Tin Foil Turtles: Wrapping Underbelly in Foil

Video Transcript

"So we have our shell completed and wrapped in tin foil nice and round with a smooth underside. Now, we need to make the underbelly and that's this part of the turtle that’s going to bring it all together. So what we need to do now is shape it up. We have done that with the newspaper. We're going to cut our foil down so that it's the appropriate size and we don't have too much excess. Excess is only going to lead to bunching. So, we're going to cut this up. We'll save this aside for the head, tail, legs. All that comes next. Since this is the nice and flat part, I think we're going to use this as the bottom. So, we're going to wrap this way - pulling up and we're going to put this on the interior of the turtle. And again I'm using this side as the exterior so that we can add paint if we like so we're going to keep this side flat, pulling all the corners in. We also want to to be sure to make this similar to the same size as the top of the shell. So we can bring this back and realize that we've got to pull this in a bit. That's what's great about foil, it's really malleable so we can change the shape to whatever we need. And that newspaper on the inside is only giving it a little thickness."