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46 Episodes 1997 - 1997
Episode 0
28 mins
A one-hour special VHS release. George, Trisha, Angela and Colin teach us how to safely cross the road, dress up as ducks, sing songs, make craft, take the toys for a truck ride and say goodbye wearing giant hands.
Episode 1
28 mins
Aka ep80.1 Making a variety of creatures from boxes and items found in the useful box. Tracing the base shape of 3-dimensional objects for a matching the shape game. Building a milk carton brick wall. Dramatic play: The milk carton brick gobbler.
Episode 2
28 mins
George is winding up a ball of wool. He finds Angela attached to the other end. creating characters for a performance of 'Baa Baa Black Sheep from ball of wool and pegs. Angela knits a scarf for Jemima following a colour pattern. A Dalmatian puppy visits Play School. George demonstrates the wheelie dog. Dramatic play: George and the toys vista 'Angela's Ooddles of Noodles' restaurant.
Episode 3
28 mins
Trisha and George finger paint, mixing colours and playing 'follow the finger' game and 'can you guess what animal it is?' Trisha and George dye and paint pieces of fabric. Dramatic Play: Trisha visits the zoo and George pretends to be different zoo animals.
Episode 4
28 mins
Benita and George make a wall hanging out of hessian. Benita, George and Elliot play musical shapes games. Each shape is identified by a sound. A 'Maypole' dance is performed. Everyone gets tangled up and Elliot comes to their rescue.
Episode 5
28 mins
Trisha and Simon make pictures using different paper shapes. Simon and the toys rescue Diddle who becomes stuck in a tree. Simon, using a real fish, looks closely at its features and skeleton. Dramatic Play: Fish Finger Factory.
Episode 6
28 mins
Aka ep81.1 John and Angela make a harbour and wharf in a wading pool John makes some paper bag fish. Angela animates the story with props. Maurice goes fishing in a laundry basket boat.
Episode 7
28 mins
Angela makes a yellow 'huffy puffy' pattern on paper by blowing yellow water paint though a straw. Simon joins in and adds blue paint creating a yellow, blue and green painting. Simon and Angela have a pin pong ball boat race. Angela experiments with floating and sinking objects. Big Ted and Little Ted in a washing basket boat.
Episode 8
28 mins
Angela cleans out Henry and Henrietta's mouse house. Simon cleans the algae from Bit and Bot's fish tank. Simon plays a card game of Memory making pairs of pictures of marine objects. Simon and Angela play out a story about a farmer with the toys, the water tray and a hose. The farm floods and the farmer rescues her animals by her boat.
Episode 9
28 mins
Colin and Joy sail boats across the wading pool harbour. Cars are taken across on the car ferry. Joy builds a bridge over the harbour for the cars Colin explores the parts of a real sailing boat and hoists the sail Dramatic play: Joy and Colin participate in a rowing boat race around an obstacle course.
Episode 10
28 mins
Simon and Benita make a spotty and squiggly balloon fish Benita creates a sea by printing with balloons dipped in blue and green paint onto a perspex screen. Then with her finger she draws on the screen fish, seaweed, an octopus and shells Simon looks at real shells - a mussel, a screw shell and a scallop shell. Then he experiments with floating and sinking them in a basin of water Simon and Benita take Jemima for a helium balloon ride.
Episode 11
28 mins
Aka 82.1 Creating a garden for the toys. The garden is to have something special for each toy: a pond for Fergus, a wall for Humpty and stepping stones for Big Ted to go round and round the garden. Making a giant orange-painted marigold with hand-printed petals. Painting a decorative pattern around a flower pot for the giant marigold to stand in. This is then delivered to the toys' garden.
Episode 12
28 mins
Playing with plastic squeeze bottles, tubes and bath toys in the water tray. Dressing up in rainy day clothes. Yellow water and blue water is mixed in the colour mixing machine, made of tubes and plastic bottles, to produce green water. Playing Ring a Roses. Looking at Van Gough's 'Sunflowers' and 'Irises'
Episode 13
28 mins
This program was recorded at the Auburn Botanical Gardens (Sydney). The presenters sing songs and tell stories in the different parts of the gardens: the Japanese Garden, the Billabong Area, the Aviary, the Bonsai Garden, the Fauna Reserve, the Reflections Pool.
Episode 14
28 mins
Angela and David use two puppet birds to explore the toys' garden Dramatic Play: a flower factory. Having made egg-carton flowers, crepe paper flowers and patty pan flowers. Angela and David create a painted flower border for the toys' garden. David has a close look at some pansies growing in a pot and waters them.
