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Seagulls

Can't forget the styrofoam, will make foam seagulls - flying ones to hang with clear fishing line and sitting ones for the sails. Be sure to see my foam page for some basic instructions on how to cut and glue foam.

Here's a start for the sitting gulls;

I would recommend you make a pattern out of a piece of poster board, then you can trace out LOTS of seagulls. You can use the grid method to draw out the seagull parts. If you slept through high school art class, here's how the grid method works; draw a 1 inch grid on your poster board, 12 squares wide and 7 squares tall. If you have ADD and can't focus well, you can label the squares A-L across the top and 1-7 down the side. Start with the top left square (A1) and just draw what's in that square. Then draw B1, C1, etc until you are finished. Hope that made sense. The resulting seagull will be 12 inches long, 7 inches tall, and 6 inches thick.

Cut out your poster board template and use it to trace out seagulls on 2 inch foam, you'll need one body and two wings for each gull. Cut the pieces out with a heated wire cutter. Use the heated wire cutter to round the egdes of the wings and the seagull's head. Glue the pieces together with Gorilla Glue and pin it with toothpicks for additional strength. Paint your gull with black, grey, and yellow acrylic paint

As soon as I make a couple of gulls I will post construction pictures.

Posted 2/1/10
Updated 2/10/10