- Hello, lovely people and welcome back.
In today's video we're going to be making a book for Rupert.
Limit your expectations, bring them back, bring them back.
There's not text. (laughs)
It's not quite there yet.
I am writing a children's book,
but that's not this video.
We're starting small.
This is a book that you can also make at home.
All you need are photos from the internet,
or the photos you've taken yourself,
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Now on with making a book.
- Hello lovely people.
- Hello.
- And welcome to another Let's Chill and Craft video
with Jessie & Claud.
While our baby naps.
- I like how you've said "another"
like we do them so often.
- We do sometimes.
- We hardly have time to do crafting these days.
(both laugh)
Also like having a baby inspires you to do crafting things
- (gasp) Yes!
- because there's so much stuff on Instagram, like,
about why you're failing as a mother (Jessica laughs)
cause you're not making your child these amazing things
out of kitchen utensils and crafting paper.
- Oh God.
- You know, why haven't you made
those felt ball bobble things stuck to the floor.
- Oh God.
- Yeah. And it's like, why?
- Why can't your eight month old
pick up some lollipop sticks (Claudia laughs)
that have been taped down to floor
- And color coordinate them.
- and not chew them?
- That's not what today's video's about.
- It is kind of about that.
We are aspiring to be those people
by making our child a book.
Our nine month child will be reading his own book
and he will be doing it on his own
because we are bored of reading to him.
- That is very unfair. (Claudia laughs)
He does read by himself kind of.
- No, he does actually, he absolutely loves books.
- Obsessed, I'm gonna get you one of his books.
- I do read them to him sometimes,
but very much Jessica is the favorite parent to read to him
because (Jessica laughs)
she finds the same story so amazing every time.
(Jessica laughs loudly)
Whereas I'm like, "this is so boring now."
And Rupert insists that every book
be read to him at least twice.
- [Jessica] We've put little dots into his books.
Disclaimer, these are super glued.
They're not coming off.
- And we do let him read on his own, but we're always like
- [Jessica] It's supervised reading session.
- Yeah, it's not like we leave him on his own.
- [Jessica] By reading on his own,
we mean, he turns the pages by himself
and we're not hovering over him.
So this for example is a book that Rupert sits and reads.
We just kind of place it in his lap
or he drags it off his shelf.
As you can see, it's got space for his little fingers
to get in and turn each page.
That makes him very happy.
And then he just sits there and turns the pages
and looks at all the little baby faces.
This video, however, is about the fact
that we need to make him his own book.
And it's going to be a song book. Yes.
- So you basically print some pictures,
so like a picture of a bus for "The Wheels on the Bus,"
picture of a fish for like,
"One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught A Fish Alive."
And he loves it when we sing to him
and it'd be really nice to give him the
- option to control the jukebox.
- Yeah, exactly.
- Which is us.
- So he will pick up the book, the idea of this,
he'll get the book, turn it to the song that he wants
by the image that represents that song,
and come to us and point.
And it will be very fulfilling for him
to have control and choice and so on.
But also other things that are more personal, like,
we thought we'd do a photo album
where we like print like family members in the book.
- Yeah, all of his closest family,
and some like people he doesn't see all the time,
and it'll just help him
to build a connection to people's faces.
And then when he does see them he can be like "oh it's you!"
- Yeah, because he loves photos.
- Basically Claudia was giving reasons
why she needed a laminating machine.
So we'll unbox the laminating machine.
- Unboxing video of a laminating machine.
(Jessica gasps and laughs)
These are like my favorite type of videos on YouTube.
A cutter.
- Yeah.
- It's also gonna have a corner rounder.
Quite good, so that's good.
- Oh give me a corner thing.
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
Here's my little corner rounder.
I hope that's the way you stick it in.
I actually have no idea.
I mean, it's not gonna stab a baby in the eye.
- [Claudia] Oh yeah, that's good.
- I mean, I've already saw the list. (laughs)
I just want a corner rounder.
- We're gonna research.
- Yes.
- So what do we need?
We need a bus.
- We need a frog.
- Oh yeah, ♪ jump jump little froggy.
(Jessica sings quietly)
Laminating pouch.
Worked out how to open the pouches.
But I mean, I don't know how to use
the actual machine yet so.
