In I.B.F.Fs: Boredom, a power outage hits during a Winter day, and my siblings Luke, Resus and Cleo and I are staying indoors with nothing to do...until I have an idea: I'll transform the familiar! This results in turning the living room into an imaginary swamp using cushions, plush alligators and dressing our pets, Dig the half-dog and Lulu the leech, as crocodiles. Pretending a sleeping Niles is the Alligator King, we cross the pretend swamp from cushion to cushion and avoid the crocodiles to reach the 'Brown Barge' (sofa). Teamwork is demonstrated as Luke and Resus help each other when Resus 'falls into the swamp' and befriends one of the alligators (Lulu). The next game we play is setting up a black bat cave in our bedroom, making it cosy with pillows, cushions, plastic black bats hanging from the ceiling and glow-in-the-dark moons and stars, plus dressing Dig and Lulu up as bats. We discover bats keep themselves warm with cosy duvets, have pillow fights and live on a venom-reducing diet of fruit and chocolate biscuits, before drifting to sleep and having a Bluey Fruit Bat-style dream where we fly with other bats, bathe in the sea, eat fruit in the world's rainforests and jungles, fly past our friends' windows while they are sleeping, steal chocolate biscuits to share with our bat friends from the supermarket and hang by our toes in a real cave with other bats. When I wake however, I feel sick and race to the bathroom to vomit. Luke, Resus, Cleo and our parents hear this and comfort us, bringing me to bed and treating me to ice cream, water and a nice massage from Luke.
Why not transform your bedroom into something like our bat cave in the story I wrote on paper today? Perhaps transform your bedroom into a lion's den, or transform your bathroom into a jungle or an underwater world to make bath or shower time more interesting. Find out more about this and more on the Huggies website:
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