Finger Puppets: Dancer

Video Transcript

"Next I'm going to put the arms in. The pipe cleaner will be the arms. And we're going to poke, the pipe cleaner has a little bit of metal in, we're going to poke into this area like sort of in the shoulder area. Just push the pipe cleaner right through the fun foam, it goes through rather easily. And pull out enough for an arm maybe with a little extra. And then on the other side, the other shoulder, you want to again poke that pipe cleaner right through. Now don't pull it all the way through. I'm going to make a little bit, decorate the dress a bit with it so we want it to come down about this much and I'm going to fold it, fold it in half there just make a little bit of a twist like that. And that sort of gives some decoration to the dress. It gives a little more three dimensional look to her top. And now the arms are bendable. You can trim them any size you want, and you can bend them to any position you want. So I'm going to make like a little hand by rolling, just twisting and rolling the pipe cleaner into a little bit of a hand and then again on this side. That's a little bit too long. And just pinch it with your thumb and your finger and roll that and then you can position her hands any way you want. OK, now we'll continue to decorate her. I'm going to glue a little feather plume behind her hair. Feathers are always great for decorating and adding that little special flair to your puppets so it's good to have these nice fuzzy feathers. And then we'll continue to decorate her with sequins. I'm going to put some sequins here. We'll put some sequins here, and a little bit of sequins in her hair. Here's our little dancing finger puppet. I've put on a white glove and drawn on some ballet slippers. Of course, it looks a lot better with a child's hand, with a little bit more delicate legs."