My granddaughter is making a penguin costume for a school event. She asked me if I knew how to make the beak so she could open and close it like a real penguin. She is thinking of having a string that she can pull from inside the body of the costume.
The headpiece is a cylinder made of black construction paper with eyeholes and a top. The beak is a piece of orange construction paper folded over. The back piece is glued to the face. The front piece is free to open and close.
I'm thinking of gluing some popsicle sticks to the inside of the beak to give it some rigidity, but I can't think of a way to make a lever that could be activated by a string.
The best that I have been able to come up with is some sort of weak angle spring that would force it open with a string to close it. That would leave it open most of the tome, which is not ideal. But I;m not even sure where to find the right type of spring.
This is a creative group. Any ideas?