Alongside activities and entertainment in hospital there has
been an increase in the development of virtual activities and
resources in past years that have allowed those who are not able to
visit the hospital such as siblings to still get involved. Thank
you to The Grand Appeal for generously funding a selection of these
videos part of their dedicated arts programme, Arts
Unleashed.
You can watch some of the content on the links below:
Videos available
Bristol Sport Foundation
Bristol Sport Foundation - 'Present Toss' activity
video. Featuring Bristol Flyers!
Bristol Sport Foundation - 'Brizzley's Balloon
Blast' activity video. Featuring Pat Lam - Bristol Bears'
Director of Rugby.
Bristol Sport Foundation - 'Lara's Festive
Workout'. Featuring Tommy Rowe, Bristol City FC
player
Live Music Now:
A
Christmas concert with clarinet duo Katie and Daisy AND
a Christmas Concert with guitarist Chris
Webb
Story telling with Cassandra Wye:
"The
Elves and the Shoe Maker" (suitable for all ages and
tailored for children between 5 - 8 years old)
"Starlight" (suitable for all ages and
tailored for 8 - 12 years old)
"The
Little Deer Who Did not want to be Alone" (Story suitable
for all ages and tailored for younger children, includes animal
puppets and some makaton.)
Lauren Balasco - Christmas and Disney
songs
Krazy Kev and Dinky Dino - Christmas Show
Japanese
phrases and festive words from Make A Smile
Doodling with artist
'Silent Hobo'
Colin Dymond -
Christmas magic show and puppets
Festive
Fimo - A tutorial with Charlotte Stowell
"Friends of the Forest" read by Bristol Royal
Hospital for Children Hospital Scout group leader
A
Christmas message from Batman - UK Garisson
All Origami with Alex videos can be found here -
including the festive origami models!
Bristol Children's Hospital's Got
Talent introduction video
The Service of Light
The 2020 Service of Light can be viewed on YouTube here.
Friends for Parents festive quiz questions and answers
Our
Friends for Parents volunteers created a family friendly quiz,
suitable for any Christmas!
1) The poinsettia is a traditional Christmas flower.
Where did it originally come from? (Mexico)
2) What is the name of Germany's Christmas cake?
(Stollen)
3) According Dr Seuss who stole Christmas? (The
Grinch)
4) At the end of 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens,
Scrooge invites Bob Cratchit to join him for a smoking bishop. What
does he mean by that? (Scrooge is inviting him to have some mulled
wine)
5) What were carols before they became known as Christmas
songs? (They were originally pieces of music for dances)
6) How many gifts would you have received from your true
love by the end of the 12 days of Christmas? (364 gifts; 1 on the
first day, 1 partridge, plus 3 on the second day, 1 partridge plus
2 turtle doves etc. up to 12 days)
7) In Victorian England how did turkeys get from Norfolk
to Christmas markets in London? (They walked wearing special
sacking or leather boots to protect their feet)
8) The title of which musical which ran in the West End
from 2002-2014 is also the title of a children's carol? (We Will
Rock You)
9) What did Good King Wenceslas see when he looked out? (Good
King Wenceslas saw the snow lying deep and crisp and even)
10) Which country begins Christmas with a meal they call
Weigilia? (Poland - Wigilia is a Christmas Eve dinner usually
fish-based)
11) Can you identify these 4 Christmas carols and songs
from the initial letters of their titles? DDMOH, JB, OLTOB, LD
(Ding Dong Merrily On High, Jingle Bells, O Little Town Of
Bethlehem, Little Donkey)
12) Which of Santa's reindeers has a connection with St.
Valentine's Day? (Cupid)
13) How do you wish a Happy Christmas to a Welsh-speaking
family? (Nadolig Llawen)
14) Which British monarch delivered the first Christmas
broadcast to the nation in 1932? (George Vth)
15) What do you find under a white covering at Christmas?
(Marzipan lies under a white covering of icing on a Christmas
cake)
16) What happened on Christmas Day in 1916, 1927, 1938, 1956,
1964, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1996, and 1999 and on none of the other
years? (It snowed in London; on the roof of the London Weather
Centre where a flake falling means it is officially snowing)
17) How did the Christmas Steps in Bristol get their name? (Two
possible answers; the Nativity scene in the window of the Three
Kings Chapel at the top of the steps, which are to the left
off Colston Street not far from the hospital, could have led to the
name Christmas Steps but there is also a theory that, as
knife-smiths used to have their businesses there, it was called
Knyfesmuths Street. If you pronounce that quickly with a hard
'K' as in kite it could sound like Christmas)
18) Where did brandy butter originally come from?
(Cumberland)
19) The name of which of this hospital's wards could make you
think of Christmas? (Starlight Ward; the shepherds and the Wise Men
followed the star to the manger in Bethlehem)
20) Which traditional song mentions figgy pudding? ('We wish you
a merry Christmas' - which is the message the Friends for Parents
team send to you!)
