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Play School Season 39 Episodes

35 Episodes 2004 - 2005

Episode 1

Friends and Family - Activities

25 mins

Aka series143 ep1. Leah, Christine and Simon make brooches. The story is "The Doorbell Rang". Through the windows there is a choir. The animation of "It's so Nice to Have a Cuddle" is shown.

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Episode 2

Friends and Family - Togetherness

25 mins

Aka s143.2 Karen and Teo decorate some hard boiled eggs with dye and wax crayons. The presenters play a nursery rhyme guessing game by giving each other clues about a nursery rhyme. Karen and Teo use the toys to act out the story of "Humpty's Invitation".

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Episode 3

Friends and Family - Pets

25 mins

Aka s143.3 Leah's dog Tamis visits the studio. The presenters make a mini garden with soil and insects including slaters, worms and snails. They also make a snail and flower mobile.

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Episode 4

Friends and Family - Homes

25 mins

Aka s143.4 Karen and Andrew make a drippy painting with runny paint. They perform the story of "Our New House". Through the windows we see some pet therapy.

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Episode 5

Friends and Family - Visitors

25 mins

Aka s143.5 Scott visits Play School to do some carpentry. Through the windows it's lunchtime in the park.

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Episode 6

Visual Arts - Picture Frames

25 mins

Aka series144 ep1. Karen and Simon make splodgy blodgy paintings by flicking and splodging paint with brushes and then make cardboard frames for their paintings. Through the windows there is an optometrist doing an eye test. They make the first layer of the fruity jelly.

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Episode 7

Visual Arts - Collage

25 mins

S144.2 Karen and Rhys make a collage box with different materials and make a collage elephant.

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Episode 8

Visual Arts - Wool

25 mins

S144.3 Christine and Jay make sheep and a box train. Through the windows a peddle car is given a makeover.

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Episode 9

Visual Arts - Nature

25 mins

Aka s144.4 Karen and Teo make a beach mountain from play dough covered with shells and other items from the beach. They make play dough animals. The story is the drawn story of "The Old Woman and Her Cat". The animation "This Little Piggy" is shown.

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Episode 10

Visual Arts - Decorations

25 mins

Aka s144.5 Christine and Simon make crowns for the toys. They make some flags. The final layer of the fruit jelly is made and the jelly is upturned to become a jelly castle. Through the windows biscuits are decorated.

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Episode 11

Toys and Games - Balls

25 mins

Aka series145 ep1. Leah and Jay decorate a toy box with paper, fabric and other odds and ends. They play Jack in the Box. Through the windows there are chimps at a zoo.

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Episode 12

Toys and Games - Dolls

25 mins

Aka s145.2 Leah and Andrew make a sock doll. They play the Hokey Pokey. Through the windows there is a mother dog and her pups.

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Episode 13

Toys and Games - Hand Games

25 mins

Aka s145.3 Justine and Rhys make stretchy crocodiles and giraffes from cardboard. They play a stepping stone game. Through the windows there's a toy library.

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Episode 14

Toys and Games - Water

25 mins

Aka s145.4 Justine and Jay make sponge boats. Through the windows there is a waterhole.

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Episode 15

Toys and Games - Balloons

25 mins

Aka s145.5 Justine and Andrew make balloon animals. They make lamingtons. Justine and Andrew perform the story of "Jemima Thinks Pink" using the toys. Through the windows there's a school fete.

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Episode 16

Food - Potatoes

25 mins

Aka series146 ep1. Karen and Teo make a mashed potato forest, decorated with mushrooms, broccoli, capsicum, tomatoes and cheese. They decorate a table cloth with paint. The presenters perform the story of "Slush is Stuck in the Mud" using the toys.

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Episode 17

Food - Bananas

25 mins

Aka s146.2 Justine and Jay make banana smoothies. Hand print placemats are made using red and orange paint. Through the windows there are bananas being picked and packed.

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Episode 18

Food - Gingerbread

25 mins

Aka s146.3 Karen and Teo feed the animal toys with different food matching their diet. Humpty is dressed up as a gingerbread man to tell the story "The Gingerbread Man". Through the windows there are horses going through their exercises.

