BAM Mr.. Tarrou In this video we're going to take a break from doing math
and do a little upcycling project in our during our Co vid 19 lockdown we're
going to take some wood that my wife and I found actually a wife we like to do
upcycling projects and you know take what was going to the trash pile and
make it into something cool for this project you're going to need a drill a
jigsaw some screws of length appropriate for the wood that you found to upcycle
this is particularly what we use is with some coarse thread one and a quarter
inch screws a hammer if you happen to find a pallet that you're going to
disassemble and use that wood for we have a crowbar and some chalk and of
course because this is you know profile bob channel we're going to use an old
school chalkboard compass to help us create our pattern you're also going to
want some sandpaper that to sand these boards lightly by hand or hopefully a
sander to help speed up the process now the wood that my wife found was some
70-inch when we double check that yes 72 inch wood picket fence pieces which I
already have some chalk on because well the sound quality my first attempt of
this video was terrible but we have some 72 inch by three and a half inch pickets
that are three quarter inches thick this is with a really good fence it just you
know I guess was starting to rot in some places and somebody disassembled it and
just you know basically set this out by the garbage can in an alley near our
house you can find upcycle wood anywhere you can look at your small businesses
and ask them that they're giving away some one-time use pallets that they just
can't you know get rid of your big stores like your Walmart's and your
targets and your Home Depot's they all all those corporations reuse those
pallets but a lot of small companies get these um you know tiles cabinetry you
know whatever carpet on pallets that come in and they only use them one time
and then they just have a hard time getting rid of all that wood it's a
great source from so for some project wood
okay so you can find pots or pans or anything that's round I got this really
cool compass that have that you know I've got from teaching and this is five
boards wide this bunny rabbit we're gonna make for Easter kind of brighten
up the yard bringing some joy during this lockdown is gonna be about 54
inches to the top of its head 54 52 you know whatever is appropriate for what's
going on with your project and I'm gonna open this up and make a circle that is
going to touch each of the outside boards so that there's a little bit of
structure there with its head or you can make it smaller whatever you like and
we're just going to make a circle as oops
as such drop my compass and this is just sort of a plan a layout of your body of
the Easter Bunny where and come down here open this up to almost if not the
full width of the five boards make another circle or whatever markings you
would like to do this is just a piece of artwork it is yours to make as you
choose but then when you get done with that you kind of just want to have that
Bunny's body make a smooth arc from bottom through the main body up to where
the neck is going to be and actually while I drew circles to kind of guide me
where the shape of the body this money is going to be I actually made the head
of the bunny oval so I kind of came up here at the 52 54 inch mark and kind of
just extended that that oval making a general what seems like is gonna be a
good shape you know for this bunny that we're making the tops of these pickets
because these boards are so long ended up being the ears of the bunny and what
you want to do once you get your pattern done is to then take these boards flip
them over in sequence don't change the pattern and then kind of layout and
you're going to put some cross-sectional supports through the back of these
boards to hold them together and there's also at their little abode you can put a
board across the back here and here and here and then maybe as you work your way
up start to have your friend or spouse squeeze these together it kind of
close up those gaps and then you can put some screws in the back that's where we
use those one and a quarter inch coarse thread screws to kind of bind all these
boards together and then take your jigsaw and start to cut this out you're
not going to get both sides of this to be perfectly symmetric maybe maybe well
maybe you're better than I am but what I did was I did the best I could with my
drawing and then I got one side of the bunny cut out and then I took those
boards and transposed him over to the other side and use them as a pattern to
help get a symmetrical shape to the body of this Easter Bunny
you
and here is the final product we've got our bunny with its ear it's almost 6
feet tall you saw from the back how we constructed it just using those screws
to bind these boards together and give some support also gave us something to
screw the stakes into we have eyes that are made out of some bling that was all
my wife's sandals had fallen apart it could be buttons it could be anything
that was round that catches your eye or whatever your creativity comes up with
we have a little triangular wood nose some copper wire and probably some looks
like some discarded pieces of old wire hangers to act as its whiskers got a
little bow we got some arms which are optional we added these this is this was
a part of a headboard that had posts we cut the post off and cut them in half
with the circular saw clamped to the table and that was either a circular saw
jigsaw forget how I cut those in half it was already in my uh my woodpile we've
got the top of four of these pickets to give us a little Easter basket with some
orange carrots just some triangular pieces of wood some raffia staple to the
top I've got a little bit of Easter grass and we did a little foot pattern
here to give this some bunny some feet so we turned some wood that was going
into the landfill into something to brighten up our yard and kind of
everyone's hopefully day
here's another little bonus project we did we took some boards off of a palette
that we disassembled oriented them perpendicular to each other so we had a
smooth back in front and just nailed those boards together and create an
Easter Egg get some colorful you know paint out add some letters whether you
can do it by hand or with a stencil my wife stapled on some silk flowers and
one more decoration on the front created with upcycle wood and a little bit of
creativity
so I missed a true can't go to that project
you