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We love finger knitting! It’s fun and safe for everyone to try because no needles are needed. All you need is a ball of wool and some fingers to have a go!

You can share pictures of your woolly creations over on the Ribena Facebook page and if they’re purple knits then even better.

Right, let’s get started…

1.    Hold the end of the wool between your thumb and forefinger

2.    Weave the wool over your forefinger, behind your middle finger and over your ring finger.

3.    Wind the wool anti-clockwise behind and around your three middle fingers.

4.    Pull the lower loop on your ring finger over the upper piece of wool and away from you, over the top of your finger.

5.    Move the wool held between your thumb and forefinger to between your forefinger and middle finger so that it goes over the wool in front of all three fingers.

6.    Wind the long end of wool attached to the ball anti-clockwise, behind and then around your three middle fingers, and behind your little finger.

7.    On your ring finger, pull the lower loop over the upper piece of wool and then over your finger again so it sits behind your finger. Repeat this on your middle and forefingers so you can see three loops left on your fingers.

8.    Repeat the last two steps until you have knitted as much as you need. You can tighten the knitting by pulling the short piece of wool behind your fingers at any time.

9.    Cast off (finish) by leaving about 15cm of wool free and then cutting with scissors. Thread this end through the three loops on your fingers then remove and pull tight.

Voila, your finger knitting creation is complete!

Want to cause a splash at Halloween?

Why not serve up the family their favourite drink as a spooky fruit punch?

Simply choose your Ribena squash flavour then pour into a bowl and add water.  Then add chopped fruit, such as apples, oranges and strawberries to make a creepy punch, plus jellied spider sweets and candy eyeballs to add a real Halloween edge.

Make sure you serve your Ribena into bowls with a ladle for a witch’s brew effect and we’d love to see pictures of your spooky fruit punches over on our Facebook page.

Happy Halloween!

Get your creative juices going and build your very own Ribena rocket.

Simply print off this step by step guide to create your rocket. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to build a Ribena rocket, just ready and raring to go!

To get started all you need is an empty one litre bottle of Ribena, some paint, some card, a pair of scissors and then….5,4,3,2,1 berry blast-off!

Don’t forget to share your big Ribena rocket launch with us at www.facebook.com/RibenaUK.

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The Ribena Berry Band is in town and ready to rock! Create your own drum and bass or hip hop mix (or whatever else gets your feet tapping) with the Ribena Berry Mixer then share your mixing skills with your friends.

We’ve created our own Ribena Beats Mix. Think you can do any better? Create your own mixes and share them with us in the comments section below and challenge your friends to a Berry Band mix-off by sharing your creations on Facebook!

Our band of merry berries is ready to rock, so head on over to the Ribena Berry Mixer and get those berries bopping!

If you loved the new Ribena summertime TV advert then we’ve got a real treat for you; a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the commercial!

From the berry characters’ miniature mushroom drums through to their realistic facial expressions, each stage of the new Ribena advert was storyboarded by our talented team of animators. The landscape for the advert was then created using a combination of mini handcrafted models, live vegetation and CGI technology and the Ribena berries were added into the live action shots ready to be brought to life on your TV screens!

Let us know what you think of the Ribena Summertime TV advert over on the Ribena Facebook page.