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From YouTube: Izzy Octopus Crafts with Charminster Library

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Join Charminster library for some Silly Squad crafts! This week Gina and Rowena show you 2 Izzy Octopus crafts.

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This is izzy the octopus from the silly squad characters, and this is a fun little model that you can make really simply from one sheet of a4 paper. You can use colored a4 like this, but we're going to have a go at making out of white paper as well.

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For this, you just need the piece of paper a ruler pencil you could use wax crayons or coloring pencils, whatever you like, and some pretty stick glue.

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First thing: you're going to do is fold the a4 piece of paper in half very lightly you're, just going to squeeze along along the long edge, just have an idea where the half mark is only very lightly because you're going to open it back up again and then it's easy to show on this one you've got the markings all the way along, so I've just drawn a line in there. So you can see the half mark, but you don't need to draw that long line there.

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What you need here is to measure with the ruler three centimeters, so you go three six, nine all the way along get to know your three times table. uh You need eight legs, obviously, because an octopus has eight legs and you need a ninth point uh which is going to be so. You have an overlap to stick well here, all nice together, all right so mark all the different legs.

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So I've marked them here, so you can see them nicely, but you don't need to actually write anything on there and this is going to be your overlap and all these bits that I've actually marked here we're going to cut off and just leave this as our overlap with the sticking area here once you've got them all marked, then you just cut up only to halfway along there and go all the way along you're going to end up like this.

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Okay, uh this you're going to be a fold up little tab, you're going to stick the whole thing together, and then I've started here by drawing on some of the suckers on the back of the octopus legs and some sounds can move around a lot here, so you can color them in any color.

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You fancy it doesn't matter just color them all in or you can leave them as they are circles there and go all the way along with those and once you've done those you're going to turn it over and we're going to work on the other side, which is then going to be the front of the octopus there we are so these are some that I've colored already all different colors here, nicely turn it over, and then I've started to draw some things in here.

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So I'll show you what we do next now the silly squad is, he has a lovely scarf on our head I'll, show you how we actually draw that so you're going to take like a basically a triangle. You have a really long triangle here, all the way along here, I'm doing it with a pen just so it shows up nicely pencil's a bit pale and just all the way back up to the top edge. A little scarf has two little tails coming out of it that she's tied it on to her head like this.

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And then it's a little polka dot scarf again. You can leave as this and just color it in, but if you want to add some polka dots, all you do is draw the little markings like this. So remember, they'd be going off the edge of the fabric. It really was the scarf. So that's why they're not whole circles makes it look more. Stick there.

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Let's just draw all the little markings in putting on the little tails.

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There they are, then she's got a lovely happy face. So we need to draw that in as well so you're going to start with the two ovals for the eyes.

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And repeat here.

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Okay, some little.

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And eyebrows there.

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A little archway for her nose and then she's already happy smile here so just draw that in.

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Okay uh and on the colored version, I left it plain, but if you do a black and white uh version, you might actually want to add some markings in so lots of things you can color there, so you can color the scarf in and go around and color all of that. Let's see doing that. One color that all now and then we have all the little swirls that she's got as her markings. So you're gonna do some sort of figure out over eights or you can do some little circles like this up to you.

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And add lots of markings in.

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I started on the body area.

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As well so bigger ones on here, maybe there's a bit more space.

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Now you can work all the way along color all those in, and this is a version I've done here, which is a bit easier to see. There's lots of swirls coloured all in got her face on there as well, and then all that's left to do on that. One is to actually stick this piece here and then curl. Her legs put the suckers in there on the.

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Back then, on the legs you hold firmly at the top there, and you want to take the scissors. Have them closed, so there's no danger there and you're just going to lightly pull that back over the back of the scissors and it curls it really nicely. So just curling it up slightly go around and do all of this.

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And if you have lovely colored paper at home, you could make a whole load of octopus in the models. Add some ribbon to the top of them and actually attach them to each other and have them hanging like a mobile yeah. So we have here. We go two little octopus.

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There nicely crafted.

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Right so today we are going to be doing an izzy, the octopus, drawing and a frame to put it in. So for this one, you are going to need some white paper, a pencil, a ruler, some colored pencils, a prick, stick and then also the how to draw. Is it the octopus sheet which you can find underneath this video okay?

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So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to fold our paper in half just to make a nice size frame to draw and then we're going to stick that together so just grab some crit stick and we'll just put a bit on the sides, and this will just make it a little bit sturdier as a picture there we go. So if we do that and then carefully fold it back over and stick it down, okay, so then that is ready to start drawing.

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So for my frame, I'm going to do two centimeters just make it a nice small frame, it's not too much to decorate, so you can be ruler and just mark on two some pieces at the top.

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So from left to right and then two centimeters from right to left and we'll just join those lines up.

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We're going to do the same on this side as well just about 2 centimeters. There.

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So in a minute, I'm going to decorate that, but first we're going to draw our octopus out so we're going to start with a nice sort of light bulb shape at the top. So I would use pencil, but I'm just going to use pen just to make it a bit easier for you to see what I'm doing. So if we start off here, okay, so that's her head, then I'm going to give her some arms.

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Nice tentacles just make.

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Wobbly as you'd like.

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You can make them as quickly as you want.

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Okay and then I'm just gonna put her last two: let's have eight pencils and you also know they also have three hearts, which is pretty impressive.

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We go so once you've done that we can then.

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Draw the face in so we're going to start by drawing the eyes, which are just two ovals, like that: some eyebrows and some pupils and a nice big smile.

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Okay, then she's got some lots of little suckers on her tentacles, so we can quickly draw those in and then izzy also has a nice bandana on her head. So we're just going to draw a line across the head like that then another one over here and then you can join it together and then she's got a little bow at the end. We just do a little circle and we took the mini ribbon there and there.

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So we're almost done so izzy is a juggling octopus. So we're gonna give her some juggling balls.

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So if you just draw lots of little circles and give as many balls as you like to juggle with okay and then she'd also got some little mini spots on her red scarf as well, and there we go so then all that's left now to do is to color her in and you can also decorate the frame.

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So you can grab whatever colors you like for this one. So for the frame I'm going to use some swirls she's got lots of swirls on her body if you've seen any pictures of her in the silly squad. So if we just draw some nice big smiles.

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Just keep going, you can take do as many as you like, so you can probably do it a lot neater than this, because this is not very neat at all, but then just keep going all the way around until you finished and kind of izzy in and then hopefully end up with something like that.

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So we've got all the swirls all around I've colored her in blue colored in the band and then comes in her jumping balls and then, if you like, you can always attach some ribbon to it, so that you can stick it up on your wall and that's.