Getting set to sing my raga!
I’m all set with my rooster comb and feathers for my Rooster Raga session at Bookaroo, Junior Writers Bug and beyond. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be putting up a rooster or farm animal themed activity for children. Follow this blog for updates. Read the book, learn all about farm animals, get snipping and pasting and have a kukaroo kuroo good time!
Make a rooster comb of your own!
Start with an A4 size sheet of red paper. It could be a sheet of red foam like the one in my headgear, or a thick red sheet of paper.
Trace around your hand, but not too close to your fingers. We don’t want a spindly comb!
This is what you will have once done
Cut around the lines. Use a child safe scissor!
See where the base of your palm is in that hand impression? Make a vertical cut, about 1-2 inches long right at its centre. This will be a little beyond your thumb.
Fold the paper on either side of the vertical cut in opposite directions so that you get a flat base for your comb
Voila! Clip onto hair and crow away with your very own Rooster Raga
If you want to add a beak as I have done, cut out an oval from red paper. Stick the base of the comb onto the oval. Add a beak and eyes. Paste the oval onto a hair band and sing away.
You can even attach the comb or a beak to your cap!
