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Page A-18 Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, June 11, 2020
By Dave Pierik
Shelton-Mason Journal
Movies Fun!
Previously, we’ve made a drive-in restaurant, a castle, water, trees,
roads,
and buildings. Now our village needs a movie spot!
Tools: ruler,
scissors, craft knife,
paintbrushes.
Materials: cardboard
(corrugated and thin
card), school glue,
round toothpicks, craft
sticks, acrylic paints,
masking tape.
Optional: 2” craft ball
(Styrofoam), bamboo
Skewerr Clear dome As always, think and plan what you want first; get Mix a
bit of glue into your paint and basecoat the
drink lid. vehicle and screen dimensions. Measure and cut screen (on both
sides) and Styrofoam ball with two
corrugated cardboard for the screen (7" wide x 5" coats of white.
Basecoat everything else with one
tall), three parking lot sections (one 8" square and thick coat of
black (on one side is fine). Set aside to
two 8" x 6”, and one screen base, 8” x 2”. dry.
3
You don’t have to be an astronaut to go to Line, measure and pencil sign
lettering onto thin For screen stand, cut the rounds off of several
space. Fine-scalemodeling takes you anywhere! cardboard. Most of this can
be cut out using craft sticks. You will need four 2” pieces 2" long,
Measure and cut a cardboard ring for your scissors. To cut out the middle
of the "0" you and four 4" pieces with angles cut on one
end.
planet, with a 2” inner and 4” ,outer diameter. will need a craft
knife. Be careful and patient. Base coat them all white. Let dry. Repeat
for sign
Basecoat in white, and glue on. Masking tape Base coat on both sides with
two coats of white. stand and base coat in black over a 4" round
and your brush holder work great for holding Let dry. , base with a bamboo
skewer in the middle.
your planet while it dries.
6. Movie screen -
stand;
Measure mark and cutifour narrow notches in Paint color and detail on both
sides of the sign Decide how much tilt you want on the ring .
. the bottom. Turn upside-down and glue the lettering. Let dry. Trim the
outer-lip of the dome before you attach the planet to the top of the
white' 2" craft sticks to them, flush with the v lid, then glue
the letters on. Glue that to the top sign base. Test fit, then flip upside
down and
cardboard. Run a bead of glue along-the bottom of the planet ring. Set a
light weight such as a glue.
edge of the cardboard and craft sticks. Center glue bottle on top, and let
dry.
and place on the base. Gently bend cardboard to
be flush with white 4" angled craft sticks. Glue
them to the top of the base sticks and up the
back of the screen.
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