1968
Aka 45.1 ep#71 Anne and Kerry make day and night collage pictures. Anne's picture has a shiny gold sun with birds, tissue paper flowers, a boy and girl, and a house with open windows to let the sun in. Anne puts a crown on the sun and calls him King Sol. She sings the song of the week 'Sun, Sun'. Kerry pretends to sleep and Anne wakes him up by singing Nacio Herb Brown's 'Good Morning'. It is quarter past four on the flower clock. Rob tells Aesop's Fable about The Wind and the Sun. Anne says Kerry is stronger at lifting blocks, but then sings 'Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better' with Kerry. Anne recites a poem about the Sun and Moon. Kerry shows his night time collage picture, with a crown on his moon calling her Queen of the Night. He demonstrates how the moon changes from crescent moon to full moon, then draws a house with white chalk onto his picture. Through the round window it is night time. Kerry adds silver stars to his picture. Kerry explains 'Monday' is 'Moon-day' and Anne explains 'Sunday' is named after the 'Sun'. Anne sings the song of the week again 'Moon, Moon' and 'Sun, Sun'.
1968
Aka 47.2 ep#82 Donald dresses up as a knight in armor and rides away on his mop horse to fight in the crusades. Lorraine tells the story of Sir Kevin of Devon with pictures. She dresses up as Lady Lorraine in medieval attire. She dubs Donald and Teddy knights. Lorraine and Donald work knight and dragon puppets in a short play.
1968
Aka 47.3 ep#83 Lorraine and Donald look at their skin. Donald pretends to shave. They look at the pets exploring their fur, feathers and hair: Snowball the rabbit, Henry and Henrietta the mice, Peppino and Peppina the budgerigars, and Bit and Bot the fish. Lorraine also looks at a visiting Australian Freshwater Tortoise, looking closely at the shell. The poem of the week is recited. Lorraine pretends to be a horse rider, using her neck scarf as the horse's tail. She then wears the scarf, pretending to be the robber from the poem. It is twelve o'clock on the flower clock with coins and bank notes underneath. Alex tells the story of Ned Kelly using Sidney Nolan's paintings. He sings the story on his banjo. Donald dresses as a bush ranger using paper shopping bags. Through the round window children visit the Galápagos tortoises at the zoo and ride on their backs. Donald pretends to be a tortoise with a basket for a shell. Little Ted and Jemima ride on the shell, while the presenters sing 'Hey Dee Ho'. Lorraine tries to ride on the shell also, but Donald says she's 'too heavy'.
1968
Aka 47.4 ep#84 Lorraine and Donald have made a wine keg drum into a horse, for they're in 'the bush' today. There's a real saddle and bridle which Lorraine puts on an old broom stuck into the drum for the horse's head. Donald rides Thursday, the horse, and pretends he's a farmer mustering sheep. Lorraine looks at the calendar and recites the poem of the week about a Merry Go Round. Donald pretends to be a squatter and musters stock with a sheep dog. Alex sings a mustering song on his banjo while we look through the windows. Donald counts sheep and recites the poem 'The Man from Menindee'. Lorraine pretends to be a 'jillaroo' and Teddy is a 'jackaroo'. She sings a song about being a 'jillaroo' to the tune of 'Yankee Doodle'. It is half past twelve on the Flower Clock, with a swagman underneath. Alex shows how a cork hat is used; has a rolled blanket swag filled with a clean flannel shirt, needle and thread, socks with a hole, pipe to smoke and newspaper; looks at a billy can; and has a tucker bag. He sings the story of 'Waltzing Matilda' on his guitar. Lorraine sings the chorus of 'Waltzing Matilda' while she and Teddy wait for the billy to boil. Donald has fallen asleep from counting sheep. Alex joins them for a cup of tea and they all sing the chorus to 'Waltzing Matilda' again. Lorraine suggests they all ride home together on the wine keg horse, but Donald thinks they won't all fit and calls Lorraine a 'Silly Billy'. He then suggests that Lorraine and Alex walk while he rides.
1968
Aka 47.5 ep#85 Lorraine and Donald blow on bottles and perform as 'The Play School Bottle Blowers', playing 'Ding Dong Dell'. It is one o'clock on the flower clock with water reeds underneath. Donald tells a story about the Greek god Pan and his panpipes. Lorraine plays some panpipes. Donald plays a barrel organ, looking at how it works. Lorraine looks at photos and drawings of carousels, discussing how some play music from organs or record players. Through the round window is a carousel. The toys sit on blocks in a large circle around the barrel organ to make a carousel. Lorraine cranks the organ, while Donald dresses up as different horse riders from the week's poem.
1968
Aka 48.1 ep#86 Donald makes drums using ice cream tins, pencils and soft drink "bubbles" from the Useful Box. He and Darlene form the Play School band and play the drums. Donald reads the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Donald and Darlene play "Follow the Leader" games inviting participation with clapping and singing.
1968
Aka 48.3 ep#88 Darlene and Donald try to teach the Play School pets to do tricks. They don't have much success. Lareyn, a trained golden retriever, is in Play School today, and she shakes hands and retrieves for Donald. Des tells a story of zoo animals doing tricks. Donald and Darlene pretend to train each other as circus animals.
1968
Aka 48.4 ep#89 Darlene and Donald draw pictures of rats for the Poem of the Week. Darlene makes a witch's hat and pretends to cast a spell on Teddy. Donal notes that it didn't work. They sing 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead'. Darlene reads the story 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'. Through the magic windows we see a ventriloquist with his puppet 'Cookie'. Darlene and Donald show how to make Teddy disappear in a Jack in the Box.
1968
Aka 48.5 ep#90 Donald and Darlene make a musical instrument, a "Broomstick and bottle Harmonica", filling the bottle with the right amount of water to make the right notes. They experiment with all sorts of things showing what sort of sounds they each make: wood, metal, bells, etc. Story told by Des is about what happens when the shark alarm rings at the beach. Donald and Darlene ring the Play School ambulance bell and pretend to take Humpty off to school.
1968
Aka 50.3 ep#98 Lorraine and Don clean out all the pets' homes before the get smelly. The story is told by Peter, about a skunk and how the animals react to him. A cat visits Play School and Lorraine and Don point out how clean cats are. Through the magic windows we see other animals cleaning themselves.
1968
Aka 50.4 ep#99 Lorraine and Don do finger and foot painting to the accompaniment of Don's guitar. Peter tells the story of the six men feeling an elephant with their eyes closed. Through the windows we see animals doing balancing acts, and ballet dancers in a pas de deux. Lorraine and Don try a few balancing acts.
1968
Aka 50.5 Ep#100. Lorraine and Don plan a picnic today and prepare the food. We see fruit seeds, and they show some seeds that were previously planted and have grown. They take the toys on the picnic and try to eat apples tied to a string. They make a big face out of fruit and then decide to eat it.
1968
Aka 51.1 ep#101 Diane and Tom dress Teddy in cowboy gear. Tom is a rough riding cowboy and lassoos the steers (the toys). Wendy tells a story of when she was small, and wanted to be a cowboy, but she had no horse. At the ranch, Tom and Diane sing cowboy songs as dusk falls. Through the windows is a children's rodeo.
1968
Aka 52.5 ep#110 Anne and Alister demonstrate how the clappers of bells work. Barry tells the story of 'Dick Whittington and his Cat'. Anne and Alister are on board a ship where they scrub the decks, steer etc, until it is time to 'change the watch'. They marry the owl and the pussycat, singing the song 'The Owl and the Pussycat'.