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- Hi, I'm Jiéyì.

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I am an artist and a teaching artist.

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And a teaching artist means

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that I get to share some of my
artwork with people like you.

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I like making art a lot of different ways.

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Sometimes I dance, sometimes
I work with technology.

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And one thing that I really
love is working with paper.

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So today we are going to
be exploring paper magic,

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to make paper puppets like these.

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So the first thing that you
wanna do to make a paper puppet,

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is come up with an idea of
what your character might be.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and
put these away for a minute,

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so that we can start brainstorming.

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You'll want a piece of paper,
a blank piece of paper,

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like this is great.

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But if you don't have paper, that's okay.

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You can also use notebook paper,

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or even cut up a piece of a
plastic bag, or a paper bag.

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So for mine, I want to
make, I think, an alligator.

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And so I'm gonna start,

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by just drawing my alligator normally.

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So I know that I want my
alligator to have, like, a head,

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with a nose,

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and a tail,

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and we're gonna have a couple of legs.

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I think that I want my
alligator to have more legs

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than normal alligators do.

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So this alligator is
gonna have three legs,

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but it's actually six legs.

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So this is my alligator,

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and I just have it right
now in just pencil.

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Because I know that this
is just the first step.

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The next part is thinking
about how to make it

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into a character with moving limbs.

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So now it's time to think about

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what the different parts are.

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So, in some of our previous ones,

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we have a lot of different
kinds of moving parts.

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This alligator's a little bit different.

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It even has a moving jaw.

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So I could do it that way
and add something different,

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or a moving tail.

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This one, the head is just one piece,

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and I have my legs and my tail.

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So I think again, with this one,

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I'm going to make one piece for the head,

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a piece for each of the three legs,

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a piece for the body, and
another piece for the tail.

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So I'm going to keep this out,

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while I think about what
the different parts are,

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and get a second piece of paper.

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On my second piece of paper,

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I can start drawing out what
these different parts are.

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So I'm gonna start drawing
just my alligator head.

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And I'm leaving a little
bit of extra room here,

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'cuz right here is where
I'm going to fasten it

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to the body.

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And then I'm going to
draw my alligator body

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right here.

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And I'm gonna draw my alligator tail,

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right here.

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And I'm gonna draw some
of my alligator legs.

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Kind of funky, huh?

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Seeing it in all these different parts.

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The next thing that you wanna
do is add all of your details.

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So this is where you
would start coloring it.

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You can color it with colored pencils,

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or with markers if you have them.

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One of my favorite ways
to color is with paint.

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I have a few that I have
already started working on.

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So, I'm gonna show you
this one of a robot cat,

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and another of an alligator
that is already painted.

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So the next thing to do is to
cut out your different pieces.

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So I'm going to cut out my tail.

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So I have my head, my body,

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my tail, and this alligator
only has two legs.

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And now, I have to think about
how to attach them together.

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So I have all of my parts cut out.

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And there's lots of ways to attach things.

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Sometimes people will use a hole puncher,

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and brass fasteners,

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but it's totally okay if you
don't have this as a tool.

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Other people will use wire, or string,

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or even twist ties.

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So I'm gonna start with the
one with a hole puncher.

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So with the hole puncher,
I already made this hole,

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but what I did,

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is I lined it up and
punched straight through,

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and I did the same thing over here.

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And then I would line these two up,

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and then put my brass fastener through.

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And sometimes I like to
twist it back a little bit,

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so that's a little bit tighter.

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And now I have a moving
leg. For my next one,

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I wanna do it a little bit differently.

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So for this one I'm
gonna use a paper clip,

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like this, to make my hole,

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and this paperclip I just
bent out a little bit,

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and poked it right through the paper,

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so I have a little bitty hole right there.

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And then I am going to try

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to put this twist tie through that hole.

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This hole is pretty small so
we'll see if I'm able to do it.

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So I'm pushing it through,

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and with this one, I
have this piece on top.

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And I think that for this one,

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I actually want the joint to be hidden.

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So I don't want this to show up on top.

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So when I wanna do on this one instead,

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is I am going to tape down right here,

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where I want this to be,

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so that the tape is

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right where the joint should be.

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Like this, and then I am
gonna bend this twist tie up,

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and feed it through the hole that I made.

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And with this one, I can just sort of

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make this into a little
spiral in the back, like this.

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And now I have a moving limb,

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and it doesn't even have
something on top like this.

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You can do the same thing,

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with string by tying a
knot in the back of it,

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or with wire.

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So for this one I am going
to feed this through,

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and I want this piece to be on top again.

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So I am making a hole
with my paperclip again.

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I'm gonna make my hole
just a little bit bigger,

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by poking just a couple more times,

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because I know the string is
gonna be a little bit harder,

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to feed through.

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With my string, I'm gonna
cut a small piece of it.

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And again, what I wanna do is,
since this piece is on top,

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I am going to put it right
here and tape it down.

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And then I am gonna take my
piece of string and thread it,

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through this hole, like this.

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And on the other side what you do,

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is make either a big knot,

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or you can tape this piece down again.

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You wanna make sure that,
when you're taping it down,

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you're taping it down just a
little bit away from the hole,

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so that it's still able to move.

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So it looks like this in
the back. And I have a tail,

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that is able to move with
my string through it.

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Another thing that you can use is wire.

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So, you don't have to use wire like this.

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If there are old appliances in your home,

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and you have help from a grownup,

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you can cut up the wires
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and take the plastic off of it
and use those wires as well.

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This one is a pretty thick wire,

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but some people like to use
a wire that's very very thin,

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because it helps keep
everything really hidden.

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When I use my twist ties,

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this is lifted up a
little bit from the paper.

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And I kinda liked that look,

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but some people want it to be really flat.

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So again, with this one,

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I would use my paperclip to
push a hole through the paper.

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This wire's a little bit
thicker than my paperclip.

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And this is gonna be attached right here.

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I'm going to take my wire and,

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tape it down.

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Then bend it up,

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like this.

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And then push this wire through the hole,

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that you just made,

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like this.

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And again, I would make
just a little twist,

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in the back, like this.

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And now I have an alligator,
with moving limbs.

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So this is one way to make them.

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There's lots of different
designs that you can try.

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Making a robot cat is pretty cool.

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And some ones that I have
already made before are,

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a different kind of extra big alligator,

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that also has a moving jaw.

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This alligator is pretty similar

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to the one that we just made together,

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or this one is a dragon
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and a moving head.

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This robot cat has so many joints.

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There's an extra joint
right here for the elbows,

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and for the knees and for the tail.

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Another dragon, or a pumpkin with wings.

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I'm really excited to see
what kinds of creations

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you come up with.

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Thank you so much for playing with me.

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I'm Jiéyì and I'm an artist,
and I love working with paper.

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