Wacky Wednesdays: Zooming Sea-Party
Yoho hoozers, its Wacky Wednesday, with more Zippedy stuff to do and more crazy makers to meet.
First up we have our Zoom Points. Thank you to everyone who has got in touch with us Boffins, to share your own ZoomPoints with us, you are zoooooming brilliant. This week, we have a special message from the Wonderful World of Oz. Grab your raincoats, this next bit is a bit splashy…
That was very messy, I expect that all you zoomers will do a great job, especially if you are washing the shopping, which is a very, very strange thing to do, but a fun splashy way to make sure our shopping is bug free during our Lockdown days!
Can you find the hidden sea creatures in our wordsearch today?
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There is a long tradition of stories about mythical water creatures around Britain’s shores. Here’s a little profile of some of the most interesting magical beings. I wonder if you’ve heard of any….
SELKIES
Selkies are mythical creatures who are able to change between human and seal form, by shedding their seal skins. It is said that when selkies take human form they have beautiful green hair. Most selkie stories involve men seeing and falling in love with a selkie woman, and stealing her skin so that she must stay with him. In most tales, the selkie eventually finds her hidden skin and returns to the sea, leaving her family on land. Occasionally, her children will see a seal eyeing them from the water, as if their mother is still watching over them.
KELPIES
Kelpies are also shape-shifters, and they dwell in the lochs of Scotland. They normally take the form of horse-like creatures. Stories of kelpies usually involve one appearing in horse form before a weary traveller and enticing him onto its back. Then the kelpie would gallop into the loch, taking the traveller down to the murky depths below to gobble him up. Spooky!
GIANTS
Giant stories have been told since long before Jack ever had his adventure at the top of the beanstalk! There are many ancient tales of giants living around Britain. One famous story goes that a Scottish giant named Benandonner, challenged an Irish giant, Finn MacCool to a bust-up, so Finn threw some land from the Irish coast into the North Channel to make a bridge to meet him, and this became the Giant’s Causeway, which is still a landmark in Northern Ireland today. Legend has it, the Scottish giant turned out to be absolutely ginormous, so Finn ran all the way back to Ireland and his wife disguised him as a baby to hide him from the terrifying Benandonner! I think I’d have done the same, wouldn’t you?
MERMAIDS
Mermaids in British folklore are very different from the ones you might know from The Little Mermaid. They are very unlucky in most old tales, and seeing them often means that a disaster is about to happen. However, some mermaid tales are happier, such as one from the Isle of Man, in which a baby mermaid girl steals a toy from a little girl. However, her mermaid mother tells her off and sends her back to bring the little girl a beautiful pearl necklace to say sorry.
NESSIE
Most of you will have heard of Nessie I reckon! There have been many supposed sightings for hundreds of years of a huge serpentine monster living in Loch Ness. Some suspect that Nessie could be a surviving dinosaur, or a mythical water beast. Some of the most famous sightings of the monster include people who saw it cross the road in front of their cars and slither into the loch, or who saw Nessie’s two humps rising out of the water as she swam along. However, many people who have claimed to have taken photos of the monster have been proved to be fake. Who knows if Nessie is really out there…
These are some flibberin’ cool monsters, I hear you say. Well Zippedy Zoomers, why not draw them, or use them to make your own story? You could even put a monster on your personal pirate flag!
My brainbox is wizzy busy now so lets get onto some, zippedy stuff to do. This week we have Brandon D back, with his fantasmical origami, and this week he is going to show us how to make a boat…
Brandon’s kit list to make this boat, is a single sheet of A4 paper or coloured card.
Why not make your own pirate flag to go on your ship? All you need is a wee piece of paper or a Post-It note, to stick to the end of a cocktail stick. Then you can attach this to your boat with tape, to make your ship look even cooler!
What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
A carrot!
Why didn’t the lobster want to share?
Because he’s shellfish!
How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh?
Tentickles!
Why did the flounder giggle?
Because the sea weed!
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Ocean Zippedy Facts!
Time to drop some knowledge on you Zoomers. Here are a few wavey facts about the sea, you see?
Did you know that there is an area of ocean just off Florida in the North Atlantic which is called the Bermuda Triangle, where a number of ships and planes have mysteriously disappeared? Some believe that the area is haunted, or that the disappearances are due to alien abduction!
Women were not allowed on pirate ships, but that didn’t stop female swashbucklers Anne Bonny and Mary Read dressing up as men to join Calico Jack Rackham’s pirate crew. These two were so fearsome that when their ship was attacked, Anne and Mary were the only two crew members to fight, whilst the rest of their crew surrendered to the enemy.
Less than five percent of Earth’s oceans have been explored by humans. Scientists know almost nothing about life at the bottom of the sea, since it is too deep for submarines to reach. There are thought to be thousands or even millions of animal species in the deep sea that are still to be discovered by humans.
Make your own Flag Paper Collages!!
These ideas are for the Scottish Flag (The Saltire) or The St. Georges Flag.
KIT LIST
- Sheet of card. A5 is a good size, if you want to make a few flags
- A Ruler
- A Pencil
- Glue
- Coloured paper, tissue paper, is great, although the colour can run, you can use light coloured paper, or recycled paper, anything that you can tear and scrunch into a little ball or pom pom.
HOW TO
- Use your ruler to mark out the centre shape OF the flag.
- So for the Scottish flag you are creating an x and for an English Flag a +
- Get to tearing up your paper and screw into loose pom poms shapes.
- Paint your card with a light layer of glue.
- Stick the paper pom poms to the paper.
- Remember to tidy up and put away.
Leaf Blowing Contest!
Autumn is in full swing, and there are so many leaves falling from the trees!
Some trees are evergreen, and this means that they are resistant to the cold and keep their leaves all the year round. Other trees are deciduous, and this means that when the weather starts to get chillier in autumn-time, their thin leaves freeze and are unable to photosynthesise to produce food for the tree, so the tree drops these leaves in order to grow new ones in spring. Aren’t trees clever?
Here’s a fun contest using fallen leaves!
KIT LIST
- Fallen leaves
- Straws
- A flat surface for the race track
- Chalk (optional)
- Each player takes one leaf and one straw each.
- The leaves are lined up at the start line (you can mark the race track out with chalk)
- Players must blow at the leaf through their straw to try and make it move fastest. The winner is the first leaf over the finish line!
Now is time to snuggle up in your favourite place and tune in to our ZZZtime story slot. This week Mavis The March Hare has selected a sea story from her library. Ready, steady, tune those listening earzinging boxes in…
This week we have a special guest who is joining us all the way from Singapore. The zippilovely voiceover artist Jessica Wootton. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written by American author L. Frank Baum, illustrated by W. W. Denslow and published by the George M. Hill Company in May 1900.
The Boffins are all waiting for Chapter 2, looking forward to the next installment, thank you Jessica Wootton, keep on reading perrrleasssee!
Well zippedy zoomers, that it for Wacky Wednesday. Thank you all for tuning in and see you, in two zzzzedtime sleeps, back in the la bon Funtastic Friday.
Prof. Zippedilla Zoom
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