Magic Monday: Limerick-a-Zoomalong
Zippedy Zoom Zoom to all you Zoomers. Its week two in the make and play lab and what a fribulicious week we have ahead.
Get ready steadies teddies as Scotland’s Worst Poet EVER is our host and he is treating us all to a Limerick-a-Zoomalong? And what on tuft-fluff is that you might ask? Well it’s a jolly good question. So here is William T. McGonagle to show you….
Get your brainboxes tingling with our wacky rhyming wordsearch!
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How to play the game for the Zoom Challenge
Zingaling, this sounds like a zippedy thing to do. Now how shall we play this game? By Zingo I’ve got it, wasn’t it lucky I sparkled my imagination this morning.
Step 1
Make a list of 12 – 20 wacky words you love. Zippedilla has chosen words that rhyme with Zoom – here is her list:
- Tune
- Moon
- Room
- Bloom
- Gloom
- Tomb
- Assume
- Fume
- Soon
- Prune
- Loom
- Noon
- Perfume
- Consume
- Costume
- Balloon
Step 2
Decide on your rules/challenge!
I challenge you to make your own limerick including words from the list above.
Here’s the professor’s attempt!!
The once was a spook in a tomb
Who peered around the gloom
It’s so black in here
I see spiders appear
Now where is my ghostly broom?
Step 3
Decide you who are going to challenge.
Step 4
Decide when you will host your challenge and how.
Step 5
Make your invitation and send it out
Here is William T. McGonagle’s invitation to you!
Limerick-a-Zoomalong, sounds weirdly wonderful, I think that all the Boffins in the Make and Play lab will enjoy this week loads. Now let’s get crafty!
Here’s another whizzer craft from the Lab, have a go at making decoupage!
What you will need:
- Glue, PVA or craft glue
- Glue brush
- Items to decoupage; e.g.: Bottle, jar, box, old picture frame, suitcase? Check that the item you want to use is alright to take
- Using unwanted magazines, newspapers, pictures to cut out the images and word you LOVE.
- Scissors for cutting
- A workspace, that can be wiped down
- Paper to cover the workspace if you prefer.
How you decoupage:
- Cover the item you are decoupaging with a thin layer of glue
- Sort out your words and pictures
- Take you first cut out, and add glue to the back of it
- Stick it to your item
- Continue sticking and gluing
- Work down edges with your hands
- When finished add a fine layer of glue to the whole thing, and allow to dry.
Did you know…
The earliest known form of poetry is the epic. Epics are long poems which describe stories, normally about the adventures of heroes. Epics were invented even before writing existed, as epic poets would memorise and recite their work rather than noting it down.
One of the most famous Romantic poets, Lord Byron, reportedly kept a bear as a pet whilst he was a student at Cambridge University! Apparently he bought the bear to protest the rule that students were not allowed to keep pet dogs. What a rebel!
A shape poem is a form where the poem itself is shaped as the thing it describes. Here is an example of a tornado shape poem!
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A few jokes to get you in a giggly mood…
What do you call a dog magician?
A Labracadabrador!
What do you call a boomerang that won’t come back?
A stick!
If you are American when you go into the toilet, and American when you come out of the toilet, what are you when you’re in the toilet?
European!
More funny Limericks to inspire you!
Poems are always best when they are read aloud, especially limericks! Try saying these limericks in different ways, and notice how this could change what they mean.
I know a young fellow named Vin
Who is really remarkably thin
When he carries a pole
People say “Bless my soul!”
“What a shock to find out you’ve a twin!”,
There once was a farmer from Leeds
Who swallowed a packet of seeds
It soon came to pass
He was covered with grass
But has all the tomatoes he needs.
Limericks I cannot compose,
With noxious smells in my nose.
But this one was easy,
I only felt queasy,
Because I was sniffing my toes.
Try saying these in different voices. You could be really excited, you could say them as fast as you can, or say them slowly and sadly! You could even make up with a tune and sing the limerick instead.
Group Rhyming Game!
Here is a wacky game to play with a group, to test your rhyming skills!
- Everyone stands in a circle, and starts a beat by stomping their feet and then clapping, like “stomp, clap, stomp, clap.”
- On the “clap”, the first player says a one-syllable word. On the next clap, the player next to them must say a rhyming word.
- As you go round the circle, each player must say a new rhyming word with each clap. The first player to mess up is out. The winner is whoever lasts the longest!
Here are some example words to get the ball rolling!
- Map
- Cot
- Sleep
- Cart
- Pin
- Toot
- Deck
- Run
- Bone
- Zip
- Led
‘The Two Old Bachelors’
Edward Lear was a famous poet who wrote hundreds and hundreds of very silly poems. Here is a reading of his giggletastic poem ‘The Two Old Bachelors’!
Anyways up, that’s us for today. Have a magical Monday and get zippedy zooming this week! Prof Zippedilla Zoom
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