Indoor Tent Topsy and Tim

# This is our street

# It's where we live

# We love to play together... #

Quick, Tim.

# Just like you

-# Just like us... #

-Topsy, run.

# And we'll be friends forever

# We can be anything

# If we close our eyes and dream

# We can play day after day

# And the fun will never end

# This is our street, it's where we live

# So let's all play together

# Be best friends forever. #

-Hello.

-Hello.

-BOTH: It's us.

-Topsy.

-And Tim.

-THEY LAUGH

We've got a tent! Come on.

Dad.!

'We're going camping this weekend.

'And before we go,

'Dad always puts the tent up in our garden to check that it's OK.'

Ow! No. my thumb. Oh, no.

TIM LAUGHS

HE LAUGHS

Topsy and Tim, are you ready to see

if our tent is in tiptop shape for a comfy night's sleep this weekend?

-Yes.

-Yes. OK.

Coming, Dad.

Oh!

Ooh, yes.

Very comfy. I think our tent's ready to take camping.

In fact, I'm a bit sleepy now. Good night, campers.

-HE SNORES

-Wake up, Dad!

-Wake up.

-What, what, what?

-We still have something to do, remember.

Yes, you're right.

I've got to pack up the tent and put it away in the car. Come on, you two.

No, no, not that!

You need to play that game with us.

'Dad knows lots of good camping games.

'Our favourite game is when he plays animals.'

-Please, please.

-OK, OK. Back in. Back in.

-Woo-hoo!

GROWLING

HOWLING

I know, I know! Grizzly bear.

HOWLING

-A wolf!

-A wolf!

-Yes, you're right.

I'm a big, bad wolf!

And I've come to huff and puff and say,

-"Sorry twins, you've got to take the tent down now."

-Oh!

Do we have to?

Yeah. I will do lots more animal noises at the weekend

when we're camping.

It's time for you two to get oww-oww-out!

-Go and help Mummy while I pack up.

-OK.

-OK.

Come on, Tim!

What can we help with, Mummy?

Can you check the zips on your sleeping bags for me? Thank you.

'We helped Mummy do the sleeping bag check indoors.'

-How are the zips, they working?

-My zip's working.

-Brilliant.

-Mine too.

-Let's pretend we're camping.

-Yes.

-Good night, then.

TIM SNORES

-If you two are going to be asleep, keep your eyes shut for me.

-Why?

You'll find out just in a minute. Keep your eyes closed.

-Close them.

-For how long?

-Not very long at all.

Perfect. Keep them shut, no peeking.

-Can we just have a little peek?

-No.

I'm nearly there.

-Can I open my eyes for one second if I close them shut again?

-OK.

-You can open them!

-Wow! It's just like a tent in here.

JOY LAUGHS

Our own indoor tent.

Well, look at this.

The tent is ready to be packed in the boot.

I'm just going to get petrol for the car at the garage.

-Who wants to come with me?

-Not me, Dad. I'm camping indoors.

-Oh, OK.

What about Topsy? You love coming to the petrol station.

-Yes, yes, please. Please can I have a comic?

-OK. Come on.

-Won't be long.

-Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.

-Night-night, Tim.

-Night-night, Dad.

-Won't be long.

-See you later. Bye.

Come on, you.

Wakey wakey, Tim.

I've got a really good idea for a camping game. You ready?

Yes, where are you?

You'll see me in a minute and you have to guess what animal I am.

-Are you a tiger?

-No.

Um...

-An octopus?

-Oh, nearly.

-It's got eight legs, but not an octopus.

-A spider.

-Yay!

Brilliant, well done. And how about this one?

-You're a dinosaur?

-No, close.

-Oh, you're a crocodile.

-Yes! Brilliant, well done.

-My go now.

-OK, you do some.

'Mummy and I play shadow animals, until Topsy and Dad get back home.'

-A butterfly.

-Yes. OK.

-Tim, we're back!

-Oh. Topsy's back.

-Oh, they're back?

And look who we've got with us.

We saw Mr Rosen on the way back from the petrol station.

-Hello, Mr Rosen.

-Hello, Tim. Hello, Joy.

Your dad was kind enough to

invite me for a cup of tea in your lovely new house.

Do you like our indoor tent, Mr Rosen?

Oh, let me see.

It looks very nice indeed.

I always loved camping when I was little boy.

Do you want to come indoor camping with us?

-That would be lovely, Topsy and Tim.

-Yay!

I'll pop the kettle on.

'We got out all our camping plates and mugs.

'And we had an indoor camping picnic with Mr Rosen.'

-Who wants juice?

-Me, me.

-Me!

-Apple juice, Dad.

-Thank you very much.

What a wonderful picnic. Thank you for inviting me.

It's a pleasure, Mr Rosen.

-Do you know any good camping games?

-Camping games. Let me think.

-Mmm. I do know a game we could play.

-What is it?

I'll show you, but first we need to close the curtains.

-I'll do that.

-And then I'll need some cardboard and scissors.

-I'll get the cardboard and the scissors.

-And a torch.

-I'll get the torch. I've got one in my room.

-And I'll clean the plates.

'Mummy and Dad pack up the car and while we wait,

'Mr Rosen gets the game ready.

-'He does lots of cutting out.'

-Snippety snip.

Done. Now, take a look at this.

-It's a cardboard cut-out cat.

-It is.

Now, in you go, campers. I'm ready to show you my camping game.

-Can I have the torch, Tim?

-Oh, sorry.

-Thank you.

-Now then. Are you watching?

-Yes.

It's the cat.

It's a big cat now.

MEOWING

-Are you ready for another shadow?

-Yes.

-Yes!

Can you guess whose shadow this is?

-It's me, it's me!

-It's Topsy.

-It is. And whose is this?

-It's me.

-It's Tim.

-It is Tim.

"Hello, Tim. Bye-bye. Bye-bye."

-Bye, Tim.

-Bye-bye.

And whose shadows do you think these are?

-Eddy Teddy and Little Moon Bunny.

-Oh, yes.

Correct. "Hurray, hurray, hurray!"

I love you, Little Moon Bunny.

'And that's when Mummy said,

'"Eddy Teddy and Little Moon Bunny, it's time you went to bed."'

Eddy Teddy and Little Moon Bunny, it's time you went to bed.

You have to get up early to go camping tomorrow.

-OK, Mummy.

-It's time I went too.

Now, take these cut-outs.

You can play with them when you're in your tent.

Thank you. That game was really fun.

-Thank you. I'm going to make a cardboard cut-out of you.

-Thank you.

So when we're in our tent this weekend,

it'll be like you have come with us.

You always come up with the best ideas, Topsy and Tim.

BOTH: "And that," said Mr Rosen, "was that."

Come on, you two. Back to bed.

-Hello.

-Are you good at remembering?

Can you remember what happened to us today?

This is our Topsy and Tim memory game. Let's play.

THEY LAUGH

Today, Mummy made us an indoor tent.

Can you remember who came round to visit us?

Was it Mr Fenn?

Or was it Mr Rosen?

The answer is behind Wiggles the rabbit.

Look, the answer is Mr Rosen.

Great game.

-That was good fun.

-See you soon.

# We can play

# Day after day

# And the fun will never end

# So let's all play together

# Be best friends forever. #