How to build and decorate your teepee 
(24/06/2010)
Whether you call it a teepee, wigwam or tipi, this North American Indian tent is a wonderful place for your children to play, have sleepovers with their friends or simply have some fun.
Give your kids the perfect play tent for the Summer. All you have to do is to buy the items listed below to decorate your teepee and follow these instructions. Then surprise your children with a wonderful gift which will bring laughter and joy across the whole of the Summer.
Step One
Use the Dremel Glue Gun to stick strung sequins in two equidistant lines around your teepee. If necessary, measure up from the lower edge of the canvas and mark a feint line in pencil to help you keep the lines straight. Use the Dremel Glue Gun and a Glitterstick to make a sparkling zigzag line in-between the two lines of sequins. If you have a plain canvas teepee, you could decorate it with several rows of sequins and zigzags.
Step Two
To make the windcatchers, first burn designs into the wooden curtain rings and wooden beads using your Dremel Versatip with the wood burning tip.
Step Three
Engrave icons and patterns on the mirror and metal discs freehand using the Dremel Stylus with the diamond wheel point (accessory 7103). Repeat the process on the flat wood beads.
Step Four
Loop faux leather thong through a curtain ring, then using the photo of this step as a guide, thread on different beads. Push feathers into the holes of some of the larger beads and secure the quills with a dab of glue from the Dremel Glue Gun fitted with a glue gun stick.
Use more glue to secure the mirror and metal discs back to back, sandwiching the thong in-between. Join an extra thong on where necessary to end up with wind-catchers that are approximately the height of the teepee. Make several of these, spacing the different components randomly down the thongs.
Erect the wigwam, sliding the curtain rings over the tops of the poles, then wait for your children's cries of excitement when they see the finished results.
Materials required :
Dremel Versatip with wood-burning tip
Dremel Stylus with diamond wheel point (7103)
Dremel Hobby Glue Gun
Teepee/Wigwam
Faux leather thong
Wooden curtain rings (larger than the diameter of the teepee poles)
Feathers
Sequin strings
Mirror and metal discs
Wood beads, including flat disc-shaped beads
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