Video: Portable Puppet Theater: Attach Curtains to Frame

Stapling is the easiest and most secure way to attach the curtains to the puppet stage frame. Learn how to make a portable puppet theater in this free crafts video.

Video Transcript

Now I'm going to show you how to attach the curtains to the border. The easiest thing to do is to use a stapler, and this is going to let us put the curtains onto the border. But you're going to be able to see the stapler from the front which isn't the most aesthetic, the most, the cleanest look that we can get for our theater. But we can put that other piece of felt, that other strip that we cut and we can put it across the top of the border and that will cover up the staples that will show from the top. So the staples is, this is the most easiest way to attach the curtains and it's also probably the most secure way so that's why we chose to use it. And because we're going to be covering it up, we didn't mind having the staples show through. So now we have the curtains attached to the border. We can go ahead and place the other piece of felt and put it right across the top and that will also complete the look of the curtains. If you want, you can have this piece of felt standing up just a drop, to make it look like the border of a real set of curtains. We're going to lay it straight flat across, and we do this by putting glue right onto the felt. You can be somewhat generous with it because the felt needs a nice coat for it to stick securely to the other piece of felt. Once you've put a nice line of glue across the felt, you go ahead and stick it right onto the border. Any glue that squeezed through the felt as you're pressing down will dry clear if you're using a white glue, a regular crafts glue, so that won't be a problem. And we see that once we put the border on, we stand it up, the curtains really make the theater look like an authentic theater, it's a nice effect and it's something that I really recommend that you do when you're making your puppet theater, to add on these curtains. So now I've shown you how to place curtains onto the picture frame border that's used for our puppet theater.

Portable Puppet Theater: Attach Curtains to Frame

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