Play School (1966)
Season 153
TV-G
Preschoolers are provided with learning opportunities through music, crafts, stories, games and information. The aim is to encourage a child to wonder, think, feel and imagine, striving to reflect a modern, diverse Australian society.
Where to Watch Season 153
5 Episodes
- Shoes and Socks - Monday
E1Shoes and Socks - MondayMonday Actors - Karen Pang and Matt Passmore Pianist – Peter Dasent Songs “One Day A Hand Went Walking” Composer: P. Charlton & P. Reade Publisher: ABC “Hickory Dickory Dock” Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing “This Old Man” Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC “Highway Number One” Composer: Gary King Publisher: ABC Music Publishing “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain” Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Story “Alfie’s Feet” Author & Illustrator: Shirley Hughes Publisher: Random House UK Film “Soccer Team” (Play School, ABC) Ideas for Later PRINTS Use the printed sponges to make hand and foot prints. CLEAN YOUR SHOES Sometimes shoes need a good clean or polish. You can help to polish and shine your shoes. SOCK PUPPETS Make some sock puppets by gluing or sewing faces onto old socks. Make and Do HOW TO MAKE SHOE PUPPETS To make shoe puppets you will need: Strong card Paddle pop sticks Tinsel Stickers Coloured paper Scissors Paste Patty pans Small balloon and anything else you may like to decorate your puppet with. Trace around your shoe on the cardboard with a black marker and then cut the shoe shape out. Decorate the shoe shape however you like. Draw or paste on a coloured paper face. Tape or glue some wool or tinsel for some hair. You may wish to tape on some material for clothes. You may like to punch holes around the edge and thread a shoelace or some ribbon through them. Tape the shoe puppet to a paddle pop stick so that you can move and dance it around. SHOE PAINTING PATTERNS For shoe painting you will need: A large sheet of paper A sponge covered in paint Some old shoes. Place some thin sponge on a plate or shallow tray and cover it in paint. Have a few more sponges with different coloured paint covering them. Press one of the shoes onto t - Shoes and Socks - Tuesday
E2Shoes and Socks - TuesdayTuesday Actors: Justine Clarke and Teo Gebert Pianist: Peter Dasent Songs “Hickory Dickory Dock” Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing “I’m The Man In The Wellington Boots” Composer: William Buzard Publisher: BBC “Rain Song” Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing “Humpty Dumpty” Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC “Can-Can” Composer: Offenbach “Two Fat Gentlemen” Composer: Mary Champion De Crespigny Publisher: ABC Music Publishing “Wet Washing” Composer: Liz Olsen Publisher: ABC Story “Washing Line” Author: Jez Alborough Publisher: Walker Books Ltd Animation “Shoe animation” (Play School, ABC) Film “Henna tattoos” (Play School, ABC) Ideas for Later MATCHING SOCKS Help match socks that come from the clothesline. It is a very helpful job. FUN IN THE PUDDLES Put on your rain hat, raincoat and gumboots and go for a splash and stomp in the puddles. SOCK PUPPETS What do you do with odd socks? Try making some sock puppets or a soft sock ball to play with. Make and Do PLAY SOCK SCRAMBLE To play you will need: A pile of socks that need to be paired and a laundry basket. The idea of the game is to match up socks that are the same. Have two piles of socks, making sure the corresponding sock is in the other pile. One person chooses a sock from one pile and asks the other player to find its pair from the other pile. The person finding the matching pair must find it before the other person counts to 10 or finishes singing a song DECORATING FINGERS To decorate fingers you will need: Nail polish Star stickers, Coloured paper Hair scrunchies Put a frilly scrunchie around your index and middle fingers so it looks like a dancing dress. Put some gold stars on your index and middle fingers. These look like two gold dancing shoes. Now dance your fingers - Shoes and Socks - Wednesday
E3Shoes and Socks - WednesdayWednesday Actors: Justine Clarke and Teo Gebert Pianist: Peter Dasent Songs “The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round” Composer: M. Miller & P. Zajan Publisher: G. Schirmer Australia “Walking In The City” Composer: A. North & M. Wesley-Smith Publisher: ABC “Have You Heard The Cat At Night?” Composer: Ron Gamack Publisher: ABC “Moon Moon” Composer: (Words) Lucy Sprague-Mitchell / (Music) German Folk Song - Traditional Publisher: Allans Music Ltd “New Shoelaces” Composer: Adrian Bell Publisher: Unpublished “Hickory Dickory Dock” Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Story “Captain Purr” Author: Madeleine Floyd Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Film “Family Night Out” (Play