Armchair Adventures: A Join-In Story Podcast for Kids

"Armchair Adventures Travel Agency....Mission....Series 4!!" 🧳 🗺️ 🚀 Connie, Uncle Chris and the Armchair Adventures gang are back with a brand new series full of action packed, imagination fuelled, join in at home adventures. They're perfect for long car journeys, rainy day activities or bedtime stories! Join Connie and the Armchair Adventures gang as they give you a sneak peak of what's in stor...

It’s crafty chaos as Connie, Uncle Chris and the Armchair Adventures gang try to create cool costumes for Pride! “If we all work together, we can have some amazing recycled outfits in no time!”  🌈🧵✂️ Connie is busy crafting a float for the Pride parade and has tasked Uncle Chris with creating some fabulous recycled costumes, fast!  Join Uncle Chris and the Armchair Adventures customers...

Get your gardening tools at the ready to help Uncle Chris with his growing woes in this episode of Armchair Adventures! “Growing a garden takes time and careful planning! ”  🧑‍🌾🥕🪴 Uncle Chris has agreed to get the Armchair Adventures garden sorted for the VIP-packed summer BBQ, but he doesn’t know the first thing about gardening! Join him and the Armchair Adventures customers as they try...

Against the odds, the gang help Connie to reach the Repair Cafe to find out if her favourite necklace can be repaired - as well as her friendship with her best friend. “Friendships aren’t disposable. They need to be looked after and cared for. ”  🪛🥰♻️ Connie is convinced she’s a terrible friend after falling out with her best friend Sura and smashing her friendship necklace. Joined by a gan...

After falling out with her best friend, Connie is keen to mend things by going on a wild adventure to the Repair Cafe with her customers. “A good friendship doesn’t change, even after a couple of years, you just pick up where you left off. ”  🐻🫶🔨 Connie’s having a really bad day! She’s fallen out with her best friend and broken her friendship necklace. Armchair Adventures Travel Agency cus...

Connie and the gang get a taste of Bike Kitchen magic when they go to donate Christine’s old bicycle. “When you’re on your bike, you’re totally in the moment – no chance to worry about anything else!”  ⚙️🚲🔧 Grab your bike helmet adventurer, because it’s time to continue our join-in journey of the imagination to The Bike Kitchen with Connie and the gang in this exciting episode of Armchair A...

Get ready to pedal as you join Connie and the gang on a very special bike ride! “That’s the thing with riding your bike, you’re not on anyone else’s timetable, you’re free to explore!”  ✨🚲✨ At the Armchair Adventures Travel Agency, Connie is getting ready for another journey of the imagination with the gang. Customer Christine decides that it’s time for a magical cycling adventure because...

After escaping from the giant tunnel of mud, Connie and her customers are ready to face the final obstacles in 'The Biggest Obstacle Course on Earth Adventure!' They have united as a team and they’re determined to get through the challenge together - with a little help from all you adventurers, of course! “I loved being part of a team and using my imagination to enjoy exercise!” 🏃🏅⛹️‍♂️ But can...

It's time for Connie and her lovely customers to grab their sports gear as they tackle 'The Biggest Obstacle Course On Earth...' “It's great knowing you have people on your side, working together as one!” 🏃‍♀️💛🤸‍♀️ Connie has backed out of sports day at school and her cousin Sura isn’t pleased! Back at Armchair Adventures Travel Agency , her customer Steve and the rest of the gang want to prove...

We continue our magical trip to learn about building confidence from Connie and the gang's new friend Kanti. “People don’t have to be born confident, but if you’re prepared then you can feel confident!!” 🙌🏏🎤 Our Armchair Adventure continues! Chief adventurer Connie has travelled to the future where she’s giving a speech at the Junior Presentation Championships. The trouble is, she’s not at all...

“Sometimes when we face challenges that we’re the most afraid of, it’s the most fun and rewardin Take a magical trip to the past to learn about building confidence from Connie and the gang's new friend Kanti. g!” 🏏💛🎤 Connie has been invited to speak about Armchair Adventures at the Junior Presentation Championships, but she’s too shy to say yes. Her new friend Kanti understands exactly how she...

Connie and the gang continue their journey to understand more about mental health. “It’s important to ask people what they want when they are not feeling well, Connie and it’s important to listen to them.” 🧠 🎭 👵 The interval is over and the second half is about to begin… Connie’s friends at the community theatre company are putting together a children’s show about mental health illness, and the...

