{"id":794,"date":"2011-09-24T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T22:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/?p=794"},"modified":"2015-06-10T19:52:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T02:52:53","slug":"how-to-make-bamboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2011\/09\/how-to-make-bamboo\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Bamboo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any respectable <a title=\"Asian Fortress Halloween House Theme 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2011\/05\/2011-halloween-house-theme-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Fortress <\/a>needs to be shrouded in a wall of tall impenetrable bamboo.\u00a0 But how do you get some?\u00a0 Where do you find it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>You make it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year I acquired a large supply of sturdy cardboard poster tubes (free!) from my work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-795\" title=\"Cardboard Tubes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_01.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_01-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0We decided to paint them and use them as fingers of undersea anemones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-796 aligncenter\" title=\"Painted Tubes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_02.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_02-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_03.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-797\" title=\"Nemo House with Anemone Tubes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_03.jpg\"  alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_03.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_03-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before I packed everything up last year, I thought to myself.\u00a0 Is there any way to reuse these?\u00a0 We knew that we would have an Asian-themed house and I wondered if perhaps these tubes could be assembled into large bamboo stalks.\u00a0 At our first painting day, Keith and Prev taped groups of tubes together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-798\" title=\"Taped Tubes Ready for Painting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_04.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_04-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Monica and\u00a0Melina painted them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-799\" title=\"Painting Bamboo Tubes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_05.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_05-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2026and they turned out great!\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-800\" title=\"Tubes Painted\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_06.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/025_Bamboo_06-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They look good enough to eat!&#8221; says Po.\u00a0 Take it from the Dragon Warrior.\u00a0 <strong>Come check them out (and even get your picture in front of them) this Halloween!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any respectable Asian Fortress needs to be shrouded in a wall of tall impenetrable bamboo.\u00a0 But how do you get some?\u00a0 Where do you find&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[40,20,31,30,38,22],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2011-house","tag-bamboo","tag-community-build-day","tag-halloween","tag-how-to-make","tag-kung-fu-panda","tag-paint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}