Little bit of pressure [gargles] [Applause]
it's time for a little game of spin the badges
yes it is
Tom come and join us because I'm going to ask you to pick one of these numbers and behind
each of these numbers is one of the Blue Peter Badges and that correlates to a question that
my lovely assistants are gonna ask you are you ready I am so ready yes the pressure is
on Tom okay do us proud bring it on right number one go for it which one I'm gonna go
for three number three number one is number three that is the purple badge uh so it's
a question from a BP fan over to you Evie do you have any pets oooh good question I
do have any pets I've got a cat called Princess Leia that is brilliant yeah love that big
fan right next one uh let's go for four number four is the sport badge uh fans earn this
for getting involved in a brand new sport so over to you Anaya whilst you skip tell
us what's a new sport you like to try okay while I skip brand new sport that you haven't
skipped for a while okay I know one so for Chris oh yeah okay for Christmas a couple
of years ago my wife got me a unicycle I'm not sure if that's a squat it counts I want
to learn to unicycle that is brilliant are you still skipping and two weeks ago we had
unicyclists on the show that were amazing well done multi talented this guy next one
uh let's go for seven seven the classic the blue badge we get loads of fans sending in
drawings of Henry to earn theirs over to Ariana you have 10 seconds to draw yourself in a
story go 10 seconds to draw yourself from now ten nine eight seven six five four three
two one
that got progressively quicker that's for sure done so that's me look at that is there
anything you can't do that's not a real question uh pick a badge okay let's go for number one
number one is the green badge this one is all about nature and the environment Nina
you have our green badge question if you could plant a tree that could grow anything what
would it grow well that's a good question oh my gosh a tree that could grow anything
um I think what about a tree that could grow books and stories so when you wanted a new
book you could go out to your story tree and you could take a book down and you'd have
a brand new story how do you think of these things oh my gosh right next badge uh let's
go for two number two is the orange badge the competition badge we can't wait to hear
the BP fans adventure stories when they apply for our Amazing Authors competition let's
hear our orange badge question from Toby tell us what your dream adventure would be oh my
dream adventure I think it would probably be to go to space yes like the invisible is
like the invisible lizard love that next one six six is the music badge as designed by
Mr Ed Sheeran This is awarded for trying something new musically so here's Zac with the music
badge question you're a musician yourself but can you gargle the BP theme tune that's
what I'm talking about go on Zac love that okay I'll do my best no pressure a little
bit of pressure [gargles] [Applause] is that kind of like it that was far better than I
could have done
that was pretty good Tom thank you so much that was amazing and thank you so much to
my wonderful assistants so now check these out these are story cubes
and Tom and I are going to be showing you
how to make them but first Tom what is a story cube so you have to come up with a story based
on what the cube lands on so it's different every time so loads of options makes sense
that makes sense but Tom what are the key ingredients to a good story well first you
need a character and you need a location okay and you need an action so some something for
them to do gotcha that makes sense that makes sense well we're going to be making three
story cubes starting with a character Cube we are going to start with the basic shape
which means you need a story cube template from the Blue Peter website some scissors
glue or a sticky tip a pen or pencil and some colouring pens right here okay what are you
gonna draw I'm going to attempt a dinosaur I love dinosaurs so I'm going to try out a
dinosaur what are you going to draw attempt being key word there well I'm going to attempt
to draw Henry we'll see should we get started okay alright let's give this a go and actually
uh Tom while we're doing this we're joined by Matt and Eloise hi guys hi Matt you have
a question for Tom how'd you come up with your characters well from now on it would
be by story cube but before that um so I actually I write a lot of books about dinosaurs because
I love dinosaurs so quite often it will be about things that I love Eloise do you have
a question for Tom why did you want to become an author I just always loved telling stories
so I was I'm also a songwriter so I was in a band first which is basically telling stories
but through song and then I thought it'd be fun to tell stories through books as well
amazing stuff I'm actually onto my colouring in Tom so you're a quick drawer I don't mean
to brag okay right about blasting ahead if you Henry it's not it's not good once you
finish one character you got to fill the rest of these out you can also write their names
as well if you would like to or you could just write the names if you're feeling that
as well Tom I'm excited to see what you have now done just colouring him in and now he
looks like he's a furry dinosaur but that I'm we're going with it that's okay you can
do whatever you like it's your character oh okay what do you call the dinosaur uh Tim
this is uh Tom's dinosaur Tim very very nice well listen we've got to fill the rest of
these in I'll let you say it Tom oh yes okay here's one we made earlier
now I got the shape cut out like this next what we got to do is fold this up so we're
gonna make the folds like this and then once we've done the folds we're gonna glue this
together with either a glue stick or some double-sided tape are you ready for this yes
let's give this a go let's try to make it work and actually Eloise you have another
question for Tom what is your favourite sandwich filling my favourite sandwich filling I think
is probably crisps all right let's see I have finished my cube and they're staying together
I'm more amazed than anyone else trust me what have you guys got on your cubes Mwaksy
yes what do you have in yours Eloise I have a polar bear a wizard a pirate a princess
a baker and a baby oh nice very nice very very good no we've got one cube done Tom what
is next okay so you've got your character now you need a location cube so that is a
place where your story is going to take place so it could be somewhere you know it's like
a school or your home or somewhere completely made up after that you need an action cube
this is something for your character to do so it could be find treasure or learn to fly
let your imagination run wild well Tom we've got a challenge for you so we're going to
use our story cubes to help you create a story here in the BP Studio are you up for that
yeah I love a challenge why not you can do it you're an author Eloise you've been doing
characters do you want to roll the character dice lizard a lizard a lizard have a lizard
good start okay Matt you've been doing locations there's your cube space in space a lizard
in space I'm loving this story already last one this is action becomes invisible I don't
know how you're going to do this but I have confidence in you
that's quite the start to a story you've got five minutes have a good little think but
let's count Tom in everybody ready in 3 2 1 write
Tom your time is up you had to write a story about a lizard in space that went invisible
yes are you ready to tell us the story I'm ready are you ready I don't know let's find
out are you all ready okay here we go this is called the first lizard in space once upon
a time there was a lizard and he wanted to be an astronaut so he went to the spaceship
but a mean Spaceman said lizards can't be astronauts sad so the lizard was sad so he
went home and he laid down under the stars the place where he wanted to go when he saw
a shooting star and he remembered you can make a wish on a shooting star so he closed
his eyes and made a wish when he woke up he was invisible ah so he ran straight back to
the spaceship straight past the mean space man who couldn't see him on board the rocket
and blasted up into space where he lived happily ever after among the stars [Applause] such
a good ending
the next best seller in the making I think
I loved that Mwaksy but I want more Blue Peter have to do is download
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