How to make a sheep for a school play?

Question

My 10 years old nephew has to craft a real size sheep for a play at school, any ideas how to do it?

Answer 1

Get a large balloon, blow it up and then make up some paper mache by using newspaper and paste and covering the balloon with layers of it and leaving it to dry. Stick a pin through to burst the balloon, pain the whole thing white and then repeat with a smaller balloon to make the head and attach it to body. Use the cardboard rolls from inside toilet rolls to make the legs and paint these black. Cover the head and body with white cotton wool to make it look like wool and then stick on some black paper for eyes and ears and I guess make a tail out of anothe toilet roll covered with cotton wool.

Hope this helps :)

Answer 2

Paper Mache Sheep

Answer 3

Buy a blow up sheep.

Or go surreal, go lateral thinking! Put a black american football or a rugby ball at the front of a white pillow. If you want the sheep to be standing, use four cans of beans as legs. If it's a ram, glue a couple of bananas onto the football (or cut a banana in half if it's only got small horns).

If it's a lamb, use a smaller pillow.

Answer 4

I always go back to papier mache. By the way, I'd have words with that teacher.
Make a framework from chicken wire. Use broomsticks for legs and neck. Perhaps a longish balloon for the head.. Wallpaper paste and lots of newspapers. You can wind the strips around the legs to secure it. Paint it white. And threaten any child who sits on it.

Answer 5

Chicken wire?, mould the shape, using lots of old newspaper and watered down pva glue, add layers and layers until it takes shape,,more expensive way would be to use toilet paper or kitche towel , then it would alreayd be white...but, newspaper would save the pennies...you could paint it with left over white emulsion..then add tons of cheapo cotton wool balls (savers?)..

if you cant get chicken wire, just make it all with balls of newspaper and scellotape for the initial crude skeleton shape, then bulk our the body in layers, once its squishy you can alter it...

Answer 6

get some carbord and cut it out into a sheep shape, and wrap a old white t.shirt around it or some cotton wool.

Answer 7

Not a black sheep, more the product of an environment that you had no control over. I consider myself to be a "grey sheep". A product of my environmint (ment) and a product of my own unwise decisions. Suggestion >>> get yourself a copy of "THE NEW KING JAMES" version of the BIBLE. read it Listen to THE HOLY SPIRIT and your heart. See in there many people who turned their lives around for the good. dave

Answer 8

cardboard box, cotton wool and for legs use the cardboard roll thats inside of kitchin roll painted black. for the head you can use a balloon woth cotton wool on it. hope this has helped.

Answer 9

Lots of cotton wool, or wrap a fluffy hearth rug around him.

Answer 10

I like the paper thing but think i would get material and sew it and stuff it