hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world today we're gonna make some friends some
very natural friends potato people did you know that one of our beloved
toys actually started with some plastic and a real potato head can you guess who
it is mmm-hmm mr. potato head when he first
started out you would buy a box that had a plastic nose and plastic eyes and
plastic hats and arms and all that sort of stuff but you provided the potato
well we're going to take our own take on Mr. Potato Head and what we're going to
be doing is using a real natural potato and we're going to add some eyes and
arms and all kinds of fun stuff now to do this all you need is your potato and
then some things to stick in it so I found that things like toothpicks and
pipe cleaners and even things like popsicle sticks work really really well
now whenever you're using something sharp like a toothpick or a pen please
make sure that you have adult supervision we don't want anybody
getting stuck now first thing I need to do is I'm gonna add some eyes now I
should tell you this when you're gonna use these potatoes you want to make sure
that you've cleaned them first so you want to wash them really good dry them
really good and then let them set for 24 hours to get all that moisture out of
them because if you have a wet potato nothing's gonna stick to it so I'm gonna
use glue dots because I found that glue dots are the best way to adhere things
and I'm gonna put a couple little googly eyes right here on my potato now already
it's taken on his little personality isn't he cute but now I'm gonna add some
arms and some legs now I think I would like my potato to actually have some
very long legs so I've got some coffee stirrers here and wait until you see this
this is just unbelievable I'm gonna have him so that he actually sits down and
I'm just gonna push it right on in there see that it just goes in really easy now
he's got some very long legs now because he's gonna tip backwards I'm gonna add a
little piece of coffee stirrer just gonna take some scissors here
I'm gonna cut that so I've got about a third of a coffee stirrer and what I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna stick that in his backside here give him a little tail and
that basically is gonna make his legs sturdy and stand out in front so that
now he sits and he doesn't rock and roll okay now I want to give him some arms
and I love using pipe cleaners for arms because they can get very expressive so
I'm gonna take a pink pipe cleaner here I'm going to cut it in half and I'm
gonna use my toothpick because these aren't quite as strong as wood I'm gonna
take my toothpick and I'm just gonna make a little hole and then I'm just
gonna stick my pipe cleaner right on in there you go
see now I can make him have a little bendy arm and I'm gonna put one on the
other side too so they has two arms there we go
now I'm gonna make him very patriotic I happen to have this little flag you know
it's one of these little flags that you can get to to go in cocktails and stuff
like that I'm gonna put that in his little hand there he's very patriotic
okay now he needs a smile I think and for my smile I'm actually going to use a
pen now this is one of those waterproof pens but any kind of pen will really
work I gave him a little smile there and now I think maybe what I'd like to do is
give him a little nose and I'm gonna use a puff ball for nose I think I'm gonna
use a small one and again I'm gonna use my glue dots for the nose I'm just gonna
stick that right in the middle and there he is now I think I'm gonna turn my he
into a she so I think I'm gonna use a little bit of lace that I have here now
instead of gluing the lace on what I'm gonna actually do is I'm gonna actually
use I'm gonna measure it here give it a little snip and I'm going to use a pin
to hold this into place so I've just got some pins right here again remember any
time you're using something sharp like a pin adult supervision is required I'm
going to turn this around I'm gonna take one end of my lace I'm just gonna stick
that little pin in there I'm gonna wrap it around bring it around to the back and
hold it in place unpin it and then repin it there we go
and there is my cute little fourth of July fella he's looking very very
patriotic let me show you some of the other ones that we happen to make here
you can see I've made a lion and what I've done is I've actually used a little
radish for the head and I'm going to show you right now in just a moment here
how to make an animal out of a radish and you can see here this one is very
very fancy this is my ballerina she's doing some very nice pirouettes this is
the baby and of course the babysitter and now let me show you really quickly
how to make a pet out of a radish now for the radish pet all you're gonna need
are four toothpicks excuse me five toothpicks I'm gonna need one
toothpick for the head I'm gonna stick it in like that let me stick that into
the body I'm using just two radishes here there you go there's your neck and
your head and your body and then I'm just gonna take my four toothpicks and
stick them in four legs and now I'm gonna trim these because he's gonna be a
very very large animal whoop wait gotta adjust the leg there we go and now you can
see now I've got a little animal a little radish animal to go with my
little potato person I can make an entire family this way for more
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