Long Legs

What You Need:

• 2-3 pipe cleaners
• Scissors

What You Do:

1. Select one pipe cleaner to be the "feet" of the legs. 
2. Bend the pipe cleaner into a thin "U" shape. Place the bottom of the "U" at the top.
3. Make a bend about 1.5" from the bottom of one leg to fashion an ankle, then fold the end of the stick back toward the ankle to finish creating a foot.
4. Repeat this on both sides to create two feet.
5. Select a second pipe cleaner for the stockings, or pants. 
6. Coil the pipe cleaner by wrapping it tightly around the legs. Begin wrapping wherever you want the stockings or pants to begin.
7. Continue wrapping and coiling the pipe cleaner until it reaches the other side of the second leg. If you run out, begin twisting another pipe cleaner starting where the first one ended.
8. Cut off any part of the pipe cleaner that you don't use.
9. Place in a book as a bookmark, with the legs hanging out so that the legs and feet are visible. Friends will laugh when they see the legs closed in a book!

Beyond Halloween, you can customize this project by designing pipe cleaner legs for a variety of your favorite book characters.