Mascot Make Blue Peter

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Coming up on today's live Blue Peter,

we meet some podgy pets who are going from fat to fit.

Find out how to turn old winter gloves into your very own personal mascot.

And we reveal the winning name and design in our Blue Peter plane competition.

-Hello, hi.

-Hello, welcome to Blue Peter.

Let's start today's show by having a look at

some of the trick photographs that you have been sending in.

It's because Barney taught you how to do a technique called perspective photography.

Barney's a very big fan.

Perspective photography is where you make big things looks small and small things look big.

This dog looks bigger on telly than he appears in real life.

This picture is sent in by Lauren and Niamh.

This is perspective photography at its best.

Lauren is holding Niamh in the palm of her hand.

Very simple to do, very effective.

Barney's loving it, as you can see.

This is Katie.

-Katie's standing on top of the world.

-Brilliant.

A great idea, a lovely picture. Thank you.

Grace and Poppy used a Wellington boot.

She sat behind it so it looks like

she's popping out of the boot.

If you've got any dolls or anything with hands to hang over the welly,

put that at the front and pretend they're your hands.

It looks like you're inside it. It's cool and effective.

Ellis and Luka have done something similar.

-One of them is climbing out of a mug.

-Brilliant, love it.

This one's genius. The robot is actually stuck to the window.

Ieuan sent this in. The robot is stuck to the window.

He's put him on top of the greenhouse by moving the camera up and down over the robot.

Very clever. Love your stuff. Please keep it coming in.

We may read some more out at the end of the show.

We know that you love personalising and customising your things,

your folders and school bags.

We've come up with a new way for you to turn old gloves into mascots,

so you can really make your bits and bobs your own.

Why is it that after a long, hard winter you can only ever seem to find one glove?

In fact, people have even started their own blogs, websites and

Twitter feeds all dedicated to the phenomenon that is the lost glove.

But we've got a way for you to transform those single gloves

into a cool new toy.

Have a look at these.

It's an example of upcycling, which means turning an item

you can't use any more into something brand new.

This is going to cost you next to nothing

because the whole point is you use things laying around the house.

So old redundant gloves, bits of string, buttons, pipe cleaners,

whatever you've got.

Be as creative as you like.

You can make monsters, animals, loads of different colours.

The sky is the limit. What are you going to do?

The glove I have is brown.

I'm going to make a Barney the dog toy.

I found this old mountain-biking glove.

I think it would make a really cool robot.

Time to get cracking.

First, you need to decide which bits of the glove you're going to use

for the different body parts of your toy.

If I want these to be the legs and that to be the body,

I mark it out on there and use that as a guide

so I don't make any mistakes when I'm cutting the glove out.

Mark out which bits of the glove are going to be

the legs, arms and body of your toy.

Mine's going to need ears, I could use the wrist bit for that

or maybe I could use that bit to make the head.

-You'll probably want an eye on your robot?

-Oh yeah, a bionic eye.

It can see for miles. All robots have them.

Once you've finished your plan

it's time to cut out the different sections of your glove.

You might want to get an adult to help.

That will be Barney's legs.

I can see that coming together. Yeah.

I'm taking these gloves back - rubbish!

Then, use a needle and some thick thread to sew up all the individual sections,

but make sure you leave a little gap in each one.

OK, I've sewn up all my body parts,

we now need to put something in the middle of them.

You need to stuff it.

You can get stuffing from any craft shop,

or you could use cotton wool, tissue,

anything that is going to bring your dog, dinosaur or robot to life.

Fill the body parts with stuffing and then sew up the holes.

You can also use pipe-cleaners.

I'm going to put a pipe-cleaner in Barney's tail.

I've stitched some of the glove around this pipe-cleaner.

-Look, you can bend his tail.

-That's brilliant!

Once the individual parts are finished,

it's time to sew the different sections of the body together

until your toy is complete.

Now it's time to add the features.

I'm going to give Barney some goggly eyes.

I'm going to use a button with a bit of pipe-cleaner

through the middle of it, it's going to be his bionic eye.

He can hypnotise you with it!

You some PVA or non-toxic fabric glue to stick on the features.

Or just sew them up, you can be as creative as you like

and accessorise your toy so that it's personal to you.

There you have it, a great bit of upcycling

to turn your old single glove into a brand new toy.

How cute is Barney?

IMITATES BARNEY: Hello, hello!

That's nothing. Watch this!

