Original subtitles

[bright tone]

- Hey, guys, what's up? - It's Lauren,

And welcome to "Craftopia."

Three creative kids,

two craft challenges,

one grand prize winner.

This is "Craftopia."

♪ ♪

Let's meet our craft-testants.

First off, we have a crafter

of Q and all things Kauai.

She's Tida.

- My head feels like - it's gonna explode

Pom-poms and glitter!

- Next, he's been crafting

since he was in diapers,

and he could bedazzle

a banana.

He's Brodie.

- I would say that - I am one of the best crafters

In Hoover, Alabama.

- And last,

she calls herself a Froot Loop

in a world full of Cheerios.

Here's Iris.

- If you can dream it,

you can craft it.

- All right, guys, welcome.

Are we excited?

- I am very excited. - Very excited.

[laughter]

- It... amazing seeing LaurDIY.

She does a lot

and a lot of crafting.

I just love her channel.

- We have three experienced

judges with us today.

We have a miniature specialist.

She's Toya.

- What's up?

- You give - this next man a tree,

And he can paint it into

a million different designs.

He's handy and dandy.

He's James Worsham.

- Hi! - Hi, James!

- Our guest judge today

is known as the greatest baker

in social media history.

- Her baking series - "Nerdy Nummies"

Is one of the biggest

cooking shows on the web.

Rosanna Pansino.

- Hey, you guys! - Hi!

♪ ♪

- This Quick Craft Challenge

is a confection reinvention.

We want you to reimagine basic

bakery goodies and dishes

that look absolutely nothing

like the ingredients

that you're gonna start with.

You'll also have to incorporate

light and fluffy marshmallows.

- Oh, my goodness! - [laughter]

- They're like... I've eaten - a whole bag of them.

- I've eaten more

than I should,

- but I've ate... - [laughter]

- Oh, and to add one more thing

to your shopping list,

hiding somewhere in here

is the prize panda.

- If you find - that sparkly little guy,

You are going to win

something so big,

so exciting,

so Rosanna-ish,

he'll give you every baking set

and decoration kit

that Rosanna has ever created.

- I'm so excited.

- I am more excited.

- You've got one hour

to fool our faces.

- Are you ready? - Yes.

- Set, and craft!

- ♪ Party will come alive ♪

- ♪ High five, - time to ride ♪

♪ Everybody, jump ♪

- Whoo! I love Craftopia!

- ♪ Scream it

like we need it ♪

- Where are the marshmallows?

Craftopia has everything.

- I need to turn a normal

grocery story item

into something new

and different and cool.

- Oh, wait. - I need the food coloring.

I want to turn marshmallows

into sushi

with a salmon roll,

rice, soy sauce,

and fish egg.

- Yes, marshmallows.

Try a marshmallow.

My secret weapon

is my improvising skills.

Improvising!

My idea is to make

two dinosaurs on the beach

with some palm trees,

and a little turtle

passing by.

Where is that panda?

- Ahh.

- Okay, found the donuts. - Good.

I want to make

a ducky pool float.

Fondant to that yellow look,

the donut for the body,

- the marshmallows - for the wings,

And Rice Krispies

for the head.

- [gasps] Excuse me.

[gasps]

[whistle blows]

I found the prize panda!

I found the prize panda!

- You got the prize?

Dang it.

- Tida, Oh, my God.

You just won so much

amazing stuff from Ro's line.

- Whoo!

- Oh, my gosh. - What a way to start

- A challenge. - Holy.

- So awesome!

- Can I borrow - some of your fondant?

- Sure, of course you can. - Thanks.

- What is fondant, exactly?

- It is a really thick icing.

- I don't need that much of it. - Just maybe half.

- When I make fondant, - I make marshmallow fondant.

It's just marshmallows,

powdered sugar, water.

- I microwave it - for three minutes.

- And it holds texture - and all that stuff?

- Yeah. - It comes like Play-Doh.

- Okay.

All right, it's sushi time.

- So what about Tida?

She's got a stack of donuts.

- Yo, Iris, - how you doing over there?

