Time for our final sporting event – the hurdles! We’ve got four athletes lined up, and Ofelia is acting as starter. On your marks…
Get set…
GO!
Oh dear! Ernest’s tripped over his own snozzle!
They’re approaching the hurdle…
Whoops! Winston’s tripped on his hurdle!
Fury is over safely! Nano is racing along behind… Now he’s over safely too.
Close to the line, it looks like Fury might win! Hang on! How did Nano move so fast!?
Oh Ernest! You’re not supposed to help him!
Well, that’s tricky. There’ll have to be a steward’s enquiry. But after a bit of a chat, everyone agrees Fury won, but Ernest was just being kind. Ofelia suggests that they all settle down to a snack or two.
Today Matilda and Ofelia are having a go at Synchronised Swimming! They are ready in the pool, with their nose clips to stop water going up their snozzles.
See how they turn in perfect unison, all the while treading water.
Reach those snozzles high now!
And now… Upside down they go! This is very skillful indeed!
Well, that was very good. It’s nice to get out and dry off, and take those clips off, they are a bit tight!
I came to see Mrs Human, and said I had noticed a lack of Hot Cross Buns today, and could she hurry up with them please.
And she said, that because she’s on a diet, and Mr Human can’t eat them, there were no hot cross buns.
No. Hot. Cross. Buns.
Well, I’m not having that. So I went to Ofelia to ask if she could bake some. And she said she couldn’t because she hadn’t got any yeast. But maybe we could work something out…
So we went hunting in the freezer and found some crumpets….
And then Ofelia found the spices she needed in the spice rack, and we rolled them to the chopping board.
Ofelia spread some butter on the defrosted crumpet.
And we sprinkled on some cinnamon and mixed spice.
And Ofelia poked dried fruit into some of the holes.
Then it went under the grill to melt the butter and spices together.
Well, it smells very nice! But what about the cross?
Ah, well done Ofelia! You don’t normally have icing on a hot cross bun, but the normal flour and water wouldn’t really work on this. Anyway. We like icing.
There! It’s bit different, but it’s got all the right stuff in it! We are calling it a Hot Crosspet. I hope you have plenty of proper Hot Cross Buns!
Today, we’re going to be doing some pottery! We’re using plasticine, but you could use air drying clay, or even salt-dough. Of course, if you have real clay and a kiln, even better!
Ofelia is starting off making some hanging decorations. She’s rolling the clay out, and cutting a shape. Then put a hole in for a string before it bakes, and there you have it!
Peggy is having a go at a “thumb pot”. Just poke your thumb (or in her case, your hand!) into the ball of clay and shape it up as much as you need!
Ernest’s turn now. He’s going to make a coil pot. Roll your clay back and forth to make a sausage, and then roll it more and more to make a long snake. Then start to coil the snake round to make a base and up the sides.
Careful you don’t coil your snozzle in there Ernest! Ah, well done, a handy pot to keep things in!
Good lord! Winston has a potter’s wheel! We never knew. See how he shapes the clay up as it spins. He makes it look easy, but it’s quite a skill to master.
Good lord! Winston, you’ve made an urn! Oh yes, he says, I’ve made loads of them over the years…
Ofelia and Micro are going to have fun with yarn today. They’re making pompoms! They’ve got pompom makers, but you can use rings of card if you don’t have them.
First step is to wind the yarn round each half of the pompom maker. The more yarn the better the pompom!
When the two halves are full, clip them together, and snip round the outside!
Then tie a piece of yarn tightly round the middle to hold it all together, and peel the bits of the maker apart!
Well, look! Ofelia has added a bit of felt to make a sheep. Handy for a nativity scene!
What have you made Micro? Oh! A pompom Ferrero Rocher chocolate! Ambassador, with this pompom you are spoiling us!
Of course you don’t have to stick to one colour, with a bit of care you can make all sorts of patterns!
Dim, Vincent and Ofelia are going to have a go at some Macrame today!
Bernard wonders if that’s a good idea, given the mess they always get in with the Maypole!
But they are sure it’ll be fine. First they tie the strings to the cinnamon stick and lay them out neatly. Ofelia loves cinnamon, she can’t stop sniffing it!
Now they just have to knot the strings in the right order, to make a V shape.
There! It’s a little decoration to hang up! Just needs the strings trimming.
Bernard is quite impressed that no one got tangled up!
We found a tutorial online, so have a look round and see what you could do!
