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From YouTube: Dinosaur Crafts with Katy

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In this video Katy shows us some fun dinosaur crafts! You can download the printable activities here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iAF9BFv3jiglpUjLZdmQSioFg1U6PCZ6/view?usp=sharing

BCP Libraries dinosaur draw along video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6VNElmnu2o
BCP Libraries volcanoes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktJOQInv-RQ&t=2s

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Hello, everyone and welcome back to another bcp library, video. My name is katie, and today I'm going to show you how to make these free dinosaur crafts. We have the pterodactyl.

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We have the baby dinosaur eggs that you can make it look like they are hatching, and we also have this dinosaur diorama that you can make feel free to pause the video at any point. So you can catch up with what I'm saying and let's get started. Shall we so? First of all, I'm just letting you know that there is an activity pack that you can download in the description below. We have a coloring page with charlie and the dinosaurs.

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We also have these mini dinosaurs, some black and white ones, and some colored ones that you can use for these activities. If you want to, and also some big coloring pages, we have a baby diplodocus and we also have a triceratops and you can print these out and color them in with whatever art supplies you have at home. We also have a tyrannosaurus rex.

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And lastly, we have this parasaurolophus, so just click on the link in the description below and you can download them and print them off yourself.

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So for the first craft, we're going to need a paper plate, some crayons or pens, some cards, some scissors glue and some sticky tape. So, first of all, we need to take our plate and turn it upside down and color it in or you can paint it if you want to paint it. I'm coloring mine in with some crayons, I'm just using one green crayon, because I want to make a green pterodactyl, but you can use whatever you like. Whatever you have at home, you might have some felt-tip pens. It's totally up to you.

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You can decorate your pterodactyl. However, you want to, but I'm just going for one color for this pterodactyl.

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It might take you a while to colour it in, but when you have, it will look something like this and then we need to take our piece of card and draw the pterodactyl's head. First of all, so it's kind of like a wonky t-shape and then we need to add his eye. You can add a googly eye if you want to I'm drawing my eye on and then we need to draw some feet. So you need four of these in total.

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So I'm just drawing four, and here is the last one, and then you need to color it in and I'm going to color mine in the same color as I colored in the plate. But you can color yours in whatever color you want to. You can color them all in different colors. It's totally up to you.

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So once we have colored it in, we need to cut it out and then you have all the pieces of your pterodactyl ready. You need to take your paper plate that you colored in earlier and then fold it in half and then you just need a small piece of sticky tape to stick. It together and you can do that at the end here.

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You can also use a stapler to do this, but be careful. If you use a stapler, then we just need to stick the head on the top here and then stick the feet and the arms in place like that, and you can just use a glue, stick to stick it to the plate, and then we have the basic pterodactyl and I'm going to stick some gem stickers on mine just to make it look that little bit more interesting, but you can draw some patterns on.

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You can do whatever you want to decorate it, and here is my finished pterodactyl.

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I also made this one, which I did in lots of colors. I did all of his features in different colors too, and added some sequins and some glitter glue and he looks very fabulous, but you can do whatever you want for your pterodactyl. So why don't? You have a go at making a pterodactyl out of a paper plate for the next activity? You need some dinosaurs from the activity pack or you can draw your own some card. Colored paper crayons a lolly, stick some scissors glue tape and some sequins.

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If you want to decorate it so first of all, we need to color in the dinosaurs, I've printed off the dinosaur sheet, and I'm using one of the milli dinosaurs. You can draw your own dinosaur if you want to. There is another bcp library, video about how to draw dinosaurs. If you want to watch that and draw your own, but you want to make it quite small because it's going to be a baby and it's going to hatch from an egg.

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So once you have colored it in, you need to cut it out very carefully and then you need to put it on your card and draw an egg shape around it. You don't stick it down yet just draw an egg shape around it and you need to make sure the egg is quite a bit bigger than the dinosaur, so the egg will be able to close fully.

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So just roughly draw the egg shape on your piece of card like I'm doing here and then, when you've done it, you can cut it out again, be very careful with the scissors and make sure you've got someone to help you and then you need to take a colored piece of paper.

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I'm using a red piece of paper for my egg and I'm drawing around the card that I've just cut out. So it will fit on I'm just drawing around it and then I'm going to cut it out, like I did with the.

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Card there we go, it's all cut out now and once your paper egg has been cut out, you need to cut along the center a zigzag pattern to make it look like an egg has hatched. So there we go just cutting a random zigzag pattern. It doesn't have to be too neat because the whole point is it to make it look like the egg has hatched.

