 Hi, during these trying times of the pandemic, the City of Columbia Parks and Recreation Department realizes that choices can be limited in enhancing one's physical, social and mental well-being. The Parks and Recreation staff have been involved in developing a number of videos in which citizens can participate in and enjoy in the privacy of their own home. These videos consist of arts and crafts, gardening, physical activity and sports instruction with many more to come as we work through this pandemic. The videos will be available to you on a number of our social media outlets. We hope you enjoy and thank you very much. Hi, my name is Bohumila Augustinova with Columbia Earth Center with Parks and Recreations for City of Columbia and today we will be making a puppet out of recycled materials. So I made a little sample here, a little simple dog, but you can make any kind of animals and what are we using today is toilet paper rolls. We're going to use some craft paper, but you can also use scrap of fabrics or magazines and newspapers and a piece of string. I am going to use a yarn, but any kind of string will do, ribbons, twine, whatever you have at home could be used. We also have, I'm using a popsicle stick, but you can use a twig or any kind of piece of wood. The first thing is to decide what kind of animal we're going to make and I have a little dog so I'm going to make a little dog again and I believe that dogs can be any color. So I'm going to use my craft paper first and measure the width of the paper and cut it out. I'm just going to glue this piece of paper on. So you want to glue the whole surface and like with every glue you want to give it a few seconds to start working. If you put the glue on a surface and put the paper on it right away it is not going to stick. So you want to have maybe 15 seconds before you actually start gluing. Put this around the roll and try to make it nice and neat, but you don't have to use paper if you don't have a craft paper at home. You can use fabric scraps, you can use magazine paper or you can just use your crayons and pastels and draw designs. You do not have to use craft paper. I am going to put a little extra glue here to close it all up. Now the head of the piece doesn't have to be as big so we're going to cut it I would say maybe to half. Okay so now that we have the base of the body and head done we're kind of going to figure out where we're going to make the holes for legs and the neck for when we're putting the strings through. So we are going to need four holes on the bottom of the body and two holes on the top. I kind of want to make sure that they are in the same area so you don't have a crooked legs or anything like that. And I do love this tool, you can buy it in any craft store. If your mom sows or your grandmother sows she probably has one of these at home and they're super safe to use. So we're going to make four holes right here and two holes on the top. And this would be the part to do any kind of decorations. I like to use scrap paper every bits and piece of it and so this is perfect. If you already have pieces like this just use them. So I have a couple stripes or three stripes I'm going to attach them here. I hope my dog won't look too much like a zebra. I do like using glue sticks for projects like these because it's just not as messy. If you're using regular glue it's a little messier but it can be done just when you do so. Maybe use a brush to keep things little neater. Okay so now let's give a dog eyes. We actually have a little set of googly eyes but you don't have to use those. You can use markers or buttons or scraps of paper. You kind of want to decide where you want the eyes to be so I'm going to mark it with my pencil and I would like to give these little buddy ears. I actually really like to use the leftover of my roll and kind of do that as a support for my ears. You kind of want to draw a tear drop and I'm going to draw it actually on the roll itself. You cut it out and use it to make sure your ears are matching. Glue this on to our toilet paper roll cutouts. So we can attach them to the dog and just make sure when you're gluing them on the actual head you don't cover the hole that we already punched through and you're going to have to hold this just for a few seconds again for the glue to attach. Okay so now we have a head and the body kind of done and let's put it all together. So I have a yarn together today with me but as I said you can use any kind of string anything you have at home could be done. I'm going to pull this string through one of the legs, through the inside of the tube and down inside of the leg. So we want to make sure our legs are about same length but for right now we kind of want to keep them a little longer so we have enough room to make a knot on the bottom. So I have some beads here today. If you don't have beads you can use a lid from your soda bottle and these are really great. They have a big holes in them so they're really easy to string through. So the best way to kind of ensure that the bottom bead stays on that kind of holds everything I'm actually going to loop it around and tie the knot above the bead. Move this out of the way so you actually see what I'm doing. Tie a knot, let's make a double just for safety or you can put a little bit of glue there, piece off and now the beads are not going anywhere they're just there. Okay let's do the other side and great thing about doing the legs this way is that you don't have to measure and worry about how you make your legs symmetrical because then you can just adjust the length like this. Alright now we have a front legs let's give it a back legs. Alright so now our dog has a legs and let's attach the head to the body and here you actually will have to make a knot when you pull it through the hole. You can start with the knot and pull it through the bottom hole and again I'm making a double knot just to make sure that everything's secure. We want to attach it to our popsicle stick we're going to get our yarn again and we're going to cut two slightly longer pieces they're not going to have to be the same length but we can adjust that. So the longer piece will go on the back of the dog's body and the shorter piece is going to go on the head and we're going to I'm actually not going to attach this just yet to the popsicle stick I'm going to wait when I have the front done as well. Okay now we kind of want to make sure that our dog is even when we're attaching it. So I'm going to give it a little bit of a trim over here kind of make sure that this part and this part are about the same. And now we're going to attach them to our stick. We just wrap it around give it a nice tight knot over there. As I said before if you don't have popsicle sticks at home you can use any piece of wood you can use twigs of course you can play with this and add tail which we can do right away or tongue or anything you really want to do with your dog right because he's yours you can get creative you can decorate your stick as well. If you're using if you're doing a tail best thing to use is a little pipe cleaner. You can cut those very easily and I am actually going to tape it on the inside of the dog's body. When pipe cleaners are super fun you can actually do the legs with pipe cleaners as well and we can give a happy tail to the dog. Let's give him a little bit of a pink one. I have a little bit of pink paper here. I'm just going to do a small little cut and this shape should be somewhat like a tear drop just without the point on the top. All right now we're going to tape it in. We made a dog.