The Finger Tips Flippin Chicken is the perfect place to stash your cash.
Inside is a seesaw mechanism which makes the Flippin Chicken flap whenever you make a deposit!
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.)
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.
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.
You should be left with something like this.
Cut these shapes out.
The semicircle, when curled round like this...
...will become the chicken's tail.
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.
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.
For feet, take three bendy straws and tape them together.

Just bend them outwards, like this.
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.
Cut a little slit into one of the straws so that you can push the straws together, into each other.
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.
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.
Tape the legs onto the body.

They'll stop it from moving about when you're working on the next stages.
Mark where the wings will go.

Make a hole in either side of the fattest part of the body with a sharp pencil.
Now grab a pair of scissors, and carefully cut between the holes, around the fattest end.
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.
Tape the balloon back together.
Decorate your chicken's head with wobbly eyes.

The neck is just half an kitchen roll tube.
Mark out where the neck will go on the body, by drawing around the tube with a pen.
Then, using a sharp pencil, make a starter hole and cut out the shape so that you can slot the neck into place.
Secure in place with more tape.
Stick the tail on at the back, also with tape.
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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