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Summary: You want to create your tail so that it will hold tight to the body and stay attached. Learn how to make paper mache lizards from a professional art instructor in this free crafts video.
Kira Morrell, Owner of Create Art Studio located in Easthampton, MA has been teaching children and adults for nine years. She earned her degree in Fine Arts and Art Management from...read more
"OK. So now we've shaped the head we have a structure that's going to give our head some shape. We want to do the body now. By attaching one piece up here towards the top of the body we're just going to continue to loop. It's important that we wrap it all the way around the base and then come back up again, so that it holds on tight and it doesn't slip along the side of the body. We'll just go all the way down. This may take about two pipe cleaners to give you a really good structure. Again, the papier-m?ch? is a little heavy so we want to make sure that the structure is strong enough to hold it. So, we're going to wrap that around and we'll add one more just to be sure. As you can see in this one you probably could have used a little bit more support, because it's dropped down a little bit. So, we want to make sure that it's strong enough. We'll wrap this piece around. Now, if we have a little extra left over we can start to use that in the legs. So, what I'll do is since I have this piece, or if you don't have that piece you can just add another one and attach it right where that is. We're going to make a little loop off to the side, just like that, and wrap it on."
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