Darrell Wakelam creates sculptures and models from cardboard and recycled bits and piece, we asked him to create a dinosaur Easter egg inspired by Dorset's Jurassic Coast
Here’s a little ‘making’ project to keep your kids busy this Easter... not the usual ‘chick’ but a baby dinosaur.
You will need a pair of scissors and some tape, a bit of glue, an egg box, some scrap paper, cardboard (a cereal box is fine) and some paints to finish it off.
Dinosaurs come in all shapes and sizes so you could make a completely different species to the one you see here, it could have a long neck, horns, feathers, or a spiky tail...and as for colours, that’s up to you!
1 Cut this shape from the middle of the egg box, don’t worry if it’s a little rough around the edges. This is the shape for the baby dinosaur’s head.
2 Cut the ‘cone’ head shape in half and reattach this so that the mouth is open. Cut another cone shape from the box for the body.
3 Open out the body shape and attach it to a card background, tape the head to the body and use another piece of the box to make a tail.
4 Use left-over pieces of the egg box to make some front legs and claws.
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5 To make the broken egg, cut a semi-circle out of thin card. Cut slits around the curved edge and pull these slits together to make the egg shape ‘pop’ out. Chop pieces out of the top edge so that it looks ‘cracked’, you can keep these pieces and glue them to the ‘floor’ of the model to look like broken pieces of the egg.
6 Attach the egg and the broken pieces to the base.
7 Cut out a small strip of teeth and glue these into the mouth.
8 You can paint straight away, but I have used a bit of glue and ripped up scrap paper to cover over some of the masking tape and to make the model stronger.
9 Once dry you can paint your baby dinosaur and the egg too, you can even paint a different colour on the background! Let your imagination run wild...
See more of Darrell’s amazing 3D making projects at darrellwakelam.com. Follow him on Twitter @DarrellWakelam
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