 Hi everybody! It's the Holiday Panda, welcoming you to ACMI's Holiday Show! Yay! Tonight we're going to have crafts and the ever-popular cookie decorating competition. So stay tuned! Hi everybody! Happy holidays! I'm going to make a wreath today out of candy canes. And first we're going to start with a circle, a piece of cardboard, a piece of paper. This is going to be where I glue on the candy canes. So I'm going to put it right there. I'm going to use the hot glue. First of all, let's see. I have my blue gloves to match my tablecloth today. And what you're going to do is you're going to try to make a heart shape at the top of your cane. I'm just placing them now and then I'm going to glue them. You can do this any way you want. It's a very flexible craft. I think we're going to do two more and then we're going to glue them. Okay, everybody ready? Here we go. Hot glue. It takes a little bit of patience, but I'm going to do it as quickly as I can. Make sure you have lots of glue in your glue gun, which this one doesn't seem to. But anyway, glue it on and then you can put a little decoration in the middle. And you can decorate it any way you want. And when you're finished, whoop, I missed one, right here. Okay, and when you're finished, you can put a string up on the top and hang it from your ceiling or wherever you want to hang it from, on your door. Happy holidays, everybody. Cookie decorating time. Ready in five, four, three, two, one. So I've never decorated cookie before, so I hope I can do this. I'm colorblind, but I'm going to go with this one. I think it's red. And let's make this star beautiful. I'm going to put an eye on him. Another eye. And then I think an orange nose and then a big blue smile. Look at that nice smile. Perfect. And now I want a green hat. And now we're, let's see, maybe some Christmas sprinkles. And all right, I'm done. Can't wait to eat this. All right, I'm going to decorate this cookie. Here we go. Oh, it's not coming out the way I imagined. Oh, no. Oh, this did not, this did not work. All right, no problem. Any situation can be salvaged. Yep, just like that. And, you know, if one of your plans doesn't work, you can just do another plan. And that's okay to have different plans. All right, 10 seconds left. Done. This is definitely not the AC on my logo that I thought it was going to be. But the colors are there. All right, now I'm going to show you how to make a paper snowflake. So you start with a regular piece of paper, small square. You are going to start. Let me just flip to the opposite side so the silver shows up. You're going to start by folding in half diagonally, corner to corner. It's good to like poke, like pinch down on one end and then go across. Make sure your creases are nice and even. And you're going to fold it again, like this. Okay, so now you have a small triangle, equilateral. You are now going to fold this in thirds. So take one corner, fold it part way across, crease. That's like this. Then you'll do the same with the other. Take a corner, fold it part way across and crease. And now you should have a little kind of a semi-rectangular shape in the middle. Next, you are going to take the right corner. Let me see if I can do this correctly. Actually, you'll take left corner, fold it across. And then, sorry, you're going to take right corner, fold it across. Then left corner, fold it across. Now you have a kind of a base of a, the thing that holds a flower pot, not a flower pot, a kind of bouquet of flowers. You have a bouquet of flowers. Now you're going to take a scissor, cut off the top part. And now you're free to cut little pieces and decorate this however you want. So you can make little triangles, you can make little circles. Let me try to do a circle. There we go. It's vaguely circly. And you can go on both sides and even cut off corners. Let me try to do one down here. There we go. Now you have a cut out shape. You're going to carefully unfold it all the way. And now you have a snowflake. Thank you for watching. Twinkle, twinkle, sky, twinkle. This is harder than it looks. Time for some sprinkles and that's it. Happy holidays. Today we are going to make an origami box so you can put your gifts in it. You'll need a square piece of paper. You can use some foil origami. And let's begin. The first step is to make a fold across, open it up. Do the same thing on the opposite side. I just like to push down on my creases to make sure everything's nice and even. And now we're going to take our triangles and bring them into the middle. And fold and just go around the whole shape bringing them in. If you've made one of those fortune cookie shapes when you're a kid or still do for fun, these start off the same exact way. Not bad. The next step is to open up the sides here. And from the top we're going to fold this side right back down into the middle. Let's do the same thing here. Take the side and fold it right down. Line it up into this in the middle. So we have this kind of diamond shape. It opens up like this. Next is a very important step. And almost towards the end, you're going to take your corner and give it a little pinch. And this is how we're going to make the side of the box. Bring the corner in. There we go. Move that pinch. Do the same thing. Pinch the corner in to the side here. Pinch the sides, pinch the sides here. We're kind of making up a box shape. And fold the flap down. Very good. It doesn't need to be perfect. The thought that counts. And we'll do the same thing on the other side. And, you know, don't be frustrated if it doesn't work out the first couple of times. The more you do it, the better it will get. Let's fold this side in. Kind of go around and