Bacci Kid × The 808 Bistro · World of Words

Bacci Kid The 808 Bistro
Bacci Kid × The 808 Bistro

Bacci’sWorld of Words

Six golden doors. Real dishes from The 808 Bistro menu, stories from Professor Pip, the same words said all around the English-speaking world, and a lantern to breathe with. Scan, tap, play, together.

IIIIIIIVVVISix doors · six stamps
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Professor Pip: Good evening, and welcome! I am the magpie who collects words, and every shiny one in this bistro is in my satchel. Tap a golden door.
I · The Bistro Door

Make yourself at home.

In English, the warmest welcome is four little words: make yourself at home. The 808 Bistro has said them on Scarsdale Avenue since 2010, and Scarsdale itself took its name from a rocky valley in Derbyshire, England, three hundred years ago. Words travel. Tonight, so do we.

Bacci: We made it! First, tell Professor Pip how your table is feeling. Then take your passport: six doors, six stamps, and a surprise on the last one.
How is your table feeling? Check-in
Tap the one that fits. Every feeling is welcome here.
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Today’s family quest
PASSPORT · MY WORLD OF WORDS
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Visit every door to fill your passport.
Table talkHow can we make someone feel at home, in any accent, today?
Three tapsScan. Play. Talk.
Your paceStart with one door, or stay for pudding (that is dessert, in Britain).
Grown-upsThe stories belong to everyone. The ordering belongs to you.
Taking The 808 Bistro home tonight?Grown-ups: pickup or delivery from Scarsdale Avenue, on the bistro’s own site.
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II · Bistro Table

Build your plate of feelings.

Every dish on The 808 Bistro menu carries a feeling. Tap the ones that match your day. Every feeling is welcome at this table.

Dot the Full Stop: Pick your plate! I’ll tell you what each one means. Then start the table-talk timer and pass the phone around. When the bell rings, that’s a full stop: the next person’s turn.
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Your plate is waiting for its first feeling.
Table talk 60 seconds each
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Table talkTuck in (Britain), dig in (America): two ways to say enjoy. Who cooked something for you with love this week?

Kids’ first bistro bites

Grown-ups: easy wins from The 808 Bistro menu for little hands.

  • Traditional Linguinemeatballs and marinara
  • Cheese Ravioliroast eggplant, pomodoro, fresh basil
  • Gnocchi Pomodorosoft potato pillows
  • Garlic Bread Towertall, warm, made for sharing
  • French Frieschips, if you are British
  • Gelato or Sorbetto finish with a smile
Order these from The 808 BistroPickup or delivery, grown-ups only at the checkout.
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III · Story Corner

Professor Pip’s tales.

Professor Pip: Pull up a chair in my corner. Tap a story and I will tell it to you. Each one ends with a question for your table. Then pledge a kind act and help me catch the words tumbling out of my satchel.

1. Bacci and the London Fog

Bacci stepped off the train in London on a morning so foggy he could not see the top of the clock tower. Everyone bumped into everyone, and every bump came with a word: “Sorry!” “After you.” “Cheers.” Bacci stopped, puzzled. “Why is everybody so polite in a fog?”

Professor Pip landed on a lamppost. “Because in a fog, words are the lamps. Nobody can see where they are going, so they light the way with please and thank you.” A girl in a yellow raincoat waved. “Alright?” she called, and Bacci learned that in London, that is simply hello. When the fog lifted and the great bell rang, Bacci had a pocket full of new words.

Which polite words light the way at our table?

2. The Brownstone Block Party

In New York, on a street of brownstone houses with tall front steps, the neighbors carried folding tables right into the road. Everyone brought a dish. Mrs. Rivera brought rice, Mr. Okafor brought jollof, and Grandma Pearl from Kingston, Jamaica, brought stew and said, “Everything irie, little one,” which means all is well. Bacci had brought nothing. His ears went down.

“Then bring your hands,” said Grandma Pearl, and handed him a stack of chairs. Bacci carried chairs, fetched napkins and made room at the table for a boy who had just moved in. At sunset Professor Pip ate stew on the stoop. “Hospitality,” he said, “is not what you bring. It is who you make room for.”

Who could we make room for at our table?

3. A Reef Day Down Under

“G’day, mate!” called Ollie from the beach, and off they went into the warm Australian sea, where a clownfish peeked out of the reef and a turtle drifted by like a slow green cloud. Then came beach cricket. Bacci swung, missed, and the ball bonked a crab, who scuttled off, unharmed but offended.

Bacci was out, and he knew it. But Ollie grinned. “Have another go, mate. Fair go for everyone.” Professor Pip, umpiring from a coconut, nodded. “A fair go is an Australian treasure: everybody gets a turn, nobody is left out, and the crab gets an apology.” Bacci apologized to the crab. “No worries,” said Ollie. “Good on ya.”

What does fair play look like in our family games?

