Play School

- Season 97

(2004)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.