You need to cut a piece 5 inches x 1 inch.

Next comes the fun part.

We are going to cut the thinnest strips you can length ways.
Stopping about 1 inch from the end. When your done it should look like the picture on the right.

Next using your kitchen sheers you want to cut a piece of a glue stick about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch long.

Next step you need to put a globe of glue in the center of the mirror and stand the piece of clue stick you cut upright in to the globe,
just like the picture.

Next we are going to wrap scotch tape around the transparency where we didn't cut it and bring the sides together.

Now slip it over your glue stick piece like the picture to the right.

With that done we are now going to dribble glue down the sides of the uncut part of the transparency. Careful not to get to close to the top or the cut strips will start drooping and melting from the hot glue.

We are also going to dribble glue in circles on the mirror. We do not want to much coverage on the mirror, just enough to create the illusion of ripples on the water.

 

To create the fountain above simply skip the transparency treatment, make your piece of glue stick a little longer and just dribble hot glue over it.

Next we are going to start bending over our cut strips.

This is where the tooth pix can come in handy to avoid burning fingers.

The red dots show where each of the strips attaches to the mirror.

To start with we are going to take every other strip and attach it to the outside perimeter.

Now we are going to do the rest of the strips a little closer to the interior of the fountain to create some variation in our "water" streams. The blue dots show where the second row of strips need to be glued.