Play School

- Season 96

(2004)

Aka ep96.1 Shoe sorting game. Children remove their shoes and place them in the centre of a circle. One child is chosen to find a matching pair. (Wash hands after this game). Read "The Line Up Book" by Marisabina Russ (Walker). Whose Shoes? Children observe each other with shoes on, then a chosen few are asked to stand behind a screen or sheet. Who is it?

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.

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.

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 ...

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.