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Ever wanted your own cocktail umbrella? Well now you can make one!

Step 1

Place a small Dixie cup (the ones that usually come in the dentists offices) on a sheet of construction paper. It should have the narrow part on the paper, the open part up top as a normal cup would stand atop a table.

Step 2

Carefully trace the bottom of your Dixie cup on the sheet of construction paper using your pencil.

Step 3

Decorate the circle that is now on the piece of construction paper using additional construction paper, markers, crayons, colored pencils, etc.

Step 4

Carefully cut out the circle.

Step 5

Use a ruler to draw the diameter of the circle.

Step 6

Located the diameter of the circle, draw a point where the center of the circle is located.

Step 7

Erase half of the diameter, so that you are left with one radius and the center point on that circular piece of construction paper.

Step 8

Cut along the radius up to the center of the circle.

Step 9

Fold over the circle into a cone- like shape and glue it. This will be the basic shape for the umbrella. It should remind you of a Chinese hat.

Step 10

Use your toothpick, carefully poke a hole through the top of the umbrella. (This hole was formerly the center of the circle, and is now the vertex of the cone).