Series 286: Mini Beasts We see insects and other small creatures almost every day of our lives. These “mini beasts” are one of the first introductions young children have to the natural world. They come in countless varieties, shapes, colours, patterns and sizes and are celebrated in favourite pre- school nursery rhymes, such as “Incy Wincy Spider”, “Ladybird, Ladybird” and “The Ants Go Marching”. In this series of Play School, we explore “mini beasts” through craft activities, play, songs and stories. We are also visited in studio by some real-life insects: slaters, snails, worms and even a stick insect! Episode 1 PRESENTERS Andrew McFarlane – Karen Pang PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY BUTTERFLY, BUTTERFLY written & illustrated by Petr Horáček Walker Books Australia FILM Barron Gorge Walk (Play School, ABC) ANIMATION Incy Wincy Spider (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER Make a garden diorama with green grass, a blue sky & flowers made from patty pans and pipe cleaners. Make some craft bugs to live in your diorama, such as the bottle top bugs described below. Take a walk in your garden or a local park and look out for “mini beasts” such as ants, worms, beetles and birds. Take a close look at the mini beasts you find (without touching them) and then draw or paint a picture of them. Tape or staple your pictures together to create a mini beast scrapbook! Plant some colourful flowers in your garden or a plant pot. Watch them as they grow. Do they attract any insects? SONGS Spots Are Great Composers: Peter Dasent & Mark Barnard Publisher: Origin/ Control Incy Wincy Spider Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Outside in the Garden Composers: Peter Dasent & Judith Keyzer Publisher: Origin/Control Flutter, Flutter Butterfly Composer: Lesley Lees Publisher: Ward Lock Educational Would You Like to Be a Tree? Composers: Peter Casey & Carissa Campbell

Series 286: Mini Beasts We see insects and other small creatures almost every day of our lives. These “mini beasts” are one of the first introductions young children have to the natural world. They come in countless varieties, shapes, colours, patterns and sizes and are celebrated in favourite pre- school nursery rhymes, such as “Incy Wincy Spider”, “Ladybird, Ladybird” and “The Ants Go Marching”. In this series of Play School, we explore “mini beasts” through craft activities, play, songs and stories. We are also visited in studio by some real-life insects: slaters, snails, worms and even a stick insect! Episode 2 PRESENTERS Michelle Lim Davidson – Teo Gebert PIANIST Peter Dasent TOLD STORY The Frog Gobbler (A story told by the Play School team) FILM Honey Farm (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER Play a bug dress-up game with a friend or family member. Use your body, imagination and some simple items from your dress-up box to transform into a bug. For example, put a yellow towel around your shoulders and “buzz” around like a bee, or, get into a sleeping bag and wriggle on the ground like a worm. Your friend or family member has to guess what kind of bug you are. Make a paper plate frog. Paint a piece of A4 paper and the bottom of a paper plate green. Once dry, place both hands on the green paper, ask someone to trace around them, and then cut out. Stick the two handprints to the bottom of the paper plate for legs. Add two sticker dot eyes and a long, red, paper tongue. Eat some honey on toast. Yum! SONGS Round and Round and Round Composer: Colin Buchanan Publisher: Rondor Come On And... Composer: Louie Suthers Incy Wincy Spider Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing I’m So Hungry Composers: Ann North & Martin Welsey-Smith MAKE AND DO

Series 286: Mini Beasts We see insects and other small creatures almost every day of our lives. These “mini beasts” are one of the first introductions young children have to the natural world. They come in countless varieties, shapes, colours, patterns and sizes and are celebrated in favourite pre- school nursery rhymes, such as “Incy Wincy Spider”, “Ladybird, Ladybird” and “The Ants Go Marching”. In this series of Play School, we explore “mini beasts” through craft activities, play, songs and stories. We are also visited in studio by some real-life insects: slaters, snails, worms and even a stick insect! Episode 3 PRESENTERS Luke Carroll - Leah Vandenberg PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY “Slinky Malinki, Open the Door” by Lynley Dodd, Puffin Books New Zealand 1993 FILM Wildlife Montage (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER Make a snail from play dough or clay! Roll out a long piece of play dough or clay and twist about three quarters of it into a shell shape. The rest of the play dough can be the head of your snail. Make some bugs from egg carton cells. You might like to make a caterpillar with three or four egg carton cells for a wriggly body, or an ant with just one egg carton cell for a small body. Paint your egg carton bugs and stick in short lengths of pipe cleaner for antennae. SONGS Mrs Snail Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing There’s a Worm at the Bottom of My Garden Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing I Have Made a Pretty Nest Composer: Ann Elliot Publisher: Steiner & Bell I Can Fly Composer: Lucille Wood Publisher: Chambers Harrap Who’s That Tapping at the Window? Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Go, Go, Goanna Composer: Colin Buchanan Publisher: Universal Incy, Wincy Spider Composer: Tradi

