See Cartoon Network's sponsorship idents for the Weetabix Weetabuddies, which see Weetabix pieces telling fruit-themed jokes to one another. There's even a plain Weetabix piece and one with Weeto hair who sings out everything she says!
Wednesday, 9 December 2020
My Dream Christmas Dinner Guests
My dream Christmas dinner guests would be Luke, Resus, Cleo, Luella, Six, Bluey, Bingo, Bandit, Chilli, Uncle Stripe, Aunt Trixie, Muffin, Socks, Nana, Uncle Rad, Frisky, Love Monster, Tiniest Fluffiest Bunny, Elder Kitten, Book Cub, Dog, Pug, Nothing, Hover, Feather, Sharptongue and Powerstrike, because Scream Street, Bluey, Love Monster, Dog Loves Books and My Pride are my most favourite things of all time! Luke and I would share a romantic moment at the dinner table, while everything would be just like the Christmas dinner scene in the new Bluey Christmas episode 'Christmas Swim' - everyone gathered for a wonderful meal. I think this is my favourite part of Christmas - besides opening presents, of course.
Banana, Cherry & Walnut Bread Cake
Make Christmas more special with this wholesome recipe for banana, cherry and walnut bread cake. Add heaps of strawberry jam on top if you want!
Elmo Cupcakes
In celebration of Sesame Street films coming to Tiny Pop this December and January, why not host a Sesame Movie Night with your little one? All you need is popcorn, a drink and these adorable Elmo cupcakes, which you can bake with your child. Fluffy red frosting alert!
Find more Elmo fun on the Tiny Pop and Sesame Street websites:
Sharing Is Christmas!
I'm sharing this Christmas between CBBC and Tiny Pop, only when either The Grumpus or Jody In Wonderland isn't on. On Tuesday, it'll be my first time seeing the Sesame Street Christmas special, 'Once Upon A Sesame Street Christmas' so it'll be my chance to see what Sesame Street would be like if Charles Dickins wrote it and set it in Victorian London...if he's still alive. On the 29th, I'll see Barbie Princess Adventure again like I did three months ago on Pop, except this time I'll offer 'One Little Slip' in order to see it. Along the way, I'll imagine being in the film as Princess Amelia's mischievous little sister Alyssa. Then on the 2nd of January, I'll see once again Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase, where I'll see Elmo, Abby and their friends explore the world outside the boundaries of Sesame Street via hot air balloons. I'll be watching Mouse & Mole At Christmas Time on the 21st, so there's no need to worry. In the meantime, you can discover Christmas activities and Sesame Workshop themed fun on the Tiny Pop website:
Fiendish Feet
Okay, so it's not Halloween yet, but while I was partying with my friends from Scream Street two months ago, they put up this neat little craft on how to make yogurt pot Halloween creatures. Check out this craft and learn how to make yogurt pot Christmas creatures, too:
CBeebies Christmas Cards
Learn how to make these adorable, simple CBeebies Christmas cards! You can either put nice Christmassy things on it, or an adorable image of CBeebies characters you like, like Dog Loves Books, Teletubbies or Love Monster, or add favourite characters which are NOT from CBeebies, like My Pride, Bluey and Scream Street. Have a go and grab the things you need!
We Bare Bears Underwear Schedule
Here is the list of all the We Bare Bears Underwear skits I'll do leading up to the 1st of January:
17th December
- Jumble Sale - The bears try to donate all their old stuff to the jumble sale.
- TV - The bears watch TV.
- Breakfast - The bears cause havoc at breakfast time.
- Toy Shop - The bears explore a toy shop.
- Sugar Hearts - Ice Bear tastes sugar hearts.
24th December
- Camping - The bears go camping in the woods.
- BBQ - The bears host a barbeque but have some unexpected visitors.
29th December
- Four Leafed Clover - The bears find a clover which is said to bring good luck.
30th December
- Disco - The bears go to a school disco and show off their moves.
1st January
- School Days - The bears recall going to school as cubs.
Everybody Shout....
All CBBC Stars: ALLAH!!!
That's right, one of my most favourite Scooby Doo movies of all time, Scooby Doo & The Goblin King, is airing on CBBC this Boxing Day! How on earth did they manage to get Scooby Doo back on the channel? I don't know, maybe they somehow struck a deal with Turner so that they can avoid Islam and terrorists bombing the BBC. This mixture of Scooby Doo, Scream Street, Peter Pan and Imaginationland will arrive on CBBC soon, so stay tuned!
This Image Popped Into My Head....
This image reminds me of the Bluey episode 'Duck Cake'. Influenced by that episode and the made-up Bluey episode 'Cake' on the Ideas Wiki, I'm going to make an I.B.F.Fs: A New Generation story called 'Daddy Bakeoff'. In it, my home tutor May and I compete against Bandit to make a cake for Bluey's birthday from the Womens' Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Cookbook, with Book Cub as the judge. Bandit makes a beautiful castle cake with Smarties, while we make the duck cake he baked for Bingo's birthday. The prize is a tin of Book Cub's fresh, oven-baked chocolate chip cookies! If you don't know who Book Cub is, find out more about her in this video:
Tastes Like Chicken
I found this video from Tasty to help bring my appetite on for lunch:
To me, this is the at-home way of making and eating food at KFC!
