{"id":1595,"date":"2012-05-16T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2012-10-17T13:41:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:41:30","slug":"birdie-hand-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"Birdie Hand Puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We pass by the neighbourhood park every so often. It&#8217;s autumn and when we are not crushing fallen leaves with our feet, it&#8217;s quite fun to try spotting the parrots that are now flying about. So its all about making parrots this week and kiddo rightly asserted that she and I have to get down to making not one but 3 birdies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of course it wouldn&#8217;t be fun by just drawing and cutting up 3 birdies (i thought I could simply get away with that). She wanted something that moves! Dang&#8230;.so here goes&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8157\/7207979666_bace859a93.jpg\" alt=\"Birdies Puppet\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What you need are (for each adult bird):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 toilet roll (for the body) + 1\/2 toilet roll (for head and tail)<\/li>\n<li>pipe cleaners<\/li>\n<li>coloured paper<\/li>\n<li>scissors<\/li>\n<li>stapler\/sticky tape\/ glue<\/li>\n<li>markers\/crayons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instructions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get kiddo to choose the appropriate colours for plumage. Asking her to remember what the birds looked like in the park\/zoo etc etc.<\/li>\n<li>Get kiddo to draw wings. Now here&#8217;s the fun bit for her. Got her to trace her palm twice so that the 10-finger-shaped thingy will look like wings.<\/li>\n<li>Get kiddo to cut out the shape. Assistance may be required for narrow cuts.<\/li>\n<li>While kiddo is at it, you half the toilet roll and work on the body, head and tail.<\/li>\n<li>Make a slit on the 1\/2 toilet roll so that she can put her wrist in (thats for wearing the puppet)<\/li>\n<li>Half the remaining toilet roll and fold up+trim to shape a piece into its head. Trim the other piece into triangle as its tail. Retain a curved piece for the tail.<\/li>\n<li>Punch a hole on the body and the head respectively and tie them together with a pipe cleaner. Make sure that you measure kiddo&#8217;s wrist to finger length before fixing the pipe cleaner. A pipe cleaner is used so that she can maneuver the head of the puppet.<\/li>\n<li>Staple on the tail piece at the other end of the body.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7220\/7207979288_9e34b5a97a.jpg\" alt=\"Birdies Puppet\" width=\"500\" height=\"419\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7218\/7207978876_3668588bfa.jpg\" alt=\"Birdies Puppet\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The next fun bit for kiddo is when she gets to stick on the &#8216;feathers&#8217;. Remind her the colours on the bird and that she is to cut up small pieces of colour paper and use them as feathers.<\/li>\n<li>Get kiddo to decorate the wings by sticking on pieces of &#8216;coloured feathers&#8217; and then help kiddo staple\/glue the wings onto the body.<\/li>\n<li>Kiddo can proceed with decorating the rest of the tail and head.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7232\/7207979462_4f18b7279b.jpg\" alt=\"Birdies Puppet\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As for the smallest bird, simply get kiddo to stick together some small pieces of paper, (note that she has to work in the wings, beak and tail), fold a groove in its centre and attach one end of a pipe cleaner.<\/li>\n<li>Then loop up the other end of the pipe cleaner so that it forms a comfortable ring around her index finger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After they are dry, watch her squawk away with the family of birdies. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;&gt; <a title=\"DIY Toys\" href=\"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?page_id=9\">Back to DIY Toys<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We pass by the neighbourhood park every so often. It&#8217;s autumn and when we are not crushing fallen leaves with our feet, it&#8217;s quite fun to try spotting the parrots that are now flying about. So its all about making parrots this week and kiddo rightly asserted that she and I have to get down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}