Series 286: Mini Beasts We see insects and other small creatures almost every day of our lives. These “mini beasts” are one of the first introductions young children have to the natural world. They come in countless varieties, shapes, colours, patterns and sizes and are celebrated in favourite pre- school nursery rhymes, such as “Incy Wincy Spider”, “Ladybird, Ladybird” and “The Ants Go Marching”. In this series of Play School, we explore “mini beasts” through craft activities, play, songs and stories. We are also visited in studio by some real-life insects: slaters, snails, worms and even a stick insect! Episode 4 Come along with Leah and Teo as they create kitchen space bugs, make some picnic creatures with fruit and vegetables and see a picnic by a river through the windows. PRESENTERS Leah Vandenberg – Teo Gebert PIANIST Peter Dasent TOLD STORY The Inchworm and the Grasshopper (A story told by the Play School team) FILM Picnic at Torrens River (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER Make a cardboard roll rocket! To make the nose of your rocket, cut a small circle from cardboard and make a slit in the middle, so you can roll the circle into a cone shape. Secure the cone with tape and stick it to the top of the cardboard roll. Stick red streamers, or thin strips of crepe paper or cellophane, to the other end of the cardboard roll for flames. Go on a picnic and look out for different types of birds. Move like different animals - jump like a frog, slither like a snake and creep like a mouse! SONGS Making Things Composers: Scott Aplin & Phil Barton Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Rocket Song Composer: Peter Dasent & Mark Barnard Publisher: Origin/Control The Ants Go Marching Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Everybody Likes Fruit and Vegetables Composer: Jay Mankita Publisher: Dreams on Tape Music Jump and Jiggle Composers: Edna G. Buttolph & Evelyn Beyer

Series 286: Mini Beasts We see insects and other small creatures almost every day of our lives. These “mini beasts” are one of the first introductions young children have to the natural world. They come in countless varieties, shapes, colours, patterns and sizes and are celebrated in favourite pre- school nursery rhymes, such as “Incy Wincy Spider”, “Ladybird, Ladybird” and “The Ants Go Marching”. In this series of Play School, we explore “mini beasts” through craft activities, play, songs and stories. We are also visited in studio by some real-life insects: slaters, snails, worms and even a stick insect! Episode 5 PRESENTERS Karen Pang & Teo Gebert PIANIST Peter Dasent TOLD STORY The Mini Beast Ball (A story told by the Play School team) FILM Tulip Time (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER Make a night-time garden collage by pasting newspaper, magazine & coloured paper cut-outs onto a piece of black cardboard or paper. Paste on a moon, trees, flowers, bushes or anything you like. You might like to add some night-time mini beasts, such as an owl or a firefly. Make a peg firefly or dragonfly by twisting a small square of cellophane or tissue paper in the middle and taping it to a peg for wings. Make up a dance to a piece of music you like. SONGS Tiptoe Through the Tulips Composers: Al Dubin & Joe Burke This Little Light of Mine Composer: Harry Dixon Loes Incy Wincy Spider Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Spots Are Great Composers: Peter Dasent & Mark Barnard Publisher: Origin/Control Heel and Toe Polka Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing MAKE AND DO How to Make a Lantern You will need: - A paper gift bag with handles - Safety scissors - Coloured cellophane - Tape - Recycled newspaper - A small LED torch Cut a shape, such as a circle, square, or triangle, from one face of the paper gift bag. Cut the sa