Connie joins a community theatre company to create a new theatre show to help her learn about mental health illness. “When people are poorly with their mental health they quite often appear one way to people on the outside, but inside their head, they are experiencing very different thoughts and feelings.” 👵 🎭 💛 Connie’s Nanna isn’t very well at the moment - she’s struggling with her mental hea...

“It’s a really good feeling knowing someone will be making more memories, like the ones you made.” 🧸🪞💛 Connie and the gang are at Willow Wood charity shop with their new friend Denise, who works in the shop. They’ve brought bags and bags of things to donate to a good cause - but Connie isn’t sure about letting go. When the magic mirror starts to show Connie how happy her old things could make o...

“You never know what you’re going to get! This could be our lucky day!” 🛍️👢🪞 Connie and the gang join our competition-winning new friend Denise on a magical adventure in a charity shop! Connie has never been to a charity shop before, so our new friend Denise can’t wait to show her what she’s missing! Connie and the gang join Denise for a rummage through Willow Wood Hospice charity shop, where th...

“Scoop up a handful of baubles and let’s funky turkey them all over that tree!” 🎅 🎁 ❄️ Connie is visiting Father Christmas in Lapland, so the gang want to decorate Armchair Adventures Head Quarters as a surprise for when she gets home. There’s a problem though, Connie has left Uncle Chris in charge and he can’t stand Christmas!  Find out why Uncle Chris lost his Christmas spirit, and whethe...

“In a pantomime everything and everyone ends up happy. I love that!” 🎄 🎅 🧚 Connie is off to a pantomime with school, but she’s never seen one before so she doesn’t know what to expect. She sets Uncle Chris and Year 3 at Arlies Primary School a very important assignment - they need to find out what ingredients make up a proper good panto!  We explore the top ten panto ingredients with the h...

“It’s important to stay calm and together, and encourage each other.” 🎖️ 🎙️ 💛 It’s crunch time at Armchair Adventures Head Quarters!  Made By Mortals - the company who help Connie and her customers produce Armchair Adventures - need the next episode ready and pronto. However, the builders have rocked up, so everybody needs to squeeze into the broom cupboard to crack on with all the behind-th...

“In the forces we do almost everything as a team, which really helps to get the job done and reduce feelings of stress at the same time.” 🎖️ 🏵️ 🪖 Connie has been feeling a bit stressed out. There’s loads to do behind the scenes to make an Armchair Adventures episode and she has been tackling it all alone. Luckily, some of her customers know a thing or two about camaraderie after their time in the...

“Travelling through poems is brilliant. We went to the carnival, daffodil fields, we charged along a railway track and now I’m lost!”  ✍️📚📖 Hey Adventurer! You now get double the Armchair Adventures fun with each adventure split into two parts and released on the first and third Thursday of each month! Join us for part two of A Poetry Adventure! Connie is struggling with her homework - she...

“But the thing is, we’ll be traveling through the world of poems. So as soon as we land in a poem, we won’t be able to come back until you’ve written your own!” ✍️📚📖 Welcome to series three of Armchair Adventures . Yes, that’s right - Connie and the gang are back! You’ll visit so many exciting places adventurers, and it all kicks off with part one of A Poetry Adventure! Connie has to write a poe...

"Ahhh, this is the life eh! Sitting on the beach, suntanning by the sea..." 🏖️ Join Uncle Chris and Connie as they near the end of their summer holidays, ready for another action packed, imagination fuelled series of Armchair Adventures. Uncle Chris and Connie have an idea... listen here to find out 👇 Series 3 starts on Thursday 6th October with 'A Poetry Adventure.' Hit follow or subscribe to ge...

"Right first of all we need some 'Guess The Guest' gameshow music!" In this bonus episode, the last one before we start series 3, Connie checks in with Uncle Chris and the gang to find out what they've been unto on their summer holidays. The launch of series 3 is just around the corner and everyone at Armchair Adventures HQ is super excited, especially when Connie reveals that we'll have a very sp...

"My lovely customers have been busy creating some bonus episodes for you all to enjoy!" Connie's Uncle Chris is back! ✨ Uncle Chris spends lots of his time going around schools and communities playing drama games and creating shows! 🎭 In this bonus episode, Uncle Chris and the gang head over to Arlies Primary School in Tameside to play lots of drama games based around our Cruise Ship adventure.&...

"While we’re creating new episodes for series 3 of Armchair Adventures, I’ve asked Uncle Chris and my lovely customers to do some drama workshops in schools based on some of our previous episodes!" Introducing Connie's Uncle, Chris! ✨ Uncle Chris is a drama teacher who loves to get people acting, playing and being creative! 🎭 So Connie sent him, with the rest of the gang, to Millbrook Primary Sc...