DIY confetti popper

Make your wedding go with a bang!

You naturally want your wedding day to be extra special. So, if you’re looking for an original idea to make the big day even more memorable, look no further! This wedding confetti popper is a burst of fun for all your guests. It’s guaranteed to get the wedding party going, and everyone can take part in the confetti shower. What’s more, this quirky decorative idea is easy to make yourself. Don’t forget that in order to collect enough plastic containers you’ll have to eat a fair number of ice creams first, but it makes for an excellent upcycling project. We made sleeves for our poppers out of black paper and gold foil and decorated them in glittering metallic colours. You can choose between six shimmering metallics in the edding 1200 range of colour pens. The softly flowing ink in these colour pens makes them ideal for designing on light-coloured paper - and they show up even better on dark paper. Simply remove the cap and get started.

Category: Wedding
Products: Fibre and felt pens
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

Make sure you have all your materials to hand before you start. You can see everything you need at a glance in our photo. You’ll need the edding 1200 metallic colour pen in silver (colour code 054) and gold (053). Wash the ice cream holder thoroughly. Cut out a rectangle of black and gold paper large enough to wrap around the holder once and extend it a little so there’s space to punch the hole for the ribbon. Make the gold rectangle slightly larger than the black one.

Step 2

Use the colour pens to decorate the sleeve in whatever way you wish. Our example shows the word “Cheers”. We suggest you sketch the words faintly in pencil first before going over them with the colour pens. Or, if you feel confident, just go ahead and write freehand.

Step 3

When you’ve finished writing and embellishing, glue the black paper on top of the gold foil to give you a two-colour band which you then wrap round the confetti holder. Glue the two edges together, punch a hole and thread the ribbon through. Fill up your popper with confetti and seal it with the lid.