Butterfly Sun Catchers: Making Body

Video Transcript

"So now we've laid out all of our tissue paper. I've gone around and trimmed out the edges so that when you see if from this side, we don't see the tissue paper beyond the black construction paper part of the project. What we're going to do now is make the pipe cleaner body, but before we do that, we want to just take a look at our butterfly from this angle and notice if we have any pieces that are coming unfolded or that we might have missed in the process. We want to make sure that these are all down before we start our body part. So I'm just going to add a little bit here, press things down. You could also do this with like a glue decoupage, which is a mixture of glue with a little bit of water, and just do a brushing of that solution over the top. It'll seal it in and make it a little bit more flat. One thing you might lack when you do that is getting the sun to come through. It might prohibit the sun to really shine through the tissue paper and make it really bright. So what we'll do now is that we have all our tissue paper laying flat, we're going to make the pipe cleaner body. We do this using any kind of pipe cleaner, I like the bright colors but what we're going to do is we're going to bend it up, we're going to take it about in the middle here, this is going to create the body part, and then we're going to come back around and attach it at the top. And that's going to give us our head. Now, with these extra little pieces, we want to fold them down and shape out the body a little bit more. And that gives you the body."