School, ABC) Ideas for later PLAY A NAME GAME Play a mime game. Pretend to put on some dancing shoes and dance around. People playing the game can guess whether you have put on ballet shoes or tap shoes. Pretend to put on different types of shoes and have your friends guess what shoes you have put on. For example, put on soccer boots and kick about. What other shoes can you wear? What do you do when you are wearing the shoes? NIGHTTIME STORY Read a nighttime story to someone living at your home, or tell a story to your toy friends. Make and do HOW TO MAKE A SHOE-BOX TRAIN, BUS AND AEROPLANE To make a shoebox train, bus and aeroplane you will need: Shoeboxes Cardboard Milk bottle tops Scissors Markers Coloured paper Pipe cleaners Paddle pop sticks Cushion DOUBLE DECKER BUS Stand the shoebox on its side and stick four wheels onto each side of the bus. Glue a cardboard rim around the top edges of the roof of the bus to make an open-air double decker bus. Paste coloured paper squares onto the side to represent windows and doors on the bus. Draw some passengers in the windows, and a driver for the bus. TRAIN Remove the lid fro - Shoes and Socks - Thursday
E4Shoes and Socks - ThursdayThursday Actors: Justine Clarke and Matt Passmore Pianist: Peter Dasent Songs “Changes” Composer: H. Clark & D. Spencer Publisher: Unpublished “Cobbler, Cobbler” Composer: Traditional Publisher: Penguin “Hickory Dickory Dock” Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing “Sleepville” CD: Bright Eyes, Track 13 Composer: Jerry Cortez Pub: One Music Library “Shane And Josh” Composer: Gary & Carol Crees Publisher: Unknown (from Ready or Not! Resource Book) “Teddy Bear Twist” Composer: D. Watkins & C. Harriot Publisher: Control “Foot Notes” Composer: Charlton/Lesage Publisher: ABC/EMI Theme from ‘Bonanza’ Composer: J. Livingstone & R. Evans Publisher: Warner Bros. Story “Making Rain” told using bush animal puppets” (Play School Team, ABC) Films “Shoeing a horse” (Play School, ABC) “Foot Notes” (Play School, ABC) Ideas for later DECORATING CLOTHES You can decorate any item of clothing that may be old. An old hat can be decorated with flowers and ribbons. An old vest can be decorated with material, pictures, coloured ribbons or badges. RAIN PAINTING Make a rain painting. Get a large piece of paper. Shake some powder paint all over the paper. Place the paper carefully outside when it is raining. Watch the raindrops make a splash painting. Then take the painting into dry. Make and Do HOW TO MAKE A BROOM HORSE To make a broom horse you will need: Gumboot Broom Wool Stickers Ribbon for a rein and tape Take the broom handle and put the gumboot on the top to form a horse’s head. Put on some sticker eyes, some wool hair and a ribbon rein with tape. Take the horse for a gallop. HOW TO MAKE A SNEAKER GARDEN To make a sneaker garden you will need: An old boot or sneaker Paint Soil A punnet of flowers and a watering can. Take the old boot or sneaker and cut - Shoes and Socks - Friday
E5Shoes and Socks - FridayFriday Actors: Justine Clarke and Matt Passmore Pianist: Peter Dasent Songs “Hokey Pokey” Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC “Upsy Down Town” Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing “Let’s Go Driving” Composer: J. Moss Publisher: Festival Attractions Inc (ASCAP) / EMI “Little By Little” Composer: Peter & Robyn Mapleson Publisher: Unpublished “Hickory Dickory Dock” Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing “Choo Choo – Vamos a Pasear” Composer: Traditional Spanish Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Story “I Can Fix It” (Play School Team, ABC) Film “Changing A Tyre” (Play School, ABC) Ideas for later LEAF PUPPETS Gather some leaves that have fallen from the trees to make leaf puppets. Choose some that have an interesting shape. Take a black marker and draw a face on each leaf. Now you have lots of different leaf puppets that you can name and have fun with. CLEAN YOUR SHOES Help to clean or polish your shoes when they get dirty. Make and Do HOW TO MAKE SILLY PICTURES To make silly pictures you will need: Magazine pictures Child safe scissors Glue Paper First cut magazine pictures that are approximately the same size. Pictures can be of any object or animal. What picture would make a good head? E.g. a cat’s head, an orange, a clock, a flower. What picture would make a good body? E.g. Surfboard, cushion, lampshade. What pictures would make two arms or legs? E.g. Fish, running shoes, snails. Paste the pictures you have chosen on a piece of paper to make crazy pictures. E.g. A clock surfboard fishy creature. HOW TO MAKE SHOE POLISH LEAF PICTURES To make shoe polish leaf pictures you will need: Paper A collection of leaves Liquid shoe polish Firstly, decide which leaves you would like to make a print of. Next, lightly cover the leaf with liquid shoe pol