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Portable Water resistant LED Picnic Blanket with hard center serving surface!

Step 3The LED layer

The LED layer
Take your plexi top and trace it to a scrap of the leftover vinyl. This will be your LED mounting layer. Mark the attachment holes!!!
Measure out a 2" x 2" grid. Punch a hole into the center of each of the 63 boxes using a belt punch. Trim the holes clean. Get out your Zap a Gap. Start with the end of the LED string and position glue around the collar of each light, so that when you press them through the punched hole, they will be secured to the vinyl. These lights are on 6" increments, so we'll have some wire to manage as we go.
Continue this tedious process for the rest of the lights. Look on the bright side, at least we are not wiring each LED ourselves!
Use some duct tape the manage the cords around the outside perimeter. Now punch through this at the attachment holes.
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