Episode 15
28 mins
Making a sand garden for Meeka who is 'Mary' for 'Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary'. Looking at clover Flowers. Playing 'Here We Go 'round the Mulberry Bush'. Printing bottlebrush pictures. Looking at children's painting or flowers. Angela and Jemima visit the toys garden and play games.
Episode 16
28 mins
Aka ep83.1 Making Sheep out of balls of wool. The Toys are put to bed under woollen blankets. Simon tries to sleep while Benita wakes him with various items e.g. an alarm clock, Henny Penny the chicken. Dramatic play: Simon and Benita go for a bush walk.
Episode 17
28 mins
Making crazy hats with a kitchen colander, wool, pipe cleaners and other craft materials. A woolly finger puppet caterpillar crawls over Simon. Dramatic play: Trisha creates a vegetable garden. Simon pretends to be a snail then a cockatoo eating the plants and seeds and is eventually scared off by a scarecrow. The toys get dressed up to be members of the Woolly Hat Choir.
Episode 18
28 mins
Monica plaits a long wool tail. Monica and Simon play Pin The Tail on the Donkey. Two lambs visit Play School. Monica feeds them from bottles. Dramatic Play: Simon does the toys' hair in the Play School Hair Salon.
Episode 19
28 mins
Playing a game of skittles with balls of wool and decorated empty plastic drink bottles. Trisha paints a country landscape with flocks of sheep and a blue cloudy sky.
Episode 20
28 mins
Two sheep visit Play School. One is shorn and one is not. Monica and Simon look at their wool. Simon combs out some wool ready to be spun by Monica on the spinning wheel. Simon dresses Little Ted and Jemima for a sleigh ride while Monica pretends to be a reindeer and pulls the sleigh.
Episode 21
28 mins
Aka ep84.1 John and Noni play a hiding game using a large cardboard box. A 'What's Missing' dress up game is played. Noni makes some kitchen sponge kitten puppets. John and Noni stage a theatre production of 'The Three Little Kittens'.
Episode 22
28 mins
Angela and David make bush homes for carved wooden bush animals in the sand pit Jemima is dressed up to go dancing. Angela dresses up in a tutu and dances. Max, David and Angela stage a music concert.
Episode 23
28 mins
A broadcast of a live Play School Concert performed at the Auburn Town Hall, Sydney.
Episode 24
28 mins
David and Angela create a forest scene using craft materials Big Ted is an explorer Angela, David and Max hold a bush dance.
Episode 25
28 mins
Noni and Simon create some broom people. Noni dresses the broom people for an outing A night and day scene is created using lighting (a torch!) Noni, Simon and Max create an opera about Humpty Dumpty to be performed for the broom audience. They have a rehearsal, adjustments are made and the performance then takes place.
Episode 26
28 mins
Aka ep85.1 Creating a play city with block roads, wooden road signs, milk carton houses and a kitchen sponge park. A stop/go game is played. Dramatic play: Colin dresses up as traffic lights and Trisha obeys the signals. A footpath is added to the play city and two peg people are taken for a walk to the park. A farm truck is driven out of the city and into the country.
Episode 27
28 mins
Making a red (stopman) and green (walkman) paper doll chain. Playing a 'match the glove' game. Angela must find the missing glove to make a pair. Dramatic Play: Angela and Little Ted visit 'Playland'. By following a map they pass by Adventure Land, Water World and Nursery Rhyme Land. Miming mechanical processes in a rubber glove factory.
Episode 28
28 mins
Ducklings visit Play School. They swim in a pond and are fed. Angela pretends she is stuck in mud. Colin comes to rescue her. A shadow game is played. Items are identified by their shadow shape. Animal hand shadows are created. A street scene is painted. Colin changes the weather conditions from sunshine to rain. Bright colours are then added to the pictures to ensure everything shows up. Dressing up in a yellow raincoat, yellow boats and a rain hat. The presenters dress up in brightly coloured clothes to play a game of 'Barney Glue'.
Episode 29
28 mins
Making melon and savoury biscuit traffic lights. A 'walk/don't walk' game is played. George is dressed in red as the 'don't walk' sign and Trisha is dressed in green as the 'walk' sign. Dramatic play: George is a road worker drilling and filling a hole in the road. A game of musical chairs with seat belts is played. Trisha dresses up as a giant hand. Through the windows Colin and his children cross the road in the swimming pool car park, then put their seat belts on.
Episode 30
28 mins
George, Angela and Trisha build a car using three boxes Egg Carton cars are raced down a racing ramp. Adjustments are made to the cars to change performance. Drivers are seatbelted in for safety. A memory packing game is played. George, Angela and Trisha take the toys magnetic fishing.
