What-ever-he-is
Category: Toys | 4 June 2008, 23:35 | admin
Want to make this, er, What-ever-he-is?
You will need:
* Newspaper
* Sticky tape
* PVA glue
* Paintbrush
* Kitchen roll
* Paint
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For the body of the What-ever-he-is, scrunch up some newspaper into a large pear shape. |
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Use lots of sticky tape to keep the shape together. |
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For the legs, take three sheets of newspaper and, starting at the short side, roll them into a long sausage shape.
Again, use lots of tape to keep the shape.
Make another in the same way.
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Take one of the legs and tape one end to the underneath of the body. |
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Fold it in the middle to make a knee joint.
Use sticky tape to hold it in position.
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Do exactly the same with the second leg. |
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For the arms, make two shorter bent sausage-shaped rolls of newspaper. |
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Hold them against the top of the body and tape them into place. |
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You should now have something that looks like this! |
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To make a hand, roll up four small sausages of newspaper.
Tape three of them together for fingers.
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Tape the fourth to one side for a thumb. |
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Make a second hand in the same way.
Tape the hands to the ends of the arms, making sure that the thumbs are on the inside.
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For the feet, make a padded-out triangle shape for the main part of the foot. |
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The toes are just four balls of newspaper stuck to the triangle shaped foot.
Each one is slightly smaller than the last.
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Tape the foot in position.
Make a second in the same way, and tape that into position too.
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Next, make a small ball of newspaper for a neck, and stick it on using more tape… |
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…and for the head, scrunch four or five sheets of newspaper into an oval-shaped ball.
Tape it together.
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Tape two ping-pong balls to the top of the head for eyes. |
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Scrunch up a small sausage of newspaper and wrap it over the top of the eyes to make eyelids or eyebrows, and tape it into position. |
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For ears, make some newspaper triangles… |
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…and tape them into position on the side of the head. |
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Make another, longer triangle… |
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…and tape it to the front of the face to make a beak-like top lip. |
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The bottom lip is just another rolled-up sausage of newspaper taped underneath the triangular bit that you’ve just added. |
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Finally, add a small ball of newspaper for a nose. |
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When you’re happy with the head, tape it onto the body. |
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You should now have something that looks like this. |
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If you like, you can press a pencil into the model’s tummy to make a belly button! |
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What-ever-he-is now needs some skin, so mix some PVA glue half and half with water, and use it to paste pieces of kitchen roll all over the model. |
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Cover the entire model - but avoid the ping-pong ball eyes! |
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When the paper mache dries it will be very hard and ready to paint.
Use whatever colours you like. This one is going to be green.
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Remember to pick out pupils on the ping-pong ball eyes with black. |
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You can make your What-ever-he-is posed in any way you like.
This one is relaxing, reading a magazine…
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…this one is bouncing on a bed… |
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…this one is sitting in quite contemplation… |
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…and this one is climbing up shelves!
Try it yourself!
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