Popsicle Puppets: Fairy Hair & Crown

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to make some hair and a crown at the same time with this pretty tassely trim. You only need a very small amount of it, and you can, you just take the edge and put a little bit of glue along the top edge of this. You're going to be making a little wig, and then just roll it up like this. You'll probably use about an inch or an inch and a half. It depends on the type of trim you've got and how thick it is. Just roll it up until you think you have enough and then we'll trim it off like that. You'll want that to dry before we attach it to the bead. Just secure it with a little bit more glue so that you have a little bit of a rolled up trim like that. And that's going to be the hair for our beaded dancing fairy. OK, now we'll attach our hair to our fairy and you want to take that, we've rolled up, made a little wig like that out of a rolled up piece of trim. And you want to sort of open it up, separate the hairs, push them aside like this and try to get, sort of get to the center. Just pull that aside, almost like, so you have like a little fountain of the trim and then we'll put a dab of glue right in the center there and then that will sit right on our fairy's head like that. And then you can put a little bit of glue on the sides here and we'll glue the hair in place. If you want to fuss a little with it and arrange that hair so it looks really pretty. You may want to also lift up the hair in the back and add a little glue there so that all of the hair stays in place and then just pat that down. Cover any bald spots there. She's very pretty. OK, next we're going to add some beads to her crown, and again we'll put a little bit of glue here and just pick up some little seed beads with your finger and press that into the glue to decorate her crown. OK, you can also decorate the front of her dress with beads or with sequins or anything else. Just put a nice amount of glue there. Now I'm using some longer bugle beads and I'll arrange them across the top. And the glue will dry clear so you won't see that glue, you'll just see the beads. And next we'll be drawing her face and arranging her hands. OK, now I've drawn a little face on my fairy will some very fine tipped gel pens and you can do that too. And we're going to, as a final thing to make some little hands with the pipe cleaners, so you want to just kind of pinch the pipe cleaner and roll it up to make some hands. She can do a little dance so you can pinch it and kind of roll it at the same time. There, and now she's ready to dance. Just bend the bendy straw a little bit like this, and she can dance on the stage of your tabletop puppet theater. She can dance anywhere."