A simple tambourine can be made by gluing small jingles to a sturdy plastic plate.
Use a sturdy paper plate as a base if this is "just for kicks".
At Pewter Mexicano (Plaza Bonita Local del 4 al 9 "H" Planta Baja), you're spoiled for choice when it comes to sturdy yet elegant plates, bowls, picture frames and ornate serving trays, from 450 pesos, made by hand from shiny pewter.
Cut out the "eye-holes" on the faceplate and then just add glue around the "eyes" of the sensor to keep the plate sturdy.
The oval table in front of the kitchen fireplace table was set in a minute or two with big, utilitarian napkins, sturdy cutlery, pretty Deruta plates and a pair of well-worn brass candlesticks.
Not even the sturdy, flower-printed paper plates.
You'll need a well-sharpened boning knife, sturdy fork, and serving plates or a platter.
Bartholdi's major innovation was to build a shell of thin copper plates around a sturdy steel frame, for the 151-foot, 225-ton statue would have to be shipped and reassembled across the Atlantic.
Their dining room made the best of a tight budget: thick plates from Fishs Eddy, sturdy wineglasses, exposed brick.
Luckier survivors, who were processed along with everyone else at the refugee center in nearby Chibutu, managed to salvage something useful -- a wooden hoe, a plastic plate, a pair of sturdy rubber boots.
