Glob tried making blancmange in the toilet, which caused a mess. Suds overflowed onto the floor as he tried to clean up. He realized his biscuit barrel was missing and knew it had gone down the toilet pipes. Glob squeezed into the toilet to navigate the haphazard plumbing of Gull Cove Cottage in search of the biscuit barrel at the end of the pipes.

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Having rescued the
biscuit barrel Glob
Oh no! discovered that all
Glob knew he shouldn’t have tried making blancmange in the the letters had
toilet. At first it had seemed like a good idea. What could be fallen off. How
better than a mixing bowl that washes itself? All you needed to many words of
do was pull the chain and the flush would do all that tedious three letters or
washing up for you! more can you make
from the jumble of
Using a jar of jam, cornflour, some milk and a huge wooden letters below?
spoon glob began to make the mixture. All seemed to be going
well and within minutes the toilet bowl filled with sticky pink B C T E
blancmange. Using a ladle Glob filled an empty jelly mould.
I U IR LR
Everything was working out really nicely.
A S B
Things started to go wrong when he started to clean up. First
of all the soap made so many suds that they over spilled onto
the floor. Desperately he tried to shovel the bubbles back into
the toilet bowl, pulling the chain to get rid of them. Again and
again he shovelled until the floor was almost clear.
It was only then that he noticed, his biscuit barrel was missing! 1) Read the passage about Glob’s adventure. Underline in blue any words which are adjectives.
Staring forlornly at the toilet bowl he knew there was only one
place it could be. He sighed, it was lucky indeed that he had 2) After Glob made such a mess Grandpa decided to make a list of rules to be followed when cooking.
given the bowl such a good scrub. Write down what these rules might have been. Eg. 1) Blancmange should only be mixed in a bowl
It looked like there was no choice. He had to get that biscuit 3) Reread the story about Glob’s blancmange. Using the tally chart count how many words there are with
barrel! With an enormous amount of effort the little octopus the following number of letters:
managed to squeeze into the toilet bowl and around the U- 3 4 5 6 6+
bend. The problem was that the plumbing in Gull Cove Cottage
was more than a little haphazard. 4) Gull Cove’s local paper ‘The Porbeagle Point Daily Pamphlet’ is always short of stories and will run a
story about almost anything. Imagine you are a reporter and write a plan for the paper about Glob’s
See if you can trace Glob’s route through the pipes to the
adventure making blancmange in the toilet. If you’re feeling very brave you might even write the article.
biscuit tin at the end.
This worksheet is based upon The Whispering Sand by Ian Kenworthy. It has been made by Ian Kenworthy for use in education and
for promoting the Whispering Sand only. Thank You