SVG File - Midway Ferris Wheel - Assembly Tutorial

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:09]Hey crafters, it's Leo with Dreaming Tree and today we're building a real statement piece. It's called the Midway Ferris wheel. Now this project captures all the fun and nostalgia of a carnival and the best part is it actually spins.

[00:00:23]Each little cart can be filled with lightweight treats, making it a wonderful centerpiece for birthdays, parties, carnival themed celebrations, or any occasion that could use a little extra wonder. We've even added lights to give it that magical evening at the fair feeling. I've seen some 3D paper ferris wheels out there, but they aren't built to last, but this one is. So, let's settle in, take it one step at a time, and create a beautiful ferris wheel that's as fun to make as it is to share.

[00:00:52]Let's get started. Okay. So, I will preface this by saying that there is a lot of redundant stuff in this project, which I did off camera. Um, and I'm going to do it once, and I'll I'll point out what that is. But the first thing we're going to do, um, as I mentioned, there are some ferris wheels out there, but I'm pretty sure that if you make this one, it's going to last a while.

[00:01:18]And obviously we haven't put it through that test, but we've done everything we could to reinforce it as much as possible. So I have some foam core here.

[00:01:27]This is a template. You can see with the letter T, it's a template. This is for the base. And what we're going to do is just trace around this template on our foam core. And then you're going to use a Xacto knife to cut this part out. We're going to use that to reinforce the base. Okay. I'm going to do that off camera because I don't want you guys to cringe when I use a razor blade to do that. And then also we have this template here.

[00:01:58]Okay. And we are going to cut this out.

[00:02:03]And we need two of these. Actually, we only need one of these. I already cut one of these because I already built one of the bases. You're going to need to cut two of these. So, just make sure that you trace two and cut two.

[00:02:16]Okay, make that little circle there. And we are going to have to cut out the inside as well. And this is going to form the beautiful supports for our ferris wheel. And you can see here, I'm not tracing the bottom cuz I lined it up with the edge. So that's already cut for me. Okay. So again, you're cutting this part out. Actually, I'm sorry. You're cutting this out.

[00:02:40]That's all going to be garbage. You just want this. Okay. So, go ahead and do that and then I will show you. We're going to actually build the base or the uh the main support for our ferris wheel next. Okay. So, I have these cut out.

[00:02:58]Now, one thing that I noticed when I assembled and put together the first half of this is that when I put this in there, sometimes when you cut with an X-acto, you kind of slightly do it at an angle. You may need to go in and trim it a little bit. for it to fit. Okay, but regardless, let's go ahead and put together one of these bases here. Okay, one of these supporting structures. You're going to need one of these that has the tabs already attached. Okay, and then this is going to cover it up once we have the foam in there. So, you need one of these. And then we have one piece like this that says B as in boy. That's for the bottom. And then these three, two of them are the same size, but one has a nu a Roman numeral one. One has a Roman numeral 2. And this smaller one has a Roman numeral three. Okay. So we need four of these. This one is a B. 1 2 3.

[00:04:01]And these two to create one of the supporting pieces. But you're going to make two of these. I'm going to walk you through making one of them right now.

[00:04:10]Okay. So, the first thing we're going to do is we're going to get our glue going.

[00:04:15]And we're going to take this piece with the letter B on it. And I'm kind of glad that I did this beforehand. We're going to take this tab and glue it to the very bottom of this main structure with the other tabs already on it.

[00:04:35]So, go ahead and get your glue going.

[00:04:43]Okay. And I just put this down flat. It was a lot easier to do it this way. And we're just going to line this up and try to get it nice and centered right up to this detached tab. And pardon my head if it's in the way.

[00:05:03]There we go.

[00:05:06]Okay, there we go.

[00:05:14]Okay, so that is going to You can see here we have dimensional walls for those sides.

[00:05:22]And then we've added this one because it just wouldn't fit on one piece. So, we have the bottom there. Okay, I think I got that mostly lined up.

[00:05:34]There we go. Okay. Next, this was kind of maybe a little tricky, but not really because I figured out a cheat. Okay. Or just a good method of doing it. So, the idea is we want this to face like this. Okay. So, you have it like this. These tabs are actually going to go up eventually.

[00:05:57]But what we're going to do, and I'm going to flatten this out actually.

[00:06:00]We're going to put glue on this tab here.

[00:06:04]like so.

[00:06:06]And we're going to butt the edge of this up to this edge here. You can actually do this flat.

[00:06:13]So, go ahead and pardon my head here.

[00:06:16]Again, probably going to switch camera angles so you're not looking at the top of my head, but I will show you what it looks like when it's done. Okay. So, just that tab that I put the glue on, I'm actually pushing it down flat right up to the very top here. And then when we kind of bring it to life and form it, you can see what it does there. Okay, just like that. Then we're going to do the same thing with these two pieces.

[00:06:42]And here you want to be aware of where these little tabs are. So, for example, we want this solid edge to be facing inside. But you see there's a tab here and a tab here. So, we're going to flip it around cuz we want this tab to go behind here. And then this tab is going to fold over and connect to that. Okay.

[00:07:03]So, I'm going to flip this around for a second. And again, this is going to go like this so that we have a nice wall, nice solid piece here. The inside, the gap is going to be facing us this way, which means we need to put glue here.

[00:07:17]And again, we can just kind of work with it flat.

[00:07:22]And there's some other things that we're going to discuss during this video because some of you may not want to put lights on this. And I'm going to probably suggest that you omit some of the pieces so that you use less paper.

[00:07:36]Okay. So, I'm flattening this out, but pushing that very edge up to the inside edge of this piece here. And I'll show you again what that looks like in just a second.

[00:07:47]Press that down. And then when we pop it up, bring it to life, you can see we have a dimensional wall here and it is flush with the inside. And then ultimately we're going to take this tab and connect it to the inside here to make it all one seamless piece. So this final one here, again, you can flatten it out because we're going to glue it like this right up to that very edge.

[00:08:11]And we're going to connect all these.

[00:08:13]It's really not that hard.

[00:08:16]If there was a way to do this with just one piece, we would have done it. But, um, it's physically not possible.

[00:08:24]Okay. So, again, I'm going to flatten this out. Make sure I get it nice and centered.

[00:08:31]Pardon my head.

[00:08:35]Push it right up to the very edge of that piece there. Make sure it's centered mostly. If it's a tad off, it's not the end of the world.

[00:08:46]Okay. Now we can form it. Okay. So, kind of creating a dimensional box for this for the for the foam core. So, now we're going to take these tabs. We're going to apply glue to this one. And we're going to fold it in to the inside of its neighbor and just press that down.

[00:09:08]Probably don't even have to do that, but I like a nice clean seam. Then we'll go over here. Apply glue to that tab. Fold it over up against the inside of its neighbor. Make sure it's within that area that is not on the tab. You don't want to glue it to the tab. And this one we already did. Oh, this one. There's one more here. I was like, I don't remember doing three of them. Last tab there. Fold it in. Press it up against the inside and hold.

[00:09:42]And there we go. Okay. So, now it's all one solid piece. Now, you're going to want to actually bring this up flat.

[00:09:48]It's going to be easier to get our foam in there.

[00:09:53]And now, we want to take these tabs and we're going to connect these sections here.

[00:09:59]So, I'm putting glue on the texture side. We're going to tuck it in just like a box, just a little bit thinner.

[00:10:09]There we go.

[00:10:13]And press that down.

[00:10:23]And then go over here.

[00:10:27]Press that down.

[00:10:35]Then we have two little teeth up at the top.

[00:10:39]Grab that first one. Tuck it under the very peak of this support column, whatever you want to call it.

[00:10:50]And then there's one more little triangle here. Tuck that under. Line that up and press and hold.

[00:11:05]Okay. Again, you may want to move these out of the way. And when I made that first one, remember I told you when I put that foam piece in there, I had to trim it a little bit. But this time when I cut it, I cut mostly on the line or slightly inside of that line from the template rather than on the outside of it. And maybe this will make a difference. We'll see. Just get it in there. move those tabs out of the way so that we can slide it in. That's really the only thing keeping me from getting this to work right now. Just those tabs are preventing me from pushing it in.

[00:11:42]Just take your time and kind of go around clockwise. There we go. So, that one fit a lot better and it's in there perfectly. You can see when I cut that out, it doesn't have to be a perfect circle. You just need to be able to get a dowel through there. Okay, so that's perfect. Make sure that these tabs fold over nicely and you don't have a ton of resistance.

[00:12:04]And that's perfect. Okay.

