critters creative inventions and robotics

CrittersCreative Inventions and Robotics

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• Nuts, cork, small rock, paper or card stock.

• 1” x 1” piece of white card stock.

• Three 6” pipe cleaners.• Colorful beads• 6” x 3” colorful cloth.• 12” string, yarn

or ribbon.


• Let’s start by making a head.


• Draw a set of BIG eyes from a piece of white card board or foam rubber. Add a touch of color.

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• Much of the personality of your critter is in the eyes.

• Make them carefully!• Make them big!

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• Try clever combinations of using paper cones to make head shapes.


• Try making a head from plain paper or card stock.

• First draw a face and color the hair.

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4”Cut Hair

• Cut slits in the top so you can bend the hair.


• Wrap the paper in the form of a cone.

• A 6” pipe cleaner will serve as a neck.

• Tape it all together!

Tape

Pipe Cleaner


• Now let’s make some hair. • Wind about 10 loops of yarn

around 3 fingers.• Tie the string in the center.


• Cut the 2 loops. • Viola … you’ve got a head of

hair!!!


• Glue the hair on your head head and give it a hair cut.

• Now let’s make the body.


• Twist three 6” pipe cleaners together in the center. Bend the arms and legs out.


• Cut out a 6” x 3” piece of colorful cloth.


• Bend the 6” x 3” cloth in the middle. You’ll have a 3” square.


• At the bend, cut out a small hole for the neck.


• Cut out a shirt.


• Put it on the pipe cleaner skeleton.


• Roll the neck pipe cleaner so you can glue your hard head on.

• Bend the ends of the arms and legs to make hands and feet.


• Bend the tail back so your critter can stand on 2 legs and its tail.


• Tie a belt around your shirt.


• Bend the ends of your arms and legs

• You could glue some shoes or hands on.


• Glue the head on your body and put it in your contraption.


Try your own designs!