Candy Posters This is my newest series of poster ideas. All of the designs are based on candy wrappers. The great thing about these posters is you can make mini versions of each to use as locker decorations and then buy the actual candy to go with them. I am including step-by-step instructions for my first two posters and will be adding many more designs this year. Check back every week to see what has been added. We used many of the same techniques to make this Bubble gum poster as we did to make the "RedHot" poster. I used a "Bazooka" gum wrapper to draw from. Like I said before, just because you aren't an artist does not mean you can't make these posters. All you need to do if find one of these "Opaque Projectors". These old relics are still hanging around most schools. They are great for making posters. If your school doesn't have one, you can get one from Ebay for about $50-$150. I placed an empty gum wrapper underneath on the glass tray of the opaque projector. I turned it on and shined it on a wall. It helps a lot if you turn out the room lights before you start drawing. This will make it a lot easier to trace the image. I aimed the projector at the wall and then moved it up and down until it was a good height for me to trace. I traced everything EXCEPT for the word BAZOOKA. I left that space open because I was going to write "Chargers" there For all of the straight edges I used my metal ruler to trace against. I used a permanent marker for this. The long curved lines are a little harder to draw, so practice drawing theses on scratch paper first. Since the letters in "Bazooka" are rounded like bubble gum bubbles they were pretty easy to draw. I lightly drew them in the center space and after a few minor adjustments; I went back over them in permanent marker. I decided to stick with the traditional "Bazooka" blue and red colors for this. It only took a few minutes to color my poster in. I was really happy with how this turned out. If you have more time you might like to try and make a 3-D version of this poster. I cut my first poster apart to use as a pattern for the second version. At "Hobbie Lobbie" I found a lighter weight poster board that was the exact shade of the "Bazooka" blue. I traced the blue pattern on this and cut it out. At "Hobbie Lobbie" I also found a lighter weight poster board that was the exact shade of the "Bazooka" red. I traced the red pattern on this and cut it out. After I cut my blue and red pieces out I checked to make sure they would still fit under the white center piece. I put a line of glue along the top, bottom and sides of the blue strip. I smoothed it out with my fingertip. I did this to keep the glud from puckering up the posterboard. I flipped it over, placed it on a new piece of white poster board and then smoothed it down. I repeated the last 3 steps on the red strip. I placed the middle white section on this one more time to make sure everything was going to match up. At this point if one of my sides wasn't big enough I could easily make the middle section wider. I cut out the letters from "Chargers" and used these as stencils. The words "original" and "Bubble gum" I had already traced onto white poster board. I did this at the beginning of this project when I was using my Opaque projector. I traced the blue letters onto the blue sheet and cut them out. Then I traced the red letters onto the red sheet and cut them out. The letters on the poster looked much better this way. I did not like how the "NET WT" information looked when I traced it. I printed my own version out on cardstock. I cut the letters out and glued them down. I turned my poster up side down and laid some heavy books on them for about an hour. When I turned the poster back over there were no bubbles or puckers. I think this poster looks much better. If you want you could make matching locker posters with the phrase "Blow Em Away" printed where the "Nt Wt" information goes. You can buy giant pieces of bubble gum for each boy or just put a handful in a baggy and tie it shut with a ribbon. Go back to Page 1