[00:12:09]So, what we're going to do next is we're going to take this piece to close this up. We're going to uh anchor it to the longest section, which I typically like to do.

[00:12:21]And that will make lining up the rest of it so much easier. You don't want to try to do all of it in one shot right now.

[00:12:29]That will just be a disaster. Okay, so let's take this, line it up centered right out to the very edge of where that little score mark is. Just make sure you get it centered. And the cool thing is you've got that foam in there. You can push down on it to really get it to hold, which I love.

[00:12:51]Okay.

[00:12:54]And you know, in the past, we would have been like, well, why don't we just take like four layers of card stock and put them all together. Uh, for something like this with, you know, the loadbearing nature of it, I don't think it would hold up over time. So, now what we're going to do is close this up. And that is going to require that we apply glue to all of the remaining tabs. Now, don't worry if you don't get it perfect on your first go. There's always the backup of painting a little bit of glue between any of the seams that maybe just didn't take very well.

[00:13:36]And that's okay.

[00:13:38]Can only do so much before the glue starts to set. That's not your fault.

[00:13:43]That is just the nature of what we're doing here. I'm going to spread this out nice and thin so that everything looks nice and clean. I'm probably going to have to go back in and clean this up anyway with uh my painting method, but maybe not. We'll see. Okay, so let's close this up. I'm going to start up at the top and make sure that that is all nice and aligned and centered. And then just kind of work my way around the rest of the perimeter.

[00:14:12]And you may have to kind of nudge the walls in ever so slightly to get them to fit the shape of this little panel that we're using to close this up with. And again, don't fret if it's maybe not holding perfectly everywhere or if it's not perfectly aligned. We've got a few more layers going on top of this that will kind of hide any little imperfections. And for the most part, I think uh I think it's going to be all right. And yeah, I've got I've got some gaps that I'm going to need to clean up. So, you know, when you're done with a project and you have some scrap paper, cut them into little squares like I do, so that you can go in and use them as little paint brushes, so to speak.

[00:14:59]Throw a little bit of glue on the very edge of this and look around. Find those gaps and find those seams where things are just not flush. Paint a little bit of glue on those areas in between. And then just push down and hold for just a few seconds to make it look nice.

[00:15:18]I don't remember if I had this many gaps in my first one, but maybe I did.

[00:15:24]Okay, I'm going right out to the very tip of this scrap so I can really focus that glue right on that edge.

[00:15:35]Sometimes when we get the glue on there and we spread it out, just doesn't quite catch the very edge and we just need to fill it in a little bit.

[00:15:47]You don't have to do this, but I recommend it because it's going to look a lot nicer.

[00:15:52]Okay, there we go. And just kind of go down go down the line. I these scrap pieces I kind of they're like one or two time use for me and then I chuck them because the glue well it makes the paper wet and then it's not as sturdy. So it doesn't kind of it doesn't penetrate as far. Sometimes it like bends and it's not as effective as a paintbrush. So, I'll go through a few of these, especially on something like this where I want to be real meticulous about making sure that everything just looks nice and crisp.

[00:16:29]That one was kind of really bad.

[00:16:33]Okay, there we go. And you can see the difference maybe. I don't know if you can see it on camera. Yeah, you can see the little gap there, but it's nice and clean there. So, anyway, um go around the horn and clean it up if you need to.

[00:16:48]I'm going to do that and then next we're going to construct um the other part of the base which is a lot easier.

[00:16:58]And then we'll start working. I'm going to show you the carts. There's 12 of them. I'm going to assemble one with you. It's very simple, but you're going to have to do 12 unless you want a ferris wheel with, you know, no riders, which would be kind of weird, I think, maybe. Or just one and you could just have it to yourself. Imagine that. A ferris wheel for one. I just feel like a king.

[00:17:25]Okay. Anyway, you get the idea. Uh I will meet you at the next step so you don't have to watch me do this.

[00:17:33]All right. So, nice and sturdy. Looks pretty clean. I love it. Now, we can put that off to the side for a second. Let's take a look at the other base. Okay. And this one is kind of it it assembles at a little bit of an angle. It looks like a gold bar. Okay. And just to kind of sturdy up the top, we're just going to take this piece here and we're going to glue it to the top just to kind of reinforce it a little bit. So just go ahead and do that before we actually assemble it. Make sure you keep it within the area where the folds are so we don't prevent this thing from folding correctly. Okay. Okay. And then what we're going to do is begin building the base by applying glue to these nice trapezoid large tabs.

[00:18:21]And I will just kind of dab my finger to spread that out nicely.

[00:18:26]Tuck that in.

[00:18:31]And just kind of get that joint. You can put that down on your surface and push down like that, too. Use your table as leverage anytime you can.

[00:18:43]Okay. Then we'll go over here and close this side up as well.

[00:18:53]Just like that.

[00:18:58]And this is to kind of keep the main supports at a correct distance. will offer a little extra overall support as well, which is always good.

[00:19:12]Okay, I'm going to go over here.

[00:19:19]Do the same thing on that side.

[00:19:24]Okay.

[00:19:29]And There we go.

[00:19:55]Oh, I need to figure out a way to keep the bugs out of here when it's warm out and I want to leave the door open. I think it's called a screen.

[00:20:07]I just haven't really thought about installing one.

[00:20:12]Okay, so that's that. We've got the four sides together. And now kind of just like we did with the other support.

[00:20:21]Going to take this piece. This is our bottom. And let's anchor this to one of the longer tabs.

[00:20:29]And this time I might go a little bit heavier with the glue just to make sure that the very edge kind of really stays because I think that's where I went a skew. So get that right on that tab. Center it right out to the very edge where that fold is and press it down. Grab it. Let it grab. And then you can put it down. Press down on the rest of the tab.

[00:20:55]Like so.

[00:20:56]Got a little gap there. I can clean that up later. And now we're going to close this up. So go ahead and apply your glue to this guy here.

[00:21:14]might go pretty heavy, like I said, otherwise you're going to have a ton of cleanup to do, which I don't want to have to do.

[00:21:22]Okay, spread that glue out. If you don't want to touch it with your fingers, grab a scrap piece of paper. This is just the best tool, your finger, I think. Anyway, all right. So, we're going to close this up. We're going to connect it to or just focus on getting it right onto the side opposite of where it's already hinged and press that down like so.

[00:21:54]There we go. Okay. So, there's our there's our base and that is pretty good to go. So, here I'm going to assume that you already have two of these cut out. If you don't, just go ahead and pause and get this other one cut out and made. Not cut out, but actually assembled. And we're going to begin just kind of building the base here. Okay. Okay. So, these are identical.

[00:22:26]And so, it doesn't matter which one you use. You can see I I inked it. Um, and these panels that are going to go on top of this for the most part are also the same with the exception of this one being a little bit taller at the base for our caption. Okay. So, what we can do, and I'm just debating if I want to do this now or later after I get it on there. I think it might be a good idea just to do it now. So, I think that's what I'm going to do.

[00:23:09]Okay. So, you can see that it pretty much covers the entire part of this. The inking is not really going to be visible too much on the front, but I wanted to hit those edges a little bit. So, if you do see it from the side, kind of makes it look a little nicer.

[00:23:30]Okay, this see how this goes.

[00:23:36]Pop that right on there.

[00:23:39]And you can use your surface as sort of a guide for placement as well because it should sit pretty flush on the bottom.

[00:23:46]And then go ahead and push that down.

[00:23:48]This is going to kind of uh stick out just a tad by design.

[00:23:52]>> Mhm.

[00:23:54]>> Okay. Okay. In this paper, sometimes the glue lines sort of show up. Might be might not be a bad idea to just kind of gently run a breayer over it. Okay. So, there's that. I see it a little bit, but it's not horrible. Okay. Next is this layer. And again, flush with the bottom.

[00:24:20]And it's going to go just like that. So, we can flip this around.

[00:24:24]In this instance, we want to apply the glue to the actual panel itself because there is a little bit of an inset and we don't want glue showing up on our on our gold foil.

[00:24:39]Okay. And you have those little scroll features there. You can try to get a little bit of glue around that.

[00:24:46]Although I wouldn't worry about it too much. Okay. And then very carefully, I would definitely use your surface as kind of a guide for placement because if you are using foil like I am, if you don't get it right the first time, it is a little unforgiving as far as leaving residue or blemishes from the glue. So, just be careful.

[00:25:12]Tread lightly. Okay, that looks good.

[00:25:15]Press that down.

[00:25:17]And then we've got a little gold overlay that's going to go on the bottom like this.

[00:25:25]Okay. So, we can apply glue to this whole thing here. And then you'll notice that there are a set of markers to help you with the positioning of the final red overlay.

