Paper Dragonfly Craft: Outlining Wings

Video Transcript

"At this point we're ready to outline our wings. We need to come up with a general size and shape for them. Here I have a pretty standard version. I've got two large wings and two small wings. In the wings I also create this decorative look of the veininess of the wings. So what we'll do is we'll draw those wings, get the right shape and size, and then we'll be ready to cut them out. So over here, if you feel more comfortable using a pencil you can definitely do that and then maybe trace it over with the, with the marker. But really feel free to do this however you like. It can be as big or as small. And we'll find a way to fit them onto the poster board. So those are my two big wings. And they're not exactly symmetrical, but that's okay. And now I'm going to make sure that the next two are a little bit smaller. And just for consistency I'm going to trace them over with a black magic marker. This will also make it easier if you have a child cutting them out and they can follow the line. We're going to use the back side of this, so if they don't cut them perfectly, that's okay."