Magic Monday – Rumpelstiltskin’s Zooming Charades.
Zip Zip Zippedy Zoomers, and how are you all this week?
Busy zipping whizbingle about and being shinny happy zoomers, or if not we Boffins are all set for another week to bring you giggle boxes of fungle stuff to do. This Zooming week is hosted by Fairylands trickster businessman, the one, the only Rumplestiltskin and here he is…
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Zip zap bingle, so it’s ‘Host your own Zooming Charades’ Week with Rumpelstiltskin!
What To Do?
1. Decide which date you would like to host your Charades.
2. Decide which video platform you will use (e.g. Zoom, Skype etc)
3. Decide who you want to invite to play Zooming Charades and make a guest list.
4. Decide what instructions you should give your guests before the game.
5. Make your own invitation.
6. Send it out!
Remember Zoomers, all you need to make your own invitations is some paper and pens/pencils. Making your own invitations is always a great idea, as it will let your guests know that the event is important!
Get planning dear zoomers, you can have bucket lots of fun with this. Now lets get messy, here is our first fairytastic thing to do, where we show you how to make your very own Glittery Fairy Lamp!
KIT LIST
- A clean empty glass jar
- A glow stick (one of the big fat ones)
- Clear glitter
- Paper towels
- Scissors
HOW TO
1. Bend and shake the glow stick back and forth to make it shine and gleam.
2. Carefully cut the end off of the stick. If there’s any spill you can wipe it up with the paper towels.
3. Pour the contents of the glow stick into the jar, very carefully, and throw away the empty stick.
4. Now pour a load of glitter into the jar, you will need quite a lot!
5. Put the jar lid back on, and shake shake shake it, until the glitter coats the inside of the jar.
6. Turn off the lights, and admire your glowing fairy jar! It should last for an hour or two.
Here’s a few really easy magic tricks that you can learn at home. Master these, and you will become the top sorcerer in your household!
Rubber pencil!
For this trick all you need is a pencil and your hands.
1. Hold the pencil horizontally in between your thumb and your index finger. Hold it near to the eraser end.
2. Loosely shake your hand up and down, trying different speeds, and watch the pencil. It will look like it is bending up and down, as if it is made of rubber, not wood!
Magic Banana!
For this trick you just need a banana and a pin.
1.Before your audience arrives, stick the pin into the banana, and wiggle it back and forth carefully.
2. Repeat this all up and down the banana, leaving centimetre spaces in between each pin hole.
3. Now it’s time for the trick! Show your audience that the banana has not been peeled, and then tell them that you are going to slice it from the outside, using magic.
4. Say a few magic words and snap your fingers at the banana.
5. Carefully peel it, and watch your audience’s amazement that the banana is sliced on the inside!
Next up, we have Alana to show us how to make paper plate Unicorns!
KIT LIST
- A paper plate
- Some different coloured wool
- White card
- Glitter
- Pink pencil
- Black pen
- Two small dark buttons
- Scissors
- Sticky tape
- Glue
HOW TO
- Use the pink pencil to draw out a horn on the white card.
- Put glue on the horn, and add glitter.
- Take your wool, and cut four long strands out, of two different colours
- Snip the strands into pieces, about 2 or 3 inches long.
- Take your paper plate, and tape the wool strands in a cluster to the back of it, on the rim. Turn the plate over and see that the strands are all falling over the edge.
- Using your pink pencil, draw out a large oval on paper, and shade it in.
- Using the black pen, draw a smiley face in the middle of the oval, and cut it out.
- Still using the black pen, draw two ears on a bit of card, and shade the middle in pink.
- Cut the ears out, then check that your horn from earlier has dried, and cut that out as well.
- Take your plate, then tape the horn to the back, so that the glitter side is facing forward.
- Do the same with the ears, taping them either side of the horn.
- Now glue the pink oval onto the front of the plate, at the bottom. This is the nose and mouth.
- Finally, draw two wee circles in the middle of the plate, and glue the buttons into the centres. That’s your unicorn!
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What did the flower fairy say to the firefly?
How’s it glowin’!
Why is the tooth fairy so clever?
She has wisdom teeth!
What does Rumpelstiltskin wash his dishes with?
Fairy liquid!
Zip Zip, time to have a go at Rumpelstiltskin’s teeeericky wordsearch!
Did you know….
The 9th of April is National Unicorn Day
Fairies love shiny things, so you could try leaving out some paperclips or old cutlery to please them. They could bring you good luck!
The most famous case of people allegedly coming into contact with fairies was in 1917 in Cottingley, England. Two young girls claimed to have played with fairies in the local countryside. They even faked photographs of the encounters to get people to believe them, which convinced many, including Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes!
Fairy Freeze Tag!
Here’s another zany game to play in a group!
- First, pick two players to be the good fairies and one to be the bad fairy. All should be given fairy wands. The bad fairy’s wand has the power to freeze and the good fairies’ have the power to unfreeze.
- The rest of the players run around the play space, avoiding being touched by the bad fairy’s wand. If they are, they must freeze in place, until a good fairy touches them with their wand, at which point they can unfreeze.
- The good fairies must avoid being tagged by the bad fairy, else they also become a bad fairy.
You could set a time limit for this game, and at the end of the time if the bad fairy has frozen all the players they win, and if not the good fairies win!
Now it’s time to settle in, cuddle up with a hottle water bottle and a biccy or two, and listen to our storytime, which today is ‘The Princess and the Pea’ by Hans Christian Andersen.
So that’s us zoomers, Now we have a lab full of Fairy folk wiz zipping about, its going to be busy keeping an eye on them all, wish us luck, now do all come back on Wacky Wednesday for a load more zippingly wonderboffinly crackadoodle fun, toodles!
(🎅 Pssssst! Did you know that it’s only 18 sleeps til Christmas? Has it snowed yet?🎄)
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