Felt Craft: Making the Tongue of a Felt Lady Bug

Video Transcript

"Alright, now we're going to take a scrap piece of felt. You're going to want to get the red. And we're going to make our ladybug a tongue. So, get one that's got a nice flat edge to it still. And you're going to cut a little strip. There's no real measurement to it; you just cut along the edge. And you're going to separate the felt. I'm just going to cut the end off here. And you're going to pull your pen back out -- and this is great -- you're just going to wrap it around a pen or a pencil. And you're going to want to pull tight, almost like you're making a candy cane. And you're just going to want to hold that there for a few seconds; try and give it a little curl, so that he has a little bit of a curly tongue hanging out. And then you're going to slide that off. And it's got a little bit of shape now. So we're going to pick up our ladybug, and we're going to find the ends here that we glued together. And if you have a little flap left over, you can glue right in between there, almost like he's got a mouth. Or, if you've done a really good job in gluing, place a little glue on the underside. So I am going to separate his lips just a little bit. Going to hold the top one back, and I'm just going to place a little dab of glue there. And then I grab my tongue here; take one end; I'm going to press it down onto the glue. Hold that there and let that dry. And then, once I've got that on there well, I'm going to come back over, since I did the inside of the mouth; give it another little squeeze of glue. And now I'm going to seal his lips, so he can't do any talking back to you. And then you're going to let that dry. And now you have a curly-cue tongue coming out of your ladybug. "