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From YouTube: Merry Giraffe Crafts with Charminster Library

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In today's video, Charminster library share 2 crafts of Merry Giraffe from the Silly Squad! You can download the resource here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZJhq3dgifMGbALhO6bO4OoYwW0Iby-FY/view?usp=sharing

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Today's silly squad craft is going to be mary, the giraffe's headband, so you get to make this really simple, very sweet, little headband of the giraffe and all you'll need for this is some yellow paper. Ideally, um if you don't, then you could just choose um white a4 paper and just scribble over with a yellow, wax crayon or something like that, and some brown packaging or again you can easily do this with some orange a4 or anything else. That would be um the appropriate sort of colors and uh make make up your own.

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Whatever you've got at home that you think might work, and you just need some glue, a ruler and pencil and scissors. That's all we need for this and a bit of salty, so we're going to start with a piece of a4 paper, and this is nice, yellow a4 paper for the giraffe you're, going to fold it in half along the long edge. Just like this one and just cut that, so this is going to form our headband.

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Nice and straight there so solitary edges together.

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Now this is the point where you would wrap it around your child's head. I have no child here that I can wrap that around. So I'm just going to stick this together to make a I'm gonna make too tight and best not to like the cellophane when they're actually wearing it, because otherwise the hair gets all caught up in it. We know from experience, so that's gonna, be a nice headband there all right.

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So next you need to take um an a5 piece of paper, so cut away four in half and then we're just going to fold that in half again.

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So this is so that we can draw ones but cut through two at the same time, which makes it a lot easier. uh So we're going to draw the horns so to create those you just want to draw an oval. You can do this in pencil, I'm just using a pen because it stands out a little bit easier for you to see and you're going to draw two lines coming out at a slight angle like this, and these are actually called posse.

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Cones apparently didn't know that myself, uh so that is all drawn out and now we need the two ears.

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So that's the way to do that, a little tap to attach them to so I'm just drawing a little five centimeter little line there and now just draw that like that, then you're just gonna draw around it's almost like a fat petal, essentially so draw that.

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And then a little inner ear, yeah all right and we're going to cut these out and cut through both together. I'm also saving.

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Time on this one, I just need to draw something here as well.

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And then we'll draw a couple of forms out.

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Back, I'm gonna.

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A little bit smaller there if you go a little bit bigger and then stick ones on the front, so just put a little glue on the bottom. It's all not all over otherwise be very.

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There we go so the other thing, obviously, with giraffe it's known for is all the lovely patches. So remember, they're, not spots they're. All very individual shaped patches, in fact they're, so individual that every giraffe's markings are as individual as our fingerprints. Those who draw has the same markings, so these you're just going to take a bit of brown packaging or brown envelope. That would work or say if you haven't got that you could go for a4 orange paper or just use a nice wax crayon and draw over.

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And you just have.

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Fun drawing any sort of random shape. You don't want it to be too precise. So imagine it's like you're drawing a load of stones. I think any shape you like and.

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Loads of those out and cut them all out some hair already and then just start sticking. Those on.

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All their colors of their coats can vary quite a bit from light to tan. All the way through to almost black depends on what they're eating and where they're living, so it can be quite varied. The color and you want to go all the way around.

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And when you're done and you'll have a nice finished headband there you are of your own. So that's mary, the giraffe who's, one of the lovely characters from the city squad.

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So today we are going to be doing a mary, the giraffe picture, and for this one you're going to need the mary, the giraffe, drawing the sheet which you can find underneath this video and you need a pencil, a pen or some coloring pencils, a black pen, a rubber, some scissors, some pink stick and then some green paper and some yellow paper. But if you haven't got any yellow paper, don't worry, you can just use some ordinary white paper and then you can color in your giraffe afterwards.

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So if you start with this one you're going to draw out a giraffe and I'm using some yellow paper, but, like I said, if you haven't, got yellow, don't worry, you can just use some white and then you can color in the end, and the first thing I'm going to do is actually divide the paper in half so that I'm going to end up with sun for the head and then the rest for the neck afterwards.

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So just draw a rough line straight across the paper. Just to give us a rough idea how much room we've got to draw our head in. So I'm going to draw in the space here and to start with I'm going to just draw a nice oval for her head in there, then we're going to draw her nose on and it's a great shape.

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So we're going to go down and then up to her mouth and around to the bottom, then we can draw.

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Eyes in so we've got another two big ovals in here and put her eyebrows and give some pupils.

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Then we're gonna draw a mouth, give it some nostrils, then we're gonna.

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On and then two sort of long kind.

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As well, then we're going to draw bits at the top of her head just from here. She's got two little ones like that.

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And that's it for the main bit of drawing. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go over it in pen.

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Okay and then once you've done that and then just going to rub out the pencil lines.

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So once you've done.

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That we're gonna cut out the head.

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Drawn the head, then we're going to use the rest of this paper to draw her neck. So I'm just going to cut along that line that I drew earlier.

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Get rid of that bit and then we're going to concentrating and fold it so that her neck is nice and bendy. So if you just start by folding back a couple of centimeters turn your paper over fold again and keep going all the way down.

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Okay, so then, when you've done that you can open it back out and then we're gonna decorate this by coloring on some of her patches, so you're going to draw them. However, you like I'm, just going to draw those all along and then in a minute I'll curl them in, and you can do this with pencil. Crayons brown felt here. Whatever you want to use, you can use paint if you want to so we'll draw those on, and then I'm gonna draw the same on her face as well. We'll give it some patches.

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And then once you've done those I'm going to color them in so I've got some that I did earlier.

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There we go so now: we've got those we're ready to put mary together. So I'm going to grab some green paper.

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And you look at some glue if you turn your neck over and just put some on the bottom section there and then again, some at the top. Don't worry about putting any on the middle bits.

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And then do the same on the top. You can just fold it and stick it wherever you like, and then I've got her head. So I'm going to put some blue just at the top there to stick her head too and then we've got our finished picture.