DIY Friday: These Fourth of July Drink Buckets are the Perfect Patriotic Decor!

For this week’s DIY Friday, Lifestyle Expert Paige Hemmis teams up on Hallmark Channel’s hit daytime talk show, Home & Family, to give a tutorial on how to make homemade drink buckets — the perfect patriotic decoration for your fourth of july party! Check out the simple instructions below.

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Materials:

• Red, blue, and white spray paint

• White paint pen

• Paint brush

• Galvanized bucket

• Fine grit sandpaper

• Masking tape

• Paper towels

Directions:

• Spray paint galvanized bucket with a red base coat. Leave top 3 inches unpainted. Use masking tape to tape off the red section

• Cover the already painted red portion of the bucket with a paper towel to protect the red color

• Spray paint the top part of the bucket with blue

• Peel away the masking tape. You will have a red and blue bucket

• Add vertical lines of masking tape over the red paint, 1-inch a part, to form the stripes. Cover the blue with paper towels

• Spray paint with white in between the masking tape to form the stripes

• Remove all tape and paper towels

• Draw on stars with white paint pen

Watch how to make your own DIY drink buckets in the video below!

Home & Family airs weekdays at 10:00 a.m. EST on Hallmark Channel.