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From YouTube: Mechanical Makes with the Purr-fessor

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In today's craft video, the Purr-fessor shows us some mechanical makes. Learn how to make a moving astronaut and robot! You can download the activity pack here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oRXPsqdslcaGNinzTIALUpqx601SP4kd/view?usp=sharing

Watch more crafts with the Pur-fessor videos:
Creative Code Breaking: https://youtu.be/s0VOPseGk48
Brilliant Balancing: https://youtu.be/mXmAEFbf8HY

Have you joined the Summer Reading Challenge yet? Find out more in this video: https://youtu.be/C-VSQpD1bz8

You can also find out about all the activities across all BCP Libraries here: https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/Libraries/Children-and-young-people/Documents/Libraries-Summer-Reading-Challenge.pdf

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The theme of this year's summer reading challenge is the gadgeteers, just like the gadgeteers. The professor is inspired by science and inventions. Bcp libraries have plenty of new books to spark your curiosity. This year, read six books throughout the summer holidays to receive your certificate and medal. We also have lots of activities in our libraries, including crafts.

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Additionally, you can join the professor on our youtube channel throughout august for some science-based activities. You can either pick up your craft bag from bournemouth library or download it from the link in the video description. So, let's get started on this week's craft.

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Hello, everyone and welcome to crafts with the professor today we're going to be making this robot with parts that you can move and this astronaut with moving limbs. So let's get started so, first of all, we're going to show you how to make this astronaut- and you can print this by clicking the link in the description. I've printed it on card.

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But if you don't have any card you can use paper and then back it onto some packaging to make it a bit stronger and the professor is starting to color it in now, and you can also draw your own astronaut. If you want to or your own person, it doesn't necessarily have to be an astronaut and you just need to make sure you draw the part separately.

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So you first of all, have to decorate your astronaut or whatever you are going to make and I'm using my crayons. But you can use any art supply. You like you might have some felt pens, some colored pencils or even some shiny paper that you can use to decorate your astronaut.

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So once you have finished coloring him in and you are happy with his design, then you just need to cut it out very carefully using scissors and make sure you've got a grown up around to help you and you need to cut the part separately and then have a go at placing the limbs where you would like them to be so I'm putting the feet at the bottom and then obviously the hands either side, and you just need to roughly work out where they need to be before we attach them so to attach the limbs.

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You just need to use some of these split pins and to do this, you can get an eraser or some plasticine or blue tack, and then just punch through where you want to attach with the split pin and again, you will need an adult to help you maybe and then once you have put it through, the body then place it through the arm.

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You can also mark on with a pencil where you want to punch the holes if you'd like to make it a little bit easier, and then you just attach the arm like this, with the split pin and then put the split pin through the body and then turn him over and split it like this.

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And then the arm will be able to move. And then you need to do this for all of the limbs like this, and then he will be able to move so the professor's just having a go at moving him.

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And he's having a go moving his legs too.

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You can also attach a ribbon to the top of your astronaut, and you can then hang him up and put him in all kinds of positions.

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So that's how to make a moving astronaut.

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So now we're going to make our mechanical robot and again you can print this from the description down below I've printed mine on some card. But again, if you don't have card, you can just use some paper and fix some of their robot parts to some cardboard packaging.

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So I am just choosing what bits of the robot I want to use and then coloring them in again, I'm using my cranes, but you can use whatever art supply. You like.

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And once you have colored in your robot parts, they might look something like this and then you can cut out the ones you want to use with some scissors and again just make sure you have a grown up around to help you here.

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And once you have cut your pieces out, they will look something like this.

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And now you need to decide how you're going to attach them so like we did with the astronaut, you can place bits how you want to and I'm using split pins for the arm and for his wheels. So just the same as we did before poking it through and then splitting it like. This.

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So there's one arm and for some of the buttons I am making a paper spring. So you just need two strips of paper like this and then fold them like this and just keep folding. And then you can make a strong paper string. I've used a bit of color paper, but you can just use a bit of scrap paper.

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That's totally fine and then once you are done, you just need to use a glue, stick to stick it to your robot and then stick your button or your light or your cog to the spring like this, and then it will act like a button and it will move.

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So I'm also going to use the eyes and I'm going to turn my robot over for this and put the eyes on the back like that and then take a strip of spare card from the sheet and then just stick either end and then the eyes can be slotted through and then this way you can move them up and down.

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So there we go, that is my finished robot.

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And as the professor is demonstrating, you can open bits like this, you can use paper, springs to press buttons, all cogs, and you could also move his arms.

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So that's all for today's video. Thank you for watching and we'll see you in the next one.