Play School

- Season 81

(2002)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.