 and I'm from the Long Beach Public Library. Today, we'll be doing a flower frame craft that we can use from household items. If you haven't signed up for the summer reading program today, go ahead and go to longbeach.beanstack.org to sign up. And if you already signed up, don't forget to use the Activity Code Garden in the Activity tab on Beanstack. So let's get ready to do the craft. I'll be showing you two ways in how to make a flower frame. So these are two of the frames that we'll be making. I'm gonna show you this one first and I'll show you this one second. So let's put this one away and start on our frame. I'll be showing you the supplies that you'll need to make this. We're gonna put this away and we're gonna start with the supplies. So you'll need a cereal box. You're gonna cut it up and we're gonna use the back part. You're going to need a piece of paper, saran wrap, a pen, tape, and scissors. So once you have all of those supplies, you can go ahead and make your frame. I also have glitter markers, paint, and crayons as examples of what you can use or whatever you have at your house you can use to decorate your frame. So now I'll be showing you how to make the frame. We're going to use our cereal box that we just cut up and we're gonna cut the edges to make a nice frame and then we're going to get our piece of paper. So with our piece of paper, we're gonna fold it in half and we're going to use this as to help us trace to make our frame. So I already cut the edges and it's gonna look like this and I already have my outline but I'll show you how I did that. So I took the paper that I folded in half and I put it on top of the cereal box and then you take your pen or your marker, whatever you want to use and you're gonna trace along the piece of paper and you get this, it's really neat. Now, for this part, for the cutting part you might need your parent because you're gonna have to use scissors. I'm not sure if kitty scissors might be able to do it so if you can get somebody to help you cut out the outline, you'll be getting this. I already put the saran wrap on top of it to show you what it already looks like. So when you cut out the saran wrap they're gonna take it along to secure it and then you start off with that and then you're gonna find flowers. So I used my sister's bouquet of flowers that she had so you kind of recycle it. So you're gonna take your flowers and cut it to however height that you want it to be and I'm just gonna show you how to do this. So you're gonna make sure you use the colored side to put the first side of the saran wrap on and you're gonna put the flower on the back and then you get some tape and secure it in the back. Oops, it doesn't look really secure but that's pretty secure for now. That's how you're gonna do that and then now you're gonna get another piece of saran wrap and you're gonna put it over the flowers and then you're gonna secure it and that is how you get this ready. It's really neat. You can also decorate it if you want. You have the option of doing that. I just use markers but you can use glitter, paint, markers, anything that you have in your house to make that frame your own. Okay, so let's get started on the next frame. So for this frame, I'm gonna show you what supplies you need to make this really cute frame. It's a little bit different from the first frame and I feel like you can probably have someone use it by the home. So what I use is I use some popsicle sticks. You can use used popsicle sticks or you can use purchased popsicle sticks from the store and you're gonna glue the sticks together with glue and you're gonna put it together and you're gonna let it dry. So you're gonna need four of these, four. And then you're gonna glue them all together like this and you're gonna make a square. So what I used for the flowers to stick, I used contact paper. In contact papers, I guess you can kind of think of it as a really big tape. Thought on one side sticking on the other. And the cool thing is you can, if you mess up, you can kind of pull it off and you can adjust things kind of. And if you don't have contact paper, you can try using saran wrap and that'll be a cool experiment. Okay, so what I did is on the back, I put contact paper. I cut it to the shape that where I can fit it in the back when I'm showing it in the front and I got some flowers and I cut the stems. I don't know if you can see it, but I cut the stems and I just put the flower heads on top of the contact paper. And that was it. You can decorate the popsicle sticks if you like. And I used yarn and that's it. That's all and it was super easy, fun, and hope you guys get to do this at home. I can't wait to see your results. If you're interested in wanting to learn about the different flowers that we have here around you, we have a great book called Wild Flowers and it tells you about the different flowers that you might see if you're out on a walk. And we also have regular books that have great stories about flowers and what they do and how they help our growth. So that's it. Thank you for listening in and I'll see you guys around soon. Bye.