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The Finger Tips Flippin Chicken is the perfect place to stash your cash.
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Inside is a seesaw mechanism which makes the Flippin Chicken flap whenever you make a deposit!
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To make, start by covering a balloon in three layers of paper maché.
(Paper maché is just strips of newspaper pasted on with a mixture of PVA glue and water, in equal parts.)
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The tail, head and wings are made from thin card.
Get a dinner plate and position it at the bottom of the card, and draw all the way around it.
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Then reposition the dinner plate so that it's 5cm higher up the card, and draw around the top section, so that you get a semicircle.
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You should be left with something like this.
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Cut these shapes out.
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The semicircle, when curled round like this...
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...will become the chicken's tail.
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And the circle becomes the chicken's head.
Just cut a slit from the outside into the centre, and curl it round into a cone shape.
Pop some sticky tape on to secure in place.
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The wings are made by drawing around a side plate onto more card.
When done, cut in half.
Round off one end, and feather the other.
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For feet, take three bendy straws and tape them together.
Just bend them outwards, like this.
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The seesaw mechanism is next.
Start by taking two more bendy straws. Bend them both and stick the smaller end of each to a wing with tape, so that it points towards the feathered edge.
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Cut a little slit into one of the straws so that you can push the straws together, into each other.
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Now measure the wings so that they're slightly wider than the fattest part of the body.
When you're happy, stick the straws together with tape.
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Make a card tongue shaped like this.
The coins hit the tongue and make the wings move.
Stick it with tape, pointing away from the feathered edges.
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Tape the legs onto the body.
They'll stop it from moving about when you're working on the next stages.
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Mark where the wings will go.
Make a hole in either side of the fattest part of the body with a sharp pencil.
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Now grab a pair of scissors, and carefully cut between the holes, around the fattest end.
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You can now fit the seesaw into the body.
The straws should sit in the two holes you made, so allowing the wings to move easily.
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Tape the balloon back together.
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Decorate your chicken's head with wobbly eyes.
The neck is just half an kitchen roll tube.
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Mark out where the neck will go on the body, by drawing around the tube with a pen.
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Then, using a sharp pencil, make a starter hole and cut out the shape so that you can slot the neck into place.
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Secure in place with more tape.
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Stick the tail on at the back, also with tape.
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Now you can decorate the chicken.
Either paint, or stick on lots of pieces of thin paper, stuck down with stick glue in different layers, to look like feathers.
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