[00:25:38]Okay.

[00:25:40]Just get that lined up. It's going to cover pretty much the entirety of that blue section at the bottom. Press that down nicely. If you want to use a breayer, go for it.

[00:25:50]And mine is slightly off.

[00:25:56]It's okay. All right.

[00:25:59]There we go.

[00:26:02]I don't know why I'm sitting so far away from the table. Okay. Then finally, our little red panel here.

[00:26:10]It's going to go just like that.

[00:26:13]So this is kind of the blank side, but we didn't want to leave it boring. So has a very similar design minus, you know, the area for your caption, etc. Let's get that lined up nice and centered like so. And press that down. Voila.

[00:26:36]Okay, so one side pretty much done almost.

[00:26:40]Okay, we have this little fella here. Have a white circle that's going to go on top of this little scalloped shape and pop that right on there like so.

[00:26:59]Make sure it's centered.

[00:27:02]Mine looks a little off.

[00:27:06]Could just Oh, it could be the way I inked it. I think maybe I have a little bit more ink on one side. And then this is going to get glued right up here like so. Okay. Yeah, it's definitely the ink.

[00:27:18]Now, I wouldn't put the glue all the way out to the edge because part of that just kind of sticks off, but pop that right on there, right over that little circle.

[00:27:29]And voila.

[00:27:32]Okay, there we go. So, this is going to be our back. And in the meantime, what we what we can do is get this glued onto the base and just kind of let that sit while we work on the other side. Okay.

[00:27:47]So, let's do that. Let's get our glue going.

[00:27:52]And you can be um I guess pretty uh generous with the glue there. Sorry, I was lost in focus. Okay. And just line that up. Make sure it's flush with the bottom. You can kind of use your table as a guide or as a little helper. And then once we have it, you can go ahead and just flip it like this. So, kind of gravity does its thing. And you know what? Maybe even take something that's got a little bit of weight on it where maybe the weight is also sort of distributed. I'm going to grab the first thing I can find, which just happens to be my MacBook. I'm going put this off to the side, but I'm going to put the MacBook on top of it.

[00:28:38]The weight's distributed, but it's pushing down on it nicely.

[00:28:42]So, that will ensure a nice tight bond.

[00:28:45]Okay. So, let's go over to the other wheel or the other uh support mechanism.

[00:28:51]And we're going to do the same thing, but you can see here, this one's just a tad bit different. Okay? Where this part kind of goes up a little bit higher. So that's really the only difference there.

[00:29:04]And let's apply our glue.

[00:29:07]Get that going.

[00:29:14]This is going to be a very special project if I do say so myself.

[00:29:23]Okay. Grab your gold piece and I'm going to line it up with the little hole at the top. Then kind of you can use your fingers to kind of feel the edges the rest of the way down. And then of course make sure it is flush on the bottom cuz that hole might not be perfect. Whoa. Whoa. There buddy.

[00:29:45]That's what I would focus on first and foremost is making sure that it's in fact flush on the bottom. There we go.

[00:29:52]So, let's flip it over and push down from the other side so we don't warp that beautiful paper.

[00:30:00]And kind of take your breayer and flatten it out a bit. Next, going to grab our blue piece. And you can see that is going to kind of cover up that bottom trapezoid of the gold piece. We're going to have a little bit of an inset showing some of that gold around the perimeter.

[00:30:28]And one thing that I'm going to cover when we start putting the wheels together, we'll do that last, is the fact that if you're not using lights, you can probably save some paper. And maybe we also need to mention that in the PDF or just in a little read me um in the downloads so that you don't end up cutting a bunch of paper that you don't need. Okay. So, I'm lining up the bottom first just to make sure that that is right and then the rest of it will fall into place like so.

[00:31:04]Okay.

[00:31:06]I'll grab my breer.

[00:31:10]Very gently pop it on there. Make sure it's standing up nice and straight.

[00:31:17]And it's probably a little bit lower than I want it, but it's okay.

[00:31:21]It'll be fine.

[00:31:24]All right. Next, got another gold layer that's going to go on top of that. Like so.

[00:31:29]So, let's get that in place. And this one again has some little markers to help you with some placement.

[00:31:44]Again, just line that up flush with the bottom and pop that into place. Nice and easy.

[00:31:53]Okay, there we go.

[00:31:56]Just like that.

[00:32:01]And then just like we did before, this red piece is going to go there.

[00:32:09]Now, this red piece has some markers for the additional little overlay, which we left blank because uh well, we're going to let you customize that. Uh, I figured since it comes with a happy birthday caption, the bottom part can be reserved for the person's name that you're celebrating the birthday of, which I think is cool.

[00:32:33]Okay. Then we have this piece here that's going to go on here. And there's one more white piece, which I don't have cut out because it's going to be your print then cut. You'll find that in your extras folder.

[00:32:46]Uh, and that's what you want to.

[00:32:49]And maybe we'll even suggest a good font for that.

[00:32:54]There we go.

[00:32:56]Make sure that's nice and level. It is.

[00:32:59]And let's build the happy birthday caption. Now, again, if you want to customize this for a different occasion, you can use this as your template for the print then cut. But we'll take this light blue piece and we're going to glue it to the solid white.

[00:33:14]This way we don't have to piece all of these letters together.

[00:33:27]Okay.

[00:33:32]And we'll take this final layer with the actual letters on it.

[00:33:57]And pop that into place. Make sure you get a little bit on those little uh parts that like the the centers of the H's so that they don't accidentally get ripped. And just line that up.

[00:34:11]So that looks good. Happy birthday. Nice circusy carnivalally font.

[00:34:19]Okay. And then we're going to take this and glue this entire thing onto our little gold section here. We want to make sure that we get that nice and centered, an even gold border all the way around.

[00:34:35]And voila. Okay. Again, don't forget this little white print then cut part.

[00:34:42]Okay, there we go. And just like we did the last time, grab your little scalloped circle and grab this guy here.

[00:34:54]Glue that into the center. Just line up the little cutout in the middle. Flip that around. Press down. And then we'll get this adhered or glued to our little support piece right there.

[00:35:11]I made the holes a little bit bigger than they need to be compared to the size and diameter of the dowel. And there it is. All right. I'm going take my laptop off here. Grab one half of this that's already connected to the base. And we're going to do the same thing here.

[00:35:28]Okay. Now, with this one, that's not It feels very solid, by the way, as I'm lifting it up.

[00:35:39]>> I think it took and grabbed nicely.

[00:35:48]Okay. Okay. And just like we did before, can use your use your surface as a guide for placement. And just make sure it's flush. And go ahead and press it.

[00:36:00]Now, with this one, I don't know that I would put a laptop on the Actually, you know what? You could. Yeah. As long as you're not putting it on here. Just focus most of the weight or anything heavy. Focus most of the weight on there. That's fine. Yep. And then we'll just let that we'll just let that uh heal. I guess you could say, or cure, I should say. All right, so let's take a look at the carts. Okay, there's going to be 12 of them. I've already, you may be able to see behind me, I've already assembled 11. I'm going to do one with you. If you need to kind of watch it more than once, just rewind it. Um, it's going to come like this. Okay. What I want you to do first is take a dowel. This is a 3/8 inch dowel. And, uh, just kind of hold it on the dowel right at the top. And just kind of curl it towards you a little bit. Just a tiny bit, like halfway, so it kind of sticks up like that. Same with this. Same with that side. Okay. Just kind of curl it up. I want to give it a little bit of bend. Fold everything at the score marks, the sides and the insides. And then what we're going to do, you you notice there's four teeth on each little side here. Throw a dot of glue on each of those teeth. and curling it around the dowel helps sort of um you know helps it contour to the shape of the actual cart. And then just push that into place. If you have a little bit of glue that shoots out, just rub it off with your finger. And those four tabs should go together pretty quick, especially if you go easy on the glue.

[00:37:29]Okay. Do the same thing on the other side.

[00:37:34]And bring this side in.

[00:37:38]You may have to kind of just may have to bend it a little bit despite the fact that we used a dowel to contour it. You still might need to help it by just kind of pinching it a little bit to have it assume that shape.

[00:37:53]And then we'll go over to the other side and just finish it up. Now, with this, what I'm going to do probably is just put glue on both sides so I'm not left trying to stick this fat glue tip into a tiny little area.

[00:38:12]Okay.

[00:38:19]And there's that.

[00:38:24]And you know what I did? I'll explain here in a second is uh actually had like a little assembly line going. These I'll show you here in a second. Let me just get this done.

[00:38:37]I went through and I glued the little roofs of each of these to the gold part.

