This haggis likes to hoard – what weird and wonderfuss stuff does it collect?
Tartan underpants? Unicorn magnets? Mouldy old Scotch eggs maybe?
Doodle some fantastic things – from fidget spinners to buttercups – that this haggis has been gathering. It might be busy sneaking something from right under your nose!
Talking of noses… haggis like to show off their collection by balancing their favourite things on their snouts! Draw the bestest thing in this collection on the very tip of its snouty-nose!
Top Tip: Haggis are usually gingery-brown. So get some orange and brown pencils to colour your haggis in!
Note: This haggis is the Fierce Orkney kind, instead of the longer-sleeker-haired Braw Haggis of the Highlands.
A mercat? A dinomaid? Or maybe a Deep-Water-Kelp-Breath mermaid with long seaweed hair who likes to slurp up limpets? Yuck!
Design your very own mermaid top using the slippery-swishy tail. You can draw inspiration from animals and magical creatures – from rhinos to vampires – to create your own unique creature.
Or simply doodle the top half of a friend or family member onto the tail to magic them into a mermaid! Just don’t forget the clam bra!
Top Tip: If your mermaid has hands, remember to give them bubble-icious webbed fingers!
What do selkies sing about deep under the ocean waves?
Seashells? Seagulls? Sea serpents!?
Name your selkie and doodle what you think would make a magical selkie song… Maybe she loves fish and chips or playing with dolphins or blowing bubbles up a basking sharks bum! Naughty!
Top Tip: You can draw swirly musical spirals or jazzy zigzags or maybe even a jiggedly fiddle to make your song more magical!
I’ve got some more Doodle Monsters for you to get scribbling on!
These mini monsters need a magic wand – or a pencil – to make them magnificently monstrous! Doodle a new ginormous nose, sharp go-faster spikes, two big twitchy ears and some flappity-flap wings to whizz around the clouds!
When you’re finished, you can also create your own mish-mash monster full of squiggly legs, googly eyes, gnashing teeth, and squiggly claws!
Hands up who loves to read… This tiny book imp sure does! Book imps love magicking books, even impossible books, and sniffing that bookish smell! (Bit odd.)
What is your book imp called? He or she wants you to dream up what your perfect book would be and doodle a brilliant book cover!
Here are a few ideas of titles:
Luna Lovegood’s Secret Diary
Is There Really A Monster Under Your Bed?
Hiccup’s Guide to Dragon Dentistry
The Hobbit’s Recipe Book of Second Breakfasts
The Unicorn Who Couldn’t Sing
Ah, poor little unicorn. If you’re little yourself, you can get an adult to help you with the words.
Or, if you have a top favourite book that’s pretty perfect already, you can copy its design or create a brand new cover for it. The possibilities are endless!
Download and print this free PDF Activity Sheet and get doodling some storytime delights!
This design was created specially for all the kids and parents in lockdown and to cheer things up in these tough times. Sending you all some cosy, bookish vibes!
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What weird and wonderfuss stuff would you find in a witch’s bottle?
Eyeballs for potions? Newt tails for breakfast? The tears of naughty children for a cauldron-carrot-cake recipe? Whether it be ghost farts or demon giggles, doodle something you would capture and keep for a magic spell or ghastly witching brew.
Top Tip: Witches can squeeeeeeeze almost anything inside a witchy bottle – the only limit is your imagination!
Download and print this free PDF Activity Sheet and get doodling some weird, gross and fun magic ingredients!
This design was created specially for all the kids and parents in lockdown and to cheer things up in these tough times. Sending you all some powerful, good witchy magic!
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You’ll need every colouring pencil, crayon, felt tip and gel pen in the house!
Doodle tiny decorations – like shooting stars and lightning bolts – and then colour them in. Or your unicorn could simply be stripy or spotty or maybe zigzagged like a zebracorn! All you need to do is think all the colours of the rainbow and then some!
You’ll also need to dream up a sparkling unicorn name and, if you can stomach it, doodle some weird unicorn poo! Unicorn poo like jelly beans, cupcakes, pongy rainbow puffs! Ew!
Download and print the free PDF Activity Sheet above to decorate this fierce and fantabulous unicorn!
This design was created specially for all the kids and parents in lockdown and to cheer things up in these tough times. Sending sparkling rainbow puffs to you all!
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This troll needs some hair, kids! Scribble it, doodle it, design it!
Name your troll and decide what kind of walloping troll it is…
Is it a sizzling Fire Troll with flaming red-hot hair? A Common Garden Troll with flowers and bumble-bees buzzing in and out of its curls? Or maybe it’s a Fishy Troll who goes around with a giant haddock stuck on its head and usually is up to no good?
Once you’ve decided, go ahead and doodle a magnificent hairdo!
