You know that commercial where the guy jumps off a bridge with the homemade wings, glides over the river for a little ways, and splashes in?  Well, my youngest son has been fascinated by that whole concept (although he vehemently denies it).  For the last couple of months, he’s been designing wings, and we’ve worked on a fully articulating frame based on bat wings.  Today, we finished the project… just in time for tonight’s scouts meeting.  He can’t fly in them, but it’s really been impressive the way he has engineered the whole project.  We used dowel rods for the “fingers” and an old sheet dyed black as the webbing between the fingers.  We stitched the sticks into the cloth, and now he can open the whole wing by grabbing the top “finger.”  I’ll try to post a picture later that will better explain it.  Anyway, it’s a really cool costume… my son, the bat.

“I’m just saying…”