Easy Patriotic Party Ideas

These shiny red, white and silver cello stars with sprays were all attached as one long 6-foot hanging decoration. I simple pried the hooks apart from one another and used each star spray as a separate decoration, hung on the umbrella with lantern hooks. The cello decoration was bought for about $2 at a crafts store about a week before the 4th of July.

You can always tweak store-bought decorations to suit your own needs -- it's actually more fun that way.