Dragon Clapper: Tying Pieces Together

Video Transcript

"When all your pieces have dried, we're going to tie them together, get your cord. Now if your cord unravels or isn't firm enough to stick through the holes, you can take a bit of masking tape or any other kind of cello tape or anything and wrap it tightly around the end like that. And then if you just snip it off, it gives you a good stiff piece to be able to thread through the holes. So stack your pieces the head on the top and the other teeth on the bottom. Make sure that your teeth are going the right direction in towards the mouth and we will thread up through the bottom all three pieces and then down through the top and on the bottom, we'll tie a square knot. Nice and tight go right over, left left over right and pull that nice. Now pull the knot tight but don't tie the cord so tight down to the wood because you want the wood to be able to flap and make noise so you don't want it tight. You want it fairly loose but the knot you want to be tight so you want the cord to be loose here but the knot we're going to pull really tight so that it doesn't come out and then you can trim the ends and there's our little dragon clapper."