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I mean, after making this book.
I really have to go and have a sit down on the sofa,
watch some more episodes of Grey's anatomy on my smart TV,
because new episodes are not available in the UK yet.
So, next I thought we could go for a fish.
- Yeah.
- I mean, that's a bit of a horrendous looking fish.
(laughs) That's a bit too realistic really, a bit much.
- To be fair, the song is about having my finger
bitten off by a fish. (Jessica laughs)
Maybe the fish is a piranha.
- Or a goldfish.
- More likely you're gonna see a goldfish
in a tank in England.
- Sure.
- I just wanna start laminating. (laughs)
- Oh my God, sorry!
- Just print the bus out at least or something.
Cause then I can get started on that.
Now we'll discover whether or not
there's actually ink in our printer.
I've also got these colored bits of cards.
I thought we can either cut out the fish,
and put it on card like nice neutral colored card like this.
Or we can put it on colored card, this.
- Oh, that's a bit big.
- I just heard it was too big
and then you said it was too big
and then you still pressed print.
- Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, okay fine.
(alarm blares) Cancel. Cancel printing. Cancel printing.
- Why publishing is not as straightforward as you think.
It's hard work making books.
Publishing. (both laugh)
- Right, 35, print.
- Coming up with like which books they're gonna fund.
- 35 printing.
Clearly not our book. (both laugh)
- That's why we're making it ourself.
With our 29.99 laminating machine. (Jessica laughs)
- [Jessica] It's a bus, we're gonna cut it out.
- [Claudia] ♪ The wheels on the bus go round and round, ♪
♪ round and round, round and round. ♪
- So whilst Claudia feeds Rupert,
we are going to have some fun finding other images.
Printed out the frog, Claudia printed out the fish
but it was a bit big.
So I tried to print out again and the printer said, "no."
We're back.
Rupert is awake, but he is playing with some pompoms.
- He is playing with the pompoms, yeah.
He is sitting behind me, currently with the pompoms he's...
(Rupert laughs)
(laughs with Rupert)
moving them from one basket to another basket.
- So far we have a bus, a frog, and a fish.
I think we should throw in our family song.
- Our family song?
- (laughing) Our family song.
- The one I made up that Jessica thinks
it should be in Pocahontas, (Jessica laughs)
Pocahontas the remake, I was like, okay.
- Since we're making a special book for him,
- Yeah, personalize it.
- it should include personalized special things.
- That's true.
- Including this very special song,
which I don't know whether we'll be demonetized
if we sing to be honest.
- Probably (both laugh) cause it names body parts
that aren't often named in children's songs.
- But should be, because children should learn
about all of their body parts.
- Yeah!
- Including their genitalia.
- [Both] ♪ One head two ears two eyes and a nose, ♪
♪ one mouth two shoulders and elbows. ♪
♪ One belly, one mm, ♪
- two mm, and two legs. (laughs)
- Two legs, two legs is fine.
- Can say "legs!"
- [Both] ♪ and ten tiny toes. ♪
- Yay. (children cheering sound effect)
He's like, "who are you singing to?" (both laugh)
"Who's over there?"
- "Who's naked? It's not me."
- "Why they not got on mm and two mms?" (both laugh)
Well, it starts with one head.
- A baby's head?
- Maybe like a baby with hands on his head.
Rupert has learned to put his hands on his head.
He says, "touch your head, touch your head."
- Can't lie, we've taught Rupert a number of tricks.
- Tricks. (laughs)
- (laughs) Come on, we have.
- Skills!
- Skills, yeah!
- He can do clap your hands, touch your head,
wave hello, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.
Maybe we should've like,
another way of doing it would've been like,
if we had a photo of him touching his head.
- This is already taking far longer than it's depicted.
(laughs)
- Well I mean it took an hour to get your hair done so...
- Ah.
- We have a finite amount of time
this baby is going to nap for,
and then he needs constant entertainment.
People say, "how do you have such good hair and be a mum?"
(Jessica laughs)
She uses all of his nap time to do her hair.
- Oh.
- Yeah it rolled away.
- That really rolled.
- It rolled, are you gonna go crawl after it?
- He's like "I can't crawl."
- (laughs) That's really mean, don't do that.
- His little face.
