Wacky Wednesday – Mad Hatter’s Zooming Tea Party
Wibbling Wonderloonies, its Wacky Wednesday again, and we are here with the Mad Hatter and his chums.
They have been busy in the lab and made a right rumpus messings, which we Boffins are really enjoying as there is lots and lots to eat and plenty of shlurpingly lalalaloveryly tea.
First out of the lab this week is Long John Silver, making his Zoom points.
We know that Silver is in Lockdown and it is so very zippytastic that he is doing his swashbucklin’ chores and keeping his house spick and span.
So Zoomers, has Long John Silver inspired you to do a chore to help out in the place where you stay? What good turn can you do today? Let us know, we love to hear your spick and span adventures.. who will be the best Zoom pointy person this week? Will it be Long John Silver, or will it be YOU!
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You don’t have to be a Boffin with loads of test tubes and a white lab coat to do science experiments! Here are some easy-peasy ones you can do at home.
- Get a small bowl and half-fill it with water.
- Sprinkle some pepper on the surface of the water.
- Take a cocktail stick and squeeze a drop of washing-up liquid on it.
- Then dip the cocktail stick into the water bowl and look closely.
What happens to the pepper? It should run away from the stick and make little patterns. This is because the liquid reduces surface tension, and allows the particles of water to spread out more.
- Place a plastic bottle of water in the freezer until its really really cold, almost frozen.
- Take it out after about two hours, if you shake the bottle and can see crystals form, that’s when its ready.
- Pour it reallllllly slowly over a cube of ice on an upturned bowl. It will turn to instant ice before your very eyes!
When water is liquid, its molecules move quite fast. When it freezes its molecules slow down so much that they can hook onto each other to form a solid, and that’s how ice is made!
Did you know that around 10% of land area on Earth is covered by glacial ice, including ice caps, glaciers, and the ice sheets of Greenland and Iceland.
Did you know that ice is abundant in the solar system? It occurs naturally on many planets, moons, comets and even in the rings of Saturn.
Did you know that there are whole hotels made entirely of ice in some cold countries like Norway and (you guessed it) Iceland?
Zipping and Zooming, next up out of the lab is our handy hero Brandon D.
Today he is going to show us all how to make an Origami Hat, for our own madly zany tea party. This Origami is a true thing of wonder, all Brandon uses is a bitty bit of paper. What a Wonder! Common Zoomers, this on is for you, time to get folding!
It would be terribly silly to turn up to the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party without some absolutely splendiferous headwear on, wouldn’t it?
Now we have our origami Mad Hatter hats, we can also show you how to easily make a very impressive and stylish pair of ears to match the March Hare!
KIT LIST
- Paper plates
- scissors
- glue or tape
- colouring stuff.
METHOD
- Start by folding the paper plate in half.
- Carefully use the scissors to cut out the inner circle of the plate, leaving just the rainbow-shaped border.
- Unfold the plate, it should now look like a wide doughnut.
- Draw two bunny ears on a different paper plate, and cut them out carefully. You can colour them in at this point.
- Use the glue or tape to gently stick the ears to the front of the hat. Now you have your hare-y ears, you are ready to party!
How do you make an apple turnover?
Push it down a hill!
Why did the banana go to the doctor?
Because he wasn’t peeling well!
What is a vampire’s favourite fruit?
A neck-tarine!
What fruit is green and square?
A lemon in disguise!
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Animal Calls!
This is a wacky game to be played by a group in a large room with lots of space.
- Before the game begins, someone must cut up paper into small bits, choose three animals, and write the names of the animals on the papers. So there could be several pieces with eg “lion” on, several with “elephant” and several with “monkey”.
- Fold all the papers up so the writing is hidden, and throw them into the air. Each player comes and collects one piece, and reads it privately.
- Once everyone secretly knows their animal, the lights are switched off. From this point no talking is allowed.
- Everyone must make their animal’s noise (such as a lion’s roar), and the players must find the others in their animal group through listening out! The winning group is the fastest to find each other.
You could make a delicious fruit salad for your tea party! But first, let’s see if you know your fruits from your vegetables…
Look at each picture. Is it a fruit or a vegetable?
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Easy peasy, lemon squeezy? Answers below!
Now its ZZZtime and we are super hippedy happy to have, all the way from Ireland, Arran Towers. This week Arran has a fantabulous story about the Mad Hatter, tune in here…
Now Zoomers, it is time to get comfy, perhaps grab a shlurpy bucket of Tea and tune in to our serial. We welcome back all the way from Singapore, the wonderful Voice Over Artist, Jessica Wootton. Jessica is reading for us Zoomers, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The original story, written by American author L. Frank Baum last century. How zooming cool is that? So here comes Chapter 2.
Wonderlandlaboritory, I have to go now as the Mad Hatter is juggling with two teapots and all our maginfugal glasses. The Boffins are running around as they have eaten far too many tea cakes and mysteriously the biscuits are still missing.
Zip Zip everyone, tune in for Funtastic Friday where I just know things will get really, really messy.
Prof Zippedilla Zoom.
Answers to Fruit & Veg. Quiz
1. A tomato is both a fruit and a vegetable! 2. A pineapple is a fruit. 3. Celery is a vegetable. 4. Grapes are a fruit. 5. Red cabbage is a vegetable. 6. Kiwi is a fruit
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