Here’s the postcard we handed out after the show.

and here’s how to make a “Foody Dragon” - that’s a dragon’s head picture with fruit and vegetables - and then … STOP!!! … before you eat it … scroll down

These are the ingredients we used:

Foody Dragon Ingredients:

• A grown up to help you with the chopping and boiling the egg

• half an orange pepper

• half a yellow pepper

• some red grapes

• some green grapes

• some cherry tomatoes

• a carrot

• an apple (we only used half)

• an egg (boil it for 4 minutes while you’re chopping)

Here’s our foody dragon. We didn’t have any olives but the egg looks great as the eye. We used orange pepper instead of red - that’s what was in the fridge! We only used half the apple.

…. Before you eat your foody dragon you could take a pic and send it to us:

info@jellyfishtheatre.com / instagram @jellyfishtheatre

or just eat it! Yum Yum !!

Here’s a fabulously fruity dragon from Brighton!

Eating the rainbow

You’ve probably heard about “eating the rainbow” and how we need to eat fruits and vegetables of all different colours to get all the good things we need.

30 Second Challenge:

Look at this food rainbow for 30 seconds.

Now cover up your eyes.

How many fruits and vegetables can you name in 30 seconds, without looking?

Our friend, Zoe Boston is a nutritional therapist. We asked her to tell us what healthy meals she likes making together with her two children.

Here are Zoe’s suggestions :

Fast, healthy, inexpensive food to make with the kids in your life

• Home-made Savoury Dragon Pancakes

Ingredients for the dragon cakes (pancakes):

• two eggs

• 150g plain flour

• 300 milk

• butter for frying

Method - children help with measuring and mixing

• put the flour in a bowl and make a big dent in the middle of the flour

• break the egg into the dent and mix - use a fork or a whisk

• add the milk and mix it in - use a fork or a whisk

• heat the butter in your frying pan and add about a third of a mug of pancake batter

• cook till the edges are coming away and turning golden

• flip it

• peel it off the side of the kettle and start again without getting annoyed.

Suggestions for fillings:

• baby spinach and grated cheese

• cooked chicken slices

• tuna and sweetcorn

• cherry tomatoes to decorate around the side of the plate

Method - children fill the pancakes themselves

• add your filling to middle of pancake and fold over / roll up

• decorate the edge of the plate with cherry tomatoes

• Willy Nilly Tacos

  (Willy Nilly is the dragon in our show)

  Ingredients:

  • a packet of taco shells

  then, choose a few of the following fillings:

  • a tin of sweetcorn

  • half a cucumber

  • some tomatoes

  • some lettuce

  • some rocket

  • a carrot - grated

  • grated cheese

  • plain yoghurt

  • a tin of black beans - great alternative for minced meat

  • garlic

  • onion

  • coriander, tumeric, cumin (half a teaspoon of each)

  • some oil or butter to cook the beans mixture / warm up the tacos

  Method -

  • child/children chop up cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce and put into small bowls / cereal bowls

  • grown up chops garlic and onion, fry a bit, add black beans and coriander, tumeric, cumin until warm and soft

  • grown up warms up tacos

  • grown up /older child grates cheese

  • grown up / older child grates carrot (but not fingers)

  • Everyone chooses their fillings and fills up their taco shells, willy nilly!

Banana Dragon Cave Cake

Ingredients:

• 4 ripe bananas (mashed)

• 2 eggs (beaten)

• 1 tsp mixed spice

• 75 g sun dried raisins (raisins retain large amounts of pesticides so use organic if you can)

• 75g softened butter or margerine

• 115g self raising flour (use wholemeal if you can)

Method -

• Grown up preheats oven to gas mark 4 / 180

• Child / children mix together the beaten egg and mashed bananas. Add rest of ingredients and stir well. Transfer to oiled loaf tin and bake for 40 mins until cooked through.

Inside our wonderful Wagon of Dreams there are thousands of stories. Including one about three mermaids and a giant jellyfish. Here are some activities connected to that story:

The Wagon of Dreams Activities

Sea Creature Biscuits

Make these delicious sea creature biscuits. Here’s how:

Or.. you can decorate ready made biscuits like this:

Storytime!

This is a game to play with your adults.

The Wagon is full of stories. When it wants us to tell one, it gives us a clue. Remember when Cheryl brought the necklace at the beginning of the show? That was the clue. Then Baugi, Nerthus and Gorm invented a story about a necklace.

The Wagon has some clues for you. Invent a story together about one of them!

• A box that is locked with a golden key

• A big blue egg.

• A giant marshmallow.

• A shooting star.

• A tiny rocket.

What other clues do you think the Wagon has inside for making up stories?

Draw a Picture!

In the story there are two mermen and a mermaid. They live on the great rock that juts out of the sea. Inside the rock there is a Mercave.

Can you draw a picture of the merfolk?

Imagine that you have your own Wagon of Dreams. What does it look like? What animals live inside with you? Can you draw a picture?

We’d love to see your pictures and stories!

Share them with us by tagging us on Instagram @Jellyfishtheatre.

Or send us an email to info@jellyfishtheatre.com

Make your own Wagon of Dreams!

At Jellyfish Theatre we make lots of our props and costumes out of recycled stuff.

For example, we made our mermaid tails out of our old sleeping bags.

Why not try making your own model Wagon of Dreams out of your own recyling?

Make recycled mermaids and mermen.

There are 3 “merfolk” in “The Wagon of Dreams” story. Merfolk are mermaids and mermen. In the story, their job is collecting up all the plastic rubbish that they find in the sea. Then they send it back to the humans using the waves. You can make a mermaid or a merman one out of recycling. Here’s how:

You can also use little shells or sparkly paper to decorate your merperson.

Can you find words from the show in our Wagon of Dreams wordsearch?

When she was planning how the Wagon of Dreams was going to look, our designer Robin made a scale model of the caravan.

Make your own paper model, using Robin’s template. Then design your own Wagon!

• What you need

• the template for your Wagon

• scissors

• a glue stick

• paints

Some of the amazing paper wagons made at Furzedown Family Fun Day.

Robin also drew the shape of the caravan on to card for you to paint. Ask someone to draw you the outline of the Wagon and then you can colour or paint it.