ELECTRONIC ROBOT NOISES

DOG BARK

I was a little bit scared by that but luckily things have calmed down

and he's now just sat chilled in the studio, behaving himself.

If you want any more information on how to make these toys,

head over to the Blue Peter website.

You'll find everything you need to know there.

We're going to take it a step further and turn these toys into

mascots that you can hang off your rucksacks or even your pencil case.

You need to attach it to your school bag.

You can do this by taking an old key ring.

Take off the part that you don't want, the plastic fob,

so that you're left with the metal part.

I'm getting the giggles because

-he pulls my leg about the way I say key ring.

-Key ring.

Stop bullying me. Key ring.

When you are left with the metal part,

use that to attach to your mascot.

If you haven't got an old key ring,

you can buy one from a craft shop.

Because these are made out of wool,

they're pretty easy to attach.

All you do is pierce your mascot with the key ring.

And then, easier said than done,

then you can attach it to your school bag.

-You've got yourself a mascot.

-If you don't have a key ring,

you can take a bit of string about 10cm long, fold it over into a loop

and stitch it to the back of your toy.

I'm going to add one more loop here.

Once you've done that, cut off the thread like so.

Then you want to feed the end of the string

through the hole on the zip part of your pencil case.

Then open it into a big loop and feed the toy through.

That way, when you give it a pull,

it's now fastened to the pencil case.

A simple mascot you've made from a toy from the website.

Please get in touch and show us if you have a go.

We love it when we do something and you try it at home.

Send us pictures and we'll show them next week.

If you send us a photograph,

we might be able to send you a Blue Peter badge.

We're always been told to eat healthily and exercise plenty,

but the same can be said about our pets.

This is true. A third of cats in the UK are overweight or obese,

no, sorry, a quarter of cats and a third of dogs in the UK.

That's a lot. That's 6 million fat pets.

It's quite a serious matter because if your pet is fat,

they can get seriously ill.

We sent Live 'N' Deadly's Naomi Wilkinson

to meet some porky pets who are doing something about it.

I just gave Barney some chocolate!

This might look like an ordinary vet's.

Lots of animals sitting around, waiting their turn.

But there are a couple of pets here who are more anxious than most.

And that's because they're here for their weigh-in.

Pet obesity is becoming a huge problem in the UK.

So veterinary charity, the PDSA, have set up a Pet Fit Club programme

to help overweight animals slim down.

Meet Fifi the cat and Deco the dog.

They're both here because their love of food

has given them whacking great waistlines.

Fifi was found abandoned and starving.

Her new owners believe this has given her an overactive appetite.

Deco is a Labrador-Retriever cross who loves treats and stealing food.

And this is the man trying to help them reach their target weights,

vet, Sean Wensley.

And first in for his check-up is Deco.

Jan, how did Deco get this big?

Everybody gave him treats on top of his normal meals.

The neighbours used to feed him over the fence.

-So, Molly, did he pinch your food?

-Yeah!

-What did you used to feed him?

-Crisps, biscuits.

-Not any more, then?

-No.

'Now that Deco has been on Sean's weight-loss programme

'for four months, the pounds are starting to come off.'

So it can be dangerous for your pets to be overweight?

Yeah. We all love our pets. They're a member of the family.

And although they love treats,

in the long term, it's really having some bad effects.

We'll have to see if he's shed any more pounds

at his weigh-in later.

A dog of Deco's size should be eating 350g of dog food a day.

But he was actually eating his dog food plus his favourites,

like yoghurt, chicken, crisps,

and on some days, 33 buns!

Next up to see Sean the vet, it's fat feline, Fifi.

So, Monica, how did Fifi get this size?

At any opportunity she wants to eat as much as possible.

So is it purely down to overeating?

Most pet food that we give our cats and dogs are complete,

which means they contain everything a pet needs.

As soon as we start giving extra things as treats and scraps,

that's when their bodies struggle to deal with the extra nutrients.

Even a small treat can be harmful.

Giving them a single glass of milk is the equivalent of a human eating,

wait for it, a whopping one, two, three,

four and a half hamburgers!

But it's not only diet that's important.

How long should they exercise for?

A dog should be doing at least half an hour twice a day.

So that's Deco and me well and truly worn out!

Time to see how Fifi's getting on with her workout.

# What's new, pussycat?

# Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa. #

What's that?! SHE LAUGHS

'Then again, maybe not!'

Just not interested!

At least one of them had a good workout today,

but the day's not over yet.

It's time for the dreaded weigh-in!

