- Cut all the straws/Newspaper strips to length.
- Poke
holes a quarter of an inch from each end of each straw with a sharp
knife or an ice pick.
- Make 6 five-sided stars (from the short straws), and 15 six-sided
stars (from the longest straws) by sticking the brad through the ends
of 5 (or 6) straws, and bending the ends of the brad over to secure
them.
- Assemble the dome by connecting one side of the centre pentagon to one
side of a hexagon.
- Put
two hexagons on at a time, so there are always six straws meeting at
each brad.
- Add the edges on all sides, closing the brad whenever you have six
straws connected.
- Have the five hexagons connected to the central pentagon, and five
more pentagons (without sides yet) connected between the hexagons.
- The finished dome will be 68 centimetres tall (2 feet 2¾ inches).