- Good. How are you?

- Panicking, but good.

- [laughs]

- Right now, - I'm making the mother dinosaur,

And I'm just, like, making

the right color for the legs

'cause she needs legs.

What is she gonna be doing?

Just rolling around?

Brodie, what are you doing?

- I am going to make - a duck float

- Out of the materials - that I have here.

- A duck?

- Ducks are... cool.

- [duck quacking] - We just do that.

It's a good head.

- Okay, - I need to cut out the wings.

- Here I go. - Cutting out the marshmallows

Right there.

- Pro tip - for cutting marshmallows,

- Instead of trying - to use a knife,

- You can actually run scissors - under warm water,

And it will just

cut right through.

Oh, my gosh.

- Okay, - so we've got marshmallows.

We've got Rice Krispie squares.

- We've got donuts - and googly eyes.

- Walk me through it. - It is a duck float.

- I'm gonna put - some yellow fondant over it.

I chose the blue plate,

- because I want it to look like - it is in a pool.

- I like desserts. - Like, every time

- When we go to a restaurant, - I would ask my mom,

- "Hey, can we get a dessert?" - And the whole time,

- She would be like, - "Ugh. Fine."

Okay.

So I feel very confident.

- We just passed

the 45-minute mark.

- Oh, wow, already? - Oof.

- Oh, no.

- What if I just

cut out the green?

Ooh.

- Oh, we got a snacker!

We got a snacker in aisle two!

[laughs]

- I love sweets.

- I'm grabbing - all of this candy,

Most it for me to eat,

but some of it for my craft.

♪ I'm making a bunch of sushi ♪

- ♪ Think it's gonna go - super well ♪

- ♪ Maybe not, - I don't know ♪

♪ But it's okay ♪

- Iris!

[gasps]

Oh, my gosh.

The way you use the sprinkles

as, like, actual rice pieces

is so good.

How did you get it to stick?

- So I have this edible...

- It's like edible glue? - Adhesive. Yeah.

- Okay, great. - It's like edible glue.

And it's really cool.

- What's been - the hardest part so far?

- The fondant. - Well, you got lots of things

- To snack on, - give you some energy.

- Good luck. - Thank you.

[upbeat music]

- Where'd my roller go?

Oh, no.

- So what are you worried about - with this challenge?

- I am very worried - with the technical stuff

- With the fondant. - Look at poor Brodie.

He's trying to flatten it.

- Oh, my God. - It's as big as he is.

- It... yeah.

- Brodie, - break off a small piece.

It is taking all of my energy

not to jump over the table

and go help him,

- because I want to be like, - "Take a small piece,

- Roll it with your hands, - get it heated"...

- [exhaling] - Heat that baby up.

And then just roll it out.

- Okay.

- Whoa, there's black fondant - all over my hands.

Just gotta roll this out.

- Feel like the fondant

has been a really big struggle

for both Tida and Brodie.

- They're having issues - with thickness.

- They're having - issues with cracking.

- And put the smile on.

Oh, that's adorable.

- Is that a marshmallow? - Mm-hmm.

- Okay. - [laughs]

- I just... so many years - of playing chubby bunny.

- Chubby bunny. - I'm a pro.

- Chubby bunny. - Chubby bunny.

- Chubby bunny.

- Chubby bunny.

[laughter]

- Okay, spit them out.

I lose.

- Time is half-way up,

craft-testants.

- [groans]

- Oh, my gosh.

Tida, these look so cute.

- Thank you.

- What's the plan - with the marshmallows?

- I'm gonna make them - into marshmallow palm trees.

- Okay, and is that - the finishing touch?

- Yeah, 'cause they're gonna be - on the beach.

They should have some trees,

some sand.

And then, yeah.

- So here's our glue.

Use that to get the rice.

- Okay, so I'm going - to roll out the fondant

Big enough

to put it over the duck.

- Fondant, - it's a great material,

But it tears very easily.

It is hard to fix

once a tear happens.

- Oh, jeez.

Oh, my goodness.

