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From YouTube: Earth Day Activities with Katy

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In this video Katy shows us some activities for Earth Day 2021. You can learn how to make a fairy garden with recycled plastics, a CD sun catcher and be creative with bottle caps!

You can download the colouring page here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iIEZYf1nfk8eknSufcruK-gU2e9kQJAH/view?usp=sharing

How to make the egg carton bugs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90CRLsV0iE

Earth Day 2021 is Thursday 22nd not Wednesday 21st as stated in the video. However it is good to think about our planet everyday!

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Hello, everyone and welcome to another bcp library, video. My name is katie and today I'm going to be showing you some activities related to earth day earth day is the 21st of april this year. So I'm going to be showing you what you can make with some recycled packaging and plastic bottle caps, some cds, we're going to be doing a cd, suncatcher or dvds, and also a fairy type garden that you can make out of recycled material, and I'm also going to be showing you what you can do with some bottle caps.

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So you don't have to throw them away and don't forget to pop into a bcp library, because bcp libraries have many many books on the environment and the world and how to recycle and all that type of thing related to earth day. So do go. Have a look in your local bcp library! You can also use our online resources, such as borrowbox and cloud library, where you can find some online books to read as well.

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So the first activity I have for you is a coloring page and you can print this off yourself.

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There is a link in the description below so just go to the link download it and you can print it off and you can get your favorite art supplies, I'm using color pencils to color mine, but you might have some crayons some felt tip pens, some gel pens, some stickers, you might even want to make a collage, but this is a picture of a nice and natural fairy garden.

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So in keeping with the fairy garden theme, we are going to make a fairy garden, so I've got a tray and I filled it with some soil or some dirt, and some stones and I've got quite a bit of plastic packaging in my recycling. So I've got this one here. I think it had some fruit in it. Just make sure you wash all of your plastic packets before you use them. I've added some more stones and I'm just arranging my little garden. You can use as many stones as you like.

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You can even paint on some of your stones. If you want to that, might be a nice touch.

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And I've got a plastic bottle here that I've washed out, and that is going to be my little house and I added some stones around the outside and I'm using some bottle caps to act as stepping stones to my house to make a little path, but you can use whatever you have. You can make your very own garden. It can be very unique to you.

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So here are my bottle. Caps, there's a stepping stone and I've also added some leaves. I'm using fake leaves that I have in my craft kits, but you can get some real leaves if you want to, or you can cut some leaves out of paper if you can't find any leaves.

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So now I'm taking two popsicle or lollipop sticks and placing them into the ground. Well, the ground of the garden, and I am adding a netting which was from a cheese packet. You might also have some netting from oranges or something like that, and these are really really bad for the environment when they're thrown away. So I like to try and make stuff, so I am using some lolli sticks and some stones just to put them in place and then putting over the netting to make a little hammock for our garden.

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And I'm also using a plastic bag that is one color to put inside of the bottle to make the bottle. Look like it's solid rather than see-through, and to give it a little bit of color and the beauty of this craft. Is that you don't need any glue.

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You can just place it all into your garden and move it all around if you want to, but once you have got your plastic bag into your bottle, you can put the lid back on, and I've placed a big rock on top of mine just to make it look like a roof, and I've cut out a door from some cardboard from my recycling and just placed it at the front. So it looks like a little house.

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I've also added some fake grass too, and now I'm going to cut up some old cds or dvds to put in the bottom of my pond like this, and you just need to be careful when you're cutting these up so make sure you've got an adult to help. You.

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These will just make it a little bit reflective.

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And then I filled out my pond with some water, and now I've got these little bugs that I made in another video, and I will link that in the description below. But these are made out of an egg carton, so you can make some little bugs out of egg cartons or you might have some toys.

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But if you want to make these bugs, I will leave a link in the description below and you can go and watch that video after this one and as a final touch, I've added my toys, I've added a little fairy sleeping and I've got a minion who looks like he's doing some gardening, and these are my bugs. So this is my garden. Why don't you see what you can make.

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So now I'm going to show you how to make a cd sun catcher. So what you need are either two old cds or dvds, some permanent markers. You can paint on them if you prefer, but permanent markers do have a translucent effect. But if you don't have any permanent markers, you can use paint, I'm just doing some flowers and leaves on this one, and the reason why you need two is because there's usually a printed thing on the other side of the cd.

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So you can just use two and we don't even need to use glue for this either because they will go back to back and the ribbon will hold them in place. So I'm just coloring in my flowers. Now you can do whatever you like. Maybe you want to draw the wild on them because it's earth day or you might want to draw an underwater scene or you might want to draw some flowers or some animals. It's totally up to you- and here is one of my cvs finished.

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As you can see, it's very, very reflective, and now I've done both of them, I'm going to pop them. Together and thread the ribbon through, so you just have to put them together like that.

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Thread the ribbon through and then tie a knot. If you don't have any ribbon, you could just as easily use some string or some wool.

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And I'm just cutting the excess off with some scissors and then we have our suncatcher.

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And it will spin round and reflect the sun, and you can either put this in your window or in your garden, and here is another one. I did. These cds are a slightly different color. They are a nice blue color. So I just did a pattern of triangles on this one and again you can see it's very, very reflective. You might have some stickers that you want to put on some shiny stickers. That would work too, and here it is hung up in a window, so you can see how it moves and reflects.

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So why don't you give it a go yourself?

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And finally, I'm going to show you what you can do with bottle caps. So I've also got another bit of plastic packaging that I'm going to put my bottle caps in and again make sure you've washed. All these out. You might want a grown-up to help you wash them all out and I'm just going to arrange my bottle caps face up into this little plastic tray, I'm getting a few colors, because I like things to be colorful, but it's up to you.

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You can just use all bottle caps of the same color and these work really well for holding your little bits and bobs from your craft supplies so, for example, sequins and beads that you might be using they're very useful for that you don't have to glue them down into your pot. It's up to you you might want to, but you don't have to, and I'm just putting some beads in this one.

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I've got lots of different types of beads and some googly eyes, and now I'm going to put some buttons in this one, and these are very useful. You can just separate your beads into colors, maybe when you're making a bracelet or a necklace, and you can also put some stickers on the bottle caps like I'm doing here, and you can maybe put some on top to act as lids, and you can also store these bottle caps in another plastic packaging like I'm doing here, and then you can get them out when you are crafting.

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So if you want to organize your beads when you're crafting, you can get them out, and these also work well as a little paint palette too, because the paint will wash off the plastic nicely.

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So there are lots of things you can do with bottle caps when you are crafting.

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So that is all for this video don't forget, there is the coloring page that you can download.

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Why don't you have a go at making some things out of some recycled plastic for earth day and don't forget to pop into a bcp library if you want to find out more about earth day and how you can do your bit to help save the planet? But that's all for this video and we'll see you in another bcp library, video, very.

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