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44 Episodes 1998 - 1998
Episode 1
28 mins
Aka ep89.1 Making hats from materials out of the Useful Box. A cardboard sun hat and a cellophane rain hat are made. A 'Match the Hat' game is played. Hats must be found and matched to the outfits on display such as a police uniform, rain clothes and a clown's outfit. The cardboard sun hat is changed into 'Sun Hat Hill' where paper flowers grow.
Episode 2
28 mins
Icing and decorating carrot cakes and muffins. Playing a crazy mixed up picture game of heads and tails. Dramatic Play: The teddies are taken on a picnic and a game of pass the hat is played.
Episode 3
28 mins
A puppet theatre is made from a large sombrero hat with a cloth draped down from the brim to hide the puppeteer. A performance then takes place. The sombrero is changed into a hat merry-go-round. Kittens visit Play School Three cardboard cats and a hat are made for a puppet rhyme. A Mexican hat dance is performed by Trisha and George.
Episode 4
28 mins
Making a jungle mural that incorporates a river and animals. Lisa is dressed as a jungle explorer and explores the jungle. Making a suspension bridge out of pantyhose and kitchen scourers to cross the jungle river. Dramatic Play: Fire Engine play. Angela, Glenn and Big Ted are fire fighters heading for a fire. Dressing up in a Hatapatasaurus hat.
Episode 5
28 mins
Making paper clown hats for George and Jemima. George introduces and compares a performance of 'Jemima The Stunt Clown.' Playing a game of 'What's the clown missing?'.
Episode 6
28 mins
Aka ep90.1 Picture cards of morning routine activities are drawn and put in to a sequence. The sequenced cards are made into a story book titled 'Good Morning Jack.' Trisha makes a basket using fabric pieces. A hiding game is played with the toys.
Episode 7
28 mins
Benita and Colin make the play dough Blob family. Colin plays a 'what's missing' game. Colin makes a crazy hat from balloons.
Episode 8
28 mins
A hen and her chicks visit Play School. Dramatic Play: Trisha, the farmer finds ways to protect her clover paddock from George the kangaroo, the rabbit and the crow.
Episode 9
28 mins
Making raindrops, using a plastic dropper, a sauce bottle and a colander. Playing familiar Nursery Rhymes on a water bottle scale. Playing a mixed up Nursery Rhyme sequence game. things to do with water. Aquatic Play: A harbour. Jamie is a large cargo boat and Noni a tough little tug.
Episode 10
28 mins
Measuring and comparing Benita's height to Colin's. Measuring the height of the toys. Investigating the number of seeds that can be found in some flowers, fruit and vegetable. Pretending to be a tiny seed that grows into a tall sunflower. Looking at photos of Colin as a toddler, school boy and adult.
Episode 11
28 mins
Aka ep91.1 Sorting out materials from the Useful Box. Folding a sheet Angela makes a lion using a blanket, socks and pantyhose. Glenn makes a jungle out of pillows, plastic flower pots and dish mops for Leo the Lion. Glenn and Angela make pizza. The toys visit each other.
Episode 12
28 mins
Noni plays a rhyming name game. David makes a set of domino cards using stamps of the Play School toys. The cards are shared out between Noni and David for a domino game. David and Noni play shadow dress-ups. Noni paints a person and makes a print. The result is two people who look exactly the same.
Episode 13
28 mins
Making paper Jack and Jill dolls. Simon plays Nursery Rhyme Match. Animal cards are matched to Nursery Rhyme scenes. The toys are taken for an animal ride Dramatic play: Simon dresses up as Mary's lamb for Mary had a Little Lamb.
Episode 14
28 mins
Angela and Glenn make phones out of cardboard boxes Dramatic play: Angela and Glenn phone each other to arrange a meeting at "The Coffee Shop". Glenn opens some letters sent by children to Play School. Glenn and Angela play with a table changing it into a boat then a bath then a log for a frog. Lisa and Kim have a birthday party and the toys visit.
Episode 15
28 mins
Taking turns to draw, Angela and Simon create a picture and then make up a story about it. Simon makes a measuring tool. Building a wall. First Simon measures how long the wall must be for the toys to sit on. Then he builds the wall.
Episode 16
28 mins
Aka ep92.1 Making a weather box. The weather conditions change from sunshine to rain George presents the Play School weather report. Playing a high, low game. Where do the objects belong - in the sky or on the ground? Dramatic play: George goes on a tram ride. As the weather changes, so does his destination.