Now all we need to do

is mold it around the duck.

- Cookies, cookies, cookies.

- Bright idea. - I'm gonna take

Delicious cookies and turn them

into delicious sand

for my dino island.

- 15 minutes to go.

[upbeat music]

- [groans]

It's being poopy right now.

- Oh, God. - What's happening over there?

- It's folding.

Oh, jeez.

Big problem.

Fondant is breaking.

This fondant

is not cooperating at all.

I don't want it to look like

a volcano just erupted.

[groans]

- Last ten minutes

is the finishing stretch.

- This is freaking me out.

- It looks like Brodie

is starting over.

- So now I'm having to restart - with my fondant.

And I'm also having to restart

with, like, my shape.

I'm gonna try and work

really fast.

- Oh, no.

- So we have our little tail.

That's looking cute.

- Iris, yours looks great.

- Thank you.

So I'm gonna scrape

the filling out.

- She is using the stuffing

from the Oreos

as wasabi as a detail.

- Perfect.

- Oh, dear. - Um...

Mayday, mayday.

A palm tree's down.

Repeat, palm tree's down.

- My palm tree's not going... - [groans]

- Doing well. - That's super cute, Tida.

- The palm trees - are falling over because

They're marshmallow

on marshmallow

on marshmallow, right?

And it doesn't have a lot

of structural support.

- Yeah.

- You gotta be kidding me.

- Brodie, how you doing?

- I'm not doing so good,

actually.

- Neither am I.

- Two minutes on the clock, - guys.

- Oh, no.

- Oh, so very scary.

- [groans]

I don't know what to do.

- Come on, head, just stay on - for the next, like,

Ten minutes, please.

- This is so stressful.

We'll all use our stress balls.

- Stress balls.

- Oh, jeez.

- Okay, they're standing.

The marshmallow trees

were just not working out.

- Oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, - oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh.

- Ooh.

- Come on.

All: Ten, nine, eight,

seven, six, five,

four, three, two, one.

- Crafting tools down,

and hands up, guys.

- Good job! - [applause]

- Brodie, air high-five.

- Yep. Air high-five.

Just the deflated

floating duck.

Sometimes you just

gotta YOLO it, right?

You only live once, people.

And that duck has already

gone past its third life.

[duck quacks]

- All right, craft-testants,

you only had 60 minutes

and working with some

of the hardest materials

and had to incorporate

marshmallows.

Iris, do you want start us off?

- Yeah, sure. - So I have

- My marshmallow sushi - right here.

I used fondant,

white sprinkles for rice,

rainbow sour strips

to make cucumbers.

I have ginger and wasabi,

which is actually

the filling from mint Oreos.

I have soy sauce,

which is water with icing

food coloring that's brown.

Some jelly beans for, like,

the fish eggs.

- I love sushi so much. - [laughter]

- Okay, well, I'm starving just - by looking at your project.

It looks incredible.

- You used all the materials,

and you totally reinvented them

from candy and desserts

into a delectable-looking

sushi dish,

- so well done. - Thank you.

- Tida, - do you want to walk us through

Your little Kauai dinosaurs?

- Yes, this is Dino Island.

I have a mother dinosaur

and a baby dinosaur on a beach,

- with a little turtle - walking by.

I crushed up some cookies,

and made it into the sand.

A glazed donut hole

and then a cake donut

for the mom.

- Great. And, Tida, where are - the marshmallows, exactly?

- I used marshmallows

to make it look like

fallen down palm trees.

- I would've liked - to have seen the marshmallow

- Incorporated a little bit more - in the dinosaur,

- Like an opportunity - would've been the spikes.

There were pink marshmallows.

- You've cut them and put them - going down the back.

However,

making a diorama was amazing,

- and your fondant work - is very, very clean.

- Thank you. - And, Brodie,

- Do you want to walk us - through your duck floaty?

- Okay, so this is Mr. Robert,

the deformed duck.

[laughter]

He is floating in a pool.

I think someone forgot

to blow him up all the way,

so he's just kind of, like,

sitting there.