[00:38:47]So, I did that 24 times. Well, 22 cuz I'm doing one with you. Okay. Okay, I did all these and I popped them underneath my mat so they would all dry nice and flat.

[00:38:59]Just like that.

[00:39:01]Suddenly I'm Dr. Seuss. So there's one.

[00:39:04]I'll do the other one. And then while those were curing, I started building the carts just one at a time. And then when I was done building the carts, I went through and attached these pieces to the carts.

[00:39:19]Okay. And I'm kind of looking at this little little scallop here just to make sure that none of that gold on that round part is showing. And then you're going to take this entire piece and glue it to the red cart that we just put together.

[00:39:35]We're kind of thinking about putting little silhouettes of people in each of the carts, but this project already has so much going on that I don't know if I wanted to inundate you guys with that.

[00:39:47]So now we're just going to match this up, especially the little little circle there. Once you have that, you can put this down flat on your surface and push down from the inside. You can also just kind of push your finger very gently on top of this to get the very edges to kind of hold better. Okay, so there's that. That's how that looks. Very simple.

[00:40:08]And finally, the other side. So again, you're going to repeat this process a total of 12 times or 11 more times after this first one. So we have 12 carts.

[00:40:22]And line that up.

[00:40:26]There we go. Pop that down on your surface. Push down from the inside. Push down from the top gently. Don't crush it.

[00:40:34]Okay. And you will end up with 12 of these. Okay. I have them behind me.

[00:40:40]Okay, my base is pretty much nice and solid, nice and glued. Feels very, very solid, actually. And uh what is I going to do? Okay, let's talk about the dowels for this. Okay. Um have a total of 12 dowels. 13 actually.

[00:41:04]12 for the carts. Okay. And the for the carts, you're going to want to cut these to 3.25 in. Okay. So, for each of the carts, I have this written in marker, the carts are going to be 3.25 in wide.

[00:41:22]And for the main part of our ferris wheel, the center is going to be 4.875 in. We have a total of 13 of these.

[00:41:30]Okay. So, um if you've got a little craft saw, definitely use that. if you got to get your husband involved, definitely do that. Whatever you got to do um to get that done. Okay, so that covers that. You've got your carts and now we need to talk about the wheel. Now, one other thing that we can do just to kind of get things prepped. Um I have a series of these little um yellow donuts.

[00:41:59]Okay. And you're going to have a total of 16 of them, I believe. Let me double check. Yep. There's eight that I have not glued yet. Eight that I have glued.

[00:42:09]And this is going to be kind of a little buffer for the um the inside of our ferris wheel. It's going to go we're going to glue it right there just so that the ferris wheel doesn't um doesn't go over to one side too much.

[00:42:28]Okay. So, I've got pardon my head. I've got eight of them already glued together. Whoa.

[00:42:34]Eight of them are already glued together. I'm going to go kind of heavy on the glue here. And we're going to put it right over that hole. And let that set.

[00:42:43]Okay. And then you're going to take these eight, just glue them one on top of the other to make a nice thick almost like a washer.

[00:42:52]It's kind of what we're building. Like a nice thick washer. Okay.

[00:42:58]So, there's two. You get the idea. And then we're going to put this one on the other side.

[00:43:04]on that other support piece.

[00:43:08]So, of course, this video would be a lot longer if I walked you through the assembly of 18 of the I'm sorry, 12 of the carts, which again I don't want to do. That would be quite the story time.

[00:43:25]And I've got tons of stories right now, but uh yeah, we'll just leave it at that.

[00:43:35]Okay.

[00:43:37]So, anyway, get these all together. And you can see we have one on this side.

[00:43:42]You're going to get that glued to this side here on the inside. And then we're going to move on to the actual wheel.

[00:43:50]Um I did assemble one of them. The process is going to be exactly the same for both of them. So, I'm not going to walk you through it twice. I'll walk you through it once. And you will just repeat that same exact process the second time.

[00:44:06]And and then we're going to finally just kind of put everything together as far as the wheel goes. But there is one important thing that I do want to mention and I can just actually get into it right now. Uh this is up to you. It's at your discretion.

[00:44:23]And that is if you are not planning on lighting it up, you can probably omit part of the process. And also, you know, it'll save you time and it'll save you paper if you're not planning on lighting it up. So, I'm putting this other little donut in place here real quick. You can see it from the side there. That's ready to go. Our base is pretty much done.

[00:44:45]Okay. So, let me show you what the final wheel looks like.

[00:44:51]It's very sturdy.

[00:44:54]You can see it there. And you can see that I've got lights built into it.

[00:45:00]Okay. So, this is a little bit of a engineering feat. Not crazy, but it's definitely there's definitely something to it. Um, but I'll turn that off and I'll show you what we're going to do here. Okay. So, in order to get the lights in there, because obviously the lights are a little thick, right?

[00:45:21]um what we devised and in my case I have the color of the paper uh different than what yours is going to be. Yours is all going to be the same.

[00:45:34]You can see that mine is a lighter yellow. Okay. Um, I guess what I'm trying to get at here is if you're not using the lights, the these pieces here are designed to create sort of a little gap where the wire and the lights will actually sit without making the paper bulge. Okay. If you are comfortable and you don't want to do the lights, um, I think you're going to have two layers for each side. I would maybe cut out maybe I don't know I'd say probably at least one more of these to make it three layers thick because we do have one more layer that goes on top as far as a decorative layer. Um and that's going to be you know I don't know that seems it still seems kind of flimsy to me where this one feels nice and solid.

[00:46:26]Okay. So, uh, in front of me here, I have two different Yours are going to be the same color, but mine are different because I wanted to show something. Okay. These pieces here are just solid pieces, right? But these pieces here were designed in a way so that we can kind of create a little valley in between these two layers where the wire and the lights from the fairy lights can actually live without making this thing bulge. Cuz if you look here that look there's a couple seams that maybe are not glued down properly, but it's nice there. There's no bulge to it.

[00:47:06]That wire is actually in between all of these layers. But again, inside of a little valley going all the way around, which you'll I'll show you here in a minute. Um, if you're not doing the lights, I think I would still recommend using, you know, these three additional layers that we've included. But maybe instead of using these because these are a little bit harder to glue, maybe just cut out three more of these so that each wheel each half of the wheel is five layers thick as far as uh you know the main wheel is cuz this is literally uh this is five layers thick as far as the yellow paper. And then of course we have the um what's it called? The pattern paper on top of that which does help a little bit structurally. But so this is with the pattern paper a total total of six layers thick which makes it I mean it it's not bending at all. It's very sturdy. So I do recommend going at least five layers thick if you want this thing to last. Two layers. You can see once you add the glue to it, it does sort of sturdy it up a little bit. It's not going to be wobbly. Um but I I don't know that I would trust it with just two layers is what I'm saying. Okay. So, with that being said, let's go ahead and construct this with the lights. Okay.

[00:48:26]So, let's get going with the wheel here.

[00:48:28]We're going to start with one of these uh more full pieces and we're going to put it face down. Okay. We're going to begin the little layering part of this.

[00:48:40]You just want to take one of these and match it up with this section here with the same design. And also notice that uh some of these little star shapes, some of them are a little bit longer or taller and some are shorter. And you'll see the same thing here. So you also want to make sure you match that up correctly like that. Okay? And if you want, what you can do is can do this in little sections. I think I've tried it both ways and I don't know if it really matters, but uh what I would do is work on and go a little bit thicker in the thicker areas.

[00:49:22]And this is a quick little circle. So that's easy to apply.

[00:49:27]And then maybe just go down like this because we can always go in and kind of clean this up. This first one's a little bit trickier just because you have to kind of handhold it. Okay. And it doesn't need to be perfect. Just need to make sure you get some coverage on it.

[00:49:44]You can always go in and kind of clean it up. Ultimately, if we get just enough glue on most of it, it will do the leg work needed to kind of keep it together.

[00:49:56]We don't need I mean, if this was a real ferris wheel and we were cutting corners, I'd worry about it, but it's not like anyone's going to be riding this.

[00:50:05]Okay. Just do your best to get as much glue on especially the perimeter sections as possible.

[00:50:14]And then just going to kind of build up because we got to do three layers of this and three layers of the outer rim as well. Okay. So again, just make sure that as you're putting this down, you're matching up the taller spokes or the taller um little star shapes with the corresponding sections. And because this is kind of sliced in the middle here, it does kind of breathe a little bit. So you might need to nudge it ever so slightly to get it in the correct place. Just a nice easy little nudge should do it. Okay. Okay. And then just press down all the way around like so. And there we go. I've been rhyming a lot today. Okay. Then this little guy here, we want to, you can see where it's split. You want to basically align that with this split as well. This is where the light is going to kind of come out.