Episode 17
28 mins
Making sun hats for the toys. Playing a dress-up game. 'Whatever the Weather.'.
Episode 18
28 mins
Painting wax resist pictures. Simon shows how an umbrella works. Playing a "What's Wrong" game. Simon and Monica take turns at dressing up but each time something goes wrong. Ducks visit Play School. Monica makes up pictures using clouds.
Episode 19
28 mins
Using a card table, chairs, doonas and pillows. Monica and Simon build a summer cave and a snowy winter cave for the Play School bear. Monica presents the Play School weather report. Making a snow dome.
Episode 20
28 mins
George and Benita experiment with objects that can be moved by air or blowing Playing, 'What shall we do when we all go out?' A selection of items related to an outdoor activity are shown. George must guess what the activity is.
Episode 21
28 mins
Aka ep93.1 Building a tower out of boxes. Diddle the Play School cat delivers the day of the week in a remote controlled car Dramatic play: Trisha is a remote controlled robot and tries to help Simon build a wall. The toys all have a turn at sitting and falling off a cardboard box wall.
Episode 22
28 mins
Washing socks, rinsing socks and hanging them out to dry. Matching socks. Using a net skirt, Monica plays 'What could this be?' It becomes a frilly clown collar, a tutu for a ballet dancer and finally a fish tail. Dramatic play: David is a rotary clothes line.
Episode 23
28 mins
Making cardboard box dogs and putting them on a scooter board. The dogs are taken for a training walk. A game of Nicholas Ned is played, giving him vegetable heads. Dramatic play: The toys go to school and show what they are good at. Monica is the teacher.
Episode 24
28 mins
Monica and George make a print of a banana leaf. Painting and printing tops and tails for example a bear on a chair. Monica and George dress the toys and themselves in banana leaves to take part in the Crazy Conga.
Episode 25
28 mins
Experimenting with objects to see if they float or sink Monica dresses as a crocodile and chases George in his row boat. Diddle, Fergus and Scrap are the 3 toys in a tub for the rhyme 'Rub a Dub-Dub.' An upsy down picture game is played. Monica draws a picture first. George turns it upside down to create a different picture.
Episode 26
28 mins
Aka ep94.1 Roller painting a blue sea scape. Making Fish out of items from the useful Box. The fish and washing basket Rocks are added to the sea scape. Dramatic play: George pretends to be various sea creatures hiding from Angela the hungry Shark. Angela and George play a Little Nippers game......running, jumping and walking backwards on the 'beach'.
Episode 27
28 mins
Colin and Benita blow bubbles. Benita uses a straw to blow into a cup covered with a stocking, to create a bubble cloud. A bubble picture is made by placing a piece of paper onto the bubble cloud. Colin gives Meeka a bath and shampoos her hair. Benita uses a bath and various items to create a horse, a man and a boat. Colin dresses appropriately.
Episode 28
28 mins
Benita makes a jet plane, Simon a helicopter and Deborah a sea plane. Benita cleans the Play School fish tank. Adding fresh water and water snails. Bit and Bot the Play School fish are fed. Deborah introduces actions to the Murray Island song 'Taba Naba'. Islands are created from cushions and yellow sheets on a blue carpet sea. Dramatic play: Kim is taken by pilot Jemima on an island adventure tour. They visit Mud Island, Rocky Island and Comfortable Cushion Island where repairs are carried out on their plane.
Episode 29
28 mins
Colin fishes for the calendar fish. Angela sails a paper plate boat over the sea mural. Colin makes jellyfish masks for Humpty, Big Ted and Maurice. Dramatic play: A sea rescue.
Episode 31
28 mins
Aka ep95.1 Angela and Glenn complete the construction of a box crane and explain how it operates. Dramatic play: Angela is a crane driver and Glenn a building supervisor. Between them they build a block of cardboard box units. The toys inspect the block of units and select one each to live in. The crane is transformed into a lift and Meeka visits Jemima's unit.
Episode 32
28 mins
David uses a sewing machine to make an apron. Trisha pretends to be the needle on a sewing machine. David plays a card association game, matching the materials to the appropriate machine. Dramatic Play: The toys have a sausage sizzle and Trisha is Susie, 'The Speedy Sausage Sizzle Machine.'