Halfway through it,

the fondant kind of broke

and just started falling apart,

so I YOLO'd it and put a bunch

of fondant all over him,

- and I didn't really have time - to finish it.

- I love the story

of Mr. Robert.

I think it's a very modern idea

to make a pool floaty

out of donuts and marshmallows,

so I love everything about it.

Fondant is such

a tricky material.

- I didn't work with fondant - till... what was I?

- In my twenties? - So I was like...

- [gasps] - "I'm so nervous for you guys,"

But they look 100 times better

than what I created.

- Thank you.

- I created a monster.

- [duck quacking] - [laughter]

- Craft-testants, - you have truly made all of us

So proud here at "Craftopia,"

but unfortunately,

only two craft-testants

can move on

to the Craft Master Challenge

to win $5,000.

Judges,

you have a tough decision.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

All right, so, James.

- I think our favorite is...

Iris and her sushi.

Thank you, Iris.

Those are amazing.

- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

Judges love sushi, I guess.

- Tida, Brodie, only one person

can move on to the challenge,

but you're both so creative,

and I am so proud of you.

- Thank you.

- Tida, you will be moving on.

- Thank you. - Brodie,

You just ran out of time

with the fondant.

- And it's not your fault - that you did.

- It's the clock. - Can we just destroy this clock?

- [laughter] - Do it!

I think me and fondant

need to talk things out,

and maybe we need to move away

from each for a while.

- Brodie,

we don't want you to ever stop

being your awesome,

creative self,

and that is why

we are giving you

a "Craftopia" gift card

loaded up with $500!

- [laughs] - Whoo!

[cheers and applause]

- I'll use the money

to repair him.

- [laughter] - Good-bye, Robert.

[duck quacking]

all: Bye, Brodie!

- Bye, guys!

This is how you grow.

You learn

and you keep on learning.

- Tida and Iris, - congratulations.

You've moving on

to the Craft Master Challenge.

- Yay!

♪ ♪

- It's not going to be hard,

it's going to be soft.

You see, cool, quirky,

one-of-a-kind plushies

are a trend that's blowing up

in the crafting world.

We want you to create

your very own,

very unique plushie.

It can be whatever you want.

It just has to be

at least three feet tall.

- [gasps] - Oh, and we're only give you

Two hours to get it all done.

- [gasps] - Whoa.

- Ready? - Yeah.

- Set, and craft!

- Get out of my way.

I'm ready to get my craft on.

- [air horn blares] - Our challenge is to make

A three-foot-tall stuffie.

- Ooh, I have an idea

about making a watermelon.

Let's grab all this.

- My goal is to make - my watermelon

Really soft and comfy.

- I'm gonna add the seeds, - the rind.

I think I'm gonna put a little

pupil in the eye.

- It's gonna be a cute - little watermelon.

Might need more black.

I gave sushi earlier

to the judges,

so I feel like

I am sending a message

that I am a giant foodie.

- Wait, - is this the right stitches?

I have never made

a stuffed animal

or anything this big.

- But I feel like - I got it in the bag.

- Oh, stuffing.

Definitely need jean.

I'm gonna need hair,

- 'cause I'm gonna make - a mini version of me,

But a bear.

It's gonna be a Tida bear.

I'm planning on making

a jean vest like mine,

a skirt like mine,

and then a shirt like mine.

We got this.

[upbeat music]

- Gotta trace it.

Tracing it out.

Now we cut it out.

Hopefully,

it doesn't end up lopsided.

- Iris, - how's it going over there?

- Pretty good.

Ooh, that looks fun.

- Oh, this is kind of hard.

- [sighs] - This is taking forever.

- Tida, - is this a giant teddy bear?

- Practically, except it's also - gonna look like me.

- And are we for sure - three feet?

- For sure three feet.

It's 13 inches.

- Wait, what? - 13 inches?

- Girl, you gotta go 36.

- I meant 36.

I say things

the wrong way sometimes.

- How are you planning - on attaching

All you pieces together?

- I'm gonna use - hot glue 'cause

- I'm not really - the sewing person.

