Finger Puppets: Dragon Set Up

Video Transcript

"These are the materials you'll be using to make our dragon puppet. You'll need some, a little piece of feather boa. We have about five to six inches of this colored feather boa, and you can use any color you want. You'll need some craft feathers, and I've just got little bit of the feathers. The red or orange for a fire for the mouth and then some other colors to decorate our dragon. You'll need some felt or some fun foam to cut for the head and for the tail and the wings. You'll need two pipe cleaners and you'll need a nice thick craft glue. Something that is clear drying. You'll also want to use a permanent marker to draw some details on your dragon. Now I'll show you how to put together our dragon puppet. You want to take your pipe cleaners and fold them in half like this, and leave a little bit of a loop on the top. Twist a loop on the top and then twist the whole pipe cleaner down to the bottom, and do that with both of our pipe cleaners. Next we're going to attach our pipe cleaners to our feather boa here. Just look for a little bit of the end that sticks out, it's sort of the core of the feather boa, I put a little bit of glue on that, and then slip that through the loop. Now you can twist the pipe cleaner on there even a little tighter if you want to secure that well. And now do the same thing on this side. Sort of pull the feathers back out of the way a little bit. And dab it with glue all around. You should probably clean off the tip of your glue after because the feathers really get stuck to it. And then if you don't mind getting your fingers gluey, you can kind of twist that pipe cleaner a little more. OK, now that's the body of our dragon. Next we'll attach the tail. I've cut a piece of, this is fun foam, and I've cut a tail this shape. A little straight on the top and a little curved, and tapering off on the bottom, and I'm going to put some glue there, some good thickness of glue there, and we'll put that on the tail end of our dragon. And you can kind of cover it over with feathers. You can even put a little extra glue here and pull these feathers down to kind of blend into the body. And now we'll do the head. First we'll cut a piece like this. It looks almost like a double fan, and that is the wings of our dragon, and you'll put a fair amount of glue, put it from halfway through one all the way down the side like this. And it will lay on the feather boa like this, right on top of one of our pipe cleaner holders."