Butterfly Sun Catchers: Attaching Body

Video Transcript

"Because we have a layer of glue and some stickiness on the backside of this butterfly, make sure that you can continuously pick it up off the surface to make sure that it's not creating a bond with your table or the table cloth. So I keep making sure that I can pick it up, it's drying as we work through the rest of the project, and we're just about ready to attach the pipe cleaner body. There are some other things you could make the body out of. If you have tin foil and you don't have a pipe cleaner, you could do that, and basically, you just want to create the same shape. What we'll do now is attach it with a stapler, and you could attach the tin foil with a stapler as well. What we'll do now is bring it in, and we want to catch it right here, between the head and the body with a staple. So we're just going to go in like this, and we also want to make sure that the staple is going to catch on the construction paper and not the tissue paper. So there's the first part of our attachment. And then, making sure that the butterfly is flat and the body is flat, and it hopefully comes right to the edge of the construction paper, we're going to bring the stapler in again and go in at an angle, and attach it there. This gives us the attached body on to the wings."