Hi! We’re here to make some butterflies today. With a few little things you can find around the house plus some things that you’ve purchased at the art store, I think we can make some pretty cool butterflies that the little girls in your household or neighborhood will enjoy immensely. We’ve got some paint markers here that we’re going to use to color the close pins. We’ve got some beads in this box that were going to use to decorate the butterflies’ wings. We’ve got some sparkly pipe cleaners that were also going to use to create wings for the butterflies. We have our Model Magic over here and we have some already opened up, ready to go. We’re going to make some wings and bodies using Model Magic. We’re also going to use some close pins and we’re going to decorate those with paint markers, put little patterns and designs on them and use those for the bodies of some of the butterflies. We’ve got some fancy fake gems that will be good for decorating butterfly wings and of course we have some googley eyes if you’d like to put a funky little face on the head of you butterfly.
I think we’ll go ahead and we’ll start with just a simple butterfly using Model Magic and a few other things to decorate it. Model Magic is a really fun medium to work with. It air dries fairly quickly. The one thing you may have some problems with will be saving it for the next time you want to use it. On the package, they tell you that it’s really made to be used all in one sitting but if you wrap it really, really tightly and tape it close you might be able to use it like twice in a week but it will dry up pretty quickly if you’re not careful.
We’re just going to start out and make like a little head here and were just going to roll out a little body here. Okay this pretty simple and we’re going to use a little hot glue gun here just to kind to stick these pieces together. Be certain if you’ve got little ones who were doing this like maybe you can squirt the glue on there for them and then they could put the two body parts together, that way you don’t have to worry about anybody getting burnt. I think maybe we’ll look in this container here and see if we can find some little sparkles. Maybe we’ll put like a little diamond shape on his body here and so there we’ve got our little body, pretty simple. And then we’re going to pick out another color and we’re going to make some wings and while I’m making some into this things I’m going to also show you some fun things you can do it with Model Magic if you choose to do another kind of project.
First you want to kind to roll it so get soft and it’s a little bit easier to work with and then you just kind of gently press it between your thumbs and the rest to your hand and you’re going to shape a wing, kind of stretch it out a little bit and one of the fun things about Model Magic is that you can actually cut it into a shape.
Now okay so if you have little ones that are good with scissors, this is a good way to let them practice their fine model skills. If you have older ones they can cut some pretty fancy wings. Okay now, I’m going to try and make another wing exactly the same shape and size. There’s a way that you can actually trace these. You just take a little piece of paper. You’re going to lay the wing that you just made on top of the paper and you’re going cut it out, almost just if it’s like a template or as if you’re tracing the wing. And the reason for this is that if you try and lay one wing on top of the other like one piece of Model Magic on top of another piece of Model Magic, you’re going to run into the problem that they’re going to stick to each other and then you’re going to have to start all over again.
So you just want to make a little piece of paper that’s going to go between your two pieces of Model Magic and keep them from sticking. So I’m going to do the same thing I did with the first wing, kind to press it out, make like a little circle okay.
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