Artzooka – Secret Picture Layer and Twig Animals (HD – Full Episode) S01E25

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Hey, I’m Jeremy! Thank you for joining me today. We’ll be partly cloudy with a slight chance of sun, unless, of course, a warm wind blows this cloud away. I told you it would get sunny!

This is no ordinary picture, and these are no ordinary tabs. They look like decorations on a simple picture, but they’re not just decorations; this one moves! Let’s make one.

I have a blue sheet of paper. I’m going to take this piece of paper and, with my ruler, draw a line. This line isn’t going to go quite to the end of the paper. I’ll do another one on the other side of my ruler. This will be the track that my cloud moves along. I just need to cut each line, so I’ll take my scissors and very carefully cut across like this. There’s one cut, and now I have my track. But it’ll be hard for the cloud to slide along this, so I need to cut some more off. That looks about right, and then we’ll do this side.

Check this out! I’ve made a cloud for my picture. All I did was take some paper, cut it into the shape of a cloud, and then I took some cotton and glued it to the picture. Now I have to attach this to my picture and make it move. If I take this piece of paper and wrap it around like this, it will be able to slide on my track. To make this really work, I’ll just take a little piece of tape and tape it right there. I put the tape on the outside because if this loop is taped to the track, then it’s not going to slide; it’s going to stick. I’ve also made the loop bigger than the track so that it can really slide.

Now I have my cloud! I’ll take another piece of tape, make a little loop on the back, and then stick it right to the tab. And now my cloud moves! I don’t want this cloud to come flying off my paper in the end, so I’m just going to take a little piece of tape and tape the end of my track. With that tape there, my cloud won’t slide off the track. I don’t want to have to grab it every time with my fingers.

That’s where I thought, let’s make a tab decoration. I think not! This is a working tab. We’re going to disguise this stick with a piece of paper. So I have this long piece of paper here, and I’m going to place it right underneath my stick, just like that. That’s to make the stick look like a decoration. Now I’ll attach this to my piece of paper with tape. Just wrap it around and then one other piece right here so that the stick isn’t moving around.

Now what I want to do is attach the cloud to the stick. We’ll turn this picture over. The cloud is on the back, and I have my loop that moves along the track right here. I’ll take this and make sure that the paper is sticking out, and I’ll just attach it to the loop. So I’ll stick on my tape like this. Well, that should do it! Watch it move!

That doesn’t look like much from back here, but if we flip it around like this and then place Mr. Sun down right there, it’s cloudy now, it’s sunny, and then cloudy again, but sunny again!

Now check this out! I made one earlier. I’m going to tell you the secret to this picture. I’ve rigged other things in this picture to move in the same way, and I’ve color-coded these tabs. The blue tabs actually make them work, and the rest are just decoration. There are two other blue tabs in the picture. Do you see them? Oh, there’s one right there, and when I move this one, it makes the tree do a little dance. It looks like the wind is blowing the tree. Can you see where I put the other blue tab? Here it is, and when the wind is really blowing, this happens!

I started by drawing and then cutting out two straight lines to form a track. That’s what the cloud will move back and forth on. I used a bit more paper to make a ring around the track and taped it together so it slides up and down. Then I cut out more paper in the shape of a cloud and glued on some cotton. I taped the cloud to the ring around the track. Then I took a skinny stick and taped it to a strip of paper. I taped the stick to the ring that moves the cloud. The paper decorates the stick so it’s disguised. When you turn it over, you can’t see the stick. That way, when I pull the stick, the cloud moves. I added more strips of paper to the edge of the drawing as decorations so you can’t tell which one is hiding the stick.

We have this project and lots more at artzooka.com.

Okay, so I know there’s no such thing as closet monsters, but I figure it can’t hurt to have my very own monster protector just in case. Come on, let’s make another one!

I’m going to make my monster protector from fabric. Let me show you a neat trick that saves a lot of time with some scissors. Make a small cut into the top of your fabric like this. So I’ll do one there, one there, and one there. Now those little cuts are ready to start to rip, and look, it rips in a straight line. There are two, and there’s three. I want to make a whole pile of these, and I’m going to use a few different colors: orange, blue, and turquoise. Once I’ve made enough, I can start attaching them to my clothes hanger.

To attach it to the clothes hanger, I just want to make a really simple knot right at the bottom of the clothes hanger, just like this. There’s one right there. I’ll make another one, a blue one. I’ll tie some to the top of the hanger as well, and when I’m done covering the whole thing, it’ll look like this one I did earlier. This will be my monster protector’s body.

