Tin Tin Teaches: Making a Grasshopper from a Coconut Leaf

August 2, 2019 2:41 228 views
Tin Tin Teaches

Tin Tin Puulei, a Kauai-born cultural practitioner and visual artist, demonstrates how to weave a grasshopper from a single coconut leaf. Follow his clear step-by-step instructions for stripping the frond, creating scales, folding wings, forming antennas and shaping legs, while he shares Hawaiian language and local stories.