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Then we need to take our glue, stick and glue along two sides of the bottom part, but you need to leave a gap in the middle, because that is where the lollipop stick is going to poke free. So then you just need to stick that half down on your card making sure you leave the gap on the bottom.

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There we go and then with the other part of the egg, you need to stick it to the top of the dinosaur's head, like I've done here now, it's time to get our lolli stick and some sticky tape and stick it to the back of your dinosaur.

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There we go and then you will be able to place the stick through the egg like this. This is a little bit fiddly just because you want to make sure the dinosaur goes inside of the egg.

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His feet might try and poke over the top, but you just have to be very careful and put it all the way down and you can trim the edges if your card is a little bit big.

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So after I had made the egg, I decided to stick some sequins on to decorate it, but you can use stickers. You can just draw some circles or patterns on it's totally up to you. I just wanted to use sequins, and then we have our finished dinosaur egg that you can make it look like the dinosaur is hatching out of it like this, and you can move it around and you can make him try and escape the egg to go and get some nice food.

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I also made this one where I drew the dinosaur myself, but I drew the dinosaur a little bit too big for the egg, so it won't fully close, but that doesn't matter you can draw a bigger dinosaur. So it's always poking out. It still works, and you can also use this as a bookmark. If you take it out of the egg, you can place it in your book like this and then you have a dinosaur egg bookmark.

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So why don't you give it a go yourself so for the final craft, we're going to need a shoebox, and I also have some random odds and ends of crafting some cardboard. Some felt colored paper. Cotton wool. I've also got some stones. Some fake leaves some glue and scissors, and you also need some little dinosaurs to put in your diorama I've printed off the colored dinosaurs from the activity pack and cut them out very carefully, but you can also draw your own if you want to it's totally up to you.

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So, first of all, I'm going to get my shoebox and in the bottom of the shoebox, which will be the side of the diorama, the back of the diorama. Then I'm putting some blue felt in as the sky and just sticking it down with some glue. You can use paper, you can paint it if you want to it's totally up to you and then I'm adding some broken up cotton wool to the back. To make it look like fluffy clouds, you can use paper, you can paint it on.

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You can use whatever you want to I'm just giving you some ideas of what you can do for a diorama, then on the side of the box or the bottom of the diorama, I'm adding some green felt for the grass, but you can add some paper. You can add some um yellow or brown to make it look like dirt or mud, but I thought grass would look good because I'm going to add some stone, so it would give it a nice contrast.

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So I'm just sticking down the grass now, but again you can paint it. If you don't want to stick it on, you can use whatever you want to to personalize your own dinosaur diorama.

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So now I'm adding some fake leaves which I've got in my craft supplies. You might not have anything like this, but you can use some real leaves if you want to or cut out some leaf shapes, it's totally up to you or again, you can paint some leaves on just be as creative as you like.

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So when I had stuck all of these down, I left it to dry, and I made some volcanoes by cutting out some cardboard and adding strips of colour paper for the lava, and I added one of the dinosaurs to it, and now I'm making some trees. I've got two strips of cardboard and I'm cutting out. Some leaves out of green paper and sticking the leaves on I've made these strips of cardboard quite long, because I'm going to fold it which will allow me to stick it to my diorama later.

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So I just added the leaves, and there we have two trees.

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So now it's time to stick the volcanoes into our diorama, so I'm just putting some glue on the back and I'm using school glue for most of this, because it's a little bit stronger.

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So I'm putting my volcano in the back because during the time of the dinosaurs there were lots of volcanoes and if you want to there is another bcp library, video with some volcano activities. If you want to learn about volcanoes, so now I'm folding my tree and sticking it down and I've weighed it down with some rocks or little stones, and I'm just sticking the dinosaur to the tree with a glue. Stick, the triceratops he's gonna go there. We have the t-rex in the background.

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And now we're having this dinosaur, I've made a little tab that I've stuck to his foot and folded it in half and it then sticks to the felt so he stands up and I'm adding some rocks again to weigh him down, and just so it looks like he's emerging from the rocks there we go, and this is my finished diorama. I've added things like some sandpaper to make it look like dirt.

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I've added some holographic card to make a little rock pool, I've added more rocks and I've stuck my dinosaurs in, but you can do whatever you want with your diorama. You can draw your own dinosaurs. You can paint it or you can even add some dinosaur toys that you have.

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So those are the free dinosaur crafts. Don't forget, you can find a link in the description for the activity pack and some dinosaurs to use for your crafts. There's also a video in the description about volcanoes and a how to draw a dinosaur video if you want to learn how to draw dinosaurs, but that is all for this bcp library, video and we'll see you in another one very.

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