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Series 230: Fingers & Toes

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Fingers & Toes

Fingers, toes, hands and feet are the first parts of the body recognised by young children.

They are easily seen and enable children to move, explore, create and discover. This week in

Play School we explore hands and feet through movement and creative, tactile

experiences. We also explore animal feet through games and observation and provide

children with opportunities to develop their fine and gross motor co-ordination.

Monday

PRESENTERS

Simon Burke - Brooke Satchwell

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

STORY

Rosie’s Hat

Author: Julie Donaldson

Illustrator: Anna Currey

Published by Macmillan Children’s Books

London UK

FILM

Footnotes

(Play School, ABC)

ANIMATION

Hat

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Make a foot painting using a large piece of

paper and some paint poured in plastic

containers or plates. Carefully put your feet

in the paint and then walk on the paper to

make footprints.

Find an empty box that fits on your head

like a hat. Decorate it with paint and bits

and pieces from your useful box.

SONGS

Swim Like a Fish

Composers: Chris Harriott & Simon Hopkinson

Publisher: ABC Music Publishing

I Like to Dance (I Like to Sing)

Composers: Peter Dasent & Garth Frost

Publisher: Origin/Control

Put on Your…

Composer: Val Donlon


Yankee Doodle

Composer: Traditional

Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing

Like a Leaf or a Feather

Composer: Mary Champion de Crespigny

Publisher: EMI Music

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MAKE AND DO

How to Make a Tidy Trinny

You will need:

Thick cardboard

Markers, crayons, colouring pencils

Safety scissors

Tape

Wool

Draw the outline of a boy or girl on a piece of

cardboard. Include hands and fingers pointing

upwards and feet and toes pointing to the

side. Cut out.

Cut out a large triangle and a rectangle from a

piece of cardboard. Stick the shapes together

to form a stand.

Stick the stand to your cardboard cut-out so

your boy or girl stands upright.

Draw on some eyes, ears, a nose and a smiling

mouth.

Tape on some wool for hair.

Give your cardboard person a name. We

called ours “Tidy Trinny”.

Use your cardboard person to store jewellery,

hair clips, scarves and other bits and pieces.

How to Play “Whose Feet Are These?”

You will need:

Pictures or drawings of animals

Fold the animal pictures over so just the feet of

each animal can be seen.

Now find a friend or family member to play a

game of “Whose feet are these?” Take turns

guessing what animal each pair of feet

belongs to. You might like to give each other

clues!

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Tuesday

PRESENTERS

Brooke Satchwell – Simon Burke

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

TOLD STORY

The Princess Who Had Everything Except

Someone to Play With

(A puppet theatre story told by the Play School

Team)

FILMS

Footnotes

(Play School, ABC)

Picking Flowers

(Play School, ABC)

ANIMATION

Hey Diddle Diddle

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Make some animal masks from paper

plates to add to your dress up box. You

could also make some tails from different

strips of textured material.

SONGS

Hey Diddle Diddle



I Can Run as Fast as You

Composer: Peter Combe

Publisher: Peter Combe Music

Lazy and Warm

Composer: Carter Harman

Publisher: Silver Burdett

If You’re Happy and You Know It



Jimmy Monkey


Arranged by Zoe McHenry


The Dino Stomp

Composers: Judith Simpson & Max Lambert


Mister Frog



How Does a Caterpillar Go?

Composer: M C Dainton

Publisher: Paxton Music

Der Glumph



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MAKE AND DO

How to Make Cheese Balls

You will need:

Soft cheese that can be rolled into balls, such as cream cheese

Grated carrot

Parsley, finely chopped

Sesame seeds

Roll the soft cheese into balls with your hands.

Roll each cheese ball into a different coating. Make orange, green and white cheese balls.

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How to Make a Spoon Puppet Princess

You will need:

A wooden spoon

Pink paint

Sparkly material for a dress

Tape

A marker

Wool for hair

A sparkly pipe cleaner for a tiara

Paint the wooden spoon pink and set aside to

dry.

Wrap a piece of sparkly material around the

spoon, gathering it together at the top, just

under the bowl of the spoon, so the material

looks like a beautiful gown. Secure with tape.

Draw on a smiling face with a marker.


Twist a sparkly pipe cleaner into a circle and

put it on your Princess’ head for a crown.

How to Make a Spoon Puppet Bear

You will need:

A wooden spoon

Brown paint

Brown fur fabric

Safety scissors

Pink fabric or felt for a tongue

Tape

Paint the wooden spoon brown and set aside

to dry.

Cut two bear ears from brown fur fabric and

tape onto the wooden spoon.

Draw on two eyes, a mouth and a big nose

with a marker.

Cut a small triangle from pink fabric or felt and

tape it onto the bear’s face for a tongue.

Wrap a square of brown fur fabric around the

spoon for fur. Secure with tape.

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Wednesday

PRESENTERS

Karen Pang - Teo Gebert

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

TOLD STORY

Gemma’s Friends

(A puppet theatre story told by the Play School

Team)

FILM

Musical Instruments

(Play School, ABC)

ANIMATION

Jump and Jiggle

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Make yourself a drum! Find some pots and

pans from the kitchen or turn a waste

paper bin upside down and bang on the

top. What other instruments can you make

with things from around the house?

