- Cut out one of the faces from your medium-sized cardboard box. The face should be at least 25 x 25 cm.
- Cut a piece of twine or string about 18cm long, tie it to the thumb tack, tie the other end of the string to a pencil. The distance from the tack to the pencil should be roughly 10 cm.
- Use the string, tack and pencil to draw a circle on the cardboard. (Note: you may need to put an extra piece of cardboard under the thumb tack to make more steady when drawing circle)
- Use a ruler to draw perpendicular lines going through the center of the circle.
- Use a hobby knife to cut out the circle.
- Measure the diameter of your cylindrical base. The paper towel roll piece I used was roughly 4.4 cm in diameter.
- From the center of the circle top, draw a mark that is half the diameter of your cylindrical base on all 4 lines.
- Take your cylindrical base and make sure it fits right in with the marks you drew.
- Lastly measure the distance from the edge of the circle top to the mark you just drew, divide by two and place a mark. Repeat on 3 other lines.
- Cut (4), 5 cm pieces of string.
- Cut (8), 20 cm pieces of string.
- Cut out (4) 2X4cm pieces of cardboard.
- Make a mark in the center of each of piece of cardboard on one side and two marks equidistant from each other on the other side.
- Use a glue gun to glue the shorter strings to the marks made on the circle top.
- Now glue the cardboard pieces to the string using the center mark you drew.
- Glue the long strings to the equidistant marks you drew on the cardboard pieces.
* Tip: when gluing string or twine, it helps to bend the end you are gluing then glue down the entire bent portion of the string
- Cut out (4) 4 x 8 cm cardboard pieces
- Cut out (4) 4 x 4 cm cardboard pieces, then cut each one diagonally so you have (8) 4 x 4 x ~5.66 cm pieces
- Score one side of the larger pieces to fold at 90 degree angle.
- Glue one of the smaller pieces on each side of the bent piece.
- Glue string ends to chairs.
* Note: when gluing string ends to chairs, be aware of differing string lengths which may how upright each chair might sit naturally.