The (Second) Best Night Ever
Whilst in the car waiting for mum to get out of the hospital and while I'm at Grandma's watching Dog Loves Books and Youtube, I was so excited to do the I.B.F.Fs: A New Generation story 'The (Second) Best Night Ever' that I started doing it in my grey notebook with coloured paint stripes. I took some story elements from Horrid Henry & The Bogey Babysitter and Postman Pat & The Spooky Sleepover, the second one I saw non-stop on one of my Postman Pat DVDs when I was little. So, a story that combines trick-or-treating, a sleepover and babysitters? That's something no kids' Halloween story ever focused on before!
Download and print out the Bluey Halloween scavenger hunt cards, or use the cards to act out the story here:
Watch Love Monster, Dog Loves Books and Scream Street on BBC iPlayer, and watch My Pride over on TribbleOfDoom's Youtube channel:
And if you live in Australia, watch Bluey on ABC iView:
Ooey Gooey 2-ey!
It's time to learn about the number two! I remember vaguely seeing this old Teletubbies episode on CBeebies when I was younger, now it's time a new generation of number-craving toddlers learnt about everything that's split into two! You know what they say: it takes two to tango! Sit back and enjoy this learning spree....if you want to know your two times tables!
Sandwich Snackers
I had a cheese sandwich for breakfast and once again, I used the help of Tasty to bring my appetite on - the result? This sandwich recipe video featuring some delicious bangers, set to the tune of music which sounded like Lebo M's Kube:
Listen to Kube here:
The (Second) Best Night Of The Year
I'm excited because one of the new I.B.F.Fs: A New Generation stories would be about the thing I adore most because of Scream Street - Halloween!
The story, called 'The (Second) Best Night Of The Year' sees Luke, Resus, Cleo and me babysat by Uncle Rad and Frisky while we have our sleepover at Luke's house, and Dig and Lulu join in too. Meanwhile, the other I.B.F.Fs go out trick or treating, but without my Scream Street friends and me by their side, they wonder how they'll share their trick or treat candy. Luckily, Rusty has a clever idea when they stop off at his house...
What's the idea? Well, if I do the story and post it on my blog, you'll find out soon enough.
Download the Bluey Halloween Scavenger Hunt cards. It's not Halloween until next year, but if you want you can use the cards featuring Bluey and her friends to recreate the trick-or-treating scenes in the story and see what it's like:
Give Them What They Want
The postcard everyone should write to Santa on!
In 'Give Them What They Want', an I.B.F.Fs: A New Generation Christmas story, I spend time with the Heelers and see how they celebrate Christmas together as a family, then I join Dog, Pug and Love Monster on a charity drive to raise money for helpless people on Christmas. I then fall asleep in my bed and dream of wandering a Winter Wonderland with the I.B.F.Fs, including an encounter with Santa!
Find lots of fun Bluey Christmas activities on the official website, including the Verandah Santa/Give Them What They Want letter:
How They Celebrate Christmas On Glowbone Island, In Unicornia & Near Pug's Friendship Tree
In these meditation retreat places, how they celebrate Christmas seems very peaceful, and yet truly magical...
On Glowbone Island, they decorate the trees with sparkling, colorful baubles and tinsel and place dog biscuits on their glowing green Christmas tree. The highlight of Christmas celebrations on Glowbone Island is the 'Time Capsule Treasure' - anything the native dogs on the island don't want or have used up through the year, they place in a bone-shaped time capsule and bury in the sand, transporting it to charity shops in the real world to give to people who need them most.
In Unicornia, the unicorns here celebrate the 'Festival Of Lights'. They deck every tree and bush with beautiful pink and yellow fairy lights, including their Light Tree. The star on the top glows a bright silver, shining in the moonlight. The Milk Light, which emerges from the pond every night before Christmas Day, arrives each year to give each unicorn a new power in their horn as a reward for being good and keeping Unicornia safe from hunters and humans who want to throw their rubbish in its beauty. They also polish rainbows to make them sparkle for next year, and they shine white, green and pink.
Near Pug's Friendship Tree, it's Winter. Children gather to sing carols and play in the snow, sledging down hills and building snowmen. Pug used to come here and build a Snowdog for the tree to be friends with, and it always stays with the tree for three weeks leading up to Christmas. It's now a tradition for other puppies to build their Snowdogs near the tree so that it won't feel lonely.
Watch 'Dog Loves Calm' on iPlayer:
Countdown To Christmas Day 9 - I Love You Jar
My stories are always filled with love and friendship - okay, some aren't - but with lots of friends and family by your side and people celebrating Thanksgiving earlier last month, it's time to create a jar telling the many ways you love your friends and family, especially at this time of year. We're thankful we have such good companions!
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