Episode 31
28 mins
Aka ep86.1 Cardboard boxes are used to create a train, a hiding place and a bath George paints and draws things that might be seen in the sky Angela, George and Glenn pretend to be planes flying in formation Dramatic play: A plane trip- Glenn is the flight attendant, George the pilot Angela and Big Ted are the passengers.
Episode 32
28 mins
David opens a curtain and looks out through a perspex window to see Noni being a helicopter, then a kangaroo David and Noni do the ' Willie Wagtail Hop'. Dramatic play: Noni builds a magpie scarer that will allow her to get past the magpie ( David ) without being attacked. David and Noni dress up as a crazy four-footed, three-legged, two-armed, two-headed clown.
Episode 33
28 mins
Benita and David make a feather hat for Jemima using wing, tail and down feather. Benita and David feed Peppino and Peppina the Play School budgerigars, Bit and Bot the goldfish and the Play School mice, Henry and Henrietta. David makes two little dicky birds, using paddle pop sticks, peg and feathers. A game of 'whose wings are these?' is played. Benita and David must match the wings to the correct object or animal. David and Benita dress up as bats and do the bat rap.
Episode 34
28 mins
Monica and Jamie make a race track out of kindergarten blocks, for a 'Sail Car Race'. Paper sails are attached to the toy cars. Fans are used to create a wind that propels the cars along Jamie explores some of the properties of air and demonstrates how a pin wheel works. A 'Windy Weather' memory game is played. Lisa goes for a flight in a tissue box helicopter and Kim in a box plane.
Episode 35
28 mins
Noni and Jamie explore the properties of air and helium. Noni fills a balloon with air and makes a Humpty Dumpty with folded paper legs and arms. Jamie fills a balloon with helium and makes a ' Bump-a-Deedle ' person with ribbon legs. Dramatic Play : Noni takes the toys and Bump-a-Deedle to an air show. Lisa goes for a box plane ride, Bump-a-Deedle goes for a balloon ride and everyone goes for a big box plane ride.
Episode 36
28 mins
Aka 87.1 Noni and Simon make play dough following a recipe. Noni makes a play dough jelly fish then changes it into a play dough elephant. Noni plays a recorder.
Episode 37
28 mins
Angela and David play a 'change game' with two chairs. They change the chairs into a horse, a sailing boat and finally into a motor bike. Dramatic Play: Angela dresses Big Ted to go outside, but the weather changes from sunny to rain to snow, they eventually give up and stay in. Angela changes a play dough birthday cake into a play dough person. Dramatic play: David is a large ball of clay that Angela, the potter, moulds into a pot and bakes in the kiln.
Episode 38
28 mins
Making a sometimes tall, sometimes short cardboard tube tree. Making cellophane bugs to hide in the tree. Changing a play dough person into a play dough nest. Dramatic play: Angela is a Munching, Mulching Machine and Jamie is the operator. He feeds the machine with cardboard and branches.
Episode 39
28 mins
Making paper masks. Simon makes a happy mask and Noni makes a sad mask. Playing a pop-up face game, using a green grumpy face and an orange smiley face. Changing play dough from the day of the week into a teapot, a spider and a clock. Dressing the toys for different weather conditions.
Episode 40
28 mins
Looking at different pastas. Cooking spaghetti . Finger painting pasta pictures. Changing a sheet of newspaper into - a hat, a boat, a bird, an icecream and a telescope. Serving out the cooked spaghetti to eat.
Episode 41
28 mins
Aka ep88.1 Trisha and Glenn dig in a mound of dirt using a variety of implements. Glenn makes a digger from items out of the Useful Box. Trisha adds water to the dirt and makes a muddy puddle to paddle her feet in. Glenn plays 'Do you know what bush animal this is?' Three features of each animal are shown before the whole animal is revealed.
Episode 42
28 mins
Making 'scruffy dogs' using paper bags and new mop head. Dramatic play: The Play School toys are entered into an animal show. Monica is their handler and Jamie the judge. The Play School toys are taken for a ride in a cardboard box ute.
Episode 43
28 mins
Making play money by taking rubbings of Australian ten cent, twenty cent and dollar coins. Dramatic play: selling currant buns for a play money dollar each. Painting a large outback mural and pasting on native animals. Dramatic play: Going for a drive in the country.
Episode 44
28 mins
Making bush music instruments. Investigating how an old-fashioned gramophone works. Dramatic Play: The Play School animals choir performs. A house is built for Humpty, among the gum trees.
Episode 45
28 mins
This program was recorded at The Royal National Park (Sutherland NSW). The presenters sing songs and tell stories around Wattamolla.