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From YouTube: Wild World Heroes Papercraft with Charminster Library

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Today’s craft comes from Charminster Library and is the perfect way to kick off your Summer Reading Challenge!

The Summer Reading Challenge takes place every year during the summer holidays. Sign up at your local BCP library, and then read six library books of your choice to complete the challenge. There are exclusive rewards to collect along the way, and it’s FREE.

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Hello for today's craft, we're going to make a robin and a little hedgehog all out of paper.

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So to start with, we need to collect some paper different colors or, if not, you can use white paper crayons and felt tip pens.

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Big felt chip pen if you've got one some glue, a paper cup to draw around a little bowl, some scissors, a pencil, a ruler, some tape and some stickers. If you've got some as well.

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So the first one we're going to make is the bobbin and you need some brown colored paper. And what we're going to do is we're going to take our little cup and draw around the chops.

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To make the robin's head.

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Take your scissors, you just cut this out there. You are our robin's body. If you then take a bowl place it halfway over the paper.

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Just like that and then just draw around again so you've made a certain circle and then again you just need to very carefully cut out.

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Just pop a little bit of glue on the top.

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And then you can just stick your robin's head on there. You are like that. So we'll just put that to one side, then, to make the bobbins red chest take a piece of red paper or you can color in take your little bowl again and not quite so much as hard and then again just draw around.

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And then we're just going to cut that out as well.

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Don't worry if it's a little bit too big, we can adjust it when we put it on the robin. So if you just lay it across the bobbin like that and you're happy with the position, don't worry about the little bit sticking out just put some glue onto the actual robin's body.

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Place it in position as such, rub it firmly down, you can wait for it to dry and then, if you turn over, you just trim off the edges.

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Using your original semi circles for the body as a guide and there you are one little robin red breast, then to make the ring again bring back your past the ground card and put your hand on it and what you're going to do to make the feathers you're just going to draw around your fingers.

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Make sure you space them out a little bit and then just stop when you've done four fingers. You don't need to do the thumb, turn your paper round and then you're just going to draw a curve all the way around from one side to the other, so that you've made the wheel shape and then you're going to cut that out.

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Take your time if this can be a little bit of a fiddly bit to do.

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That your fingers have become the feathers, I'm just going to cut mine down a little bit. If you just place it back, you just need to take a little bit off. You can do and again I'm just going to use a little glue on the back on the top like so and then just position it on your rubber.

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Now we're going to add details, so if you have got some white uh stickers or dots, you can use those to start put on the eye.

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Take some yellow card or paper and just cut a little triangle out and that's going to be for the b. So then, if you take a triangle and then cut a little diamond shape out of.

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It I'm just going to make mine a little bit smaller, but take your time and you can adjust again with a little bit of glue, I'm just going to stick that down there.

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So now we just need to give the robin some legs and shoes so checking your card or paper and a ruler and a pencil. What you're going to do is draw four little lines about three centimeters long and then draw little angles going out at the top a bit like a triangle but not actually joined.

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Up and then we're just going to cut these out.

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There and here's the little tricky bit if you just want to snip.

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There you are just to give him little toes, so turn him over. It's probably easier, because these are quite small pieces.

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So I'm just sanitary.