Play School

- Season 111

(2006)

Deborah and Jay complete a mural of a rural landscape using roller painting and items from the Useful Box. Jay makes clouds from fluffy cotton wool and Deborah uses a ball of tissue paper for the sun. Jay and Deborah have fun playing as a cloud and the wind. Jay explores the possibilities of a rain stick. Jay tries foot clapping - a bit tricky. He sings " Let's Have a Big Hand for Feet " and tries other tricky actions for feet. Jay and Deborah build a bridge from boxes so the toys can cross the river to share in a picnic. They share the picnic until they are disturbed...

Deborah and Andrew play a hiding and guessing game for some of the toys using a cut away cardboard box. Only the feet of each toy are revealed. Andrew is a jumpy, bouncing Jack-in-a-box. He jumps out of the box and all around until the music stops. Deborah makes a platypus from a pillowcase with a towel inside, an oven mitt, gardening gloves and a hair scrunchy. Deborah and Andrew swim, dive and dig like a platypus.

Ducks and ducklings in Play School today. Deborah and Jay watch the ducks carefully studying their webbed feet. Jay waddles, swims and flies like a duck. Jay kneads pre-made dough, adds coloured liquid to flour and mixes it together to make some more dough for Deborah. Deborah uses dough and cutters to make shapes - butterflies, fish, ducks and bears. Deborah and Jay make a crazy "poggle doggle" pizza with beautiful brightly coloured animal toppings. They have great fun with a kitchen orchestra. Together, Deborah and Jay feed the mother duck soggy bread scraps and her...

Andrew plaits ribbons into Leah's hair Leah plaits ribbons to make a friendship bracelet for Andrew. Andrew finds a ribbon streamer and uses it for dancing and twirling around. Leah and Andrew play instruments created from recycled materials - a cardboard tube and funnel trumpet, a big tin drum and a cardboard box double bass. Leah decorates a straw hat with flowers made from scrap materials from the useful box. Leah balances her hat upside down on her head, then on one hand and then also while balancing on one leg - very tricky. Leah and Andrew play with the toys ...

Leah and Andrew make a hang glider for Jemima. The hang glider is made from cardboard and pipe cleaners. A container becomes a helmet and a sock is used to hold her legs. An island has been made from a pile of pillows and Sofya signs directions for Jemima to land safely on the island. Andrew, Sofya and Jemima share a picnic on Pillow Island. Leah paints blue sea and red and green slimy seaweed onto a perspex screen using a big sponge and her fingers. She uses different movements of her hand to represent different sea creatures - fish and crabs and jellyfish. Andrew ...