Wacky Wednesday: Singalong-a-Zoomalong
Hello Zippedy-Zoomers, welcome back to you all. So today is our very first jam packed Wacky Wednesday. We have been awesomely busy twaddling the mizzles and the woojits in the Make and Play Lab, to bring laughter, dancing, baking, collecting Zoom points, and when all the busy-ness is done, time for a cuddle up and a story at ZZZtime.
Gosh! So let get going!
Kitchen Magic
First up is some kitchen magic, click on the link for simple and delicious apple flapjack recipe which doesn’t need ANY cooking!!
P.S. check your apples have not come from Queen Wicked’s kitchen.
Apple Flapjack Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Apple
- Oats
- Golden Syrup
- Fruit pieces and/or Chocolate chips for variation
- Cut up your apple into slices and set in your favourite pattern in a cake tin. If the tin is metal, lightly grease it first.
- Mix all the other ingredients together and tip the mixture on top of the apples, pressing down.
- Next place your flapjacks in a pre-heated oven at 180c for 10 – 15 mins depending on how fierce your oven is! Remember to think safe and ask for help with the oven, if you are not used to cooking.
Can you jumpin’ jivers jig your way through our devious dancing wordsearch?
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Hokey-Cokey
While you are waiting to share your flapjacks, its time to introduce two new guests. Tillie the Fairy and Eddie the Elf. They are good friends with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, so they have sent Queen Wicked a wee song and dance, if you know it join in! Even better make your own words and actions up for your family to join in or for your Singalong a zoomalong.
Hokey Cokey Lyrics
Whoop-de-whoo, we are all waving our dancing feet in the Lab and singing along too. Tillie and Eddie have promised, they will drop in again, soon. They have left you the words to the song, if you want to play along:
Phew, that was exercise jumpalicious. Now getting energized makes us all smile in the Lab, and Happy Boffins are the Best Boffins. We are so happy and jolly that we think its time to do a good turn. I wonder what we can do……
That’s it, its Zoom Points time! Everyone who does a good turn, gets Zoom Points. A good turn can be something to help out those you are in lockdown with, and who are looking after you. Anything you can do to be useful as every little helps. Look out, here comes Dopey the Dwarf from the Palace kitchen! What is he going to do?
Well done Dopey! Cleaning handles is a good job as you swipe all the beastly bugs away with a huge squoosh.
Now, doing cleaning and tidying indoors and out can be bothersome, so we worked out some activities to make it fun.
Pick-a-Chore Stick Project
This is a great way of helping pick a chore every day after breakfast
Flags on sticks made of cardboard 
Lollypop chore sticks!
What you will need!
- A clean empty jar
- Flat wooden lolly sticks or cocktail sticks or straws (cut in half) or cardboard cut into lengths or even twigs!
- Paper (white or coloured)
- Coloured pencils / felt tips
- Scissors
- Sellotape / Glue
What to do
- Interview your adults and see what chores they would like to get done. Ask them to help you find chores that you can really do by yourself. Think about what you can do as well to help out.
- Take an A4 piece of paper and fold it in half. On one side write the chores down in a list, one after the other.
- Cut the chores out in strips
- Take a a twig, or a straw, or even thin stips of cardboard, and set on the fold of the paper on one of your chore strips. Make sure the writing is on the other side to that which the stick is on.
- Bend the paper along the fold, over the stick, to make a flag. On one side you will see your chore.
- Glue the paper together, near the stick and fold, to secure the flag in place.
- Pop the flag in a jar.
- Carry on for each of the chores
If you have flat wooden lolly sticks, then you can just write the chores straight onto the stick.
Now you have made a chore jar. For maximum Zoom Points, pick a chore each day, and off you go! Remember for some chores you might ask for the right kit to get you going and always when you are done ‘tidy up and put away’
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Zippedilla’s Bonuses
Hold on a zippy moment, Zippadilla thinks you should add some Bonus Flags, just to shape things up a bit. Make a few extra flags and come up with a Bonus list, Like this
Soon your palace will be spick and span and everyone will be hippedy-hap-hap-happy, thanks to you.
Here is Snow White’s own chore list as an example:
Phew what a lot of work, we will all be super fit when that lot is all done. Now I think those Flapjacks are cool and scrummy yummy ready to eat. So, at last, its time for some ZZZtime.
We are thrilled to have Arran from Mucky Boots reading the story of ‘How the Brave Robin got his Red Breast’!
So ZZZtime is cosy time. Perhaps you want a cup of tea with your flap jack, while you listen or perhaps you are going to curl up in bed. When you are cosy just press play and enjoy Arran’s lovely story:
Arran has included an activity video link to go with Robin video for more Make and Do here .
Dance Sequence Game!
Here’s a funtastic game to play with a group! All you need is a prop to dance with, for example a broom or a hat.
- Put some groovy music on, and gather everyone round in a circle, with the prop on the floor in the centre.
- One player goes first, and they must perform a dance move using the prop in the middle of the circle.
- The next player must repeat the previous player’s move. and then add one of their own, creating a sequence.
- Each player must perform the previous sequence and then add a move. Whenever a player messes up they’re out, and the winner is the player who can remember the most moves!
Why couldn’t the athlete listen to his music?
Because he broke the record!
What genre of music are balloons scared of?
Pop music!
Which part of the chicken is the most musical?
The drumstick!
Did you know…
In Mongolia, there is a type of singing which sounds a bit like a finger being rubbed on a glass.
Almost everybody can learn to sing if they use the right techniques and practice enough. It’s just like any other instrument!
Sound comes out of our mouths at approximately 75 miles per hour!
Singing with other people can make you happier! When you sing with others, your body releases feel-good hormones like oxytocin, and your stress hormones are reduced. So sing with your friends as much as you can and you’ll be happy as Larry!
SHHH I don’t want to wake up the Makers and Players, they are all asleep, dreaming of Robins and Woodland creatures.
I don’t believe it, someone has eaten all the apple flapjacks… I bet it was Dopey, he always gets hungry after his chores. Well, I shall just have to go and ask Brandon to make me some more …
Enjoy your Wacky Wednesday come back on Funday Friday to meet a special singing guest and get ready for your weekend and your Singalong-a-zoomalong!
ZippedyBye Proff Zippedilla Zoom
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