Parrot wings for carnival

En fin, el primer paso para hacer estas alas fue tomar la tela POP verde medirlo en la espalda de mi hijo y mas o menos calcular el ancho y largo en la que debía cortarla, la corte en una forma recta arriba pero curva en las esquinas para poder darle esa forma de alas, después de recortar el primer pedazo, calqué su forma en la otra tela para sacar la segunda ala, igualmente la recorte y luego recorte un rectángulo el cual tendría la función de unir estas dos alas, también lo hice midiendo en el cuerpo de mi hijo pues, debía ser un rectángulo que no fuese tan ancho pero tampoco tan fino.

Después de tener todas las piezas listas, empecé a ubicar las cintas elásticas que ayudarían a sostener estas alas en los brazos de mi hijo, compre unas cintas gruesas para que fuese mas resistente las medí en sus brazos y luego las pegue casi en el borde del centro de las alas, estaba muy asustada porque no sabia si le iba a quedar bien, medir a ojo no es para nada fácil todo puede salir mal, incluso una de las cintas al principio la pegue mal pero por suerte pude sacarla, luego tome el rectángulo que había recortado anteriormente y lo pegue entre cada ala pasando entre las cintas, pegue muy bien para asi reforzar mucho más las cintas elásticas.

I actually watched several tutorials to avoid having to make the wings like the ones I did last year in which I used cardboard and it seemed very uncomfortable for my son to carry that huge cardboard thing on his back, then I saw another way where it was done with felt fabric, however, it was too expensive that fabric and I needed several meters of all the colors I used, I really looked for a way to do it with something else and I got nothing, literally all the videos I saw were with felt, then I decided to sit down and think, I remembered that I had a meter of a fabric called POP green and I thought I could try with that fabric and also with crepe paper which is one of the cheapest papers I get around here, so I practically had to improvise and pray for everything to go well, also if you have a tape measure it would be much better, I did everything by eye, just measuring on the body of my son and calculating more or less how it would be.

Anyway, the first step to make these wings was to take the green POP fabric and measure it on my son's back and more or less calculate the width and length in which I had to cut it, I cut it in a straight shape at the top but curved at the corners to give it that shape of wings, after cutting the first piece, I traced its shape on the other fabric to get the second wing, I also cut it and then cut a rectangle which would have the function of joining these two wings, I also did it measuring on the body of my son because it had to be a rectangle that was not so wide but not so thin.

After having all the pieces ready, I started to place the thick elastic tape that would help to hold these wings on my son's arms, I bought thick elastic tape to make it more resistant, I measured them on his arms and then I glued them almost on the edge of the center of the wings, I was very scared because I didn't know if it was going to fit him well, measuring by eye is not easy at all, everything can go wrong, even one of the tape at the beginning I glued it wrong but luckily I could take it off, then I took the rectangle that I had previously cut out and glued it between each wing passing between the elastic tape, I glued it very well to reinforce the elastic tape much more.