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Your class can make these Olympic Projects and Novelties

ECHIDNA

The Echidna pictured uses the neck of the bottle for the nose. Split a 38cm poly ball, glue in place for the eyes. Cover with a stocking piece - pad out a little with nylon filling. Knot the stocking at the base of the bottle. Outline the eye shape, then paint the body in a bright colour. When dry, thread wool tops through the stocking on the back of the body with a tapestry needle.

Paint in the eyes, add the feet cut from thick card. Pull the knot at the base throught the card, flatten and glue underneath. This will make your echidna stand up. Make arms from felt - this can be padded a little with filling, or use coloured card.

Be sun smart, make a sun visor to fit your mascot - ring Cam or send us an email if you would like a pattern faxed to you.

KOOKABURRA

Take a 1 litre bottle and cut part of the lower section away as illustrated. This will form the legs and stand for the bird. Extend the feet with looped florist wire. Cover by winding 2cm strips of felt around the legs and feet. Push the neck of the bottle into a 65cm polyball. Cover the body by glueing on felt or calico which can be painted. Make the wings by glueing a strip of felt approximately 2cm wide to a 30cm length of 3mm armature wire. Glue a feathered shape over the other side, decorate with feathers and glue to the body. The beak is made from felt and “fun foam”. Add the shapes for the eyes, then glue on 20mm joggle eyes.


For the feet (above) use florists wire for the claws	Make the wings (above) by wrapping armature wire in felt strip and pasting feathers on a cut felt wing shape

PLATYPUS

The model illustrated was extended by placing a 2 litre into the base of a second bottle approximatley 10cm high.

Attach the 76mm poly ball head by screwing it onto the neck of the plastic bottle. The head and body can be covered with felt, fabric, or a nylon stocking piece. In the illustration the head has been covered to look like a baseball, or soft ball. The tail, beak and arms can be made from coloured card, or fun foam. The tail will help the model to stand. Glue on 30mm joggle eyes.

EMU

Use the top section of a 2 litre bottle
Join 2 pieces of florist wire, wind around the bottle neck, firmly at first, then just a little more loosely. The spring should partly spring off the neck.
Cut strips of black and brown crepe approximately 2cm wide, fringe, glue around the bottle, slightly overlapping. Continue up around the head and neck.

Glue on 10mm joggle eyes.
Make a beak and feet from yellow fun foam.
The legs are made from black stripping - 25mm.
Take two pieces, concertina fold to required length.
NB: The spring neck will make the head wiggle.

More Olympic Projects: Olympics Dove - Symbol of Peace, Technology Activities, Olympic Figures and Olympic Gifts

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