1973
Aka 90.4 ep#299 Benita and Alister make a bedroom with cardboard boxes. Humpty, Big Ted and Little Ted sleep in cardboard beds. Jemima and Hamble have a box shelf made for their clothes. There is also a box wardrobe. A box is converted into a television and used for presenting the Nursery Rhyme News. Through the square window children are playing and building with wooden crates and tea chests. Alister plays jumping off a wooden block. Benita and Alister sing 'Jump'. The presenters look at the calendar and recite the poem of the week 'In a Dark Dark Wood'. It is ten o'clock on the flower clock with a suitcase and dog underneath. Alister reads 'The Winter Noisy Book' by Margaret Wise Brown, about the dog Muffin. Benita makes a train sound and mime. Alister makes different farm animal sounds. Benita makes the sound of a lion. They sing 'Have you heard the cat at night?'. Benita and Alister play a sound guessing game: egg beater, water pouring, hammer, tapping a bowl, pan and bottle. The presenters sing 'Oh we can play on the big bass drum'.
1973
Aka 91.1 ep#301 Lorraine and John find in the Useful Box some paper cups to hit together to make the sound and rhythm of horses' hooves. They sing the song of the week 'Horsey Horsey'. Through the windows a milkman is doing his rounds with a horse and cart. It is half past one on the clock. The story is about a boy who wanted to be a cowboy and who made a horse from a broom and some old socks. They sing a cowboy song with riding actions. Humpty is given a ride on the Play School rocking horse, Dapple. Through another window there are buckjumpers at a rodeo. Lorraine and John sing a jumping and bumping song and give the toys a ride on John's shoulder and leg.
1973
Aka 91.2 ep#302 Lorraine and John hit coconut shells together to make the sound of a horse's hooves. 'Horsey Horsey' is sung first in walking rhythm, then a gallop. Through the windows a horse pulls a cart through the city and a mounted policeman on traffic duty. It is half past two on the clock. The story is about Ned Kelly, illustrated by Sidney Nolan paintings, telling how mounted policemen hunted him in the bush, and captured him despite his iron armour. 'Where's Ned Kelly?' is sung. Lorraine makes some armour and a helmet from paper bags and John makes horses using a blanket, a hobby horse and Lorraine. Through the windows there is cattle droving and sheep mustering. Lorraine and John play a finger game about jumping animals and 'Three Silly Sheep'. They sing a jumping and clapping song.
1973
Aka 91.3 ep#303 Lorraine and John look at the tails of some goldfish and Lorraine sings a finger play song 'Here is the Sea'. Visitors are seahorses. It is half past three on the clock. The story is about a sea- horse whose tail is caught by an anemone, a shellfish, a crab and another seahorse all told by movements of Lorraine's hands. A hand action song involves clap, slap, rub, knock, shake, grab and snap. Through the windows are a horse and foal in the country, and a horse and cart in the city. Lorraine and John examine the tails of the mice and sing 'Three Blind Mice'. They examine the tails (or lack of tails) of the guinea pigs and the fish tails. 'Here is the Sea' is repeated.
1973
Aka 91.4 ep#304 Lorraine and John walk at various speeds: fast, normal, and slow, first with their feet, then with their fingers. 'Let's go Walking' is sung. Through the windows is a street cleaner's horse. Lorraine and John make some 'riding' animals from a chair, pillows, hobby horse, beach- ball etc: first a horse, then a camel (song: 'Humpy Camel') then an elephant (song: 'The Elephant' and action poem: 'An Elephant Goes'). It is half past four on the clock. The story is 'The Circus is Coming' illustrated by pictures of a circus. John dresses and performs as a clown and sings 'Clowns Have Funny Hats On' while Lorraine plays a drum. Through another window is a circus. 'Horses walking Down the Street' is sung. Further clown tricks are performed.
1973
Aka 91.5 ep#305 Lorraine and John roll a number of things on the floor and find that only the round things roll well. They use half an orange, placed in paint, to make pictures of wheels and they paint motor vehicles around the wheels, a motor bike, car and bus. 'Wheels Keep Turning' is sung. Through the windows is a horse and cart shown over the song of the week 'Horsey Horsey'. It is half past five on the clock. The story is 'Candy and the Pony' by Gwyneth Mamlok, about a girl who learns to ride a pony called Midnight. They sing 'Yankee Doodle'. Through another window a boy and girl ride a Shetland pony. John, at a petrol pump, services Lorraine's car (which is made from cartons and paper plates) and they repeat the song 'Wheels Keep Turning'.
