Cub Scout Crafts: OLYMPIC DECATHLON; Part I

I made some awesome Olympic headdresses for pack meeting.  The Grand Champion of our decathlon was crowned with a Golden Pegasus headdress & received the Olympic Torch.  Instructions on how to make are below (craft instructions split into 3 separate posts):

Pegasus Crown

Materials: Pegasus template, gold foil, Scotch tape, transparent stiff piece of plastic (I used a clipboard), regular-width Sharpie marker, cereal box or other thin cardboard, Burger King crown, scissors, pencil.

I started with a Pegasus coloring page that I found online:

http://www.gratismalvorlagen.com/fantasie/pegasus.php

How do you trace an image onto an opaque surface, you ask? You can't simply hold it up to the window & trace it. This is what I did. I used a reflection technique to trace the image into gold foil wrapping.




Simply tape a section of foil firmly to the countertop. Tape the image firmly to the countertop right next to the foil. Hold a transparent piece of plastic (I used a clipboard) straight up in the air between the image & the foil. 

A reflection of the image is cast on the other side. 

Then, you simply trace the reflection of the image. It is very important that you hold the reflective panel straight up, or you will get distortions in your picture. It is also very important that you hold the reflective panel without moving as you trace, or your image moves around too.

Then, I reflected & traced the image back the other direction so that I would have a mirror image--one for each side of the headdress.

 

Next, I traced & mounted the image onto a thin piece of cardboard. I used a cereal box.

This will make a stiff Pegasus to be attached to the crown piece.



Lastly, I stapled the Pegasus pieces onto a foil-covered crown piece.  I got the crown for free at Burger King and cut all of the spikes off of it, then taped foil over it.  I realized after the fact, that I should have covered the back sides of the Pegasus pieces with foil too.  My perfectionistic tendancies were screaming at me, but I was out of time.

Grand Champion