hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world you know one of the best things about
having my youtube channel is that people will send me their ideas and they'll say
hey Sophie you want to try this idea that I have
and make it into a video so Carolyn W over at Danielle's place has sent me
this awesome little idea for how to make an animal castanet well that's what she
calls it to me it sounds a little bit like a hand clacker so this is it it's a
little alligator and you tell me you think it sounds like a hand clacker you
know those little plastic things that have the hands and they clack for me it
sounds like a hand clacker well Carolyn W sent me this great idea and I'm going
to show you my take on it right now for this project you will need giant or
jumbo craft sticks Uniosca markers Sharpie markers scissors ruler googley
eyes hot glue duct tape an exacto knife and a cutting surface so this is a giant
popsicle stick this is a jumbo and Carolyn suggests that you use the Jumbo
which ends up looking like this which is awesome but sadly I only literally had
five of these in my warehouse so I'm stuck using these guys they work
just as well but they're they're not as awesome as these big ones so first thing
we're going to do is we're going to measure and if you're using the big
giant version you're going to do the big giant version you would do two and a
half inches but I'm gonna be doing a smaller version so I'm going to actually
only use two inches now you should hop on over to Carolyn's website because
she's got a step-by-step tutorial that you can follow you know in pictures so
if you want to if that if that's easier then you can certainly do that so I'm
going to measure two inches on either side and the great thing is I can cut
one of these with just a pair of scissors
now if you don't have colored ones that's totally fine you can use just
plain white ones and you can paint them and that's why the UniPosca
markers are so great for that next thing I'm going to do is I'm gonna take my red
this is my red tongue depressor that's gonna be my that's actually going to be
my tongue it's actually going to be a tongue so the first thing that I'm gonna
do with these guys put that off to the side so it's ready to go first thing
I'm going to do with these guys is I'm going to take some duct tape and I'm
gonna lay it down and I'm actually going to measure my duct tape and cut it
exactly to the width of my stick and I don't need too much of this so I'm going
to just take one piece here and I'm gonna cut it in half this way now
Carolyn uses masking tape here but I'm going to be using this duct tape just
because I am a duct-tape girl so I'm putting that half on half off so there's
sticky on the wood and then there's sticky hanging off I'm gonna do that
with the other one sticky on the wood sticky hanging off now I'm just gonna
line this up curved edge to curved edge and just smooth that down flip it over
and do the same thing again smooth that down and see it you can see it already
starting you could leave it like a hand clacker right now if you wanted to now
I'm gonna take another strip of my tape and I'm just gonna measure from right
behind the joint there to the end now this is important your tape is a hinge
see that it allows it to go up and over what you don't want to do this is this
is a very easy and common mistake what you don't want to do is take your tape
and tape it over that because then it won't flap anymore and then you
won't get any noise so you want to make sure that you are behind
the hinge here you want to make sure that you're right behind it so you
can even you can even pop it up like that just to make sure that you're not
going on top of that because that that's that's gonna be bad if you do that
however because it's duct tape you can always peel it off okay so I laid this
down then I flip it over and I seal it and then I flip the other edge over and
seal it so now my alligator or dragon whichever you prefer has his nice scaly
back and now it's ready for decoration now one thing I don't like is I don't
like this edge being so you know squared off like that so I'm gonna take a tiny
bit of my tape again and I'm just gonna use this as my measurement this is the
piece that was left over to make sure I get the right size and I'm just gonna
make like a little triangle house point
and I'm gonna put that on top so that it looks like kind of like a widow's peak
or like that the edge point that comes together on a dragon so there we go
and now what I want to do is I want to give him teeth so I just opened this up
like that and this is where my uni poscapens come in really handy now if
you don't have one of these you can use white paint or you know you don't even
have to give him teeth if you don't want to but I just think it's kind of fun so
I'm gonna make some triangle teeth right here at the top I'm gonna start at the
top of his mouth right at that rounded part and then I'm just gonna go all the
way around the edges making sharp little triangle teeth now of course you got to
have that part where they swallow down I think this is called the epiglottis is
right in here and then you go down the throat so I made the little epiglottis
there so that when he opens all the way up and I'm going to give
his little tongue a little texture just like that line that goes down the middle
of his tongue then you flip it over and you're gonna do the same thing on the
backside and we close im up and he's almost
done all he needs are some eyes so I'm gonna use my glue gun and I'm just gonna
put a drop of glue here and a drop of glue there drop on my little googley eyes
and I'm gonna use my sharpie pen here to give him some nostrils so he can breathe
it's very important for dragons to breathe and crocodiles too and there you
go and you can see the difference between the big guy and the little guy
you got the mama and the baby and there you have it my take on Carolyn W's
animal castanets and I think they're awful cute and if you go on over to
Danielle's place you'll see that she's got a whole bunch of different animals
she's got a cow she's got a dog she'll give you lots and lots of inspiration so
make sure you check out the link below for Danielle's place and listen if
you've got an idea that you think that it would be a great video for me to make
well send it on over I'm always happy to take a look because it's your
inspiration that leads to my creation so check us out sophie-world.com for
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