Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

- Season 22

(1991)

Mister Rogers helps children know that there's art inside each of us and many ways to show it. He watches his friend Bob Trow paint a portrait of Mr. McFeely. In Make-Believe, the King proclaims that everyone make a portrait of him.

Mister Rogers listens to the lively music of the Spanish Singing Bakers. He shows famous portraits by Picasso. In Make-Believe, the neighbors are making portraits of the King, but Lady Elaine decides to offer a Picasso instead.

Mister Rogers shows a toy plane and reads a book about going on an airplane. He visits a skywriter who shows him how she creates images in the sky. In Make-Believe, the neighbors are making all kinds of different portraits of the King.

Mister Rogers visits with a potter at the community art center where they make a pot together using a potter's wheel. In Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is angry and uses her boomerang magic to cover all the portraits of King Friday with clay.

Rogers tells a story about a boy who painted a tree blue and how his feelings were hurt. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel submits a painting of a blue King Friday.

Mister Rogers shows how people make colored markers. He uses markers and his imagination as he draws to music and encourages children to use their imaginations. In Make-Believe, people are curious about a huge package that's arrived for X.

Rogers talks of using a telescope, although it is a pretend one. Bob Trow talks of how he used his imagination as a boy, making up what would be "troll talk." Robert Troll demonstrates this in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Mister Rogers shows how people make umbrellas and visits dancers rehearsing a whimsical umbrella dance. There are umbrellas In Make-Believe, too, where it's raining. Neighbor Aber imagines he is flying through the air.

Mister Rogers helps children understand that imagining is one of the best ways to learn all sorts of things. In Make-Believe, Handyman Negri and and Prince Tuesday make a doll come alive using their imaginations.

Folk-singer Ella Jenkins sings familiar folk songs with children at Brockett's Bakery. There's a mystery in Make-Believe. -maybe an imaginary friend is to blame. Mister Rogers says that inventions happen because people imagined them first.

Mister Rogers delights in a visitor who can whistle, especially because that's something Mister Rogers hasn't been able to learn. Nobody can do everything. In Make-Believe, Robert Troll learns about people by taking a census.

Folk-singer Ella Jenkins teaches Mister Rogers a song plays the kazoo. There's lots of different learning in Make-Believe, and Mister Rogers shows a video of some of the many ways parents and children learn from each other.

In this episode there's a factory video to see how people make construction paper. And Mister Rogers reminds us - young and old alike - it can take a lot of trying to learn something -- the important thing is to keep trying.

Mister Rogers encourages children to ask a lot of questions helping children know that wonder and curiosity are so important for learning. In Make-Believe, the children plan a field trip so they can learn from their neighbors.

Mister Rogers talks about different size batteries and shows how a flashlight works. He helps children know that the world is full of lots of things to wonder about and that learning is everywhere. And that people to help us learn.