The journey of helping with the High School Musical "Mary Poppins" continues. My sister came to me with some ideas she had about making the chimney sweep brushes for the Chimney Sweeps in the "Step In Time" number. She thought that they could be made with long wooden dowels with end plates cut out of wood with brushes sandwiches in between. Then they would be painted black. She priced out all of the pieces and found that each brush would cost upwards of $8.00 a piece. That would break the bank. They did not have budget to afford 30+ brushes at that price. So we needed to brainstorm to come up with a more cost effective solution.
I went to the dollar store to see what I could find. I found a simple light weight mop that looked promising. I decided to cut off some of the length of the cotton rag mop ends, spread out the remaining lengths, glue them around the edges of a black plastic plate, attach the plate onto the mop and sew the parts together with black pipe cleaners. After spray painting them black, the rag ends stiffened up. Hopefully they will be light-weight enough for the dancers to use, and sturdy enough to hold up to the dancing. The cost was about $2.50 each. Sure, there was a lot of labor to make them, but that was expected.
I went to the dollar store to see what I could find. I found a simple light weight mop that looked promising. I decided to cut off some of the length of the cotton rag mop ends, spread out the remaining lengths, glue them around the edges of a black plastic plate, attach the plate onto the mop and sew the parts together with black pipe cleaners. After spray painting them black, the rag ends stiffened up. Hopefully they will be light-weight enough for the dancers to use, and sturdy enough to hold up to the dancing. The cost was about $2.50 each. Sure, there was a lot of labor to make them, but that was expected.
We made 35 -- just in case some malfunctioned. Hope they work!
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