Tin Foil Turtles: Wrapping Body in Foil

Video Transcript

"So, we've constructed all of the parts of the turtle out of newspaper and now we're ready to wrap it in the tin foil. I use the heavy duty tin foil, that way it doesn't rip through the process. Here is my sheet of tin foil, I'm actually going to trim it down a little bit. But I'm choosing to use the flat side as the bottom because this is going to be the interior of the turtle. This will be the top of the shell because it's a little more rounded. So, I'm going to cut down this foil a little bit and we're basically going to bring it all into the center, similar to how we did the original inside newspaper side of the shell. So we're just going to bring that in. You can choose which side of the foil you want to use but I like to use this side because it holds paint a little bit better. We're going to bring this in keeping our hand on the inside of the foil pushing down because we want a little flatter surface for the inside, the underside of the top part of the shell. Then we can turn it over. If we press it down it gives it a little bit more rounded affect on the top and a flatter inside which will go against the under body and also keep the limbs, head and tail all in place."