4. The Highland Hike

In Scotland the hills are called wee, which means small, even when they are enormous. Bacci was halfway up one, puffing. “I cannot do this,” he said. Granny Mòrag, who had climbed it every spring for seventy years, did not slow down. “Wee steps, lad. Nobody climbs a hill. You climb one wee step, a thousand times.”

They stopped for shortbread. They counted sheep, which is harder than it sounds. At the top the whole loch lay silver below them, and Granny Mòrag spread her arms and said the oldest welcome in Scotland: “Ceud mìle fàilte. A hundred thousand welcomes.” Bacci decided the hill had been wee after all.

What is something you are learning one wee step at a time?

5. The Kettle That Cooled

At the bistro, Bacci lost the word game to Dot the Full Stop by one letter. His face went hot and red. “I’m cross!” he shouted, which is British for angry, and he pushed the letters off the table. Professor Pip did not scold. He went to the kitchen and put the kettle on.

“In Britain,” he said, “when a feeling boils over, somebody puts the kettle on. Not because tea fixes anything, but because a kettle takes three minutes, and three minutes is exactly what a big feeling needs.” Lexi the Lantern dimmed. Dot said quietly, “Full stop. Breathe. Then the next sentence.” Bacci breathed in while the kettle hummed, out while it whistled, in, out, and when it clicked off, the hot red had faded to warm. He picked up the letters. “Good game, Dot,” he said. And he meant it.

What helps your kettle cool when a feeling boils over?

Courtesy challenge Pledge a kind act
Word Harvest 30 second game
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Tap Start, then tap every word that tumbles out of Professor Pip’s satchel. Gold stars are worth three.
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IV · Golden Hour

Breathe with Lexi.

Lexi the Lantern: Watch me glow. Breathe in as my light grows. Breathe out as it softens, like a bistro window at golden hour. Four slow rounds and the whole table is softer.
Table talkName one thing that felt peaceful today.
Golden hour body scan Grown-up reads it
Meditation ConsoleMore breathing and quiet games.Feelings ConsoleEvery feelings wheel and check-in.
Bacci Kid games are for fun and family connection, not medical, psychological or emergency advice. Under 13 plays with a grown-up. In a crisis call 911, or call or text 988.
V · Word Garden

Say it around the world.

Professor Pip: Tap a word to hear it in my best British accent, then try it in your own. Every card is one idea said in different corners of the English-speaking world. Below, my feelings dictionary: eight big feelings, their Latin roots and something to try.
Feelings dictionary Latin roots · Tap to open
JoyLatin gaudium · over the moon

Try this: Tell the table one thing that made you smile today.

SadnessLatin tristitia · feeling blue, gutted

Try this: Sadness is allowed at the table. Say “I feel blue” and let someone sit close.

FearLatin timor · the collywobbles

Try this: Name the fear out loud. It shrinks when it is shared. Then breathe with Lexi.

AngerLatin ira · cross, mad, steaming

Try this: Hands flat on the table, put the kettle on in your mind: three slow breaths, then say what you need.

PeaceLatin pax · no worries

Try this: Picture a quiet street at golden hour. Where in your body feels still right now?

LoveLatin amor · fond of, dear

Try this: Tell someone at the table why you are glad they are here.

PrideLatin superbia · chuffed, stoked

Try this: The good kind of pride is pride in effort. Share one thing you worked hard on this week.

GratitudeLatin gratia · ta, thanks a million

Try this: Thank the person who cooked, and the person who brought you here.

Table talkSay “Tuck in!” together before the first bite.
Bacci Kid games are for fun and family connection, not medical, psychological or emergency advice. Under 13 plays with a grown-up. In a crisis call 911, or call or text 988.
VI · Jubilee

Three cheers!

A jubilee is a party for something worth celebrating, and the English-speaking world celebrates with three cheers: hip hip, hooray! Tonight, that something is this table.

Professor Pip: A magpie’s favorite game: the lucky hat. Tap to tip your hat against mine. The hat that stays on keeps the luck, and the other one finds a four-leaf clover, so nobody leaves empty-handed.
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You vs Professor Pip. Ready?
Professor Pip’s spin: a tiny dare for the whole table.
Three cheersHip hip, hooray! Three times, for the cook.
Limerick roundMake up a silly five-line rhyme, Irish style.
High tea toastRaise your water glass: Cheers! To someone who did well today.
Table talkWhat makes you feel chuffed, happy and proud at once?
More Bacci table games Free
Kids Feelings GameLittle hands, big smiles.Teen HubBrave talk for big kids.Museum PortalsWonder rooms to explore.Printables StudioFree pages to color and keep.Feelings ConsoleWheels and check-ins.Meditation ConsoleQuiet games to breathe.
Bacci Kid games are for fun and family connection, not medical, psychological or emergency advice. Under 13 plays with a grown-up. In a crisis call 911, or call or text 988.
Bacci Kid · Words Collection

Take the words home.

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Created by Dr. Jamie J. Karia, DSW, LCSW
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Bacci Kid games are for fun and family connection, not medical, psychological or emergency advice. Under 13 plays with a grown-up. In a crisis call 911, or call or text 988.