Paper Puppet Postcard: A Flying Swallow / Hilo Yamamoto

Last change: 2021/12/05 20:44:27.

Paper Puppet Postcards:

How to make it:

  • Prepare a 20cm long aluminum wire and a piece of chopsticks (Bamboo one would be better)
  • Download "A flying swallow" PDF from [HERE]
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  • Print out the pdf in postcard size.
  • Alternatively, since it is a postcard size, you can write a message and mail it to your friends.
  • Cut out the parts: A-1, A-2, B-1, and A-2, and glue B-1 on A-1, and B-2 on A-1.
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  • Make holes at the blue dots with a needle. Glue the yellow tabs on each other. Take 20cm of wire.
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  • Pass the tip of the wire through the hole, and then bend the tip into the shape shown in the figure.
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  • Cut out the parts: C
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  • Fold it as shown in the picture, glue the yellow tabs and stick them together.
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  • Wrap double-sided tape around the disposable chopstick, pass between the blue tabs.
  • Fix the tip of the chopstick behind the head. Wrap the blue tab around the chopstick and tape it.
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  • Attach double-sided tape to the yellow tabs on the body, check how the wings open, and then glue them together.
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  • After bending the wire at a right angle, wrap it around the chopstick.
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  • Cut out the parts: D-1 and D-2 and glue D-1 and D-2 on the chopstick.
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  • It's done.
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  • There are international students who are overseas and have not yet come to Japan. They are taking classes at Zoom every day, but I would like them to come to Japan early.

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