I'm still not feeling much better, but I went into the studio today a little before 1. I painted the worm and epoxied it to a maroon base. Then I cut the base with angles and curves to make it look more interesting. I ended up making all of the shadow puppets (their wings flap too). I used rubber bands as the springs to make the wings move when the birds fly. I tested out thin wire before using the rubber bands, but it was too flimsy and didn't work well. The rubber bands were bouncier and flatter. Now all that's left to do is get some fishing wire and string them up (I put the other dowel in the shadow box so now all that's left is notching those). Jan and Cecilia came in today too. Jan's got an EXCELLENT start going for the script!!! Cecilia was working on the dad's wings. She attached them and tried to figure out how to get them to move on command.