On the 6th day before Christmas... the Blue Peter Advent Crown is almost fully lit
5.00 Jaunty version of 'Barnacle Bill' complete with snowflakes, distant sleighbells and disturbingly moden graphics. 5.01 Hello and welcome to a very special pre-Christmas edition of Blue Peter. Later in the show GrinningBoy1 will be telling you all about what pandas do at Christmas, and OverexcitedGirl2 will be jumping off a flying sleigh without a parachute. But first... 5.02 Oh look, our Bring and Buy sale totaliser is still flashing less than halfway up the totaliser. Never mind, we always hit our target in time for the first show of the New Year. In the meantime please keep selling your old tat for our appeal, and you might want to start saving up your stamps and silver paper for next Christmas just in case. 5.05 Here's a lovely decoration you can make out of an old cereal packet, three plastic lemonade bottles and some pipecleaners, except that somehow the ones you make at home never look quite as good as ours do they? 5.09 And don't forget to save all the excess glitter on some newspaper so that you can reuse it again next year. 5.10 Look at all the lovely Christmas cards you've sent us this year. We're going to pretend they're all artistic masterpieces, particularly this one obviously drawn by 5-year-old Tim's Dad. 5.12 Here's GrinningBoy2 with one of those stories of days gone by that ValerieSingleton always used to do so much better. 5.17 And you can read more about this dull Victorian woman in our latest Blue Peter annual. Why not try to collect the full set? 5.18 Now I'm going to light the third candle on our Advent crown. If you're going to make one, do remember not to use those infammable plastic coathangers won't you? We've put the instructions on our website, just to try to make this 1950s design appear somehow modern and trendy. 5.20 Here are lots of boring objects from an exhibition in a London museum that you can get into free if you're a Blue Peter badge winner, although we realise that's a fat lot of good if you live in Kilmarnock. 5.23 Don't forget to join us next week when we'll be singing our favourite Blue Peter carol (odd years Hark The Herald, even years O Come All Ye Faithful) accompanied by the near-death Chalk Farm Salvation Army Band, trying to look enthusiastic as we open a few miserable presents round a Christmas cake made of dog food. 5.24 Credits roll over cute shot of Kari and Oke the cats, yawning.
On the 6th day before Christmas...
