Easy, Cheap Garden Tags From Disposable Spoons

Step 6 Color-Code The Tag

This step can prove to be a slight hazard, as you are forcing a thumbtack through plastic. If you follow these steps correctly, nothing should go wrong, but please, be careful, and do not try to rush things! To color-code the tag, place the identification tag on a piece of carpet, backside down, and very slowly (and very carefully) push the thumbtack through the tip, holding the tag down with your pointer, middle-finger, ring-finger, and pinkie, and pushing the thumbtack with your thumb (doing this reduces the amount of movement in the tag dramatically). If this is not done carefully, the thumbtack may split the plastic, or slip and poke you, so be cautious! If you are slow, and do not force the thumbtack to go through the plastic immediately, at a certain point, it will just pop right through!