Popsicle Puppets: Fairy Body & Head

Video Transcript

"Now that I have the dress and the legs done, and our bead is dried; I'm going to put the body and the legs on, so you want a pipe cleaner, and your bendable straw. We're going to be twisting our pipe cleaner on just above the joint, or right near the joint of the bendi-straw. You want to do it one side, and then the other side. We're going to wrap the straw up all the way, but we want to do one at a time alternately, so that the arms come out evenly. We're going to go around completely that way, and then we'll go the opposite way with this arm; around and to the front, and then continue that. Around the back, and to the front; around the back, and to the front. We're working our way up the straw, so that the arms are even. Go up about an inch; I'm going to go one more time. The pipe cleaner has to be right at the joint, like this. Even slightly covering the joint. You want it to look like that. At this point, the neck is really too long, and it doesn't really support that, so we're going to trim off about a half inch of our straw. Now we have a little bit shorter body. Next, we'll put the dress onto our dancing fairy. Make sure that the legs are facing forward. You can either glue this onto the pipe cleaner, or we can secure it with a little bit of hand sewing. I'm also going to add a little bit of this ruffled, pretty trim. You can also take a little bit of glue, and dot that there, so that the trim will be secure. Then I'm going to wrap both of these things around the straw, and in the back. I'm going to do just a little bit of hand sewing. If you don't mind waiting for the glue to dry, you can also just secure this with glue."