Popsicle Puppets: Princess Dress

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to give out little princess some arms and what I'm going to use for that is this metallic twisty, you can find that in a craft store. You can also use pipe cleaners, anything that is wired and easy to position. So we're going to wrap it around our Popsicle stick, you can wrap it down on the bottom and then slide it up into position. And well trim the wired twisty to about a little bit longer than the length that we want for our arms. And then if you want to make some hands you can take a skewer or a pen, or anything around and just kind of twist; twist it on like that and then you get a little bit of a hand there. And, and she can even hold things with that hand; o.k... And then we'll put a, we're going to make her a dress next. I've chosen some pretty ribbon. Again I'm choosing metallic?s for our princess, and I've chosen this ribbon here. Now to, to put it up around her neck I'm going to first cut a V in the top; a pretty deep V. So fold your ribbon in half like this, fold the tip of the ribbon like this; fold the tip of the ribbon in half and just cut at a diagonal, and that gives you a V on the top. And then what we can do with that is we can sort of wrap it around her neck and glue it in the back. And that will hold the dress on nicely. Now we want to trim the dress, leaving enough Popsicle stick to be able to hold onto and play our Popsicle stick puppet. O.k. so now I'll glue it and we'll finish off her dress. Let's finish our princess by giving her a flownsy skirt. I'm using a clear wired ribbon and I'm just going to first trim off the messy end, and then you just want to accordion fold the wired ribbon on one side; like this. Just accordion fold it back and forth, kind of scrunching it. O.k... And then we're going to put that at her waist, like this; kind of, kind of hold it into place. And I'm going to attach it with another piece of wired twisty. So you want to wrap that twisty around the waist and come into the back, and twist it on there tightly. And trim off the excess. And then just bend it so it's not poking anything. And then you can arrange her, arrange her dress, can slide it up a little higher and arrange her dress. I'll have to re-glue her shoulders back here, they came out a little bit; it wasn't dried yet. And now these arms can be positioned as a dancer, she can hold something. Alright, and then we have our beautiful Popsicle stick princess."