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. Just because you aren't an artist doesn't mean you can't make these posters. All you need to do is find one of these "Opaque Projectors". These old relics are still hanging around most schools. They are great for making posters. All you do is stick your EMPTY candy box underneath on the glass tray, turn it on, and shine it on a wall. Make sure 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 knew before I started I wanted to leave an area that was big enough for an 8 X 10 picture. So I had to move the projector back to make the image larger. Then I taped my poster board to wall with the design shining onto it and traced the images onto my poster boards. Make sure you trace it in pencil. I took it down I laid it on a table and went over my tracing with a permanent black marker. All I had to do then was color it in. I like "Permapaque" brand markers for coloring on poster board. They dry a little dull, but cover up pencil lines better than anything else I've found. You might have to apply several coats to cover everything up with the white marker. It took about 10 minutes to color this in. I think it looks great like this. If you are making a bunch of these, I would suggest you stop here and just add a team photo. The rest of this how-to will show you how to give the poster a three-dimensional look. At the same time that I traced the big poster I ALSO traced the letters and oval on another piece of WHITE poster board for the picture. I knew I wanted to do a 3-D version of this. Always trace everything in pencil. I cut out the letters and laid them on top of the outlined letters on the poster. Cutting the oval out of the picture was pretty easy. I traced the design onto tracing paper. I placed the 8 x 10 behind the tracing paper. Then I held it up in front of a light to make sure I wasn't cutting anyone's head off. In order to keep the picture from moving, I stapled it to the OUTSIDE of the tracing paper. There are several different ways you can add your picture. This is just the picture trimmed down and glued to the front. If you want to REUSE this poster every year then I would suggest cutting the oval shape out of the center of the poster. Then you can just tape the 8 X 10 picture to the back of the poster and you will see it through the oval-shaped hole. After I glued my picture down, I thought it would look better if I glued a thin white frame around its edges. When I traced my white letters on the poster board earlier, I traced the white oval frame. I cut that out to make the frame. I cut the oval frame out and glued it on top of my pictures. For all of the smaller printing on the poster I printed the words in red ink on a piece of yellow poster board. I trimmed them down with my paper cutter. I glued them to the poster board You can cut these out individually, but it would take forever to do this. I think the words looked neater and more 3-D this way. Once everything was glued down I turned my poster upside down and placed a few books on it to help it dry flat. If you want you can draw a smaller version of this on yellow construction paper to use as locker decorations. Or you can just PRINT the words "Our team is Red Hot". It would be really cute to put boxes of "Red Hots" in the lockers. Go to Page 2