Recommend me some sill voices to use with kids

Brian Blessed?

Oh man I miss this so much, not helped by the youngest becoming a bookworm!

I loved having so many voices on the go and getting pulled up for getting them wrong.

Try keeping Donald duck on the go for a bedtime story, it's not easy 😀

Adam Buxton be a good source of inspiration 😜

Napalm Death?

Marvin the paranoid Android - 80s version of Hitchhikers Guide and also the door voice

Also from Monty Python - a Terry Jones/John Cheese old lady voice and/or Sergeant Major

Or for some Blackadder led inspiration

Lord/Captain Flashheart although without the woof woof / episode of Crufts type stuff given the audience.

Queen Elizabeth and / or Nurse

You can probably tell when my formative years were.

Totally agree about borrowing voices for books though. Great fun. Sadly those days behind us.

I think the point is you just make it up

Brian Blessed

A good choice for the Gruffalo

There’s some great character voices in Hey Duggee - Norris’s dad, Gerby the snake and hedgely the hedgehog show up regularly at our story times

Thanks!

I think the point is you just make it up

Yes, but after 3 years I've only managed to make up two voices. Now his books are getting more characters some inspiration will help 😃

I love Brian Blessed. Not sure I can keep the volume at his levels for any length of time 😃

Yoda, especially with the mangled grammar.

Ok then…
Deep South
Scouse
Eccles (from the Goon Show)
Jamaaaaaaicaaaan
Rab C Nesbit
Geordie
“We wanna be together”
Lord Melchid

Foghorn leghorn
Porky pig
Daffy duck
I used to do porky pig for my friends daughter.
She still occasionally asks me to do it.
She’s 28.

“Hey Bert!”
“Hey Ernie.”

I used to make up bathtime stories for my two girls, had them rolling about with my two made up characters of

1. Mrs Tea Cosy (a rough approximation of Mrs Doubtfire mixed in with a bit of my mother in law! )

2. Norman. (A stereo type trainspotter type voice, but Norman always got genders mixed up so Hannah was Harold, Kirsten Christopher, Bailey the dog was Betty etc
...). Very silly and the girls used to play along and get all angry at him for being so silly. He also used to claim every colour was a shade of brown. Which was a lot of fun too.

Lots of fun but the voices were I guess what you were after. Good on you for going the extra yard.

My youngest loved me doing a Dr Brownbear voice from Peppa Pig.

Geordie

Don’t.

I’ve had great success replicating the Octonauts. Kwazi being a favourite.

Kenneth Williams - Willo the Wisp would be a good watch to get some ideas.

Anyone else old enough to remember Stanley Unwin?

Geordie

Unless you are one, divvnt. You'll murder it.

I used to read Squash and a Squeeze in the style of Papa Lazarou.

Keith Fit was always a favourite.
My made up one was a character called Owl who spoke slowly like an owl does and would leave huge pauses in his sentences at totally random places. The kids would go wild with anticipation waiting for the sentence to resume. The pauses got longer as the story went on. It did have the adverse effect of hyping the kids up at bedtime but that's what it's all about really.

Silly voices, the single biggest signifier of quality parenting.

the dragon in "room on the broom" was inspired by Francis Begbie and over the years he's made cameo appearances in most children's books. Probably helps that i'm fae leith originally tho eh

My son and I spent many a happy bedtime going through the Mr Men library.

We started taking it in turns to do a page each and make up voices for the characters in the book.

My hands down favourite was me doing Mr Strong as Arnold Schwarzenegger*.

Happy days.

"Get to the chopper!"

(* It was a prefect impersonation. In my head anyway!)

If reading Mr Messy, Mr Neat and Mr Tidy have to be Welsh. Fact.

Thanks again!

Begbie and Arnold Schwarzenegger are definitely getting shoehorned into books tonight!

Begbie should be easy as fae from Edinburgh