Rocking Bird DIY

Materials

1. Foam
2. Safety pins (2)
3. A nail
4. Small circle made of cardboard
5. Small piece of steel wire
6. Toothpick
7. Drawing of a bird made from paper
8. Glue

Method:

1. Open both the safety pins wide and make sure the space between them is the same.

2. Push the safety pin to one end of a foam piece and the second pin on the other end.

3. Next take the circle made out of cardboard and make a hole in the center.

4. Push the steel wire in the center of the circle.

5. Next push the nail in the side of the circle as shown. This will provide the weight.

6. Draw a bird and its wing separately out of paper and cut it out.

7. Take the wing and put glue on its side and stick it in the middle of the bird. Make sure not to put glue in the center of the wing. The toothpick will be passed through here.Once the sides are stuck put the toothpick through the center of the wing.

8. Push the other end of the toothpick on the opposite side of the nail as shown.

9. Pass the steel wires through the loops of the safety pins keeping the bird in the center.

10. As simple as that. Tilt the bird forward and let it go. The bird will oscillate back and forth for a short time.

Moving Cardboard Puppet

Materials required:
1. Cardboard
2. Scissors
3. Sticky Tape
4. Scissors
5. Thread

Method:
Make a drawing or stick a picture on a cardboard and cut it out. My drawing is of a girl playing badminton.

While drawing the picture keep in mind to draw the parts you want to be moved separately. Here in my picture i want the girls hands to move. So i drew both the hands separately. Make the hands a bit longer than usual. You need to place the moving parts behind the main picture so it needs to be a bit longer.

Place the moving parts behind the picture and once you are happy with the way it looks poke holes in both the parts

Pass the paper fasteners through the hole. Make sure that the paper fasteners are not tightly fit in the holes. Keep it loose else the moving parts will not retract properly.

Next take a piece of thread and stick it across the two hands at the back. Use sticky tape.

Take another piece of thread which is a bit longer and tie a knot in the middle of the first thread.

Cut any extra thread and the moving puppet is ready

To see it in action just pull the string down. The hands will move up and down showing the girl playing badminton.

For the video tutorial click below

Book Clutch DIY

I happened to see this DIY on the channel Mad Stuff with Rob and instantly fell in love with the idea. All the items that i have used in this project are from ItsyBitsy.
You need the following items for this DIY
1. Leather Paper
2. Chipboards/Cardboard
3. Foam board
4. Embellishments for decoration
5. Magnets
6. Acrylic Paint

Procedure
1.Take a leather paper of the measurements 16inches X 11 inches as shown below.

2. Cut two chipboard or cardboard of measurements 6inches X 9inches and another one of 1inch X 9inches and place them on the leather paper as shown.

3. Fold and stick the sides and upper part of the leather paper as you would do while binding a book with cover.

4.Take another sheet of leather paper to cover the chipboards and stick it in place. While sticking the inner paper make sure to  not stick at the left hand side in the middle. We will place a magnet here later.

5.You should be able to fold the cover and it should look like a book now.

6. To make the inner box i have used foam board. The longer sides of the rectangle boxes are 2x8 inches and the shorter sides are 2x5.5 inches. For extra stability i used an extra foam piece on each side.

7. Stick it as shown below to form a rectangle box.

8. Paint or decorate the box as you want and stick a magnet in the middle of the outer side.

 

9. To cover the magnet and the rough edge of the box i used chipboard on the outer frame. I did not have enough to make a continuous outer frame so i cut the pieces separately. But if you can cut a continuous frame to cover the outer side to get a cleaner look. Paint the chipboard.

10. Stick the box onto the inner side of the book.

11. Decorate the book as you want. I went for an encyclopedia look.

Few points to be noted:

I did not use a glue gun for this project since i found that it does not work well with foam boards. I used normal PVA glue.

Take proper measurements for the cover as well as the inside box before hand. If there is a mistake and you have already cut the paper or foam board it will be a problem later when you put everything together.