cardboard replica--crab claw

 <--- this is my crab claw. : )  
the class has to make a replica of their object, mine is a crab claw ( the one showed above lol ). yea making outa cardboard may not sound too difficult..but it has to be around 30".. which is like 30 times the m=normal size of my object..that just means more fun in my opinion : D.  i was going to scetch out  the whole thing and transfer it to create the base, but then i thought.. what if i can make it move like a real claw? so instead of sketching the whole thing, i took apart the arm and sketched the parts i thoguht i would need to make it . i listede  hwere the joints were/needed to be to make it possible to move ( hopefully).  this is part of my sketch and analyzation ---v 
<---- i disected the arm into 3/4 different parts , the maind arm ( not seen in the sketch above ) the elbow joint , and the actual claw and top part of the claw.  now that my sketch was done i needed to see if i could actually make it move. so i created a mini very scrappy rough draft of the claw. ---v
 <--- this is my mid the same thing with the arni scrappy MOVABLE! crab claw lol its like almost a foot long and like an inch or 2 tall ( wich a claw opening span of 4 1/2 - 5 " : D ) .
to make this cardboard claw able to move like the real one, i needed to figure out a way to make the cardboard strong yet kind of elasticy and bendably, and i needed it to function like a rea elbow -- being able ot go backwards a bit and bend forward till the forarm and "hand" touch ( the hand is pretty much the big front part of the claw thats not the pointy  beak like atachements. ) so i desided to see what wet cardboard would do , and that was a succes. i mad a loong rectangluar peice and rolled it up in a qurish cylinder thing , gluded it together and let it dry a bit then soaked it. i then  did the same thing with the arm but did not wet it and i wrapped it around the wet flexible cardboard and glued that. i contiuned that process as far as the arm elbow and main part of the claw. as for the pincehers themselfs, i bent the top part enough for it to stay open like iwanted but can be moved to meet the obottom piincher. the bottom pincher is actually inside the main claw part and can also move, just not as much as the top pincher - like a real crab ( at least like the crab claw i have lol )
now im on to creating the big final model. im going to use the same concept and steps as the smaller one but with more detail and ( for lack of better words and i know this isnt a word but.. ) exactness. then i think im going t owrap parts of it in craft paper to make it "shell" like : ). all in a weekes work lol xp