Popsicle Puppets: Fairy Legs

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to sew the legs together. You'll want to cut a piece of felt in this shape, for the skirt. You can make a nice curve, and cut a curve right here for the waist. When you wrap it around the straw it makes almost a triangle cone shape. For the legs; we're going to use a quarter inch piece of ribbon, and we're going to sew some beads on the bottom; for the feet. First, we want to attach the ribbon to the skirt, here. So you fold your ribbon in half, and with a needle and thread, we're going to sew that into place on the skirt. This is going to be the inside of the skirt; so we're doing it to the back side. Just sew it with a little in and out stitch, to secure it. It's good to use a thread that matches the color of the skirt, because then you don't see any of your stitching from the front. Then you can secure that with a knot. Now we want to decide how long we want to make our legs. Just trim that, and you can flip it over. These are going to be the legs. You can see how long you want to make your legs; maybe about an inch and a half to two inches. You can fold that and cut it; not right at the fold, but above the fold, like that. We're going to sew some beads to the end of that, so knot your thread. Here's the front. We'll fold the bottom of the ribbon so we have two layers there, and we don't have an unfinished edge; we have a folded edge there. Come through the back with your needle, and put on a quarter inch bead; like that. Then put on your smaller bead. You can use a seed bead, or I think they call this a rocaille. Now you have two beads on the ribbon. I'm going to bring my needle, and I'm going to go back through the larger bead, but not through the smaller bead. I'm going to put my needle back through the larger bead, and the smaller bead is going to be what holds that larger bead onto the ribbon, and that's our little foot for our dancer. Just put the needle through the ribbon, and knot it in the back, and that will be our foot."