As kids, you all love colourful things not only in your clothes, but also the things that you carry either to your school, or the stuff that you keep on your desk. And why not, after all our life is nothing without colours.

And as the New Year has begun, most of the schools have also reopened after a short winter break. So today we are making a very simple and colourful desk organiser from drinking straws; we are making a pen/pencil holder and a mobile stand. You can make any other holder; in whichever shape you like.

Things you need:

1. Cardboard piece (10-inches long, 6-inches wide)

2. Scissors

3. A pack of colourful drinking straws

4. Double-sided tape

5. Hot glue

Directions:

1. Paste the double-sided tape on the cardboard piece in four vertical lines, picture 2.

2. Start placing the straws carefully, you can create any theme, or go for rainbow colours, pictures 3 and 4.

3. Keep placing the straws on the cardboard piece until you reach the end, and then carefully cut the extra piece of straws from the side, picture 5.

4. As the base of our desk organiser is ready, we will be using these extra pieces to make the pen/pencil holder, picture 6.

5. Put two pieces from leftover straws vertically, paste them with a bit of hot glue then take another pair of straws and put them horizontally over the vertical ones, see pictures 7 and 8.

6. Keep repeating the above step until you reach your desired length, picture 9.

7. To make the mobile stand, you will require three pieces of cardboard, one, 7-inches long and three-inches wide, and two three-inches long and two-inches wide pieces, picture 10. (You can change the length and width according to the mobile you are making stand for).

8. Make a two-inches wide slit, two inches above the bottom in the long piece so that you can insert one of the small pieces in it, and then bend the lower part as in pictures 11 and 12.

9. Take another small piece and paste it diagonally behind the stand, picture 13.

10. The mobile stand is ready, just paste the straws in a similar way, you did earlier in step 1, picture 14.

11. When you are done, paste the mobile stand on the other end of the base, see picture 15.

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Published in Dawn, Young World, January 8th, 2022