Fifi should weigh 4.5kg.

At her heaviest, she weighed 9.3kg.

At her last weigh-in, she was 7.8kg.

It's been four weeks since her last weigh-in.

So is she any lighter?

Come on, Fifi!

Oh!

Exactly the same, 7.8.

She's lost nothing. Are you disappointed?

A little bit, but I suspect she is still stealing food

-when I've been busy.

-Fifi!

Good luck next week.

'I suppose the good news is she hasn't put any more on!

'Next up, it's Deco's turn to hit the scales.'

I don't know who is more nervous for this,

Deco or you! THEY LAUGH

Deco should weigh 35kg.

At his heaviest, he weighed 53.5kg.

At his last weigh-in, he was 43.1kg.

But what does he weigh today?

It's the moment of truth.

He's trying to cheat and put half of his weight on the floor!

The tension is killing me!

-40.8.

-40.8?!

THEY CHEER Yes!

So, Deco loses an impressive 2.3kg.

Nice one!

Well, these guys are finally on the road to a happy and healthy life.

Here's to a fitter and slimmer Fifi and Deco!

Thanks, Naomi!

This Pet Fit Club is really starting to catch on.

He is loving it!

Working out all the time in his sweatbands!

He's done two marathons this morning!

He's worked hard! He's like his mum!

Why don't you e-mail us? What is your pet's routine?

What do you do? Do you exercise them?

Do they sit there eating chips? Tell us!

How do you stop giving them scraps?

I give him scraps and it's naughty.

And you give him chocolate!

Still to come on today's Blue Peter...

Stay tuned, we're about to reveal

the winner of the Blue Peter plane competition.

And Hollyoaks actor, Kieron Richardson,

shares his favourite book with you.

That aircraft you just saw is an amazing piece of technology.

It uses the latest design and latest electronics to fly it.

But it could be used for the BBC, so they could use aerial footage

to cover things like the Olympics or football matches.

We gave you the chance to name and design it,

and you didn't let us down.

We had over 1,500 entries and some fantastically creative designs

and some brilliant suggestions for names.

These are just a few of them.

You can see all kinds of bright colours and different patterns.

The dragon eye, the wings of a moth, there.

I particularly like this one,

which was sent in by Millie, and she's called hers 'Overview'.

There was one entry that soared above the rest of the entries,

And when the judges chose the winner,

I went along to surprise her.

You've joined me in a secret airfield location.

Don't worry about the pilot costume, all will be clear.

We're doing the final testing for the giant remote-control aircraft -

bit of a mouthful, but not any more, thanks to a lucky Blue Peter viewer

who won the competition to rename and redesign said aircraft.

She's called Izzy. She's out there now

and has no idea that she's won. Let's go tell her.

Oh, and she has no idea I'm here, either.

So, disguise ready...

Chocks away.

'Izzy is waiting patiently with her mum.

'I wonder if she'll see through my disguise and comedy walk.'

-Hello.

-Nice to meet you.

-You entered the competition, didn't you?

-Yep.

-And you also watch the show, don't you?

-Yeah.

Hi!

Follow me over here. Let me show you something.

'Izzy doesn't know

'she's about to see her design on the remote control plane.'

-Wow.

-That's my design.

-Pardon?

-That's my design.

-That's your design?

-Yeah.

Izzy, you've won the competition.

-Oh, wow.

-Well done.

'Izzy impressed the judges with her use of vibrant colours

'and her choice of name for the plane, the I Flyer.'

What a great name for an aircraft. How do you feel

seeing your design that was on paper, on the plane?

It's really cool, and I didn't think that I would ever win.

-How did you come up with the design?

-I just sort of liked the colour range

and I thought of a really groovy pattern and put them together.

It looks amazing in the sky.

-Would you like to see it fly?

-Yeah.

-Come on, then.

Here we go.

The newly named I Flyer takes to the skies.

-It's amazing, isn't it?

-Yeah.

It's not just the name and colourful design that helped Izzy win.

She also added a special message to the I Flyer's undercarriage.

Hello, down there.

"Hello, down there!"

What made you put that?

The thought it would be flying over people, so they could see it.

It's a friendly plane.

It says hello to you when it flies over. It's a great idea.

The I Flyer isn't just for show.

It has an on-board camera that will be used by the BBC

to capture aerial footage.

But before we go, we have one more little surprise for Izzy.

You can't take away the real thing. I know you'd like to.