[00:51:12]Okay. So, we want to make sure we leave a little bit of a gap there to allow for that. And what I'm going to do is just kind of do this in little bits. And I'll just start with just a little bit and kind of line it up where we have this opening. Doesn't need to be perfect, but it needs to be close. And just kind of follow the very edge of this. If it helps to kind of pick it up so you can see it and feel it, that's totally fine. And then just continue pressing down up to the point where you applied your glue. And then just go ahead and add some more and continue around.

[00:51:50]I'm kind of using my finger to feel that it's nice and flush there. Okay. And we'll just keep on cruising here.

[00:51:59]And we're going to repeat this process for the outside and the inside a total of three times. Uh, one other thing I want to mention is we will need to ensure you will need to ensure that you are grabbing the correct fairy lights for this as well. Because what I've found out today was even though a strand may have the same amount of lights, the spacing between the lights may be different and may not work.

[00:52:33]So, I will be sure to give you that information so that you know what the spacing needs to be because apparently there's a variety of options for that.

[00:52:51]And I'm hoping, probably should have looked into this before, but I'm hoping that you can find that in the product details or we'll do that leg work for you and make sure that we set you up with the right fairy lights to be successful with this. Okay, there we go.

[00:53:12]All right, so that's the first layer.

[00:53:14]And you can see we have a little valley in here, and that's where the wire and all that stuff's going to go. So, I'm just going to do the outside first. And now that we have that first layer in place. This is a little bit easier now.

[00:53:25]Let me find where it's broken. There.

[00:53:27]There it is. And what we can do actually is now just start applying glue on this surface and grab this next layer and just line it up.

[00:53:41]And we found that three layers thick was just the right amount to accommodate the gauge of the wire on the uh on the fairy lights without making it bulky.

[00:53:55]Okay. So, we're going to keep on going down the horn here. And I like to kind of use little little dots as sort of a a I don't know, a guide as far as where I put my glue so that I I'm not guessing.

[00:54:09]I can flare this back and just continue applying.

[00:54:14]And I'll go to this dot here.

[00:54:18]Just make sure that that is nice and flush all the way around, sitting right on top of it.

[00:54:24]And again, because this strip is kind of thin, it may breathe a little bit too and require that you kind of nudge it.

[00:54:32]It's pretty malleable.

[00:54:37]Okay.

[00:54:38]around.

[00:54:46]There we go.

[00:54:52]And we'll wrap this one up right up to the edge. So that's two layers for the thin strip.

[00:55:09]Okay.

[00:55:11]And do it one more time for the thin strip and then we'll do the two inner strips as well.

[00:55:19]Start here and you get the idea. So again, I'm showing you one wheel today. You're going to pause, rewind if you need to, and repeat this process for the other half. It's identical.

[00:55:35]Okay, getting crafty over here.

[00:55:41]I love it.

[00:55:45]I could do this forever.

[00:55:49]That's my plan.

[00:55:59]That is the plan. Do this till I retire.

[00:56:13]Okay, there we go. Just very carefully. I think just one little line of glue is fine because as you push on it, it'll sort of work its way outward or inward and cover more surface area. So, I don't need to worry about covering every inch of this.

[00:56:35]Okay.

[00:56:36]And I think we're at a point now where we can just kind of wrap it up. Go all the way to the end. There we go. Yep.

[00:56:43]So, you can see we got three layers thick there. We're going to go back to the inside and do the same thing with the remaining two layers. And then that's where we're going to after that kind of talk about the lights and how to get those strung properly and efficiently. Okay. So again with this all we want to do here is just make sure that we line it up with this little cutout so that the wire has a place to travel. And again because this is already we already have one layer down. It's a lot easier to work with it already in place like this. And I'll start on the outside.

[00:57:22]Like so. I hate getting glue on my mat, but it's okay. Try to clean these things every so often. It's not doesn't always work very well. They get beat up, but that's okay. I do have to replace them from time to time because it starts to look bad on camera.

[00:57:41]That's okay.

[00:57:45]All right, so we got that. Let's do a nice little circle here and here.

[00:57:51]and go down here. See, you got to kind of move quickly because that first layer on the outside, it's probably already starting to kind of dry. So, you can go a little thicker. You don't want to go too crazy cuz then you got risking kind of warping the paper. You know what I mean? All right. So, we're just going to line this up with the little cutout.

[00:58:14]That's sort of a good guide for placement. And then check the little cutouts throughout and try to line it up as accurately as you can. If you're a tad bit off, don't lose any sleep over it. It's not a big deal. There we go. Second layer in place. Again, it's going to breathe a little bit.

[00:58:36]And there we go. Okay, so we got one more. Do the same thing here.

[00:58:44]Let's grab our glue.

[00:58:46]Let's start on the outside.

[00:58:50]You see that my line's a little bit thicker? And that's okay, too, because even if it seeps out, it's kind of like seeping out into a place that no one's really going to see. This is all like, you know, sometimes when builders are doing stuff and it just looks like, you know, heck in a hand basket. Uh, it's okay because ultimately they're going to cover things up with drywall or, you know, they're going to finish it with a baseboard or whatnot. And that's kind of kind of how I'm approaching this. This is all behind the scenes sort of stuff that doesn't need to look, you know, magnificent. It's all going to be tucked away anyway.

[00:59:34]Okay, there we go.

[00:59:38]All right, let's match up this little cutout.

[00:59:44]Get that in place first. Then check the rest of it. Like I said, a little nudge here or there probably be necessary to ensure everything aligns nicely. And you have those cutouts not obstructing themselves.

[01:00:01]Perfect. And you can feel this now. It's get nice and solid. Okay. So, we're ready for lights now. Okay. So, I I think I mentioned this before, but I want you to be sure that the strand of lights that you have, um, the lights need to be about 3 in apart at minimum.

[01:00:25]Okay, that is the length here between the longest points between two lights.

[01:00:32]Okay, so here's what we're going to do.

[01:00:35]And what I ended up doing, I tried hot glue and it works. It's just a little tedious. Uh, tape strips in some of these areas are going to be you have to basically take a piece of tape and try to get just a little bit out of there or tear it in half, which sometimes is easy, sometimes it isn't. The main thing we're trying to do here is just make sure that the lights stay in place at least until we um, you know, put the top or the just the the lid, the cover on it. Okay. So, I'm gonna leave these on just so I can kind of see the light a little bit better. And we're gonna start inside.

[01:01:19]Kind of awkward. I'm going to start inside. And I'm actually going to use these little zots. These are probably about They're just They're about a half inch.

[01:01:30]And these things help me get this done so quick. Okay, we're going to start with this light here. You can see this little this little uh valley here where the the wire is going to go. We're actually going to start right here. And you just want to make sure that the light is facing out. And this little zot is a lifesaver for this cuz it just kind of you pop it exactly where you need.

[01:01:54]You don't have to mess with hot glue.

[01:01:56]And then what I would do is take the excess wire and just kind of bunch it up in the center just to kind of keep it out of the way for now. We can hot glue or tape that down just so that it stays in place when we cover up or when we finish this off with the the last little piece. And sometimes it does help to kind of keep it up a little bit.

[01:02:22]And well, at least there we go.

[01:02:28]Maybe just keep it on your table initially and then if you have to lift it up a bit, that's totally fine.

[01:02:36]And all we're doing is just taking these little lights and popping them right onto the little cutouts for the lights and just kind of pressing them in place.

[01:02:49]And I'm just going to make sure that we do it in this order so that it all works out nicely. And then as you're going, you may occasionally just want to flip it around and make sure that you do in fact have the lights nice and centered.

[01:03:05]Now, obviously before we put the cover on, we'll go and and do a triple check just to make sure. And now these wires here, we're going to move them out of the way. We don't want to obstruct the little dowel that is going to kind of hold the wheel in place.

[01:03:27]So, these are great, but again, you can use tape, you can use hot glue, whatever floats your boat, whatever makes this process the easiest for you. I just found that this worked very nicely for me.

[01:03:44]There we go. Grab the next one and just keep on going down the row. And then ultimately, we're going to be feeding this wire through our little valley here and then working around the perimeter until we have all and you may end up with uh a few extras.

[01:04:08]You should have uh you need 20 lights. I think on on the other half that I did, I somehow miscounted and I had an extra one. But you can just kind of tuck that in anywhere and it won't really mess with the overall aesthetic. You may have one extra little part that's glowing a bit, but once we cover it up, it will mostly hide that. And then there's also another decorative layer that's going to go on top of that.

