Video: Gluing the First Hinge of Folding Puppet Theater

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I will show you on this completed puppet theater how the hinges work. You attach one hinge on the front panel and one panel and then over here, you attach the other hinge to the front panel and the second panel. It gives you kind of a z shape like this. It allows you to open the whole puppet theater and set it up any way you want and it allows you the flexibility to reverse the puppet theater. So, if you want to make two different sides on your puppet theater. You can have a completely reversible puppet theater, and then it all folds up nicely like the size of a book and you can put that right on your bookshelf. You want to decide which order you are going to put your panels in. So, you just set them up the way that you want them. And we'll start by doing these two panels first, and when they fold it's going to be, it'll fold together like this. So, the hinge is going to be placed on this edge like this holding these two panels together that will be able to open like this. So, first, we'll apply the webbing to the front panel along this edge. We're going to use glue and a nice heavy duty stapler to apply the hinge and give it a good strength. So, you want to use a glue that is clear and a real nice strong glue and we'll first put that along the edge and then we'll lay the webbing down in that place. So, I am just taking a little of this very strong clear adhesive and this will hold it in place and give it extra strength even though we're stapling it in place. We're using the glue to give it extra strength. These hinges will get a lot of use with your puppet there, so you want to make sure that you attach them nice and strong. So, just a little bit of glue all the way down the edge there and then place your webbing, the measured amount that you want over lapping. You want to make sure that you don't make it too tight when it's closed, so we'll put this on and then we'll try it on the two panels again and then we'll glue the other side. We'll let that set for a bit and then we'll staple.

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Gluing the First Hinge of Folding Puppet Theater

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