Sun, Mar 5, 1995
Aka ep62.1 Noni draws faces on her hands. A puppet theatre is set up and the hands perform. An elephant, giraffe and seal 'hole' puppet are made out of items from the Useful Box to be used in the story. David dresses in a cardboard box elephant head and then adds a stripey towel to become a Zebrawoffalump.
Mon, Mar 6, 1995
The presenters make teddy bear puppets with jointed arms and legs moved by string at the back. The bears have different expressions. Noni shows how a face changes from happy to surprised to sad and to angry. The four teddies perform in the puppet theatre. After the storybook, the presenters act out the story with toys. Big Ted is strung as a marionette.
Tue, Mar 7, 1995
The presenters paint scenery for the puppet theatre. 'Little Mis Muffet' is performed with Jemima and a glove spider; 'Mr Frog' is performed with a paper plate frog; 'How Does a Caterpillar Go?' is performed with a stocking caterpillar. David looks at the mice in their mouse house. Noni dresses up as a mouse and David looks for her. Three craft marionettes are shown.
Wed, Mar 8, 1995
Angela makes a paper spiral snake to slither through Colin's grass Colin slithers round as a snake and eats Fergus the Frog. Angela makes a stretch paper dragon. Big Ted is turned into a dragon Hand shadows of a bird, a rabbit an elephant and a duck at the puppet theatre. The presenters act out a drama at the water tray with puppet ducks, a water dragon and Super Snapper. Colin shows a Chinese dragon as used for New Year ceremonies. Richard shows some children at a Kindergarten how his shadow puppets work and also performs A Dragon Came into Our Garden for the story of the day.
Thu, Mar 9, 1995
Trisha shows Poppy the Pop-up Play School Puppet and makes her companion Sockey who hunts for George. George looks at fresh and dried bush flowers and finishes making Flora, a flower puppet, out of banksia and kangaroo paw. Trisha goes for a walk in the 'bush' and encounters bush creatures. George introduces Skinny Malinky Longlegs, a large puppet made from pantyhose, and takes her for a walk to the puppet theatre where they watch a parade of the puppets seen this week.
Mon, Feb 13, 1995
Making a stained glass window using clear contact and coloured cellophane. Making a blue jelly pond with green apple frog, pineapple and kiwi-fruit lily-pads, strawberry rocks and passion fruit tadpoles. Playing a dressing up game using a spinning board and clothes with different patterns.
Wed, Feb 15, 1995
Making a 'Gobbly' by folding large squares of coloured paper. Under the flaps are a worm, a bee, a butterfly and a grasshopper. Monica follows a rope to stamping land, jumping land, crawling land and speckled land. Wool tongues and eyes are added to a 'Gobbly' to make frogs that eat flies.
Thu, Feb 16, 1995
Painting three separate environments, forest, desert and pond, using a spray bottle, brushes and sponges. Looking at green tree frogs and golden bell or swamp frogs. Looking at tadpoles. Making plastic flippers, paper-cup face mask and straw snorkel for Meeka to go swimming in a baby bath. Angela and George act out the story of Tidallick.
Tue, Jul 25, 1995
Build an adventure playground using blocks (a slide, a tunnel, stepping posts, see-saw). Play School mice, Henry and Henrietta, are let loose in a block maze. Sand Castles and a sand cat are made in sand tray. Wet and dry sand are contrasted, and dry sand is swung through a funnel to make patterns. Marian tells the story of the Great Big Enormous Turnip.
Wed, Jul 26, 1995
Stair sequence is built using eight graded oblong pillars (construct from storage cubes) The stair sequence represents the notes of a scale. Max plays a xylophone, which Simon then plays and Max accompanies on keyboard. Benita makes a crown for Queen Meeka and the wooden modular blocks are used to build a throne, a castle and a wall for Humpty The storage cubes are rearranged to form a sequence of stairs.
Thu, Jul 27, 1995
Different water vessels used to discover water conservation. Cooked play dough is made and used to make doughnuts. The toys and Simon have a doughnut tea-party, making sure everyone has a fair share. The wooden modular blocks are used for an adventure playground for a toy mouse. Marian tells the story of "The Porridge Pot".
Mon, Aug 28, 1995
Looking at a variety of fabric types and patterns, Using a cotton reel to print materials for a wrap for Meeka. A Jellyfish is made with towelling, cotton wadding, elastic, shanked buttons and safety pins. The Jellyfish is dyed blue. Poppers, zips and buttons are found on the toy's clothes.