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Episode 19

Food - Eggs

25 mins

Aka s146.4 Leah and Rhys decorate boxes with different patterns and sing the Spotty Song. Yellow chickadee finger puppets are made using the ends of rubber gloves. Mishy Mashy Eggs are made by removing egg yolks from hard boiled eggs, mixing the yolk with mayonnaise, tomato sauce and curry powder then being used to refill the eggs. Through the windows there is Sunday brunch.

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Episode 20

Food - Milk

25 mins

Aka s146.5 Sofya and Jay use the toys to act out the nursery rhyme of Little Boy Blue. ON LOCATION - Andrew visits a farm.

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Episode 21

Weather - Windy

25 mins

Aka series147 ep1. Leah and Teo make a hot air balloon and a toy for Diddle. Through the windows are hot air balloons. 'Eency Weency Spider' animation is shown. The story is 'Mog and Bunny' by Judith Kerr.

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Episode 22

Weather - Snowy

25 mins

Aka s147.2 Leah and Teo make paper snowflakes and skis for the toys. 'Five Grey Elephants' animation is shown. Through the windows is aerial skiing. The story is 'Angelina Ballerina' by Katharine Holabird, illustrated by Helen Craig.

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Episode 23

Weather - Sun and Rain

25 mins

Aka s147.3 Leah and Simon play with shapes and make speckly paintings. Through the windows is park art. The story is 'It's Rainy' by Mick Manning.

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Episode 24

Weather - Sunny

25 mins

Aka s147.4 Karen and Jay make sand pictures. Through the windows people are keeping cool in hot weather. The story 'Crab's New Home' is performed.

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Episode 25

Weather - Whatever the Weather

25 mins

Aka s147.5 Karen and Andrew make penguins from juice bottles and rippy strippy pictures. Through the windows are tropical fish. The 'Weather Story' is performed.

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Episode 26

Dinosaurs - Box Dinosaurs

25 mins

Aka series148 ep1. Karen and Andrew make box dinosaurs. The story is 'The Man Who Loved Boxes' by Stephen Michael. Through the windows is clay art. 'Dino Stop' animation is shown.

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Episode 27

Dinosaurs - Extinction

25 mins

Aka s148.2 Karen and Andrew dress the toys up as dinosaurs. Through the windows some children have their first day at school. The story is 'Old Pig' by Margaret Wild.

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Episode 28

Dinosaurs - Baby Dinosaurs

25 mins

Aka s148.3 Leah and Teo tell the story of 'The Triceratops Twins'. They feed the Play School budgies and goldfish. Through the windows are goslings. The toys are dressed as dinosaurs and hatch from washing basket eggs.

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Episode 29

Dinosaurs - Food Chain

25 mins

Aka s148.4 Leah and Jay feed the box dinosaurs. Through the windows are crocodiles. The story is 'Crocodile Beat' by Gail Jorgensen. 'Jump or Jiggle' animation is shown.

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Episode 30

Dinosaurs - Museums

25 mins

Aka s148.5 Leah and Jay put on a dinosaur show with the dinosaurs that have been made during the week. Through the windows are dinosaurs at a museum. The story is 'The Tiger who Came to Tea' by Judith Kerr.

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Episode 31

Transport - Live in Concert

25 mins

Aka series149 ep1. Justine Jay, Karen and Rhys sing songs, play games and tell stories in this brand new live production. With more than 35 songs, there 50 minutes of Play School fun to enjoy.

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Episode 32

Transport - Firetrucks and Buses

25 mins

Aka s149.2 Karen and Jay dress up in different hats that drivers wear. They make a big blue bus mural. The presenters perform the story of "Joey's Big Day Out". Through the windows there are canoes.

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Episode 33

Transport - Spaceships

25 mins

Aka s149.3 Karen and Andrew make a space ship from a wok for alien Little Ted and alien Jemima. They make animals from play dough. The animation of Jess the Astronaut is shown. Through the windows there are animals carrying their young on their backs.

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Episode 34

Transport - Boats

25 mins

Aka s149.4 Justine and Rhys paint portraits of Darcy the Donkey and Big Ted. They make a flip book with collage images including one of a scene with a sail boat on the water. Through the windows there is the Grand Canal in Venice.

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Episode 35

Transport - Cars

25 mins

Aka s149.5 Justine and Rhys look at a convertible car which is in the studio. They decorate corn crackers to make faces using different spreads and fruit and vegetables as decorations. The story is "Mr Gumpy's Motor Car". Through the windows there is a montage of wheels.

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