Cambridge, United Kingdom Children and young people, 24 Jul 2020

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From YouTube: ChYpPS Super Spinners

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Aimed at children 6 and over

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Hello and welcome to this week's craft, and this week we're going to be making a super spinner for those of you who have met us before I'm andrea, and this is maddie right so for this activity you will need some white card um something to draw around, so I've just got a bowl anything really that's kind of straight um some pens to decorate with, and the last thing would be some string now you can use a wool or anything else really thread what maddie's got um yeah anything right. Okay, so first things.

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First, what you need to do is um get your card and the thing that you're going to draw around and basically draw around your object.

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And then we'll cut, oh they're, they say massive scissors. I know they're really huge wilder puts mine to shame.

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They're, like springy, I've, never seen anything like them all right, okay, so they're good for if you're, left-handed and right-handed, you can use them, which is handy, see I'm left-handed, but I cut with my right hand.

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Oh, I've got a little bit ahead right, so I'm going to start coloring in mine, while maddie's curling, herself or maddie. If you've got one earlier. I guess I do. Obviously you guys can all take your time and pause your video and catch up with us when you're ready so got our card cool. So now we want to decorate and I'd say the more colorful the better.

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So we probably won't spend that much time on ours just because it's going to be a bit boring you watching us color in for 10 minutes. So what I'm going to do is kind of do rings, which is what I've done in my example.

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um So I'm just going to do a little bit.

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So, like we said, spend as much time as you want on this and we're just going to rush through.

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The pen on the table right well, I've gone really basic because I'm going to yeah, I've already got one. You go, I'm just going to do one last color in the middle and then I'm good to go. Okay.

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Here we are fabulous: oh yeah, oh yes, okay, so um once you've colored it and made yours looked all lovely and colorful. um What you need to do is- and you might need a little bit of help with this- is to make two holes in the center of your circle.

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um So I think maddie are you going to use? This is what I found that is quite uh good to use is um a pen I mean some of you might not have a scalpel, so I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna use a pen and just sort of plop two holes in this center.

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Like so camera there we go and you can see that it's got three and then all you just need to do is get your string and if you haven't got pre-cut it's about 170 centimeters, so that's probably your wingspan is a good way to go. If you don't have a ruler on you, okay, so you're popping. This is the fiddly bit.

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The string through the holes and what you do is you're making kind of a loop yeah you go to one side and out the other. Oh, like my strings, a bit so it'll end up. My string's got a bit knotty, but there we go it'll end up. Looking like that for a second on the back and then when you tie the two ends together, they don't make a big loop that you pull so that the circle is right in the middle of that loop.

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So your circle's in the middle, so just a little tip that I the um makes the spinner work a bit well bit. Better really is what I've done is if you type, if you tie a knot on either side of the card fold, the spinner in place cool.

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So yes, you just want to go for each side, putting a knot on one side and the other, and this is what I mean it just holds the spinner in place, because sometimes you might find that it keeps going a little bit sort of scuffy there. We go.

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Awesome and then all you need to do is to wind it up. So I'm going to use the one that I've sort of colored in more.

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And what you want to just yeah, try and wind it as much as possible until it can't wind any longer so you're going to get our mate.

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Action uh yeah. Sometimes it goes, I'm just gonna show you there we go. Oh that looks so cool right. Okay, well enjoy guys. If you want to have a go at making your own. Please do send us some photos, because we always like to see your own work and we look forward to seeing you next week. Bye, bye, bye,.

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