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From YouTube: Wild World Heroes: Hedgehog Craft

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Join Charminster Library for a hedgehog-themed book folding craft. We first brought this to you last year, but it fits perfectly with this year's Summer Reading Challenge theme... Wild World Heroes!!

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.

Check your local library's opening times here: https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/Libraries/Opening-times/Opening-times-for-our-libraries.aspx

Find out more about the Summer Reading Challenge here: https://www.summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/news/general/wild-world-heroes-intro

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Today's craft is to show you um a really simple book, folding craft. That says couple of examples here: um we've we did show you some book folding back in december, any of you who watch those making a christmas wreath and a christmas angel as well. uh This is a really fun craft to have a go at to make um book hedgehogs. So we've got a harry hedgehog here of the harry potter theme.

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um Many of you come to our events whenever we usually do a harry potter event in february, but um this year they've moved the event till june. So look out for details of that uh then. But um so I thought I'd do a harry potter, themed one here, um and this is uh just a more a general little hedgehog in the garden there um they're really simple to do but they're also quite practical.

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um You can obviously make ones for yourself or they're a great family craft as well, because the kids can have a go at this because it is just um you know, glue and paper, but you can actually use them as little note holders as well. So just something little notes in there um just think.

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Maybe you wanted to remind yourself: you need to do uh the next day, or maybe you want to sort of have one on a table near your your front door or something so that people can say if you've popped out, and you want to just leave a little note to say where you've gone, if you're only gonna go well things like that, um so they're, just nice little like holders just some scrap paper there you can put in them uh and I'm just gonna show you how you make one of these really simply so everything is that way for the minute and just take a paperback book.

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It can be hard back the paperback's a little bit easier to do um because you get through it a little bit more and the simple fold is start right at the beginning.

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These and you fold into the spine and the trick with all these is make sure you really press down firm on the on the fold and the crease needs to be quite um sort of good there, because otherwise, as you go through it's harder and harder to fold, so you fold in half and then you just fold the top again into the spine each time.

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So you get that and that is it so I'll show you that one more time so fold into the spine press down really firmly there and then fold the front down. It's like a little triangle. Essentially, so you want it to be at right angles here and then flip that one over, so you keep working through the book now um I recommend it if the book's quite thick and you're really struggling to get going on the after certain amount of pages. um So maybe you can sort of um start.

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You can rip the odd pages out, so you could do sort of say, 50 pages, then rip two or three out and um just do another 20 pages, maybe with a couple out. um So you don't want it too ball, because you want it to to keep going and creates the shape. But you can sort of you know rip some pages out, make sure it's nice and crisp as you rip them out, and um don't try and sort of take out like 10 at a time or something like that.

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Just make it sort of two at three at a time. um But and as you go through the book, you don't want just a load at the end. That's missing otherwise, you'll get a lopsided um hedgehog, so you just keep going through here um and you can see there how it starts to create a little nose all right. um Obviously it gets harder to fold as you go through. So that is something that you know does happen there, but it naturally creates the shape, there's no glue involved in keeping the shape um the other way.

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You can do it. For instance, on this one here is you'll see I actually left uh it's about 50 pages. I think at the end and at the beginning, so um I just literally started on, say: page 51 started folding there and just made sure you leave the same even number on the end. Otherwise, again you'll get lopsided, so you can do that you could leave. It was quite a big book. You think I can't get through. All of that, um you can leave some of the uh the pages there as well.

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So as you go through, it will naturally create the shape and just hold its shape. I haven't done any gluing anything else. It just sits there like that. um But of course the advantage is you you've got all this nice space in between there for sticking notes down. If you want to so that's it for the book shape. It's that simple, so I'll just go through some of the different ways you can decorate these.

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uh So on this one I just found some a harry potter, wallpaper, especially computer, wallpaper, a lot of those three sort of designs. You can get all sorts of themes just printed out a couple of times and just glued it and tucked it in and glued it to cover that over uh this one just made a little pair of glasses on a scrap piece of black card just drew around a circle and then inside it and that just slots in there.

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Obviously, you can glue that if you want to feel that right upside down a little lightning bolt there, I drew around a little glue bottle there to give me a nose um and then just made a little scarf uh just add some yellow and colored it red, but you can do obviously, however, you decorate.

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However, you like on those and on this one which I'll just finish off so essentially what I wanted to do on this one I'll just show you here hopefully that'll show up is um so you want a nose, so I just drew around a glue bottle for that one that gives you your nose um and then the eye on this one. I went for a little bit of a bigger design, so I did a little outside section of the eye and then an inside one and just colored that and stuck those together.

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um Then you want a sort of a petal shape for the ear make sure you add a little bit to the length here. So these are the ears and all I did is squeeze those actually put a staple on the end um and then just glue those inside. So that's how you get the nice curve effect, but you just make sure you leave a little bit at the end, um because you need something to be able to actually stick to the pages again with the feet. um Just drew that shape.

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But again you need this little bit of length here, because then you have uh this, which you can just stick to the bottom page, so um always bear in mind that you need a bit extra on the end to be able to tuck things in and then what I've also done on this one is just created some little spikes, this bike's going through here there we go so again papers are so thin that you can cut several in one go, and it literally is just a case of cutting some triangles.

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You want quite small ones, because it's quite a small little book and just go through like that and cut that one off now. I don't want it too, too long and just take some glue with these projects. um You really do need to use wet glue, though, um if you've got some uh pva, some white glue, um there's a little diddy one but obviously usually comes in slightly bigger bottles, especially children's ones.

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um Then do use that because you've got to be quite generous with the glue, because you're sticking a to paper, which of course really needs to absorb that glue and also you're sticking onto edges. You know these waters. They need to really stick and hold um they're, not nice flat surfaces like this, which is obviously easier. This was just a patterned paper that I had to stick there, but anything where you're sticking it onto the edges or in between you do need to make sure you know.