This morning, I was watching That's Clever on HGTV. A woman took a paint stick and wire to make a tambourine. She used bottle caps and jarlids for the clappers - painted them up really bright.

In our desires to re-use items, it occured to me that these could be used along with beads in the sparklers!

In my house, we drink a lot of diet Snapple... glueing 2 together, drilling a hole, painting it a hot color, it would add pizzazzzz to the beads.

1 or 2 lt bottle caps offer that nice ridging.

While glass beads are nice, todays gloss paints are super kewl too! I'm using up all the wood beads I have laying around too - just painting them.

Been looking at all the gems & beads I have that are just too small for a sparkler - they'd be great to cover the lids.

Also, I have a button collection, no reason those can't be used.

HTH