If you have a larger diameter noodle, do not try and glue this while you are rolling it! I got glue all over my carpet doing that and now I don’t see a way to completely remove it. If you leave open spaces, in the spiral, it will be hard to glue and you will be able to see it in the final product. If you have issues getting a tight spiral I suggest rolling it, taping it, letting the foam adjust for a couple of hours, undo the tape and reroll it until the spiral is tight. If you have open spaces where it isn’t tight: I had to roll some of these several times. This was one I rolled several times to get the gaps out of the spiral. Get to the end of it, and wrap a strip of duct tape across the whole thing, to keep it in a tight spiral. Start rolling the whole noodle, keeping the the spiral tight. You only need to glue one side as it melts downward and glues the whole thing securely. I burned the heck out of my fingers from the hot glue while rolling and rerolling until I finally gave up on it, rolled it and taped it down and THEN hot glued it together (this takes an enormous amount of hot glue.) Hot glue is dependable and pretty straight forward. Using brute strength: I taped the cut side together and then leaned on these and rolled them up on the floor. I taped the cut side back up into a smaller tube so that it looked right as I rolled it. I learned cutting longer strips out really helped with rolling. So how did I overcome these issues? With issue number one my answer was: cutting down the end that I was starting with, by half and taping it together, to help it begin rolling. I had three issues that would not have been a problem had I bought some really cheap noodles, in person, at the dollar store this year. Since they shorted me a noodle, I have a color that I have an extra of, so I need to decide what to do with the single odd colored noodle. The light dark ratio ended up controlling what I chose, more than my color preference did. Also wrap dark noodles with light tape, light noodles with dark tape. Decide on your colors before you start wrapping. And: since the diameter is larger, it takes more tape per lollipop. Since these lollipops take two noodles to complete and the tape length on the roll is not great, I didn’t know how many rolls it was going to take for these lollipops. Second, I ordered a box of bulk colored duct tape. Hence the title: Frigging Pool Noodle Lollipops! However, the cool part is that: these are larger, more impressive decorations and in the end I’m happy I bought the bigger noodles. Yay.)Ĭount your noodles before you start if you ordered them online! The noodles were quality, heavy duty pool noodles that will last many years… But they do not want to easily roll into the shape of a lollipop. (Plus, I didn’t count when I opened the box and they shorted me a noodle. These are approximately 55″ long and 3.25″ in diameter. The price of the box I bought has gone up by twenty dollars, in the last couple of weeks so I’m guessing there’s a lot of us out here with extra large pool noodles.) These are larger diameter, higher density noodles than you can get at the dollar store in summer. (It was too late in the year to get them locally. So, I’ll start out by showing you how I worked with extra large, extra dense, pool noodles to make lollipops.įirst off, I ordered my pool noodles on Amazon. It was fun but there’s a lot of instructions that weren’t helpful or just plain didn’t work for me for a variety of reasons. I’ll take you through all of the steps for the round pool noodle lollipops. Like many things on my blog, these troubles I ran into were things that no one else seemed to have answers for. I decided on pool noodle lollipops, as soon as my supplies arrived I saw that I had several problems. I’m creating a candy background for some characters from the Nutcracker Ballet. I’m so excited today to be a part of a big Winter themed celebration with some other pretty fabulous bloggers.I decided to add some Christmas tutorials for my decorations outside.
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