Episode 33
28 mins
Trisha and David show how to whisk eggs, first by hand then with simple machines then with a more complex machine. Making an egg flip. Dramatic Play: The egg-shell 'Eggs-press' train takes a tour through Kitchen Valley, past Cereal Box City to the ancient Orange Pyramid and back. Cooking French Toast.
Episode 34
28 mins
Making a dancing dolly machine - using 2 cotton reels , a rubber band and a peg as the dancing dolly. Changing the dancing dolly machine into a machine to help - Jack and Jill climb up the hill; - Eency Weency climb the water pout; - The mouse run up the clock. Using wooden off cuts and hooks, Glenn creates Freda the wooden lady.
Episode 35
28 mins
Hiding behind a wall built from foam shapes, Monica and Colin play Peek a Boo game. Creating different animals using foam shapes. Monica makes a wheelbarrow. Dramatic Play: A machine parade is presented. Monica and Colin are the officials.
Episode 36
28 mins
Aka ep96.1 Laying down various shoes for a movement game. The forward facing shoe means "walk". The sideways shoe means "stop". George makes some tap shoes for Jemima out of cut-down cardboard boxes using washers for the taps. The presenters dance in various styles - tap, ballet, rock 'n roll, belly dancing and line dancing. The toys dress up to dance to "Zorba the Greek".
Episode 37
28 mins
The Presenters make things out of socks using paper stickers for features: a platypus, an octopus and a rabbit. Sock rabbits are used to tell the poem "There Once was a Rabbit". George makes a glove into a "foot chook" who looks for worms. The worms are Angela's fingers in rubber gloves poking through holes in fabric. The presenters become a rubber glove factory producing with increasing speed.
Episode 38
28 mins
The presenters make cardboard mice and a cardboard cat. The cat is in three parts held together with split clips. It is operated with two chopsticks. The presenters play a cat and mouse game. Deborah shows some toys' tails through holes in fabric for a guessing game, then the toys are used as part of the dance "La Bamba. Deborah dances as a kangaroo, a grey brolga and an emu. Simon is an emu using a circle of fabric, then a frill neck lizard with his head through the fabric. He finds another frill neck lizard.
Episode 39
28 mins
Making people out of mops (Moppet and Sloppet) and pushing the plastic sleeve up to give them short and long hair. The mops are given stickers for faces and bodies of cardboard sections attached by split clips. Glen shows a wooden "Stanley" figure similar to the ones in the animation. Glenn draws round his feet to make The Twinkle Toe brothers, dancing foot puppets to cardboard cylinders. They perform in a cardboard box theatre. Moppet and Sloppet are dressed for dancing and perform to "Shout", then it's the presenters' turn. Through the windows Colin sings about his New Shoelaces at the Chinese Gardens, Sydney.
Episode 40
28 mins
Angela and Glenn make three speckled frogs out of cardboard, a log from a ruler and cardboard box and a pool from a piece of bubble wrap. The frogs are catapulted into the pool. The presenters try balancing on one leg. Angela dances a string puppet then an Indonesian rod puppet. She then makes a dancing dolly.
Episode 41
28 mins
Aka ep97.1 Putting valued objects onto the Play School scrapboard. Painting a rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). The inhabitants of cardboard box flats come outside for a community picnic.
Episode 42
28 mins
A dolls' house is set up with appropriate furniture for each room Pipe-cleaner characters are introduced. All the family is fast asleep but Harry can't get comfortable. Finally he snuggles into bed with Mum and Dad. A paper plate face is given playdough features to look sleepy, grumpy, surprised and happy. Trisha has a hat shop and David selects different hats.
Episode 43
28 mins
Peeling corn and cooking it in boiling water. Looking at corn dolls and making a doll from the outer leaves (husk) of an ear corn. Matching animals parents with their babies (Sow-boar-piglet; hen-rooster-chicken; cow-bull-calf). Making popcorn (please be careful doing this for children under four. The dry bits may be inhaled.
Episode 44
28 mins
Making a pond with lily pads using a sheet and cushions. The set of wooden figures is grouped to from different families. The toys become babies. Trisha sings them to sleep. Fergus marries a pillow mouse and the toys celebrate the wedding.
Episode 45
28 mins
Making a roly-poly sandwich with Lavash bread, hummus, alfalfa sprouts and grated carrot. A photo of Humpty is set into a dough frame. Squishy dough (playdough recipe) is cooked (10 minutes to make another frame. The toys visit each other and share a meal.