- Okay, well, - I can't wait to see it

All come together.

- Okay.

- I'm so interested to see - if they're gonna flip it

Inside out so you hide

all of your seams.

A pro crafting tip

for making plushies,

if you want to use hot glue,

you can do your seams,

- and then leave - a little spot open,

- Flip it inside out, - stuff it,

And close that little seam up

on the outside.

- There we go. - Look, she's flipping it.

- Tida, my girl. - She's flipping it.

- Mm-hmm. - [laughs]

- It's gonna be awesome. - Like me.

- Oh, my God, is this

a little bite taken out?

- Yeah. - Oh, my gosh, that's so cute.

- So I'm doing - the rind right now.

- Uh-huh. - I'm worried that it's gonna

Ploof out.

- Because if I use, - like, stuffing,

- It might go like, ooh! - Real lumpy.

- Yeah, we don't like - our watermelons lumpy.

- I'm really excited.

- I can't wait to see!

- Ooh.

- It's not long enough. - It's not long enough?

- I don't think - it's long enough.

I'm freaking out for her.

- It's not long enough.

Why is this too short?

I made the stencil,

but it isn't long enough.

This is a little bit harder

than I thought it was gonna be.

It's longer than it was.

- Are you long enough, - are you long enough,

- Are you long enough, - are you long enough?

Please be long enough.

[sighs]

- [gasps]

Are you serious?

- Ugh. Dang it.

- Hmm. - You got an hour and a half

Remaining on the clock.

- [groans] - I gotta do this quickly.

- I was hoping to

kind of bedazzle my watermelon,

but I'm not sure

if I can get to that yet.

I'm still trying

to outline my rind,

and Tida's already

over there stuffing her bear.

- Tida bear is really - coming to life over there.

We got legs.

We got stuffing.

- I'm gonna go - get some more stuffing.

- If you stuff it too much, - then that seam's gonna burst.

- [gasps] - And if you squish it,

- You're more likely - to pop those seams.

- How hard are you squishing - those poor plushies, James?

- Girl, do you see these arms? - I can do a bear hug.

- [laughs]

Like, I'm gonna love you!

- So hard!

- That's looking great.

- Thanks.

- I gotta go back - to my station.

- Okay. - Bye!

- My new rind, actually,

is starting to work out.

That's pretty great for me.

- Okay, Tida bear, - you're gonna get a face

Maybe a little bit later.

- But first, - you need to get hair.

- All right, guys,

you got 55 minutes remaining.

- Not enough time.

- I know!

- I am actually

kind of nervous

and stressed about the time,

'cause I had to redo

the rind so many times.

Now, we should start stuffing.

- My goal - is to make my watermelon

Super, super soft and comfy.

It's a little chunky.

Three feet is really,

really, really, really,

big, big, big.

Big, big, big, big, big.

- Really big. - Yours is looking really good!

- Thank you. - What is going on

With our Tida bear over here?

- Wow! Oh, my gosh.

- Wow. - Look at this luscious hair.

- It's like a fluffy yarn.

- Why is my hair not this soft?

- [laughs]

- I have questions.

- Her hair is on fleek.

- Ooh, there's a little hole - right here.

Trying to figure out

this bite mark situation.

Closing it up is kind of hard,

'cause it's...

- 'cause all the stuffing - in the pillow

- Is trying to, like, - pop right out.

No one has a perfect bite when

they're eating a watermelon.

- Usually, on a hot summer day, - they're just like...

[munches loudly]

- Down to our final 15 minutes,

craft-testants.

- Oh, no.

Right now,

I'm gonna do the face.

Do I have black felt?

No, I don't.

Uh...

I...

don't see any black.

Where is it?

Um...

Um...

Um...

You gotta be kidding me.

I need black felt

for the eyes and the mouth.

Iris,

where'd you find the black?

- Black?

- Uh-oh.

- Um...

Iris has all the black felt

in Craftopia.

- [exhales] - Okay.

- I hope she's feeling - generous today.

Iris!

