TOY MITTEN "SNAKE"

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You have probably seen more than once that adults play with children, depicting a snake in their hand. For such games, I propose to sew a snake toy-mitten.

For manufacturing you will need:
- non-thick cardboard;
- pencil, ruler, compass;
- scissors;
- dense fabric of different colors;
- needle, thread in the color of the fabric (for those who are "friends" with the sewing machine a little easier);
- glue, newspaper, toilet paper, brush.
First you need to collect the paper base of the head of the snake. The head consists of upper and lower elements. They are very similar, differing in size and a little in shape. Therefore, we consider in detail the construction of only the upper element. It consists of two parts - the oral plate and the head itself.

The mouth plate is cut out of cardboard and is the same for the upper and lower elements of the head. When you cut out two mouth plates, connect them with the flat side and circle them on paper.

This will result in a double template, which we still need. Cardboard should be non-thick - soft enough to bend and strong enough not to lose shape when glued. The upper part - the actual head - is cut out according to the drawing.

The cuts in the front part are glued (or stitched) to obtain a convex shape. Then the upper part is bent and glued to the mouth plate. For the speed of the process, you can sew in large stitches, while retaining the ability to correct possible errors. Now, for strength, we glue the resulting form with a newspaper using the papier-mâché technique. In inconvenient places - on a bend, in places of cuts - it is better to use toilet paper instead of a newspaper. She better envelops bumps. We cut the paper into squares of approximately 1.5 x 1.5 cm, grease the place of gluing with a glue with a brush, use a brush with glue to touch a piece of paper, transfer it to the prepared area, smooth it with a brush. Apply 2 to 3 layers of papier-mâché. To remove the angularity in the places of the cuts, we moisten the problem areas with water with a brush on both sides, after a few minutes the form will slightly soften and give the desired smoothness with your fingers. Glue another 4 to 5 layers. It turns out a fairly strong form of the upper part of the head. In the same way, prepare the bottom element.

The dimensions are indicated in such a way that four fingers of an adult’s hand are placed in the upper part, and the thumb is in the lower part.

We combine the upper and lower elements, we make sure that there is no skew, we sew on the even side. With a piece of dense fabric (for example, from jeans) we glue the parts so that the fabric covers the entire even area.

After the glue dries, we cut the threads from the mouth.
The fabric for the body of the snake should be dense, not very thick, if it stretches a little (not knitwear) - an additional plus. Coloring can be different, with a pattern or without a pattern. On the upper (back) and lower (abdomen) parts we select different colors. For the eyes, solid color, black for the pupils. Cut the upper part - the back.

From dark matter, we cut out the pattern and sew it (preferably on a typewriter).

We make eyes.

From black fabric we make a strip 1 cm wide and sew it vertically in the middle of the eye. To make the eye vertically, sew the back of the eye and insert a cardboard insert cut out according to the pattern.

The eyes are symmetrical. Sew on the marked spot on the back.

Sew not completely, leave a gap of several stitches. Through this gap, fill the eye with cotton. We roll up a small piece of cotton and push it with tweezers inside. Repeat until full. Filling the eye with cotton, we sew the gap.

Cut the abdomen.

We sew the back and abdomen from the inside, leaving free space for the head.

We insert the head into the resulting skin and fasten it with a few stitches to the glued dense fabric (denim) in the corners of the mouth.

The skin should tightly clasp your head. Tighten the upper jaw with tissue from the back. The fabric on both sides of the jaw is pulled together with threads, the resulting folds are cut to obtain the smoothest possible surface. Tighten the lower jaw.

According to the double pattern of the oral plate, which we made in advance, we cut out the oral coating from dense tissue or from dermantine (it does not pile around the edges). Try on, if necessary, correct. Sew the oral coating around the edge of the mouth. The back of the sleeve - the snake skins are hemmed. Put on the hand and "talk" with the children.

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