I tried making curved letters using the lids of miniature jam pots which you get in hotels. That did not work well. The O worked. I have seen business logos where the O in the business name was turned into a solid disc pattern, sometimes to respresent something they are selling.
I had already broken a cocktail stick in half for the entre horizontal line of the letter E.
But a G with half cocktail sticks, from a cocktail stick broken in half, with the horizontal alone, or a horixontal half stick with the other half hanging down from the tip was not easily recognizable as a G.
Then I started looking at alphabets and realised that you can make a squared alphabet.
You have a choice. For example, the letter E can be made with the three full size cocktail sticks for the horizontals, needing four sticks altogether.
At Home
At home I have a complete set of a cylinder of cocktail sticks, bought from a hardware store. You can buy them in many supermarkets.
In Restaurants
In a restaurant you would need to collect several. Either a container with several. Or unused ones if everybody at your table has been given one.
On Planes
On a plane, you might be given one wrapped toothpick per person per meal.
With a family of three, such as two parents and one child, you would get three per meal, six if you saved them on a two leg outward journey, or six if you savved them from the first journey for the return journey.
You could even use them still in their paper wrappers so that they can be returned to each person for use as a toothpick.
It might be simpler to use the metal or plastic cutlery. Or ask the server if they had any spare toothpicks. Or ask other passengers if they have unwanted wrapped toothpicks.
Have fun. Lots of fun for adults and children. Amuse and amaze your family, friends and colleagues.
My previous posts give more details and pictures of creating names with cutlery, and cocktail sticks.
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