[01:04:39]that will probably diffuse it even more to where it will practically disappear.

[01:04:45]Okay, so now all these little wires here, I might want to just kind of spread them out a little bit so they're not all together bunched up. All you want to do is just make sure you're avoiding that little hole in the center.

[01:04:57]And for that, I am just going to use some scotch tape.

[01:05:01]And again, don't obstruct your hole.

[01:05:05]Make sure that no wires are on any of these yellow parts. And let's take a look. And there you have it. Okay. So, I don't know if you can even see that.

[01:05:14]There you go. See? Anyway. All right.

[01:05:17]So, now going to take this and feed this through this little little valley that we created. And you can see here I've got an extra one. You don't want to put it there cuz the dowel is going to go there.

[01:05:29]And for this, I do want to put one on the wire here, at least towards the end. If it's nice and tight, you don't have to worry about putting any wire or any uh adhesive here. Should just kind of stay in place.

[01:05:46]But you can see it's kind of lifting up a bit. In which case, you may actually, what you can do probably is just take a little bit of hot glue and just kind of pop it in there.

[01:06:01]And that will kind of help keep that wire in place. It's such a a thin little area that you may have a hard time getting any tape or anything in there. So once it kind of cools off, you can kind of push and spread it in. Okay. And then you can go either way. You can go clockwise or counterclockwise. It really shouldn't matter. But we have some excess wire here. So, I'm just going to kind of work it around that hole and just get that. You might have to rotate the lights a little bit as well just to get them to face out cuz there there is a back and a front to the light.

[01:06:43]Okay. And here in this little thinner valley, it is going to be you want to be try to be a little more precise with the placement of your little zot.

[01:06:59]Okay. And this guy here, I'm going to need to put a zot over there to keep that wire down, which is fine.

[01:07:05]We'll just pop that right there.

[01:07:10]Like so. Just press it down. It actually also when we go to cover this up kind of holds things in place for us too.

[01:07:19]It's like an additional layer of glue.

[01:07:22]Okay.

[01:07:24]And this is where you just have to be patient, take your time, and just guide the wire.

[01:07:34]But for the most part, it's pretty straightforward. And after this, it's just a matter of kind of piecing everything together because we've got everything mostly built. Just take a look from the outside. Make sure those lights are in the correct place.

[01:07:49]Okay. Then we just run that wire up a little bit.

[01:07:56]Sorry, I've been off center throughout this whole video, I feel like.

[01:08:03]Okay, give it a little twist so it's facing out.

[01:08:08]Again, a little tedious, but not hard.

[01:08:13]And maybe just focus on getting the light in place first and then worry about the excess wire back there.

[01:08:21]Actually, maybe we just not worry about it at all for the moment for the time being.

[01:08:29]And we can uh kind of go back and clean up the wire part after we get the lights set.

[01:08:39]So you get it.

[01:08:42]Not hard. Just a little tedious.

[01:08:46]Try to center those lights as accurately as you can.

[01:08:50]And then we'll just keep on cruising here. Got a handful left to go.

[01:08:55]What is that? That's just the wire.

[01:08:59]I don't know who came up with these, but pretty cool that they did. Remember when LEDs first came out? I was like, "Wow, that's interesting. What's next?

[01:09:11]What is next?" Actually, very interesting.

[01:09:16]Okay, there's that one.

[01:09:20]Again, these things keep their sticky pretty well.

[01:09:28]I don't use them often in my crafts actually just because uh when they when they're exposed to air, they do kind of dry up. But this this will be kind of protected in a way. That was a bad one. Try that one more time. I didn't rotate it enough.

[01:09:50]There we go. Get a new little zot here.

[01:10:00]I actually I use the 3D zots, the thick ones. I use them more for my photography than I than I do for my crafting, which is kind of interesting. I don't know that I've ever I would have ever stumbled upon that little trick. So, when you guys see the when you see the photos of cards with envelopes behind them, um I have a little uh have this little stand. It's almost like a like a plate easel or I don't know what what you would call it. I can show you. But and then I use three 3D zots in three different places on that little stand and I just uh just kind of glue it to that stand to make it stand up like you see in the photos. Kind of interesting.

[01:10:51]I'm not sure where that came from or how I decided and when I been doing it for quite some time.

[01:10:57]I think pretty much maybe 10 years. I don't know.

[01:11:04]Okay, almost there with the light placements.

[01:11:09]Yeah, if these were if the distance on these was perfect, we wouldn't even have any cleanup work to do after this. But such is life.

[01:11:22]Okay, one, two, three. That one I think I counted out perfectly.

[01:11:30]And don't quote me on this.

[01:11:32]Because I asked chat GPT before I did it if you can take and trim these if you've got too many lights. Like sometimes you make it a strand of 25 or 27. Um they should be consistent each time with each strand, but depending on the brand, depending on the manufacturer, you may have um you may have a strand that fits the bill as far as the distance between the lights. but includes a few extras. And I wasn't sure cuz I just assumed that there needed to be a complete circuit in order for these to work. And I wanted to trim off a few of the lights on the end cuz I didn't need them. And I asked Chat GPT if I could do that. And she was like, "Absolutely not. You need that. You need that complete circuit. The wire needs to loop back around." And I said, "Okay."

[01:12:27]And I did it anyway. And it worked. and the lights did not turn off. So, I don't think they I don't think these work like a conventional incandescent bulb.

[01:12:38]And then I went back to chat GPT and I said, "Guess what? It worked." She's like, "Oh, well, if it works, it works."

[01:12:45]Okay, then. Thanks, Advanced Technology.

[01:12:50]All right. So, now again, we're just going to go through and kind of clean up the excess wire. We want to make sure that it is all nice and tucked in that little that little valley that we created. And you can see here that I somehow miscounted again. I hope I didn't miss a light. I sure didn't.

[01:13:09]But I have one extra light. And that's okay. We can just kind of we can hide it. You just run it over here and then loop it back.

[01:13:18]We just want to make sure that we have this coming out, this wire, because this is going to end up in one of the little carts, okay, on a ferris wheel. It's going to sit inside. That's what's going to kind of keep it in place.

[01:13:32]And try not to have any areas that are too bulky cuz we want this to close nicely.

[01:13:40]And like I said, we'll towards the end here, we will do one more check to make sure that all the lights are nice and centered and we'll cover it up. And then really at that point, I think what we'll do next is start gluing some end caps onto some of the dowels just to let those set. Um, I I think I should use hot glue, but I kind of don't want to because it's kind of thick and I want everything to look nice. So, I may just use regular glue for that. But, you're welcome to use hot glue. It will make the job quicker.

[01:14:21]Okay. And what I'm doing here is I'm just kind of going up into this little crevice here and then just kind of twisting this wire into a little loop and pressing it down just like that. Just keep it in that little valley.

[01:14:38]Yeah. See, I like this workflow is a lot better in my opinion.

[01:15:04]There we go.

[01:15:07]And almost there.

[01:15:11]Just give a little twist and then press it down.

[01:15:21]I think uh adding the lights to this is really cool, especially if you're using it maybe for a Fourth of July party or something and you've got it outside near some of your food towards the evening.

[01:15:34]It's going to put out a super super nice little glow.

[01:15:38]The kids especially will be attracted to it like a moth to a flame. I can assure you that happens all the time when I have neighbor actually just last weekend I had a couple new neighbors that I met who have two girls actually actually Polish which was a nice surprise and they came in here and they were like oh my goodness this is so cool and of course they I had to give them something from the collection occasionally I'll see one of the neighborhood kids and if I go inside and talk to their parents and they happen to see their room or something, it's still in there. 99% of the time they still have it. They like treasure these things. It's really cool.

[01:16:32]All right, so that's the last one.

[01:16:37]Beautiful.

[01:16:38]Let's press that down.

[01:16:42]Just kind of make sure that that is all in place. I may just just because of how it is sort of bent. It's kind of protruding upward.

[01:16:54]All right.

[01:16:56]So, let's take a look at the front.

[01:16:59]Check the orientation of the lights. You can see this one is kind of out of place. So, just nudge it back. And once it's covered up, it's it's not going to go anywhere really.

[01:17:12]Okay, there we go. This little guy here could be centered a little better.

[01:17:18]And that's all we're doing. Just kind of fine-tuning our little lights.

[01:17:24]That one's fine. Okay, cool. I think that looks good. So now just make sure that this wire is in fact going through this little gap here. Okay. And what we're going to do is cover it up. Okay.

[01:17:37]So just make sure you have it aligned correctly. It's going to go like this.

