Hey all it's Joshua Williams your outgoing President at the Guild of Students. Now
I've got a little treat for you. Today I will be showing you how to make your
very own graduation cap. I know it sounds weird but it's exciting bear with me. With
a little bit of innovation a little bit of craftiness and using some strange
items from around the house I'm going to help you create your own graduation cap
that you can throw and take photos in to your heart's delight. So first of all
you're going to take any piece of cardboard you can find around the house
it might be a shoe box might be an ASOS delivery or in my case because I
love to eat it might be a takeaway that you've been having pretty much every
single day since lockdown started but that's not the point. So luckily for me
this is already in a beautiful square so what you're going to do you're
going to cut it along the lines to create a perfect square.
And BAM look at that
beautiful. Really putting in my GCSE in art and designed to the test. So now that
you've got your beautiful square also I'd really recommend this take away but
now you've got this square you need to jazz it up a little bit so ideally if
you've got some black paper that's fantastic. I however do not but in the
mission of sustainability we're going to reduce reuse and recycle so what I do
have is some wallpaper. So although I'm using wallpaper or wrapping paper you
can use anything that you have at your disposal in your house it could be
newspaper it could be old books or magazines some of you might be crafty
too some of you might already have some craft paper and that's fine
good for you but anybody can do this. It is really really simple and easy to do.
So I'm going to cut myself a little sheet of wrapping paper like that it
just needs to be bigger than your original square. What you're going to do
is put that beautiful little square inside of your sheet of paper and fold
it all over all nice, make it tight just like the outfits I've been
serving this year!
That was so dramatic! So a little bit of sellotape there just to keep it down.
BAM! So now you should have something that looks like . . . oh that looks
pretty! Okay cool.
So next up we've got our strip here and what we're going to do
is mould it together into a little . . . so it doesn't need to be perfect right now it will
get there I know it looks like, my belly after lockdown!
Got like some weird circle thing
What we're going to do next is what 2020 did to each of us and just
mess it up a little bit to be honest, so along the bottom you just keep doing
lots of little cuts. Again it doesn't need to be perfect life isn't
perfect we're not perfect but as long as you do your best that's all that matters.
So we've got this and it kind of looks a little bit a little bit strange. I'm
going to fold each of these back almost like they're little tabs. It's going to look
like this. So now we're going to get our pizza box couture and we're going to
crush that down onto there also I've just realised that I've made this far
too long so I'm going to be cutting a little bit
off the top as well just to make it a little bit smaller.
There we go look at that much better already.
What we're going to do now is directly in the centre we're going to get our
scissors a knife a pencil whatever you want to call it I don't judge you
live your best life and we just going to score a little hole directly in the
centre just like so and then we're going to get some string. I think this is string I
found in the shed I haven't told mom that I took it but
that's okay she doesn't need to know. I'm going to roll off a really really really
really really long bit and what I'm going to do is sync it up and then just
keep and then just keep folding it in half and then towards the bottom of it
I'm just going to roll this around and then if there's a way of being able to kind
of tuck it under so I've made a little loop there. I'm just going to tuck that under.
I have no idea i thought this was string it's sticky, I don't like this texture but
I'm committed to this video I'm committed to each of you! With these loops at the top
we're also going to open all of them out like that and give it a wiggle.
This definitely looks like spaghetti what's some kind of food but you know
what it's okay. And then with this little bit here I'm just going to roll that
into a nice little point and we're going to thread that through the hole there and
the little nut should stop it from falling out. So we're just going to get
some more sellotape and stick that down. And now are you ready for the grand
reveal? I'm gonna do a little TikToc transition.
And wow would you look at that - and it balances. I've got such a big
head guys I'm sorry! If you have a problem that I have which is that it
doesn't stay on your head properly you can always get a little headband and
attach it with some glue or some sellotape on the side you can keep it there. But
in all seriousness I know it's not the graduation that we might all want but
it's a graduation unfortunately are getting at the moment however the
University is putting together a really really fantastic itinerary of events for
a virtual graduation ceremony in collaboration with the Guild as well. You
might see some familiar faces there and although it's not a substitute for the
main ceremony hopefully it's a way that we can still celebrate all of your achievements
over the last couple years at Birmingham. But now although I've graduated I'm
going to do again, so three two one