Toy TV tray made w/ gum wrappers

How to make a toy TV tray using only eight (8) foil gum wrappers.
Materials needed: 8 gum wrappers
Time and a little patience
Optional equipment: ruler, protractor.
Complexity - Low

This is a cheap and easy way to make a toy TV tray. This is suitable for a doll house or a knick-knack shelf. It's fun to make, keeps your hands busy and your mind engaged. The cost is nothing because you just use old gum wrappers. Plus, you're recycling materials that would otherwise be adding to the mountain of trash overflowing our landfills. (I'm still stretching for real reasons for creating these things. My whole family thinks I'm nuts).

This is similar in construction to the footstool instructable I published. This is a variation of that design on a bigger scale.
footstool

Let the fun begin!

Step 1 Make seven sticks

If you've read any of my other posts, you know the drill.
You will need seven (7) sticks to start this project. Six (6) of them will be part of the finished TV tray. The other one is just for use in shaping the other sticks.

Get busy - you have seven (7) sticks to roll and you'll need one flat wrapper for the tray top. This step took me about 20 minutes to complete. Here's a video me making a stick.

Here are more instructables that have detailed steps on creating a stick.
footstool
swing set

Comments

[gmoon]

OK, now add the TV dinner... (I like it, BTW.)

[gumwrapper]

A TV dinner would definitely crush this. Oh, a miniature one would work! Thanks

[firefighter1333]

omfg... add a real tv rofl... *CRUSH*... lol...

[AznPanda]

This is awesome my gum wrappers would o very good for this to bad i cant chew gum for a while D=

[jongscx]

awww, braces isn't it?

[inquisitive]

Eventually I am hoping to see a full landscape and/or dollhouse made of wrappers!