[01:17:40]So that those little zots are kind of keeping it in place for me as I put it down just to take a look at it. And when I made the other one, I remember that I had to go in and just do a little bit of cleanup with some scrap just because well, it's a lot of surface area and the design is kind of wacky.

[01:18:07]So there will be a little bit of cleanup.

[01:18:10]That's okay.

[01:18:12]It's not not that hard. And we've come this far.

[01:18:16]Hopefully my glue is not clogged. Wow, it's not. I left the cap off all night.

[01:18:22]All right. So, we're going to start with the perimeter.

[01:18:27]Okay. Going a little bit heavier cuz I got a lot of area to cover. Okay. I'm going to go here. Do this. And as we're doing that, it'll give us a chance to kind of see the wires. One more time, make sure they're not obstructing our ability to glue this down.

[01:18:53]That is probably the most important part there, that perimeter.

[01:18:58]Okay. And then we can start working the inside.

[01:19:05]And then do a little bit around there.

[01:19:07]Up and down the hill.

[01:19:09]Don't have to get every inch of that.

[01:19:14]I think that's what I did last time.

[01:19:15]Let's go down these spokes.

[01:19:19]And then we'll do the little star shape.

[01:19:21]Don't forget to go around here and right there.

[01:19:26]And there's no way that all of that glue is still wet, but we'll see. Especially this outer ring.

[01:19:37]All right. So, that's fine. Again, let's make sure we line this up correctly.

[01:19:44]And there we go.

[01:19:48]And just start pressing it into place.

[01:19:50]Make sure it's centered as well as you can possibly get it centered.

[01:19:55]You just go around the outside. Make sure that this wire here is in fact coming through that little gap there.

[01:20:04]And sometimes you may have to kind of nudge that light one more time.

[01:20:10]There we go. And I'm just going to give it one more big press all the way around. And then we'll start doing a little bit of cleanup to clean up the seams.

[01:20:22]But that's pretty much it. And you can see how nice and well, for one, super sturdy.

[01:20:31]Two, it's going to light up. All right, I'm going to grab I'm going to start grabbing some scrap here.

[01:20:38]And I am just going to go around the perimeter here, looking for gaps, just kind of filling it in, making it nice and clean and strong.

[01:20:50]There's a little gap there.

[01:20:54]Okay, we'll just keep uh going around until everything looks crisp and clean.

[01:21:03]All right, so once we're done with this step, we do have a little panel that's going to go over it to add a little add a little color and interest to this piece.

[01:21:20]There we go. Get that in there.

[01:21:26]And then I think what we're going to do when we get to the final assembly of this so that it's not too heavy on one side cuz the the weight is mostly distributed with the exception of the power battery pack. Okay. So that might kind of make this thing um well, you know, just kind of uh not topheavy cuz it's I guess you can say it's top.

[01:21:58]Yeah, top heavy, bottom heavy, whatever.

[01:22:00]One side will be heavier. Okay, so let's take a look and see how that looks. I think that looks great.

[01:22:10]Okay.

[01:22:12]And the center there is not perfect, but you're not really going to see it. And as long as the dowel goes through, you're in good shape. All right. So, that's that. Now, I'm going to grab this guy. And again, just make sure you're lining up the there's thicker and thinner parts here. Make sure that those line up nicely. The center will be almost exclusively completely covered.

[01:22:39]So, you just rotate it until it looks right. Everything else should look nice and centered.

[01:22:46]And that's that. Okay. So, let's flip this around. And you're going to want to apply glue to this piece, not to that.

[01:22:54]You try to apply it to the yellow piece, you're going to end up with glue in spots you don't want it. Okay. So, I'm going to start with the perimeter. I'm going to go a little bit thicker with the glue. We've got a lot of area to cover.

[01:23:21]Okay, almost there.

[01:23:24]Few more overlays that we need to add and then we'll pop it in place. Again, just double check and make sure that you are placing it correctly based on the thickness of those little inner spokes.

[01:23:40]Okay, let's see how we did.

[01:23:43]I think we did. All right. Excuse me.

[01:23:47]All right. And very carefully, I'm looking at the big hole at the top and then also the centering on that beautiful little design.

[01:24:00]There. I'm looking at the lights in the middle.

[01:24:04]I can tell that it's a tad off. It's just a very slight rotation that we needed to to do to make it fit. There we go.

[01:24:14]Once you got it, you've got it. And commit. And let's press it down.

[01:24:20]And again with this, if you need to, you may have to go around and just kind of paint a little bit of glue in any areas where you see it might be lifting a little bit or isn't completely flush.

[01:24:33]But I think I did a pretty good job there.

[01:24:38]I will take my time though and just make sure. I might do that off camera while we're still rolling here. One other thing I want you to start doing is we're going to take the smaller dowels, these guys here. Okay, these are the small ones. There's 12. This one's the longer one. On the small ones, what I want to start doing is taking these little red circles. Okay, you should have 24 of them, one for each side.

[01:25:05]We're going to start putting um we're going to start putting these on just one side. So, take your dowel. take this and what I would do is actually put it down on my surface and just center it like that. Okay. Let the glue kind of grab it. You can let them stand like that.

[01:25:23]That's fine, too, while they dry. I think that might actually be a better idea. Okay. And we're just going to do that to all 12.

[01:25:34]So, these dowels, like I said before, you want to grab a little craft saw or I use like this little um it's a Milwaukee hand boy. I I don't know. I don't know what it's called. It's like a has it's like a little tiny saw, like a handheld battery powered one, and it worked great.

[01:25:56]So, that's what I did. But, you know, you can cut it however you'd like. Okay.

[01:26:03]One more thing that we can do that I kind of forgot to show you was uh well, it's this. Okay. We have these two layers. Okay. We can start by taking this. In our case, I have a yellow glitter, which I did also ink. We're going to glue that on top of the red.

[01:26:24]Okay. And then that is going to go on top of our pattern paper that we have.

[01:26:34]Just want to make sure you match this up again because the the spokes are or the little sunbursts or whatever you want to call them, sun rays are different sizes. Get that nice and centered and press that down.

[01:26:51]And then let's get this on here.

[01:26:57]Just like that. Just match it up with the lights as well as the pattern paper that's on there already. And then we will start putting all the pieces together. Uh at this point, you probably do want to get your hot glue locked and loaded because we are going to be using that in some capacity.

[01:27:20]Okay, there we go.

[01:27:24]And then there should be one more.

[01:27:27]Uh, let's see. Yeah, it's two actually.

[01:27:29]We have two red donuts. We're going to glue those together. And those are going to go right in the center here. Okay.

[01:27:42]Like so.

[01:27:47]And since this is going on glitter, maybe go a little Well, if you're using glitter, always add a little bit of extra glue just so it kind of like vacuum seals and grabs that glitter. Okay, so go ahead and continue with the uh with the dowel, putting the little red dots on one end of each dowel, and then we'll go ahead and wrap this up.

[01:28:11]Okay. So, next going to pick one of the wheels and we're going to start adding our carts, which you want to, you know, kind of put on your table. Get them ready.

[01:28:25]Have them handy.

[01:28:27]You have a total of 12 of them. There's not much to it. Just going to be slipping them on the dowels. Okay. Okay.

[01:28:36]And I think the easiest way to do this, honestly, is to take these and we're going to feed them up through the main holes.

[01:28:47]Okay.

[01:28:49]Like so.

[01:28:51]It's going to be kind of a little awkward, I think.

[01:28:55]Yeah.

[01:28:58]>> Haven't done this yet, so bear with me.

[01:29:00]Actually, you know what?

[01:29:02]Just be easier if you do it like this.

[01:29:05]So, I use regular glue for these and seem to be holding fine. If you are concerned at all, you can certainly use hot glue, but I think it's going to be fine.

[01:29:26]There we go.

[01:29:28]Moving around and around and around.

[01:29:33]Okay, now here's the tricky part. Making sure these all stay in place as we flip them like so. Get that out of the way.

[01:29:46]Then we're going to take these and just feed them through each of the dowels. You just leave it sit like that.

[01:29:54]That's fine.

[01:29:58]Oh no.

[01:30:04]We'll worry about the light later on.

[01:30:08]But like I said, when we take the other half, I think what we want to try to do is put the light opposite of the side where the other light is so that we sort of balance it out.

[01:30:19]I don't know that it will ever be fully balanced unless you get like four lights maybe, but even then you get the idea.

[01:30:36]Hopefully I have enough of these.

[01:30:40]I should.

[01:30:44]There we go.

[01:30:47]Just the right amount. Thank goodness.

