Storytime

During the school holidays I did a Storytime called Wombat Stew (based on the picture book by Marcia K Vaughan and illustrated by Pamela Lofts). I set up my campfire - branches with red cellophane, placed the billy on top and we began to cook our stew. To those who don't know the story, dingo catches a fat wombat and is excited about making his, yummy in my tummy, wombat stew. But wombat's friends come along to offer their advice on what ingredients a good stew would need. Before the wombat is added, dingo tastes the concoction, insists he's been poisoned and runs away. The wombat is saved. I repeat - no wombat was stewed, sautéed, flambéed, fricasseed or roasted during this event. To make wombat stew is easy. First we added water- blue cellophane. Then some billabong mud - brown crepe paper. Then the fun ingredients---flies, creepy crawly bugs (plastic critters), feathers and gum nuts (both real). Each time I added an ingredient, I stirred the billy. And each ti...