Winged Ninja Skills Nine Minute Ninja

It's a new day.

I better get my ninja on.

And my clothes.

It's great when you make art that truly flies.

I know! I'm going to make...

The Art Ninja Superhero Kite!

Pants worn over trousers - optional.

I'm going to start by getting some old plastic bags.

With a pair of scissors, I'm just going to cut off the handle.

Do away with that bit. I'm just going to cut off the side seam here.

Don't need that either.

And now, I'm going to cut this into strips.

Two thin strips, let's say about two centimetres.

And some wider ones, about four centimetres in width.

Now, in order to make the fabric for my kite,

I need to cut these other coloured bags into strips, too.

So, I'm going to use my ninja skills.

There we go, lovely.

So, I'm going to take one of these strips

and, using masking tape, we're going hold it onto the table.

Now I'm going to take another colour and stick this one down,

and try and make sure that they're butted up against each other

without any gaps.

I'm using different widths, and I haven't really got a system

with the colours - I'm just going to put them down in a random order.

But I'm making sure that the same colour doesn't meet.

Now, I'm going to stick these together

with some long strips of Sellotape.

If you find it tricky using one long piece of sticky tape,

you can always cut it and use a few shorter pieces.

I'm going to peel it up.

There we go. And my lovely piece of material, ready for my kite.

Now, for the kite's frame, I'm using some skewers.

I've chopped the sharp end off - I don't need that.

Now I'm going to tape pairs of them together to make longer sticks.

I want to make sure they're stuck together tightly,

and give the kite strength.

Now I'm just laying them down on top of my fabric, and I'm going

to put my second length about a quarter of the way along my first.

Now, with a pen, I'm just going to mark where the skewer's ends are.

A little dot. Get this out the way for now.

And using a ruler, I'm going to join up those dots.

Now I can cut out my kite shape.

I want to take my time here because I don't want to ruin my fabric.

There you go. Do away with this bit.

Now, I've got this wonderful kite shape.

I'll put my frame back onto it... like that.

And with a little bit of sticky tape, I'm going

to tape down the frame to the corners.

I'm just folding round the edges to make it nice and tidy.

There we go. That is the main body of my kite.

HE MAKES PLANE NOISES

Now I need to add some string in order to fly my kite.

So, for that, I'm just using some cotton thread

and a large lolly stick.

I'm just going to tape one end onto the lolly stick,

then I'm going to wrap the thread round.

There we go. That should do it for length.

Snip that off.

So, I'm going to thread it onto a needle.

If you're going to try this at home,

you might want to get an adult to help you.

I'm going to stitch this where the skewers cross.

Just make a little X pattern there for strength.

Now just tie it off.

Now, there's one last thing I want to do, and that is to add a tail.

And this will keep it stable when it's in the air.

I've taped lots of pieces of plastic together to make a long strip.

It's six times the length of the kite, which will help it fly.

Just going to tie it to the bottom bit here.

There you go.

I'm going to create some powerful art you can see straight through.

It's going to be a stained-glass rocket.

And I'm going to start by just drawing myself a guide image.

So, I'm just going to draw around a pot here to get a nice round shape

for the planet. Some rings round the planet.

So, it's going to be like Saturn.

Don't need to be too neat here, this is just going to be a guide.

Draw the rocket up here.

It's like an eye shape.

A couple of boosters.

A little flame trail going all the way round to the rings.

And I'm going to pop a star down here.

Using a ruler, I'm going to give the star a nice starburst.

Here we go.

I've got an old picture frame,

and I'm going to take out the back, because we won't be needing that,

and hang on to the actual frame itself.

And then this bit of plastic is going to be my stained-glass window.

I still need to be careful here,

because the plastic can still be a little bit sharp.

Pop it down on top of my paper,

and just tack it in place so it doesn't move.

I've got a little bit of paper now to slide underneath, just to keep

my table nice and clean because we're about to use some paint.

I've got black acrylic paint to go over the lines,

as it sticks to the plastic.

I'm going to take my time with this so that the lines

are all the same width,

and this black is going to be like the leading between the colours

on a real stained-glass window.

OK, that needs to dry, so I'm going to mix up some colour.

We're going to mix the paint with some glue.

A lot more glue than paint.

This is PVA glue I'm using, because it sticks to the plastic better,

and PVA dries clear, so it looks like

an authentic stained-glass window.

The PVA does make the paint look a little bit lighter,

but it will dry darker.

There we go. Now, I move on to my next colour.

A little bit thirsty, though.

Oh, no!

The coffee nearly stained my stained-glass picture.

-Oh, hi, Ricky.

-Who are you?

I'm Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

I'm a designer and architect famous for Art Nouveau,

which is highly decorative.

I also designed furniture and stained-glass windows.

What do you think of my stained-glass picture?

Since I added an A to my surname, Mackintosh,

I'll give you an A plus.

Look out Charles - here comes a damp cloth.

Right, I'm off. Bye!

Well, that cleaned that up.

OK, now I'm going to bring in some more colours.

A little bit for the fire.

Now for the rings. A nice pinky colour. Of course, it will dry red.

And I'm going to paint the starburst...

..alternating between blue and purple.

Right. Now I need for that to dry,

but I'm going to use my ninja skills.

There we go. Check it out.

And where the glue's dried, the paint looks darker.

And I'm going to pop it into my frame

with the side that I've painted facing up.

Make sure you secure it with sticky tape. Great.

I'm going to go and pop that in the window.

And when you hold the picture up to the window,

the light shines through, giving you a lovely stained-glass effect.

This dude's also off to a flying start.

Ommm...

I'm OK, man.

Greetings, dude!

Greetings, Grandmaster.

Step number 1066 to enlightenment...

..flying object of many folds.

Get yourself some memo notes.

Take one and fold it like this...

..corner to corner, into a triangle.

Bottom point up to the top corner.

Make three more of this colour, dude.

Grab some different colour memo notes.

Pink!

Fold four of these the same way.

You need eight to make a circle, dude.

Take one of each colour.

Put the big point of one inside the small opening

of the other.

Repeat with all of them, alternating the colours until you have a circle.

Make it stronger with pieces of sticky tape.

Kablamo!

A flying object of many folds!

Lesson number 1066 complete!

-Thanks, Grandmaster.

-You are most welcome.

Ommmm....

Now go to the website and get your ninja on.

Art Ninja!