Paper Mache Lizard: Making Armature Base

Video Transcript

"So, we're ready to start our lizard. What we're going to do is is we're going to use pipe cleaners. I have a lot of students who think it's important to choose color pipe cleaners, but really we're not going to see these. These are just going to create the base, the main structure for our lizard. So, what we want to do is one pipe cleaner at a time we're going to create the base. How we do that is by creating a round circle shape and we're going to twist. You want to twist all the way up. We don't want to have little ends hanging out; so something like this. Then that's going to be our body. Then I want to create a lollipop shape by wrapping it around and getting a nice round shape at the top with a long tail. We call that the lollipop shape. Then what we're going to do is we're going to take the head and the body and we're going to take this long, the stick part of the lollipop, and wrap it around so that it connects the two. We want to make sure that we don't wrap it too many times so that we can still connect it down here. So, as long as that's tight enough and that will hold we can go ahead and attach it down here at the bottom. This is going to give us the base for the head and the body. We can also take this end piece, here, this tail and wrap it around so that we don't have any extra. That's the base."