I had to fill in the valleys in his back and side and cover the string and paper with paper towel. Then the painting with poster paint. And finding some brown wool for the shock of hair to cover the misplaced headlump. Oh, and eyes and some kind of mouth. And cover up the paper tail.
All animals seem to have haunches on the backs of their back legs.
Donkey's legs were the shape of Campbell Soup tins stacked one on top of the other. The dimensions of the top of the leg was exactly that of the bottom. Edna asked me what colour Donkey would be. I decided that we could cover Donkey's body with Safeway bags with the red advertisements turned in, and let his colour be the rich donkey-colour of brown grocery bags. As Donkey was being dressed with his new clothes the string and paste was finally being covered and some of the lumps and valleys were smoothing out.