All At Sea

Imaginative minds are like absorbent nappies - they soak in every single thing you think up, even something you've been wanting to work on forever, like the Disney crew when it came to Walt Disney's Fantasia project. That's exactly what Tish's mum is working on: an advert for nappies, but she's lost her inspiration, and only Tish and Tash can help her out! A trip to the Neon Sea might refresh Rosa's memory, and help her find inspiration through imaginative play.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0013f41/tish-tash-series-1-24-all-at-sea

I.B.F.Fs: Friendship Bites - Here Sir/Hunchback/Understand Them Better/Dig Vs. Roger

Dr. Skulley takes the register to see if all his pupils are present, but they're too focused on other things.📓

The students discuss Disney films while writing a 300-word essay on The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.🌟

Dr. Skulley performs a ritual to get his students to understand Chucker and Basher better. Anyone miss them?❓

And finally, Dig steals school bully Roger's hot dog, causing a wild chase around the playground.🍔

I.B.F.Fs: Friendship Bites

My Trip Out With Charlotte According To Boo The Hedgehog

Hello there, I'm Boo the Hedgehog. You may recognise me from one of Sybil's childhood favourite shows, Bill & Ben, but now I'm here to tell you about her trip out with Charlotte today.

It all started when they went to Brora. Unfortunately, it was shut, so it was off to Charlotte's house for breakfast since Sybil hasn't had anything to eat this morning. To pass the time while Charlotte was shopping, Sybil did an I.B.F.Fs story named 'The Squeaky Lion's Den'. The Squeaky Lion's Den is a place Sybil named when the Tish Tash episode 'Bobby World' aired on CBeebies, my old home. You can watch it on iPlayer after you've read this blog entry if you want.

When they went to Charlotte's house, Sybil ate four bacon rolls in one go since she was so hungry, and told Charlotte the story of the world Tish visited in this morning's Tish Tash - the Land Of Darkness. It's a dark, inverted variant of our world. In her story, Cleo goes missing and it's up to her, Luke and Resus to find it, only to go into a warped version of their world where everyone seems nice and smiling, but are actually evil - they've tied Cleo up and left her for dead! As with Bobby World, you can watch Shadow House on iPlayer and see the world Sybil included in her story.

Before they left for Helmsdale, Charlotte gave Sybil her spiced apple candle and a soft white feather from one of her hens. The spiced apple candle has quite a cosy scent - just what you need to spruce up your home during the Winter.

At Helmsdale, the two went out looking for magical red stones that can reflect the sunlight. Our story doesn't end there, because Sybil met a woman with two dogs which she called Haggis and Bonnie. Charlotte liked to call them 'Two Little Sausages'. They spotted more 'Sausages' as they went home - Curly Sausages, Pretty Sausages and Fat Blubbery Sausages (seals). Sybil came home pretty exhausted from all that, and decided to take a nap.

I must be going because I heard that Bill & Ben have played another trick on Slowcoach again...heard that Slowcoach's voice actor was in two of Sybil's favourite shows, Scream Street and Strange Hill High. Goodbye!

Coldplay & Cats

11 Hey Duggee Books For Little Squirrels

Remember the Hey Duggee episode 'The Story Badge'? It contained a dinosaur, a popcorn princess and a strawberry. Well, after a long day of playing and earning badges, Duggee and the Squirrels like to read these stories together before snuggling up for nap time. Maybe your child could snuggle up with a Duggee cuddly toy next naptime and read their favourite Hey Duggee book, choosing one of many with this selection of stories!

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2018/the-best-hey-duggee-books-for-squirrel-club-fans.html

Okay, I'll admit it, I watched the Green Planet Badge....

Ant Man & The Wasp - DIY Wings

Scott Lang has done many things during my favourite part of Ant Man & The Wasp - he's taken an online magic class (and vomited up a pack of cards before his family left), tried not to cry over a tearjerker of a novel, tried drumming, karaoke, bowling and origami, but there's one thing he didn't do during the montage: video call his daughter Cassie and teach her how to make DIY wasp wings. This is exactly what you're going to do. Try this craft via video call, or even better, follow along to this tutorial!

https://raisingwhasians.com/ant-man-and-the-wasp-diy-wings/

Play With Us

Meet Tola, a huge pink feminine male bear who's got fatherhood duties to do! You've yet to know that he's a mixture of Tish and Pola, her father, and her daughter is Tiash, a little blue bear wearing Tish's trademark bow. Tola has got a lot of things to do - build a train set, give Bobby a horsey ride, prepare dinner, cook, clean, do the shopping, etc.. But there's always time for a visit to the splendid little seaside town of HarborBay Seaside!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0013f5g/tish-tash-series-1-21-play-with-us