Now for some arms! This is really fun. Take two strips of paper and then lay one on top of the other like that. It’s kind of like we’re making a big “L.” What we’re going to do is fold one over the top of the other just like this. Then we’ll do the same thing to the other side. Basically, we just repeat this over and over until we folded all of the paper. Once I’ve folded until I can’t fold anymore, it’ll look like this one that I made earlier.

Now that I have my arm, I can glue the hand into place. I cut a hand shape out of craft foam and attached yellow pieces for fingernails. I can either glue it or tape it. Right now, I’ll tape it, but if you want to be super secure, go ahead and use some glue. Now I have a hand, so now I can attach the arm to my protector. I’m going to use a stapler for this. You can also use tape or glue. Now that he has one arm, I’ll attach the other.

Now that I have the arms in place, I can start adding to his face. Earlier, I cut out some of these circles, and I have some felt and some craft foam. For more detail, I added some feathers to the eyes. I’m going to tape those right into place with a bit of tape on the back like that and just find a piece of fabric where it looks good. There’s one there and one right there.

Now that’s looking really friendly! I have my eyes. How about a mouth? For the mouth, I used some craft foam, and look at these teeth; they’re so goofy-looking! I’m going to tape this mouth right onto the fabric. Final touch: I took a bunch of these really colorful feathers, tied them together, and now I can tie them to the protector. This guy is ready to be hung up in my closet. Any monsters in your closet? You know it’s working!

If you want to make your own monster protector, you’ll need a hanger and some colorful fabric. I made some small cuts at the bottom of the fabric and ripped long straight strips. Then I tied the strips to the base of the hanger. If you tie a lot of these onto the hanger, it makes a shaggy body. To make arms for my protector, I used two long colorful pieces of paper that I folded one over the top of the other repeatedly until the paper ran out, and it looks like this. Craft foam makes great hands; tape or glue the hand to the arm to hold it in place. I cut felt and craft foam to make eyes and a mouth for my protector. As an added touch, colorful feathers tied together make a cool headdress. We have this project and lots more on our website, artzooka.com.

Thank you for the challenge! Hi, Jeremy! I’m Alex, and I challenge you to make something from bottle caps. You’re making it hard this time! Let’s see what I can ask Zooka. Okay, bottle caps—I know what to do!

It’s all in how you look at it. I like looking at things and seeing something new in them. Take a look at these twigs. I was taking a walk through the woods and I noticed that there are millions of twigs out there. I suppose you knew that already, but here, let’s look at them with our Artzooka eyes. This may look like a plain old twig, but if you turn it over, it becomes a person! Can you see the arms and legs? Let’s make him stand up. I’ll use a bit of modeling clay so our little twig man can stand on one leg. Looking good!

Let’s try another one. Hmm, I think this twig kind of looks like a three-legged giraffe. I have a tiny bit of modeling clay for my art suitcase. We’ll make her stand up too. How about that? She’s a little giraffe! Who else is in here? This one has three legs too. I love this long neck; this could be the mama giraffe. Let’s see what we can do with her. I’ll start with modeling clay to help her stand up, and then maybe we’ll give her a head. She needs some eyes now. I’ll use modeling clay for the eyes—yellow on brown with a black pupil in the middle. Bold giraffe eyes!

I think I should give her some ears, and these toothpicks are perfect. She needs horns too! Cotton swabs cut in half make excellent giraffe horns. And now for her nostrils—just a few pokes with my pencil, and she’s done! Great art created by nature and captured by Artzooka. I’d love to see the stick characters you find and create. Take a picture and send it to me at the Artzooka website, artzooka.com.

And now, time for an Artzooka safety message: when working with potato stamps, you may not want to stamp your pet pig!

For my Artzooka recycle challenge, I challenged myself to make something out of a tea tin and a small yogurt container. I put them in a movie starring a paper bag. Come on, let’s see what I made! Oh, and I also put something else in my movie: a plastic container. See if you can spot where I put it. Now sit back and enjoy Cinema Artzooka!

Here’s the tea tin, and here’s the small yogurt container. Can you guess what it’s going to be? It’s a stove! Now let’s see it in a movie.

Did you like the movie? I made a stove out of a tea tin and a small yogurt container. Hey, did you spot the plastic container? Take another look at where I put it. I challenge you to make something out of a tea tin and a small yogurt container. Be creative; anything goes! And when you do, take a picture and email it to the Artzooka website, artzooka.com.

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