'It Celebrates The Earth': Woman Goes Viral After Sharing Eco-Friendly Confetti Hack That Costs Basically Nothing
A woman has gone viral on Instagram for sharing another woman’s initiative of making eco-friendly, star-shaped confetti from leaves. In her video, she explains that the woman did this by using a star-shaped hole puncher, inviting other people to try the hack.
The Art Revival, whose real name is Kira, is a social media content creator whose content focuses on art and showcasing unique art pieces. However, her latest viral video has less to do with art and more to do with an eco-friendly way to celebrate special occasions.
In her Reel, which garnered 2.3 million views on Instagram in less than a month, Kira talks about how a woman named Bo VanDerStarren gathered people to make the confetti out of leaves.
"This may be the most eco-friendly way to celebrate," Kira says at the beginning of her video, with images of people using star-shaped hole punchers on leaves behind her.
"This woman, Bo VanDerStarren, invited 55 people to punch stars in leaves for four weeks," she says, as images of star-shaped leaf confetti and leaves with star-shaped holes play.
"At the end, they had 10,000 leaf stars that they could use for a confetti party," Kira explains. "And this confetti happens to be biodegradable," she adds, as a video of a jar getting filled with the star confetti plays behind her, "so it literally doesn't kill the earth, but celebrates it."
"Now, you know I've already looked into hole punchers; do you know how many amazing shapes there are?" she says. "There are snails, there are whales," she lists.
"It's almost fall, meaning leaf galore," Kira states excitedly, as her video was posted a few weeks before fall officially started, "so you can start searching for the hole punch that matches your soul, and get ready for a fall party," she concludes.
The images behind Kira were taken from VanDerStarren’s own viral video about the idea, posted on June 30th, where she states what Kira repeats in her video and shows footage of people making the confetti and collecting it into jars.
"This project began with a simple question: What if outdoor celebrations could be beautiful while leaving less behind?" VanDerStarren explains in her video’s caption.
"Together, we spent our evenings punching stars, sharing stories, and creating something that reflects the place we call home," she recounts, concluding, "Here’s to more thoughtful outdoor celebrations."
In Kira’s video, commenters applauded this initiative, with a few commenters saying that they had done something similar before.
However, other commenters warned that such an initiative should only use dead leaves.