The Green Planet Badge

Isn't it strange? David Attenborough has lent his voice to a CBeebies Storytime story about finding gorillas, now he's lending his voice to Hey Duggee. He's going to tell the Squirrels all about how our planet thrives in place of the voice of Danger Mouse. You're all going to be watching that Green Planet thing tomorrow, but not me, I'm going to watch Tish Tash and Bluey!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/59920146

Rug Island - Tropical Island Small World & Sensory Play

Bluey, Bingo, Luke, Resus, Cleo and I love playing islands when we come round for a playdate - except Bandit isn't the castaway. Sometimes, when Luella, Six, Snickers, Coco, Honey, Chloe and Mackenzie all come over, we pretend we're trying to survive on our very own peaceful Rug Island - that is, if a chocolate egg (rugby ball) is thrown into the yard. Bluey and Bingo love playing with water and sand, especially on the beach, and you can recreate the experience with this tropical island sensory play!

https://taminglittlemonsters.com/tropical-island-small-world-and-sensory-bin-for-kids/

Horsey Ride - DIY Unicorn Costume & Unicorn Body Butter

Uncle Stripe could just recall the embarrassing memories of playing 'Horsey Wedding' with Bluey, Bingo and his girls, so he sewed a special unicorn costume so that Muffin can pretend to be a unicorn all day long - even in the bath! Speaking of baths, whenever Aunt Trixie has a little me time, she likes to rub body butter all over herself, but as a prank, Uncle Stripe, Muffin and Socks place Muffin's unicorn body butter and take the original body butter back into the bedroom before Aunt Trixie even has time to enter the bathroom! You can recreate these funny scenarios by making your own unicorn costume and body butter, so while the kids prance around and create magic, you can spend a little magical me time!

https://www.craftaholicsanonymous.net/diy-unicorn-costume-tutorial

https://crayonsandcravings.com/unicorn-whipped-body-butter/

I.B.F.Fs & I.B.F.Fs: Friendship Bites

I have two new story anthologies in the works, which I'm only going to do after days I go to Brora. On days I don't go to Brora, I'll do one on Tuesday and the other on Wednesday. Let me introduce you to them. Warning: they are my first proper titles.

First, there's the proper debut for I.B.F.Fs, I.B.F.Fs: Imaginary Best Friends Forever. It features four stories featuring characters from Scream Street and Bluey: in A Place To Sleep, Luke, Resus, Cleo and I fall out of bed and try to find a new place to sleep. In Movies, this is a remake of the Bluey episode 'Movies' where my siblings and I face a difficult decision whilst on a trip to the cinema, with characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed helping out. In Monster HQ, Luke, Resus, Cleo, Bluey, Bingo and I visit the place where the trio's job at CBBC was first accepted and tell me and my two friends about their first day on air. Finally, in Cousin Six, it's just a simple story that involves me, my cousin Six and my aunt Dr. F on a trip to the beach.

I.B.F.Fs: Friendship Bites is a series of short vignettes based on the jokes from the Scream Street joke book. They usually involve my friends, siblings, neighbours and me involved in all kinds of shenanigans, from Dr. Skulley posing as a music student to join in with music class to Alston developing a rage over steak at a fancy restaurant.

Trust me, I'm an author, these ideas are grrrrrreat!

Bingo - DIY Tetris Inspired Puzzle

When he was younger, Bandit used to love playing arcade games with his brother Stripe in the '80s, especially Tetris, especially as he tried to match all the coloured blocks together. With his two girls now visiting the arcade sometimes, especially during the time they tried to win a prize at the claw machine, Bandit can recreate his childhood experience at home - using wood blocks, liquid watercolour paints and, for adults to handle only, a glue gun. You can follow along and make this childhood arcade game if you grew up in the '80s!

https://www.firefliesandmudpies.com/diy-tetris-inspired-puzzle/

This puzzle is all part of a series of activities themed around the Bluey episode 'Bingo', which you can access on Loose Part's website:

https://looseparts.com.au/bingo/

Fruit Bat - Homemade Bat Mobile

For her new bedroom, Bluey and her mum made a beautiful bat mobile to hang over her bed, so that the shadows of her fruit bat brothers can always help her remember when it's time to enter her dreams of becoming one of them, eating fruit in gardens and rainforests and watching Dad score touchdowns on the football field with his mates. You can give it a try too! Use black card, yellow card and paint to bring Bluey's new mobile to life!

https://daisiesandpie.co.uk/bat-mobile-for-halloween/