How to make a Pipe Cleaner Dinosaur

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By milenna
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The bending properties of every day craft items like pipe cleaner can be crafted into so many things. Dinosaur creatures are one of the many items that can be made with pipe cleaner. Make a single dinosaur of a whole heard of dinosaurs with a package of pipe cleaner and an avid imagination.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Pipe cleaner
Thick marker
Pencil
Google eyes
Adhesive
Creativity

Step 1

Twist three pipe cleaner stripes together connecting them end to end.
Step 2

Wrap the pipe cleaners around the outside of a thick marker to make the body of dinosaur. Set aside.
Step 3

Now connect two pieces of pipe cleaner end to end and wrap it around a pencil forming the neck and head of your dinosaur but leaving about 1” of excess at the bottom.
Step 4

Next attach the neck and head to the body by twisting the 1” excess of the pipe cleaner around the front of the body and glue together.
Step 5

For the tail coil one pipe cleaner around your pencil leaving the 1” excess again so that you can attach it to the body.
Step 6

Create legs by bending two pieces of pipe cleaner into V-shapes and coiling each end of the pipe cleaners.
Step 7

Insert the legs into the coils of the body and glue together.
Step 8

Glue google eyes on the face and pose the dinosaur in the desired position.