How to Make a 3-D Pipe Cleaner Person

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Andrew Jenkins on behalf of expertvillage.com. Now in this clip I'm going to be to be telling you about pipe cleaner crafts specifically how to make a certain kind of pipe cleaner person. This one has a hollow interior it is not made to be three dimensional. These is more if you want to make it to set up on a wall or on a picture frame or something like that. Just sort of accent something. Now first that we need to do we need to create the arms and the head. Now I'm just going to go ahead and use a yellow color. You could use whatever color that you like and I will cut it. I will put the 12 inch length in two 6 inch pieces and once that i have my one 6 inch this piece is going to be the head. I will take a pencil and wrap it around there and I probably wont even go down the length of the pencil. It is going to keep it all in one spot. So then I got a nice little nice tight coiled that could be used as the head for my pipe cleaner person. Now once that is done I will take the other end of the pipe cleaner and I will cut that into half. So I will have two 3 inch or so pieces long. I will take each one of those and bend it over and put a little crimped in it. I will take any color that I want to use for the shirt and my pipe cleaner person. In this case I will be going with the pink and you just need to make this sort of basic base of a shirt. Now what I typically like to do is start the base of the shirt with the bottom. Take it up here. Bend it over. Make a little sleeve there. Then do the same thing for the other side. Make a little sleeve and again you could shape this however you want. Once that you get the shape that you want. Give it a little crimp where the two ends join. Twist it up there so it won't come flying apart and then take once you got this shape basically in there you take our little arm that you have. You fix that to one end and crimp that around. So it stays on. Then you take your other arm you put it int the other end. Crimp it around and then you take your little coiled up piece which is going to be the head. You toss that on top and crimp that right around. Now this is the place where goggley eyes would come in great. If you want to take some more pieces of pipe cleaner and put on some hair that would look great as well. Once you got that in there you can take a piece of blue or any color that you want to make some pants legs for the pipe cleaner person. Now I'm going to go ahead and cut this in half. Then bend it over. This is going to be one leg and I will take it and coil it around here at the base of the shirt and I will do the same thing for the other leg. Once that is done you got yourself a perfect little pipe cleaner person."