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Poi Making

Materials:

1 plastic bread bag

1 shopping bag eg. Foodtown bag

Scissors

    Step 1 Step 1
    Scrunch up the plastic shopping bag in your hands as if you're holding a ball.
    Step 3 Step 3
    Hold the bag tightly so that it makes a ball shapr at the end of the bread bag.
    Step 5 Step 5
    Now lay the left over bread bag and cut three strands so that you can start plaiting.

     


     

     

     

    Step 2 Step 2
    Put the scrunched up shopping bag into the bread bag.
    Step 4 Step 4
    Tie a knot at the end where the ball is.
    Step 6 Step 6
    Once you've plaited to the end, tie a knot to hold the left over bag strands... Voila! You now have a poi.
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