Portable Puppet Theater: Put Sticks in Frame

Video Transcript

"Now the frame that we've created needs a way to stand up onto the base of our stage so I'm going to show you how to make the wooden sticks go inside the corrugated paper and that will create a stand, in order for us to stick inside the base of the stage. So if we cut our strips correctly, the lines of the corrugated paper should be running along the length of the strip. So I have room to take a thin skewer and put it inside the opening of the corrugated paper. What I first want to do is, I don't want to use the full length of the stick, it's not necessary, so I'm going to cut a piece and I'm going to be left with a piece, probably about five inches is a good size. And I cut two sticks like that. And then I go ahead and stick it inside the corrugated paper. If you have trouble getting it in, if you didn't use a thick enough corrugated paper, you can twist the stick back and forth and it will slide in, or you can just press it down onto a hard surface because the stick should fit right into, run along the lines of the corrugated paper. You don't have to worry about it pushing itself out or tearing the frame. So we put it in high enough so that it creates, it will be sturdy, it will create a nice base, and we should have enough left out to be able to stick into the base of the stage. It's important that the part of the stick that's sticking out should be, both of them should be even, so that the frame stands straight up and by the weight of the border, the thickness of the corrugated paper and also the sticks that are inside, this will create a nice strong, sturdy support to let the border stand up straight onto the base of the stage. So now I've shown you how to insert the wooden skewer sticks into the picture frame border so that it will stand erect onto the base of our puppet stage theater. "