give it a good clean up. Pinch the edges. Okay. There we go. We have a pretty little box. And you can get another piece of paper and make a lid. There you go. You have a nice gift to give to your friends. Oh, wow. Oh my goodness. Wow. These are beautiful. They're really beautiful. It's going to be hard to make a decision about these. They're gorgeous. So many choices. So many choices. Well, I mean, I guess we can rule that one out. It's just kind of. Oh, it's a little plain. Yeah, although it looks like it tastes good. So it would be the one that I would probably eat under any circumstances. Because it's like, well, it's kind of neutral. See, I like the bright pink. Yeah. Not a fan of the green. Yeah. On any of the ones with the green. Yeah. Well, that kind of looks like it has mustard on it. It's kind of like mustard and wasabi. Yeah, wasabi. That's what it looks like. I love the contrast of the blue and the pink over here. But I don't know. I just feel like the little sprinkled things kind of make it a little messy. A little messy. I got it. A little messy. You know, this is what I like, the points on the end. Yeah. Like the attention to detail. Yeah. I like the color. Yeah. And this one is cute in its own way. You know. It's kind of like. It's kind of ugly cute. Yeah. Kind of like the Christmas tree in Charlie Brown. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And this. I don't think there's a lot of, there's a lot going on. There's a lot going on. A lot going on. But you know, it's got a level of coherence to it. And it's potential. Yeah, potential. So let's, I guess we'll do this by process elimination. Okay, okay. So we'll take this one. So. You know. Mustard out. Mustard out, yeah. Mustard out. This one. Yeah, yeah. Out of that one. Yeah. This one. There's something about it. There's something about it. I just can't. Like. Maybe it's his smile. I don't know. It's his smile. It's like, I can't quite get rid of it. So it's between these three, right? Yeah, yeah. Hmm. I'd say this, this one out next. Yeah. It looks like it was trying to do the same thing this one is, but then it got a little bit. Okay, flat one out. That's all right. So now these two. This is tough. Oh no. Well, between these two for me it's easy. That, I take that one. Smiley guy. Yeah. Smiley guy. Smiley guy. Smiley guy. There we go. The winner. Smiley guy. Smiley guy. Consensus. Good work with you. So, I never expected to win this and I've never decorated cookie before. This means a lot to me. I just like, I like when people smile. So I tried to capture that. And thank you so much. This is one of the best moments of my life. Merry Christmas. I didn't want to suck. This year I'm going to expand upon an origami project we've done in the past. So, if you remember a few years back now, I made a star using this pretty origami paper. Fold it in half on the diagonal. Fold it in half on the other diagonal. Open it up. Fold it in half along the rectangle edge and then the other edge so that we have this sort of pattern. Now we're going to fold this point in to here and then back fold. Fold this point in and then back fold that so that we now have this shape. Now we're going to take this and put it to the center fold and then this side and the center fold. Flip it over. Do the same thing on the other side and we need to, so we now have a kite shaped. We now need to just sort of give it a little crease fold like that. Then we're going to open this up. Pull this point up and fold it in on itself. Bring that down. Flip it over and do the same thing on the other side. Crease that down. So we now have another kite shape and we're going to open it up like this. Carefully. This paper is not happy when it's not done right. Oops, I have torn it. But basically we made a star like this. Okay, this looks really bad and I'm sorry. But this year what we're going to do is we're going to take this shape and we're going to continue on to make a poinsettia. So we're going to invert this point down, which essentially means opening it up and folding this point down. And to save an awful lot of time, I've pre-folded it. So we now have sort of the kite with the center bit in. And now what we're going to do is we're going to open up and fold that kite in again. Flip it over, do it on the other side. Okay, so we sort of have this triangle shape. Now, in the center is that little point. So what we're going to do is we are going to fold this up so that the bottom edge is flush with that point. So it kind of looks like that. And then we're going to take this side here and fold it into the center. Do it on the other side. Flip it over. Fold it up to that point. So these two top points should now line up with each other. And again, the sides go to the center. We then turn it this way. Fold it like that. Then we take this point and bring it up to where the other two points are. Fold in the sides. Bring the other point up. Fold in the sides. So we all look like that. Now we're going to kind of open. Carefully open it. Carefully opening it. So that we have this. And we're going to flip it over. And we're going to fold down the backs. And if you tear it down the center, it's not that big a deal. Because you just want to get it out of it. You just want to fold them out of the way so that they sort of fold on top of the points that are on the other side of them. And then you flip it over. You can sort of foof these a bit. Foof these, foof these, whatever. Give them a little three-dimensionality. And there's the green bract. And then we put a red one. And we have a poinsettia. This year I hope you had as much fun as I did. Thank you for joining us at the ACMI Holiday Show. Happy Holidays!