--mainly in
the cushion.
Have fun and see what works best for you. My dancer
loved making this!
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List
of Supplies
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5
gal bucket from Walmart, Home Depot, etc. |
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Bar
stool cushion (or foam padding cut to fit) |
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Fabric
to cover padding |
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Photos,
window clings, stickers, 4 buttons (optional) |
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Clear
laminate roll (optional) sold by cabinet liners
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Industrial Strength Velcro |
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Stick
glue, scissors, needle and thread |
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Decorating
Have fun and decorate it--either directly on the bucket
or cut paper to fit then decorate.
We used stick glue to attach pictures and confetti.
Cut laminate a bit larger than the pictures to help
protect them.
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The
Lid--One way to do it
Lay the cushion on top of the fabric and cut a fabric circle about 5 inches wider than the cushion.
Sew/tack it down to cushion on underneath side--no one will see what it looks like so it doesn't have to be neat.
Sew the top four indents down with buttons if you like. We found some cute shamrock buttons at Joanns.
Use the industrial strength velcro and attach top
of lid and bottom of cushion. Don't actually put the
velcro to velcro yet (cushion to the lid). The glue
on the velcro needs to set overnight so just leave
them apart until the next day.
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Tip: if your lid is difficult to remove
(some are air tight), grind off some of the edge/lip
on the bucket until the lid comes off easily.
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Bucket
Creations
Email us your own creations!
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The bucket has been wonderful! It's great to tote around,
holding stuff in and sitting on. It keeps my dress in
perfect shape!
For my bucket I used velcro for the cushion. It's great.
I just take the cushion on and off. This helped a bunch
during a very rainy feis.
Also with the
decorations I went to Kinko's and had them laminate
it for me. This worked very well as when it rained for
that feis it kept all my decorations dry. Though I did
learn I need to laminate each page seperately. I laminated
them all together in one piece and it didn't fit the
bucket correctly. I had to cut each page and then stick
it on. The sequin strings going vertically are there
to fix mess ups. But it turned out nicely!
--Tiffany Birkinbine |
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I used foam shamrocks we bought
at Michaels last year and layered them. I also use a
purple holographic bookcover paper (like contact paper)
and cut out some shamrocks. Of couse I had to have pictures
of me and my friends on the bucket.
The green bucket
was from Walmart, they also had a pink. I haven't seen
them at the store lately though.
--Sarah Klahn
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