Easter chicken on the loose! :-)

Revell-Fan

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Howdee, fans! :)

This project is a collaborate effort of my mom and me. Our local broadcasting studio has started a call to send them self-made chicken in all forms to decorate the TV studio for Easter. Paper, fabric, mixed media - any kind of creation is appreciated. My mom is an avid hobby crafter and swang into action. I left her "home alone" for one day ;) and when I returned she presented to me some paper ball chicken! :)

Needless to say that I joined her and chose the Canon Japanese Bantam chicken for my entry. I chose it for its cuteness and the easy assembly. To make it look more interesting I recoloured the pattern and made one original sized one and two others which I re-scaled to 71% so that they would fit on one page.

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These are the printed parts ...

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... and the finished animals. :)

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Very cute - but a bit "un-special". Knowing that my mom has a large box of all sorts of crafting stuff I left the chicken in her care to beef them up a bit and went to work.

The first thing she did was to fill the body with cotton and to add some paper feet:

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The big one got the large feet, BTW. ;)

Then she put the models into her crafting box, shook them a little bit and when she took them out again they looked like this:

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The above pictures deceive the eye a bit; there are really one large and two small chicken which is proven by this shot:

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A cloe-up of the bottom with the cotton and the feet:

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All of them needed some strings on the back. To do so I folded the top flap up and not down and added a companion piece to the other side so that the body could be closed as intended. The original plan was to punch through the flap and pull a string through it. Unfortunately the flap got destroyed while trying. My mom had the idea to glue the string to the flap directly and cover up the glue spot with a rhinestone.

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Awry_Chaos

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Very cool! Nice work! Good luck with the contest. You and your mom work well together. I'd love to see what she'd do with some of your BSG models!
 

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THANK YOU! :)

I think she would bling-bling the heck out of them... :Grin:

Alright, by now you might be wondering how the chicken look like my mom has made - and here they are:

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The head consists of four pieces: front, back, the hood inbetween and the beak. The face was not printed but hand-painted with pencils and markers. The same feet were used on them.

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Mommy chicken still has an egg inside, so the family is growing soon. ;)

And here are the little ones:

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And the whole family together:

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Unfortuately my mom was so fast that I was unable to take any WIP pictures but there are plenty of tutorials on how to make paper balls like this one:


All chicken have been packed up well and sent to the TV station. Let's keep our fingers crossed that they will hit the screen soon! :)
 

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The chicken have arrived! They have put up the blue one, maybe the others will follow. The shrub is a bit small so I can imagine that not all of them will be featured. :)

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(available for one week; go to 20:21 min)

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