Wed, Aug 30, 1995
A house and car are made with plumber's PVC piping. Two plastic bottles with water inside are joined together at their tops like an hour glass. They are swirled to form a tornado, and squeezed. (Bottle joiners can be purchased from play equipment specialists, but this will work with electrical or masking tape.) A tool recognition game is played with cardboard cut-outs on a head band. Colin and Angela perform the "Breakdown" story.
Thu, Aug 31, 1995
Kitchen tools are sorted with a magnet. Spatter paintings of tools are used in a game with a spinning saucepan lid as a pointer. John tells the story "The Saucepan Who Flipped Her Lid". Through the windows playground equipment is being assembled. PVC piping and cardboard make a slippery dip for the toys. Trisha and Colin try to stop John sliding down the slippery dip, but they are too late and the playground collapses.
Mon, Jul 31, 1995
Hospital play with the toys. The presenters fix Little Ted's broken arm with plaster. Dress up as cats with cardboard ears on hairband, whiskers and face paint. A large carton figure is constructed. On each side is a different person in varying states of health and mood. The presenters paint a sling, plasterer and chicken pox on the figure. Doctor Play.
Thu, Aug 3, 1995
A nest is made for Henny Penny weaving strips of paper, material and dry grassed through the holes in a plastic basket. A bed of pillows is used for play with the toys. A hospital ward is set up. A nurse cares for the patients, food is delivered, a visitor arrives and a doctor checks the patients. Through the Windows Colin visits the Children's Hospital.
Mon, Jun 26, 1995
Georgie makes a radio from milk cartons and George makes a boat for Lisa. Dramatic play: George goes for a row in his boat and experiences changes in the weather. Georgie puts on a hat parade with the toys. Georgie sails milk carton boats in a water tray. Georgie has a milk carton 'remote control' and controls Georgie's movements.
Wed, Jun 28, 1995
Making milk carton monster. Dressing up as a dinosaur with a milk carton tail. Painting a large picture of Apatosaurus. Making a junk sculpture using milk cartons and other objects such as a pipecleaner person, bottle top, pegs, cork, pig. Through the windows, Pauline shows children through a gallery.
Sun, Jul 9, 1995
Aka ep69.1 Make remote control using egg carton, draw on buttons (on/off, volume). Play television shows, news readers, opera singer, racing car driver. Chroma-Key television trick with Daisy and presenter flying through the air. They fly through day and night skies. Make box video camera to film the toys. Add strap using masking tape. Make video player. A cardboard television set is made using large cardboard box hole for screen. Dials drawn on.
Mon, Jul 10, 1995
Background for Little Miss Muffet drawn on long piece of paper. Flowers and web added using oil pastels. Background inserted into television box. Presenters play out 'tough muffet' using props (yoghurt container for a bowl, hand puppets). pretends to lay paper eggs (which are up his jumper).
Tue, Jul 11, 1995
Australian bush scene made using small branches stuck in brown play dough. Hand puppets (Wombat, Cockatoo, Emu, Kookaburra and Fergus the Frog). Pretend to be a scarecrow puppet, worked by ventriloquist. Television show with Harry Bellaborough searching for a rare speckled frog. Feeds birds and fish. Television trick Chroma-Key, Bit and Bot swimming with Big Ted in tank. Pauline tells the story of "The Kookaburra Who Stole the Moon". Through the Windows, we see the making of a Television Program "The Ferals".
Wed, Jul 12, 1995
Make space ship attaching propulsion units to cardboard pizza plates. Make space television shows with three different backgrounds: space ship interior, stars, moon surface, Captain Ted and Lieutenant Meeka seek out and bring back the Lunar Banana. Pretend television show called 'Why' with Humpty.
Thu, Jul 13, 1995
Make play dough people. Make thaumatrope using stick figure pictured attached to a pencil. Moving picture quickly gives the stick figures the appearance of motion. Make Hey Diddle Diddle song using layers of tracing paper. Use remote control car with Diddle. Car race between Diddle and George. Through the Windows we see how the animation for "Take You Riding in My Car" has been made.
Mon, Oct 9, 1995
Painting faces and rainbows on a window with water paint. Making Big Ted some waterproof clothes using show curtain material. Dressing up Big Ted in wet weather clothes. Spinning lid painting: a circle of paper is placed inside a clean garbage bin lid. The lid is spun around and at the same time water paint is squirted onto the paper.
Thu, Oct 12, 1995
Exploring some properties of water. Pouring some water into a funnel, down a plastic tube to fill containers. Pouring the same quantities of water into different shaped containers of the same capacity, noting that water takes on the shape it is contained in. Filling rubber gloves with water to be frozen. An ice hand is removed from a rubber glove and begins to melt. The toys are given a drink of water and Big Ted is dressed up as Alice the Camel. The story is told by the presenters and is "The Floppy Gloppy Glove".