He can just rotate on the spot that we got him.
That's as much as he can do.
Poor little man.
- It's a sore spot for him.
- What, the bit he's constantly rotating on? (both laugh)
That was good, come on.
- No, he goes to baby groups with his baby friends.
- I know, and a lot them are younger.
They're already like crawling around.
- He's the oldest of his baby group friends.
Yeah. The rest of them can crawl.
- No, that's not true.
- Okay, okay.
- Some of them, a couple of them can crawl,
and most of them it is sort of bum shuffling
or doing some kind of commando crawl.
But you know, have they got the 360 bum turn on point?
(Jessica laughs)
Because Rupert has.
- Yeah. It's true.
- It's not a competition guys.
I just realized we got a freaking paper cutter.
(Jessica laughs)
Why am I doing it with scissors?
- All right, now begins the lamination section.
Just to warn you, our son is looking
around the room for more food.
(Rupert screams)
- And that is the discovery that there is none. (both laugh)
- Let me just restock his bowl.
- (laughs) Why does that sound so wrong?
- This is when we find out it takes half an hour to warm up.
I'm just waiting for that green light to go on.
- [Jessica] Yes! Oh my God!
I actually lined that up perfectly.
Now just have to stick the baby onto the card.
And there's the basket of pompoms on the floor.
- [Claudia] Why do they make you do so many like
cut and stick projects at school?
Is it cause it just takes up so much more time?
(Jessica laughs)
And they're like,
"yeah, now you've gotta cut them out, stick them down."
It's cause they know that will take up like half the lesson.
You know I get it for primary school. (Jessica laughs)
But why in like God's name do they make you do
so many cut and stick projects in secondary school? (laughs)
- [Jessica] Maybe they don't anymore.
- It was literally just be for, well, no cause they probably
- [Jessica] Cause they didn't have laptops.
- (chuckling) Yeah. They probably would
have like, you know, Photoshop now.
- [Jessica] In the comments, please let us know.
Do you do cutting and sticking in secondary/high school?
- We had to have like Pritt sticks of this size,
maybe even the mega size ones, (Jessica laughs)
in your pencil case to carry around with you at all times.
Cause like every class at least they'd be like,
"Right, now get your Pritt sticks out." (both laugh)
Wouldn't they?
- [Jessica] Oh my God, geography.
You couldn't get through geography
unless you had all the colors of felt tip pen.
- [Claudia] Are we ready?
- [Jessica] So ready for this.
Okay. Never been more ready for anything.
Oh. Oh. Oh.
- [Claudia] Goodbye bus.
- [Both] Ooh.
- [Jessica] Standing.
- [Claudia] It looks like you put a fish in,
it comes out as a bus. (both laugh)
(light upbeat jazz)
- Yeah.
- Are they hot?
- Yeah.
(Jessica laughs)
(light upbeat jazz)
- Okay. Here we have our four cards.
(light upbeat jazz)
Hello.
- Hi.
- It's the end, we created a book.
- It's so cool! I love it.
So cute.
- See, now he can tell us which song he would like
from his little song book.
He can just come to us.
- Yeah.
- And request a song.
- And it's something he can have forever,
and also it's just like a learning language book as well.
- Yeah.
- Yay!
- There we go, see, we did it!
- I'm proud of us, we did it.
- Aww.
- We're like aspiring moms.
- (laughing) Aspiring moms!
- Aspiring? We are moms.
- Yeah. Hope that was some kind of inspiration for you.
Was that what you were trying to say?
- [Claudia] Inspiring moms, yeah.
- Right, like we hope that
we helped you have some inspiration
for a thing to do with your baby because gosh,
you need lots of things to do with babies.
Thank you so much watching this video!
We are so happy with the way the book turned out.
Rupert already loves the book
and has brought it over to us for a bit of song time
Delightful!
We're gonna have to make him some more books now, goodness.
We have to do some faces ones with family,
probably ones with animals,
but actually including our dog's faces for dogs,
maybe my sister-in-law's cat for cat.
I mean, the possibilities are endless.
If you get any other ideas actually
for cute books that we could make him, let us know.
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And we'd love to see what you can make.
See you on Friday for another video.
Bye. (kiss)
(upbeat cheerful music)