and making crafts you can do yourself.

- [All] Do, do, do it yourself.

Do, do, do it yourself.

D-I-Y, that stands for

do, do, do it yourself.

What are we gonna make today?

- A dog toy.

- [All] Hurray!

- Today, Elmo, Abby, and I are reusing old T-shirts

and turning them into dog toys.

- Yeah, we're gonna give them to all the doggies

on Sesame Street.

- Follow along with us to make your own dog toy.

- Let's get crafty.

Here's what you need to make a dog toy.

A pair of scissors,

a ruler,

and some old T-shirts.

Having a bunch of different colorful shirts

will make for a colorful and unique dog toy.

- (laughs) Yeah, but, Nina,

how do we go from this to that?

- Well, I'll show you.

Step one: fold the T-shirts in half.

Make sure it's nice and straight.

Then, we will measure a thumb's length across,

that's about two inches.

[Elmo]: Oh! Who know.

- Then we go here, that's our two inches.

Ruler, straight line.

- [Elmo] Look at that.

- [Nina] Now, we're gonna cut our strips.

- Remember to ask a grown-up

whenever you're cutting something.

- Nina, will you help us cut our T-shirts, too?

- Of course, I'll help you.

Cut our strips, here we go.

And there we go!

Nice strip.

Now all we have to do is snip and

snip.

Two strips.

Now, let's do some other colors.

So now that we have all our T-shirts cut into strips.

- [Abby and Elmo] Yeah, we did it!

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on.

We're not done yet.

Now its time for step two.

Pick your colors.

- (laughs) Um, okay, Elmo would like

pink and yellow, please.

- [Nina] Pink and yellow, yes, here we go.

- I want the one with all those really pretty colors on it.

- Oh yeah, the tie-dye?

- [Abby] Yeah, the tie-dye.

- Yeah, tie-dye, okay, what's your other color?

- [Abby] Green.

- [Nina] Green, aright, here we go.

And I will take the blue and the white.

Step 3, knot the strips together.

So, we're gonna knot these together like this.

So we're gonna pull that out, and then you're gonna pull

to tighten.

Here we go, we got a knot!

- Yes, we did it!

- Yeah, we made an octopus!

(all cheer)

- Wait, but Nina, we're supposed to be making a dog toy

not an octopus.

- What?

Just kidding, you're right.

So, now, we're gonna go to step four.

- [Abby and Elmo] Okay.

We're gonna braid the strips together,

spread it out first.

And then, we're gonna take one side and cross it over

and then, cross the other way.

It's just a crisscross.

So, criss

and cross.

- Oh, Nina, I wanna try.

- Alright, let's do it.

- [Abby] Criss.

Cross.

- Great job, Abby.

Elmo wants to try, too.

[Both] Criss and cross,

and criss and cross.

- Alright, step five.

Tie another knot at the very bottom.

So grab the end, and then you pull

the little things through.

And then, you pull.

Real tight.

- So, it's a knot?

A braid.

And then another knot.

- That's it.

- That's easy!

- Yeah, this was fun.

- I know, it doesn't even look like an old T-shirt anymore,

right?

- Um, Nina?

You forgot about step six.

- What was step 6?

- Test it out on your doggie.

- [Nina] (laughs) Of course!

- (whistles)

- (barks)

- [Nina] Hey, buddy!

Alright, here you go boy.

(laughter)

- Who's a good boy?

Oh, he loves it!

- He sure does.

And the best part is, we did it ourselves.

And we reused old T-shirts.

Thanks for helping me, little crafters.

- (sings) We took things you can find on our shelf,

and made our craft that we did ourselves.

We did, did, did it ourselves.

We did, did, did it ourselves.

It was fun making something new

with all of you.

- Bye-bye!

- Bye, adios!

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