Craft Project: Gum wrapper chain
Gum wrapper chain, originally uploaded by thunt77.
We’ve already reviewed the best places for chewed gum (your mouth, the garbage bin, or made into sculptures of bears — see below), but what to do with the wrappers?
The Make Gizmos site (which is a great name for a site which has as its mission “Things to make for fun using common tools and inexpensive materials;” click on Things to Make in the upper right hand corner of the main page to get going) has some pretty simple directions on how you can make your own gum chain. For what it’s worth, here’s what Step Four looks like:
(Incidentally, the great shot above is of a gum wrapper chain that was created between 1974 and 1992 by school teacher Nicholas Miller of Missouri, and is more than 6,600 feet long. You can see it yourself at Ripley’s Believe It or Not Odditorium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. It’s an amazing shot by thunt77 from Flickr).