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From YouTube: Toilet Roll Seal craft with Katy

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In today's craft video, Katy shows us how to turn a toilet roll tube into a seal! You can pick up a craft bag with the materials for this seal and 3 other endangered sea creatures at Bournemouth Library.

Printable booklet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C4SmzC8bsuSjtjySwaQXbi1IjbzGtEQY/view?usp=sharing

Other videos in this series:

CD/DVD Sunfish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccJnyiKSPM4
Sea Turtle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zrsud1Nq8A

How to take part in the Summer Reading Challenge 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knGHZdbEXiw

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For the summer reading challenge this year, bournemouth library are giving out these make-a-way craft bags and inside you can find some odds and ends and recycle materials that you can turn into for endangered sea creatures. However, you can easily find these materials yourself.

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You do need one of these craft bags to follow along with these activities, so these activities include a sea otter, a cd sunfish, a seal and a turtle don't forget to pop down to one of our bcp libraries this summer, because we have lots and lots of new books for you all for this year's summer reading challenge and there are picture books books with information on how to save the planet, storybooks, lots and lots of new books, especially for this summer. Reading challenge.

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If you want some information on how to join the summer reading challenge, there is a video linked in the description below.

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In today's video we're going to make a seal from a toilet roll, but before we do, let's learn a little bit more about seals. Seals are a mammal, they are a carnivore and they eat fish. They live in cold water, mostly found in the arctic and antarctica.

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They can grow up to 20 foot and they weigh 110 to 150 pounds and can live for 20 to 30 years and they are endangered.

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Seals have a layer of fat under their skin called blubber, which keeps them warm in cold temperatures. Their thick fur coat is streamlined for gliding through water, their whiskers help them detect their prey. Seals mainly live in water. They only come ashore to mates and give birth or to escape from predators such as aqua, whales and sharks. Some seals can hold their breath for up to two hours underwater by slowing their heartbeat to save oxygen. This enables them to sleep underwater too.

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The rapid ice loss in the arctic causes seal pups to be separated from their mothers. During the milking period. Hunting has also led to the decline of seal populations. Seals are hunted for their meat, blubber and pelts. They are also killed by fishermen because they believe this will increase the fish population.

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You can find all this information about seals in the booklet which you can print in the video description down below, and there are also some facts and coloring of other ocean animals.

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So let's make our seal craft you'll need a toilet, roll tube for this and the seal parts which are in the bag that you can get from bournemouth library or you can pause the video and copy these yourself, and you will also need some scissors glue and your coloring supplies. I've got my crayons here, but you can use whatever you like.

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So first of all, we need to color our seal parts in I've done mine lots of multi colors, because that's what I wanted to do, but you can color yours in realistic colors. If you want to it's totally up to you once you are finished, you need to take some scissors and carefully cut out the parts and my tip for you. If you want to cut out nice and neatly, is you turn the paper or the card that you are using?

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I have got these on some card because that will make them a little bit sturdier when you stick them to the toilet roll. You need to turn the paper or the card rather than the scissors, and this will give you a nice neat cut. So once you have finished, they will look something like this and then we need to add some slits. So we take our seal head like this and cut a line up here like that, and then we need to do the same with the tail. So we cut a slit here like this.

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So now we need to take our toilet roll and I am decorating mine. You don't have to decorate yours, you maybe could add some paper to cover it. You could paint it, I'm just adding lots of little shapes with my crayons just quickly to show you and once it is done. We can then add our seal head and tail, so we need to take our seal head and add a bit of glue to the top half there and fold it over to make a tab like this.

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This can be a little bit fiddly and you just need to hold it in place for a few seconds just to make sure that it sticks there we go and then we're going to do exactly the same with the tail and if I turn it round, you can see the tab that I have made.

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And there we go, we are doing exactly the same with the tail like this, adding some glue and folding it over like this.

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And once it is done, it will look like that and now we just need to add the little flippers. So we need to take one each for each side and just fold it like that to make a tab there we go.

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And then fold the other one add it to the other side.

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And there we have our toilet roll seal, let's see what you can make, so that is all for today's video, but we will be back with another bcp library, craft video, for you very soon and don't forget to pop into one of our bcp libraries. If you would like to do the reading.

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