Art for Kids: How to Make a Worm in a Box

Video Transcript

"For the next clip we are going to make a funny little creature hiding in a box. For this project you need an empty cardboard box, some fabric, some fur fabric is good, a needle and thread, scissors, sticky tape, a little bit of glue and a felt tip pen. First of all we are doing to sew the creature. I've got some fur fabric here that strokes down beautifully that way so I'm going to turn it inside out so the furry bit is on the inside and I'm going to stitch up one side and round the top. Perhaps you already knew how to stitch by going up and down and every time you make a stitch make sure you go through both layers of the fabric, up, down, up down all the way up the edge because this is going to be our little green caterpillar. Then when you get to the end where the fold is just go over and over and over and over in the same place and that's the caterpillar so you can cut off the thread. You don't need the needle any more and there he is but he is inside out so we have to turn him very carefully holding on to the bit that we sewed and push him the right way out. Now he is starting to look like a caterpillar. See if he fits on your finger, better go see what he's doing. So we'll get some glue and stitch him on a couple of eyes right up at the top of his head. He's a very funny caterpillar this one, two blobs of glue and a little blob of glue for his tongue. There's his little red tongue made from paper, stick that in to the middle, flat felt tipped pen just to do a dot on his eyes, round and round and he can just be drying there because the glue takes a little while to stick completely. We'll leave that to dry and look at the cardboard box. Now I'm going to go for this corner of the cardboard box to make it the right size and this is where you need a grown up to get you started. Just cutting through the sides, the short way along and up this side. It is quite hard cutting this, around the edge and so I've cut out all of that and I don't need it. Here's the bit I do need, just one corner. There is a flap there that is going to close in and a flap there that is going to close down so we're going to need a bit of sticky tape and luckily I've got some that I just pulled off of my reel. Fix up that corner nice and tight, that's it, and the lid we don't need to fix that. There's the top of the box with the lid, there's the bottom of the box. This is why you definitely need somebody to help you because you are going to cut a hole out of the bottom of the box just big enough for your finger to go through. So I've pushed through the bottom of the box which isn't easy because it is two layers of cardboard. I've cut a hole out so now I can see through the bottom of the box and that is where your little creature is going to live. So we push him in so that his lower end is coming out of the box and that is where your finger goes, one finger in there and what you do is close the lid and when the lid is closed you say, Grandma I have found something interesting that you want to see and you open it up, oh yes it's the caterpillar, it's waving at you and that's how to make a caterpillar of your very own. Bye, Bye."