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Hi this is Andrew Jenkins on behalf of expertvillage.com. Now I'm going to be talking about pipe cleaner
craft in this clip specifically the basics to getting to start bending your pipe cleaner
and snapping them to more manageable sizes. Now when you get a traditional pipe cleaner
from the store they are usually about 12 inches in length. Now these work great for a lot
of regular sort of projects but, when you get more in debt with pipe cleaners crafts
you are going to want to shorten them. One easy way to shorten if you don't have anything
with you is just to bend it over and over and eventually you would weaken the metal
infrastructure inside the pipe cleaner and it would snap. Now you typically takes about
2-5 minutes of bending so if you don't want to do that one really easy quick way to go
about it is to take a regular pair of finger nail clippers just bring them right in in
the middle of the pipe cleaner or how long you need it and just snap it and it comes
a part right like that. Now this is a great way to go about it but, you need to keep in
mind that over time since you are cutting pieces of metal with your fingernail clippers
and they are design for your fingernails it is going to wore down the metal. So if you
have a old pair of scissors or hedge clippers something that you wouldn't mind scuffing
up a little bit for you pipe cleaner crafts then that may be a better bet to cut these
down to a more manageable size.