[01:30:52]Okay, now that we have that, take the other end.

[01:31:00]Okay, and you can see where the light comes out here.

[01:31:06]So, we'll take this light and go across.

[01:31:11]And I need to kind of move this wire out of the way.

[01:31:16]It's going to go here. Now you just have to be careful to make sure that everything lines up nicely.

[01:31:24]Just poking the other end of the dowel through.

[01:31:32]There we go.

[01:31:35]Not too bad. Now, as we get towards the end here, you might have to just kind of lift up little sections at a time without pulling out the other ones.

[01:31:50]There we go. Okay, so that's all in place. Now, what we need to do is uh well, we need to put the other half of the donuts in place. And you can do that with hot glue, you can do that with glue, whatever you want to do. Um, if you want to bling this out even more, I would get some pearls or some rhinestones and put those on top of the little red dots. I think what I'm going to do here is just Well, let me just try some hot glue and see how that goes.

[01:32:25]It'll be quicker.

[01:32:28]Maybe just a little dot.

[01:32:32]Yeah, it's going to be messy. That's why I don't like hot glue. these little wispies. Maybe it's because it's not hot enough or something. I don't know. But not a big fan of those.

[01:32:43]We'll see. It does work. It's just kind of messy.

[01:32:52]All right. So, you get the idea here.

[01:32:54]Going to go around the horn. I'm going to just use regular glue, I think. And I may just do a few at a time because it's going to be kind of thick. So, you've got some time before that glue fully sets.

[01:33:08]Just create a little assembly line here.

[01:33:15]Probably could get get away with doing all of them.

[01:33:21]Okay.

[01:33:24]And just pop that cap on there.

[01:33:28]Make sure it's as centered as you can get it.

[01:33:40]I don't like that. Anyway, so go ahead and wrap this up and then we'll go ahead and get it installed on the main support section.

[01:33:54]Okay, so we have our base.

[01:33:59]We have this pretty much all together now. Just make sure that your glue is set. And we're going to take the long dowel. Well, first off, make sure that it's uh well, just want to slide it through here.

[01:34:20]And then take your your dowel, poke it all the way through, like so.

[01:34:30]Okay. Now, the wheel is still a little wonky, but before we do anything, what we want to do, make sure that this dowel is nice and centered. Okay? Because what we're going to do is take a little bit of hot glue and just kind of glue inside of that hole a little bit.

[01:34:50]just to kind of keep it in place. That's going to be covered up.

[01:34:55]So, don't worry about making a mess. We just want it to want it to stay in place.

[01:35:06]And we can just get a little hot glue right around the outside of that.

[01:35:14]Okay.

[01:35:16]And go over to the other side.

[01:35:22]do the same thing. You can actually just squirt some right in that hole, too. And then just work a little bit of it all the way around the perimeter.

[01:35:34]There we go.

[01:35:37]Okay.

[01:35:39]Go back to the front and let's find these pieces.

[01:35:47]Okay, we're going to glue. These are going to be two layers. I'm going to take my glitter layer and glue it on top of the card stock layer. We just wanted to make sure this was nice and strong. And then going to take some foam squares and foam this out. Might need a few layers to accomplish that. And that's fine.

[01:36:08]And pop it right on the tip of that. And then just glue that right on there.

[01:36:13]That'll hold. That'll hold nicely. And then you don't have to worry about the uh foam squares at all. Just make sure it's centered.

[01:36:25]That looks good.

[01:36:28]Let's do the same thing on the other side.

[01:36:46]Just like that. Looks good. Okay. So, now I'm going to grab some scrap paper.

[01:36:53]One more little tedious thing and then we can call this one done.

[01:37:04]Okay. So, what we want to do here is we're going to take and you can actually you can do hot glue if you want. Might actually be easier and maybe a little stronger. I don't know. We'll see.

[01:37:17]Here's what we need to do now. So, grab your hot glue or your regular glue. And you know what? I'm going to put this so I'm looking at it straight on like this.

[01:37:28]We're going to put a little bit of glue on one of the dowels.

[01:37:34]That's why I don't like that. Then we need to take this and push it up against the edge so that the little red dot is flush against the face of the wheel.

[01:37:46]Okay. Now, the next thing we want to make sure we do is this other one. I want to make sure that we keep everything aligned. Otherwise, we're going to have a wonky wheel. Okay. So, kind of take a look at it and just make sure it's nice and straight.

[01:38:02]Okay. And what we'll do then is throw a little glue on the other one right here.

[01:38:14]Just kind of moving it moving it out of the way. So that Okay.

[01:38:22]Then we'll take this and push it up against that red dot. Make sure it's straight.

[01:38:30]And let that set.

[01:38:33]Okay, just like that. Looks pretty straight to me. Now, what I would do is take this and rotate it all the way around.

[01:38:47]I have to tuck that in better to the opposite side.

[01:38:52]I don't know which one I did. I think it was this one.

[01:38:58]It had to have been. So, we're going to go all the way up here to the opposite side and get this one in place. And just make sure that that is also nice and even.

[01:39:08]Okay. And see that the weight is not distributed.

[01:39:16]Okay.

[01:39:18]And let's get these anchored. And I think once you get like maybe four of them anchored, I don't know that you really need to do the rest. We just need also just again make sure that it's nice and straight.

[01:39:34]Bring that out like so. Keep it nice and straight.

[01:39:40]Let that set.

[01:39:43]Do the same thing on the other side here.

[01:39:58]There we go.

[01:40:01]Yeah, it's already just those two points now. One on this side, one on the other side. That is keeping this thing. It's still a little wobbly because it's not glued everywhere. But now let's skip like skip like four and do that again.

[01:40:20]This you can actually probably wrap around the uh what's it called?

[01:40:30]>> Wrap around the dowel. Sorry, just thinking.

[01:40:38]Just want to make sure that you don't glue the carts with that hot glue. Keep it out of the way.

[01:40:45]Okay, one more over here.

[01:40:55]Make sure it's straight.

[01:40:58]Press it up against the side.

[01:41:00]Hopefully you can see this.

[01:41:12]Okay, let's skip a few more. And again, this guy here, we'll just need to play with the placement of the light.

[01:41:24]We wanted to just kind of keep it in here.

[01:41:28]Okay. So, let's do let's go right here.

[01:41:31]We'll do this one. Now, I think maybe the camera might have been out of focus when I did this, so I just refocused cuz it's kind of tall. Let's throw a little bit of glue right behind that little red stopper.

[01:41:47]Where'd you go?

[01:41:50]Where? Which one was it?

[01:41:54]Oh boy.

[01:41:56]Oh, it's this one here. And just push that. Was it? Yeah, it was. Okay. And then we'll do the same thing on this side.

[01:42:11]Again, just make sure that it's nice and straight and press that up against the side.

[01:42:18]I think we have four points of contact.

[01:42:20]Now, you're welcome to go around and do the rest of them, but that is pretty much it.

[01:42:28]So, uh, just a few other notes here. The wire for the light, I would probably just kind of do your best to keep it out of the way of the cart so that it spins.

[01:42:48]Okay.

[01:42:56]Just going to wrap it around itself and then pop it right in here. Just let it kind of sit in there.

[01:43:04]Okay. So, totally up to you if you really want this thing to spin. What you can actually do is take and just um well I just use some foam squares and I took the battery packs and just just kind of press them up against the center of the little star here. Okay. And as you can see it spins very nicely and it kind of took care of the issue with the weight distribution. If anything it almost has like a perpetual motion to it. Uh, but again, that's, you know, personal choice, personal preference. I don't see a lot of people like sitting around just spinning this thing like crazy. If anything, it's just going to be a decor piece. But if you want it to spin more freely, you can take the little battery packs, just run them right to the back of this uh with a foam square. I don't know if you can see.

[01:43:58]Yeah, you can see that little white battery pack. It's just kind of right in the center. It's that center's just wide enough to hide it. So, and that's it.

[01:44:07]That's going to do it, guys. I hope you enjoyed. Oh, by the way, don't forget if you're customizing it, you got your print and cut element there. And that is going to do it. So, I hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did, please take a moment and hit that subscribe button on our YouTube channel. Also, hit the bell so you get notifications anytime we release a new project. Oh, one more tip. If you don't want the the little carts to slide back and forth, um, what I would recommend doing is just putting a little dot of hot glue like right sort of in the center. Let that dry. Obviously, you don't want you don't want it to get glued to it, but once it hardens, it'll kind of create a little stopper so that it doesn't move too much um, you know, left to right.

[01:44:54]But that's going to do it. Hope you guys enjoyed it. And as always, I look forward to crafting with you again.