But the guys at Southampton University made you your own I Flyer

to thank you for designing such a brilliant plane

and giving it that iconic name. Izzy, congratulations.

-Thank you.

-It's a pleasure.

-Aw!

-We had a great day, didn't we, Izzy?

You got not only your own I Flyer, but also an orange Blue Peter badge

as you are our competition winner.

-Congratulations.

-Congratulations, Izzy. It's only 15 days

until the Olympics start in London. I'm not the only one who's excited.

-I get excited when you do.

-All over the country,

people are catching Olympic fever. We know you guys are excited.

You've sent us collages, photos, drawings.

-It's just around the corner.

-Blue Peter's Big Olympic Tour continues.

We were meant to be in the Isle of Wight but the weather's been rubbish

so I'm sorry if you're expecting us there, but don't worry.

We'll be in Kings Park in Bournemouth

from 9am on CBBC for our live show

and then at 10am we have a live event for the rest of the day.

Loads of things you can do. You can be a sports reporter

with green screen technology, you can ride some cool bikes

and there's even a Horrible Histories tent.

As part of Blue Peter's Big Olympic Tour,

each week Barney and I take on four celebrities in an Olympic event.

-This week it was diving. Your host is Dan Walker.

-Why are you laughing?

She's our joint leader - singing star Laura.

He's our other leader - strictly dancer Brendan.

she's in need of points - former Emmerdale actress Adele.

Just too cool for school - it's MC Romeo.

She is closing in on the leaders - it's our own Helen.

And tennis champion from last week - it's Barney.

We had a Blue Peter one-two in the tennis last week.

-Everyone feeling the tension for this event?

-Yes.

Today we have an event that requires core strength,

unbelievable agility, and crazy amounts of courage.

We're diving, with someone who knows his stuff.

This is a silver medal from Athens owned by a man who was on Team GB,

now a BBC commentator - Leon Taylor!

CHEERING

-What will you teach our motley crew?

-The good news is, I won't ask you

to go all the way to the highest diving board, the ten-metre board.

That would be crazy,

but I will ask you to dive from the three-metre platform

and the person who hits the water closest to vertical

with the smallest splash will receive the highest mark

-from the judge, who unfortunately is me.

-You have to impress Leon.

-You need to learn how to survive the dive!

-Yay! Come on!

The first task seems easy. Jumping in off the side.

After a bit more practice, up to the three-metre board

the competition will be held from.

And they soon find out it's not as easy as it looks,

-especially for our leader, Brendan.

-I'm being told what I'm doing wrong

and I can't correct it, I'm trying hard to correct it.

It's not correct. I'm getting annoyed with myself.

So, competition time.

Each athlete has two dives marked out of ten by Leon,

and their highest score will count. In the first round,

Helen was most impressive, scoring seven out of 10.

At the other end was Brendan,

who only managed a four. Here are the points after round one.

Into the second round of dives now.

Romeo was not able to improve on his first score, getting another six.

-Laura, however, did improve, getting a six as well.

-Yes!

Next up, Adele, capable of higher than her first score of five.

Could she deliver? Here's Jonathan Pearce.

Adele, can she improve?

Concentration, little bit of a spring!

Ooh, a twitch off-centre

and that's a good seven.

Helen got seven on her first dive. She knows she has to improve.

Good entry. Little bit to the side, but perfectly vertical entry.

It's got an incredible eight from the judge!

Barney also improved, getting a six,

-leaving just Brendan to dive.

-Come on, Brendan!

-Go, Brendan!

The pressure's really on, and he doesn't look comfortable, does he?

This isn't his event! Not bad,

but I think he just over-rotates there as he hits the water.

And as he comes up, he'll want to know what mark he's got.

Ooh, it's a four again. And look at the disappointment.

With three scores of six, Romeo, Laura and Barney were tied for third.

That meant each would get one more dive to impress Leon.

Romeo's up first.

Now that's a better starting stance,

and that's a very good dive! If only he'd done that earlier.

Laura's deciding dive.

Sets, dives,

flips over on entry! Well done, though.

Here's Barney.

And he went over slightly as he hit the water.

And now it's over to our adjudicator, Leon Taylor,

who's with Dan for the final scores.

-Scores time, everybody. We'll start from the bottom up.

-Yes!

With four from the dive, Brendan, one point for you.

Thanks, that's amazing.

Three of you got the same score, so it went to sudden death.

Judge Leon, who got what?

So Laura ended up with two,

-Barney three and Romeo four.