Top Troll Tip: Trolls like to collect things so you can add all sorts of strange wonders into your hairstyle – think buttons, spiders, polo mints, daffodils, hamsters, cupcakes, twigs and a really special pet rock…
Download and print this free PDF above to get started… Be warned: trolls sometimes get hungry and will eat EVERYTHING out your fridge and rubbish bins!
This design was created specially for all the kids and parents in lockdown and to cheer things up in these tough times. Watch out for big, smelly troll hugs coming your way!
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Some are small and squeaky, some are big and flubbery, others could eat you up in one GIANT GULP! Arrrgh!
But they are missing some important monster stuff….. Add squiggly go-faster legs, googly-woogly eyes, nish-gnashing teeth, and a big fancy, swooshy tail!
After you’re done, why not doodle your own marvellous, munching, magnificent monster!?
Kids, I want to know…. What has the dragon eaten???
Jellyfish? Vikings? Chilli powder? Tunnocks tea cakes? Five thousand flip flops? (Imagine the sound of all those flip flops flip-flopping in its belly!)
Print off this Activity Sheet, doodle some tasty dragon snacks, colour the dragon in and then give it a wonderfuss name! (A purple dragon called FishFangs? An orange dragon called Gallumphia?)
This is my first time uploading a PDF (above) to my blog so hope it works for you and you can print out my toothy friend easily. Do let me know!
This rather dashing dragon was created specially for all the kids and parents who find the schools are closed and to cheer things up in these tough times. Raaarh!
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Wyrzog is a feisty Book Wyrm that lurks in my bookshelves and slithers about my many piles of much-loved books. She has an annoying habit of eating bookmarks, but will hiss and snap if I even consider dog-earring a page.
Wyrzog the Book Wyrm
Wyrzog is surprisingly open to contentious grammar and the odd typo: she have seen humans change their language over thousands of years, and admires it all. Wyrms love stories, big or small. They love books with illustrations, illuminations and those with beautiful maps folded within.
‘Wyrm’ – a species of dragon with no legs or wings. The most famous kind of wyrm are sea-serpents, like Orkney’s very own Mester Stoorworm, but not all are ocean-dwelling creatures.
Wyrzog tends to hoard books with strong, female characters and prefers non-traditional fairytales where the princess and dragons live happily ever after. She has an insatiable appetite for literature but, despite how excited she gets about a book, she will never, ever give away a plot ending. Those who do will find their toes nibbled.
Zog the (very handsome) orange dragon is her personal hero.
“Don’t eat me!” wailed the goat. (Well, at least that’s what I thought that bleating meant.)
“But I caught you with my special spoon,” the giantess pouted. It was indeed a special spoon. It had a particularly fusty mould to add flavour and a hook for catching dinner. A dinner like Ty the Peedie Goat.
The Giantess and the Goat
The giantess was called Gerdila. As well as on the spoon, she loved growing fungus in her grey-green hair and green-brown clothes. But the moudilest place of all was Gerdila’s squelchy fungus tongue.
Gerdila the Giantess didn’t like her dinner to be too wriggly. So Gerdila simply blew putrid breath on her prey. One foul puff of her fungus tongue killed most things instantly. She mainly ate sheep and cows – but avoided Highland Coo’s because they are too ‘flooff-full’.
Ty the Peedie Goat was next. (Gerdila stomped right past the alpacas as they are far too floof-full as well.) She hooked Ty round the neck with her special mouldy spoon and plucked him from the herd. The other goats watched wide-eyed and open-mouthed… All except for Chumley who carried on chewing the cud whilst watching a nearby cloud that looked like a fluffy bale of hay. Or so he imagined.
‘Peedie’: Orcadian dialect for small, little.
Ty, perched on his bottom, flopped a little as if already half dead. He bleated pitifully. Gerdila smiled a stinking smile and then blew…. Boooooooooof! Rancid air filled the sky, with little whiffs drifting down to the ground. The stink made the alpacas gag and spit. Ty lay deathly still in a cloud of stench.
“No!” I yelled, bursting out the door, tears streaming. No one heard, as I hopped to get my wellies on.
Ty burped. A giant, gurgly burp right from the depths of one of his many stomachs. We watched it bloat his belly then travel up his neck and finally erupt from his pink, fuzzy lips.
“Ew!” Gerdila the Giantess pouted. “That’s disgusting. And why aren’t you dead?”
“He’s a goat,” I answered, wiping my running nose on my sleeve. “He may be cute and cuddly and small but don’t let that fool you: goat’s breath is the most disgusting thing ever. Even more foul and fetid than yours – no offence.” She eyed me funnily and I started to back away to the safety of the house once more. I cursed for having brushed my teeth that morning.
“And I now you’re beaten,” Ty bleated joyfully. “I banish you from the farm!”
(At least, that’s what I think he said.)
And that is the story of how Ty the Peedie Goat out-stank Gerdila the Giantess. And he brags, and brags, and brags about it to this day.
