As part of my new project, I must make kinetic objects that react to the environment.
Before I make them react to the environment, I must figure out how to make them move as desired.
This is a tutorial about how to make wings flap.
My first kinetic object involves a dove that might not have to flap her wings in the end, but this mechanism seemed interesting and since I have to start somewhere, so I just did it.

Supplies

Rope 0.5 cm
Wires of 0.75 and 1 mm
1 m craft wood stick of 1 x 1 cm
Scissors
Wire cutter
Paper cutter
Ruler
Glue gun
Multifunctional hand tool

Step 1:

cut a 14 cm wood stick
2 cm from each edge cut into the stick a 1 x 0.5 cm space to fit the sticks that you placed the wire through
use the glue gun to fix the pieces together
cut to 6 cm wood sticks
cut in the middle a 1 x 0.5 cm space
place them at the edges of the 14 cm piece of wood

Step 2:

cut a 25 cm piece of the 0.75 mm wire
measure 3 cm and bend it downwards
measure another 3 cm and bend it to the right
measure 5 cm and bend it downwards
1.5 cm to the right
3 cm upwards
1.5 cm to the right
3 cm downwards
1.5 cm to the right
3 cm upwards
bend the rest of the wire to the right

Step 3:

cut two 12 cm wood sticks
measure 7 cm from one end (it is going to be the down side of the stick) and make a hole in the middle of the stick
do it for the two if them
take the wire you bended previously and place it through the holes
bend the 2 cm end of the wire downwards do it won't come out of the hole

Step 4:

cut two 7 cm pieces of the 0.75 mm wire
cut two 9 cm pieces of the same wire
pair one of 7 cm with one of 9 cm
bend one edge of the 7 cm pieces and the two ends of the 9 cm pieces until the form a loop almost closed
place the loops of two different pieces one through the other and close them
bend the wires to get the shape of wings flying
as usually, I use netted wire to make the final object

See here how I do the netting:

Step 5:

cut a 10-12 cm wood stick
drill three holes that coincide with the middle of the loops from the wire that was placed through the vertical wood sticks earlier
glue it in top of the wood structure made earlier
place through each of the three holes a 20 cm piece of 0.75 wire
secure one end end of each wire piece to the middle of each loop
make sure that the wire does not slide from its place
if necessary secure it with rope and glue
tie the other end of each 20 cm wire piece to the wings as follows:
- the middle one to the middle of the wings
- the ones on the sides to the middle of each wing