While you might be using duct tape to hold the handle on your cooler as you head to a pre-game tailgating party, you can also use duct tape to create art to decorate your tailgating space or game-watching space, such as a living room or TV room. Duct tape can be used to create megaphones and tailgate flags in your team’s colors.
If you are old enough to remember the days of grade school when you would create book covers for your school books out of paper bags from the grocery store turned inside out, you can expand that tradition to make a new generation of book covers out of duct tape for a new generation of readers. Parents can work with children to create covers for their school text books out of duct tape. Choose bright colors and make designs with the tape like vertical, horizontal or diagonal lines in alternating colors. Make a regular paper cover first and then lay out the duct tape into any pattern you like over the cover, which should not only make it more interesting, but more durable as well.
Duct tape is so flexible that it can be used to create just about any art project. Project ideas with step-by-step-tips are available for making duct tape records, hand prints, ties, football helmets and flowers. You can even use duct tape for interior decorating by taking a plain glass table or worn-out wooden one, sanding it down, cleaning it off and drawing a design on it, which you fill in and complete with various colors and sizes of duct tape.
Duct tape is a versatile material to use with kids’ art projects. It comes in a variety of sizes, colors and lengths as well as patterns. Duct tape is a fun material for kids to use to make purses, flowers, hearts and hats. You can help kids make snails, guitars and even alien space ships out of everyday materials like cardboard and duct tape. Even during winter, a duct tape snowman can brighten up your child’s day. The possibilities are literally as limitless as your child’s imagination.