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So, Alex, we thought we would create a basketball
as a container for the gift.
We're gonna make a basketball?
We're gonna make a plaster basketball.
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ALTON: What you have in front of you,
in the big bowl, you have plaster of Paris powder.
It's dry.
And then in the small bowl there, that is powdered tempera pigment,
which is, basically, dried paint.
-We're gonna mix that in... -ALEX: Boom!
Oh!
...with the plaster of Paris with some water
and then you're gonna continue to mix that
until you have something
that has the consistency of pancake batter.
ALEX: Okay.
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So, how's it looking?
-It's looking pretty smooth. -ALTON: Silky smooth.
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So now, what we're gonna do is,
we're gonna pour that into the mold.
We're gonna start by filling the bottom,
which is the one without the hole.
Oh...
ALTON: You are an excellent pourer.
Now that we have the mold about halfway full,
we're gonna add the gift.
Just lay it flat in there,
ALEX: Like that? ALTON: Yup.
And now you're gonna take the second half of that mold...
-ALEX: Okay. -...and you're gonna close it.
And now you have your handy funnel.
ALEX: Fun!
We're gonna use it to pour the rest of that in your funnel.
You're gonna wanna fill that mold
all the way to the top.
ALEX: Okay.
And what we're gonna do is, we're gonna let that dry
for about 72 hours.
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All right, so let's take it out
of that mold very delicately
and see how it looks.
Looking good!
ALEX: Oh! Is that what it's supposed to look like?
It looks like a basketball to me!
I like it.
If you will hand me that,
and I'm gonna wrap it up
in this smiley face tissue paper,
give it a nice little twist
and kind of create a little bon-bon...
So, we're gonna put into the box
our basketball.
I'm gonna add just a little extra tissue paper.
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I thought it'd be fun
and wrap this box
in this colorful duct tape.
[CHUCKLES]
So, you're just gonna go to town on that,
whatever color combination you like,
and wrap this up like a vault.
[TAPE SCREECHING]
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Oh, my gosh.
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Now, we're gonna put it all inside this customized shoe box,
and then you're gonna use the tissue paper there
to really put some tissue all around it
'cause we don't want that sliding around in there.
We don't want to break that plaster ball.
Perfect!
Now, we're gonna wrap it
in this wood grain wrapping paper,
kind of create our own basketball court.
So, now what you wanna do is, take one side of this paper
and pull it over kind of to the edge.
And then you're gonna pull up the other side
and again we're gonna tape the paper to the paper.
Never tape it to the box.
And in this case, I'm gonna use single-sided tape
just to really hold this down.
Anytime I have a rectangular box,
what I do is I turn the box on its side,
and then I press in both sides,
and I kind of create these little triangular flaps on the end.
You're gonna flip it over
and do the same thing on the other side.
Okay.
ALTON: So now, I use the actual box
to fold it down against itself
to make it get a good fold.
And then I pull that up
and then I use "single and ready to mingle" tape.
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There's our basic basketball court.
But, wait, there's more.
So, what I've done here, Alex,
is I just took the cool basketball game that you brought
and I've added double-sided tape on the bottom of this
so that you can just position that onto the box.
ALEX: Boom!
And then I thought, maybe use some of this ribbon
to wrap around and pull it all together.
A little bit of boom.
ALTON: Just like that. ALEX: A little bit of bam.
-There we go! -ALTON: Excellent.
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