Can I use

some of your black felt?

- Yes.

- Ching!

Thank you.

- Less than five minutes

- on the clock, - craft-testants.

- Oh, this is getting scary,

isn't it?

- I still need to put on

the face and the seeds.

I'm trying to hurry.

- One minute on the clock!

- [shouts] - Oh, my goodness.

Okay. I don't know what to do.

I am so stressed.

- I want to make bows,

but I don't have enough time.

I need to go

into super-sport crafting mode.

[upbeat music]

- I really hope Tida has time.

- I don't... I... I...

♪ ♪

- [laughs] - I'm not...

♪ ♪

all:

Five, four, three, two, one!

[horn blares]

- [applause] - Darn.

- Congratulations!

- Yeah!

- The best craft wins.

- Good job.

- Craft-testants,

the snug-ability here

is off the charts.

- Iris, - do you want to start us off?

- Yeah, sure.

This is Melanie the watermelon.

She's a little cross-eyed.

[laughter]

- Iris,

your project is so sweet!

- Literally. - Thank you.

- I know, right? - [laughter]

- You used the glue technique,

which created a little bit

of looseness at the seams.

I can see a little bit of red

- where it should - possibly be green.

But I think your creativity

was awesome.

- Thank you. - You chose to make a bite.

- Unfortunately, - I feel like the execution

Was a little bit sloppy,

- and I wished it looked - a little bit cleaner

And more like a bite mark.

- I will say, though, - I think the little

Pinking shear elements

was a really, really smart

- use of the material, - so well done.

- Okay, I also love

that you did a wedge shape.

It is trickier

than one would think.

I love everything about it.

- Thank you. - Tida,

- Do you want to walk us - through your Tida bear?

- Yes, so I used jean material

for the jean vest

and the jean skirt,

and then I made her

some little bows

- with the same material - as a shirt,

And I also made my own.

- Oh, my gosh.

- Where's mine?

- I don't know.

[laughter]

- I will say, - I am obsessed with the fact

That you made clothes.

I think it's so cute,

and it's so smart.

- I do wish you had paid - a little bit more

- Attention to the details, - though.

I feel like the denim material

was kind of roughly cut.

- But I have gone to stores,

and I have purposely bought

clothes that are shredded,

- so I think - it's totally awesome.

Plus, you totally matched

your sleeves.

Your sleeves are shredded,

your plushie's shredded.

- You have stuff - all the way around.

- You got the little - details on the back.

I think she did a good job.

- Tida, one of the things

that just jumps out

to me right away is the hair.

It's called chenille.

- That's the type of yarn it is. - Oh.

- And it's gorgeous.

Perfect for curly hair.

- That blew me away. - Thank you.

- Craft-testants,

these truly look so incredible.

Unfortunately,

we can only have one winner.

The judges

have a tough decision to make.

- So nervous.

I'm so nervous.

- All right, guys, - that was tough,

And you've come to a decision.

- I think so. - Yeah.

- Iris and Tida,

your skills are A-plus,

but only one of you

can win the grand prize

of $5,000.

- On the flip side, - our runner-up

Won't leave here

without a "Craftopia" gift card

worth $1,000.

- Oh, my gosh. - Guys, wait till you see this.

Wait, wait, wait.

Oh, my gosh.

This is what

you'll be taking home,

these Craft-trophya.

Are you guys excited?

Both: Yes!

[laughter]

- And the winner

of "Craftopia"...

[suspenseful music]

Is...

[both squealing]

♪ ♪

- Tida!

[all cheering]

Oh, my gosh!

[all cheering]

Oh, my gosh, Tida.

Your craft-trophya.

Congratulations.

[laughter]

- I'm really excited.

I'm probably gonna spend

some of the money

on marshmallows.

- I love this, I love this. - It's so cute.

- Whoo, whoo!

Yes!

- I'm really, - really proud of myself.

Plus, I also got

a $1,000 gift card,

so that's pretty cool.

- Thank you!

- Congratulations!

- I'm the "Craftopia" champion!

[cheers and applause]