Feel free to use any alternative materials you might think of. These are the materials that I used:
-A 10cm x 100cm x 4mm balsa wood sheet (only a 10cm x 1.8cm x 4mm piece needed)
→You could also use craft sticks. They are a bit harder to work with, but look just as good, if not better

—A thin, grey carboard sheet
-A piece of foam (only a 1.2cm x 1.2cm x 1.6cm piece needed)
→works with any kind of easy-to-shape material
-Hot glue & multi-purpuse glue
→multi-purpuse glue dissolves foam, so at some steps you need to use hot glue or superglue
-My trusty cutter