Write a letter to a friend or family member.

Put the letter in an envelope, write an

address on the front, stick on a stamp and

then take the letter to the post office and

mail it!

SONGS

I Can Fly

Composer: Lucille Wood

Publisher: Chambers Harrap

The Spotty Song

Composer: June Tillman

One Finger, One Thumb, Keep Moving



Let’s Go Walking

Composers: Satis Coleman & Alice Thorne

Publisher: The Willis Music Co. c/o Campbell

Connelly

Down at the Station



The Small Crocodile



Jack and Jill



Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star


Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing The Boy with the Drum Composer: D. L. Harrison

Publisher: Larrikin

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MAKE AND DO

How to Make Finger Paint Animals

You will need:

Different coloured paint

Plastic containers or plates

Paper

A marker

Pour different coloured paint into plastic containers or onto plastic plates.

Use a marker to draw the outlines of different animals onto pieces of paper. We drew a

parrot, an owl and a leopard.

Add details to your animal drawings by dipping your hands and fingers into the paint. For

example, add some hand print wings and a hand print tail to a parrot, some finger-painted

eyebrows to an owl and lots of spots to a leopard!

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How to Make an Envelope Express with Paddle Pop Passengers

You will need:

A long cardboard tube

Tape

Envelopes

Coloured paper

Safety scissors

Paste

A marker

Paddle pop sticks

Wool for hair

Tape some envelope carriages to a long cardboard tube.

Cut some small circles from coloured paper and paste them to the bottom of each

envelope for wheels.

Cut some short strips of coloured paper and paste them between each envelope to link your

carriages together.

Cut some windows and a smoke stack from coloured paper and paste them to your train.

To make a passenger, cut a small circle from coloured paper and tape it to a paddle pop

stick for a face. Draw on eyes, a nose and a smiling mouth with a marker.

Draw some clothes on coloured paper, cut them out and tape them to the paddle pop

stick.


Make a few different passengers, with different clothes and hair. We made a boy, a girl and

a dog.

Take your Envelope Express for a ride, picking up passengers along the way and sticking

them into the envelope slits.

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Thursday

PRESENTERS

Sofya Gollan – Karen Pang – Andrew

McFarlane

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

STORY

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Cat

Text © Ronda Armitage 1995

Illustrations © David Armitage 1995

Reproduced with the permission of Scholastic

Ltd.

All rights reserved

FILM

Pizza Making

(Play School, ABC)

ANIMATION

Singing Sheep Choir

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Make a play dough pizza and set up a

pretend pizza shop.

Write your name in finger paint.

Visit a lighthouse.

Make some rings out of pipe cleaners.

SONGS

Old MacDonald Had a Farm



Der Glumph



Baa, Baa, Black Sheep



Cows in the Kitchen



The Old Grey Cat



Open Shut Them



Man-Man-Mangia

Composer: Rosemary Sheldon & Pauline

Mitchell


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MAKE AND DO

How to Make Tortillas Animals

You will need:

Tortillas

A chopping board

Animal shaped cookie cutters

Oil

A pastry brush

A baking tray

Lay a tortilla on the chopping board. Use cookie cutters to make different animal shapes.

Place the animal shapes onto a baking tray. Brush them with a little bit of oil.

Put the tray under the grill in the oven until the tortillas are golden and crunchy.

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Friday

PRESENTERS

Sofya Gollan – Karen Pang - Andrew

McFarlane

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

STORY

If Big Can...I Can

Author: Beth Shoshan

Illustrations: Petra Brown

Publisher: Meadowside Children’s Books

FILM

Rozelle Markets

(Play School, ABC)

ANIMATION

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Make a collection of old socks. Roll the

socks into balls and use them in a game of

laundry basket ball. Or turn them into sock

puppets!

Play “Follow the Leader” and use your

fingers, toes, hands and feet to make

different actions and movements for your

friends or family to follow.

Make a long line of old phone books.

Pretend the telephone books are a long

piece of string and you are an elephant

balancing! Sing “One Grey Elephant

Balancing”.

SONGS

One Grey Elephant Balancing



Teddy Bear Twist

Composers: D. Watkins & C. Harriott

Publisher: Mushroom/Control

Two Little Tortoises



Put Your Finger on Your Nose

Composer: Woody Guthrie

Publisher: Tro-Ludlow Music Inc.

Hickory Dickory Dock



Two Fat Gentlemen



Footnotes

Composers: Peter Charlton & Bill Le Sage

Publisher: ABC Music Publishing/EMI

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MAKE AND DO

How to Make Leaf Collage Pictures

You will need:

Leaves of different shapes and sizes

Paper

Paste

A marker

Pick a leaf from your selection and paste it onto a piece of paper. Think about its shape and

what you might be able to turn it into.

Use a marker to turn the leaf into an animal, person or shape. For example, make a butterfly

with four leafy wings or a face with a wide leaf for hair.

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