Indoors fun

It was the morning and Millie and Billy had finished their breakfast. They helped mummy to clear away the dishes and do the washing up.

“Can we go out to play now,” they asked.

“I’m afraid not,” mummy said. “The weather is terrible.”

“Oh, please,” they said.

“No, really,” mummy said. “Look out of the window and you’ll see what I mean.”

Millie and Billy looked out of the window and could immediately see what mummy meant. It was blowing a gale. The wind was howling and rain was pouring down from the sky.

“It’s freezing cold outside as well,” mummy said. “So, there’s no going out for you two today, Millie and Billy.”

“What can we do instead?” Billy asked.

“You can have indoors fun,” mummy said. “Both of you just use your imaginations. Think of things that would be fun to do indoors and do them.”

So, that is what they did.

They started by doing some drawing and colouring in. Millie did a picture of an elephant and Billy did one of a hedgehog.

Then they took a torch and looked all around the house to see if they could find a secret passageway. They couldn’t find one but what they did find hidden away behind a cupboard in the spare room was a little toy dinosaur. It was dusty so they washed it and it came up as good as new.

After that they made a camp in the living room by pulling some chairs together and draping them with a sheet. They took the dinosaur into the camp. “What shall we call him?” Billie asked.

“What about ‘Billie-a-saurus Rex’,” Millie replied with a giggle.

Later Millie and Billy played ‘scary monsters’. Millie put on the monster mask she had worn at Halloween and Billy wrapped himself in the same sheet they had used to make the camp and pretended to be a ghost.

When it was bath time Millie and Billy played pretend again. This time they pretended to be fishes swimming around in a stream.

“We really did have lots of indoors fun today, didn’t we,” Billy said as he and Millie snuggled down in their beds that evening, the wind still howling outside their window.

“That’s right,” Millie said. “It’s great to use your imagination, isn’t it, Billy.”

“Yes,” he agreed, with a yawn.

“Night-night,” Millie said. “Sweet dreams.”

“Sweet dreams,” Billy replied sleepily and in no time he and Millie were both fast asleep, dreaming dreams of indoors fun.

©2007 Tony Murrell