-Well done, guys.

Which means our top two positions -

with a spectacular score of seven, Adele gets five points!

LAUGHING, APPLAUSE

And eight out of ten on her second dive

-gets Lady Skelton a full bag of six points!

-Yeah!

You were happy with that result, weren't you?

I'm embarrassed by how competitive I am.

Your celebratory dance is something to behold.

-Well done.

-Sport brings out the worst in me.

So you're gold on the leaderboard.

But there are two weeks to go, so it could all change.

-If you win, you get six points now.

-I was there. I know what happened.

-Stop it.

-Over the summer,

you'll probably want to relax and read your favourite book.

I've read this one a million times, I never get bored of it. Ha-ha!

Right. We are hoping as many of you as possible

will get involved in a project called Story Lab.

The challenge is to read six books over the summer.

We have something to motivate you. Each two books you read,

you get a sticker to complete your lab tab.

To inspire you, some famous faces

will tell you about their favourite stories.

Here's Hollyoaks actor Kieron Richardson with Wind...

in the Willows.

One of my favourite books is The Wind In The Willows.

This funny, exciting story begins with a character called Mole.

He decides to give up on a day of boring spring cleaning and...

He comes here, to the riverbank.

Now Mole, who is usually a bit shy and quiet,

soon becomes best friends with Ratty

and they have a whole lot of adventures on the river.

And Ratty's neighbour Toad, he loves boats as well.

Well, until he decides he likes cars even more.

Toad is a great friend, though,

although he's an even greater poser.

Not everyone is a friend of Ratty and Mole in the story.

Weasels, stoats and foxes,

well, they live in the Wild Woods

and Ratty has warned Mole to stay well away.

'But Mole ignores Ratty

'and one evening, walking through the woods, trying to find Mr Badger,

'Mole suddenly gets a horrible feeling.

'He's not alone.'

"Over his shoulder and indistinctly, he first thought he saw a face,

"a little evil wedge-shaped face looking out from a hole.

"When he turned to confront it, the thing had vanished.

"He quickened his pace,

"telling himself not to imagine things or there'd be no end to it.

"He passed another hole, then another, and then yes!

"No.

"Yes! Certainly, a little narrow face with hard eyes

"had flashed up for an instant from a hole

"and it was gone.

"He hesitated, raised himself up for an effort and strode on.

"Then suddenly, and as if it had been so all the time, every hole,

"and there were hundreds of them, seemed to possess a face,

"coming and going rapidly, all fixing on him glances of malice and hatred,

"all hard-eyed, evil and sharp."

If you read the book, you'll see things get a lot worse for Mole.

You'll also see...

Ah. You'll see how he does find Badger after all.

Now, Badger's old and wise...

and he's also not a fan of unexpected guests

so you'll have to meet him in the book.

So even if I'm stuck inside my house or I've got loads of work to do,

when all I want to do is go to the riverbank or the Wild Wood,

I just open my book.

I really hope Toad knows where he's going.

He's right. With a good book,

you can transport yourself to a different place or time.

You may as well transport yourself to the Blue Peter website,

bbc.co.uk/bluepeter. You'll find out about Story Lab there.

Or pop along to your local library.

You're so slick it scares me. We've asked you throughout the show

to e-mail and let us know how you keep your pets fit

because earlier, we talked fat pets. Adam got in touch to say,

"I exercise my dog by giving him a little wrestle."

OK. Does he have a little bikini on? Do wrestlers wear bikinis?

Emily says, "Our hamster runs around in a ball

-"and keeps crashing into things."

-Anya says, "I have a rabbit.

"I hug him everyday and let him into the garden to run around.

"He's the right size." Megan says her cat once jumped on the table

-and ate a whole chicken. He did that.

-What?

-Bones and all.

Tilly says, "I love glove puppets. Barney the dog is cool." True!

That's it for today. There's just time to tell you

what's on next week's Blue Peter.

# Unstoppable, I'm the champion, champion... #

With a catchy song we're hearing everywhere,

Clement Marfo and the Frontline will be in our studio.

And I can hardly contain my excitement.

With the release of The Dark Knight Rises,

I get to show you Batman's brand-new wheels - all six of them.

And we are going to be speaking to the brand-new Bat-inventor,

Batmobile inventor, if you want to e-mail him.

Our Big Olympic Tour continues on Saturday

from King's Park in Bournemouth.

Come and join us from 10am. We'll see you then. Ta-ra.

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