1973
Aka 93.1 ep#311 Jan and John are looking for pairs of objects from the Useful Box. Pursuing the ideas of pairs they clap their hands, blink their eyes and wiggle their ears while singing 'Let's All Clap Together'. John sorts a pile of shoes into pairs. He changes 'I'm The Man With the Wellington Boots' and Jan joins him with 'I'm the Woman with the Pretty Pattern Slippers'. The song of the week 'The Animals Went in Two by Two' is sung. Jan makes a model farm with animals. The farmhouse is a shoebox; the pig a glue bottle with pipe-cleaners and a cork; the duck a matchbox with pipe- cleaner and a bead; the horse is made from pipe-cleaners; the cow a Kool-mint tin with pop sticks and a cork. Jan sings 'Had a Little Rooster'. It is ten o'clock on the clock. The story is 'Clara the Cow'. 'Farmer in the Dell' is sung using the toys as animals. Through the windows there are animals on a farm. John and Jan sing 'I Went to Visit a Farm' and the program ends with a participation song 'Follow Me to Stamping Land'.
1973
Aka ep#312 Jan and John are looking for items of clothing that come in pairs. 'The Animals Went in Two by Two' is sung. Using some clothes found earlier they dress up as characters in the finger play 'Two Fat Gentlemen' and act it out. It is eleven o'clock on the clock. The story is 'Mr. Penny's Hat'. Jan sings 'Rain Is Falling Down'. John paints raindrops. Jan helps him paint a picture of an umbrella. Through the windows umbrellas are being made. John with umbrella sings 'When the Rain is Falling Down' and mimes the opening and closing of an umbrella, inviting participation. They sing and mime the 'Wheels of a Bus'.
1973
Aka ep#313 Jan and John look at the various pairs of Play School pets. Jan does the finger play 'Five Fat Mice'. John and Jan make mouse, rabbit, and elephant ears out of cardboard and mime the actions of these animals. It is nine o'clock on the clock. The story is 'Noah's Ark'. John sings participation song 'Animal Fair'. Cut out felt animals are pinned on the felt board and Jan invites children to help find the pair to each animal. Through the windows is a safari expedition (emphasis on 'finding' the animals'). John builds a four-wheel-drive out of blocks and he and Jan go on a safari expedition looking for very wild animals (the toys).
1973
Aka ep#314 Jan and John make the sounds of thunder (voices, feet, wobble-board) and rain (peas in box, tapping fingers on shoe box lid, rustling tissue paper). Jan sings 'I Hear Thunder'. They make paper boats out of paper bags. Through the windows there are paper boats. Jan builds an Ark out of blocks and sings 'The Animals Went in Two by Two'. John counts up to ten on fingers and sings 'This Old Man'. Jan continues the counting theme with an illustrated poem. It is half past two on the clock. The story is about a little boy and his two favourite toys. Jan sings 'Lets All Clap Together' with coughing and sneezing. Jemima has a cold. Jan and John sing and mime 'Miss Polly Had a Dolly'. Jan wraps Jemima up and sits her in front of the toys' TV set and we see a short animation of 'Dr. Foster'. John sings and mimes 'Dr Foster' then he and Jan sing 'Rub-a-dub-dub' and 'Humpty Dumpty' with the toys, inviting participation.
1973
Aka ep#315 Jan and John H experiment with containers to discover which are full and which are empty by listening to the different sounds they make when tapped. 'The Animals went in Two by Two' is sung. Jan sings 'Daddy Longlegs' with actions. John H and Jan then mime and sing 'Little Miss Muffet'. John W sings 'Old Mother Hubbard' with Jan over a film on the toys' TV set. It is one o'clock on the clock. John W tells the story of 'The Old Man's Mitten' following it with the song 'Mole in a Hole' with guitar accompaniment. John H and Jan play a 'find-the-toys' game. The toys are hidden in various holes. Jan finds Diddle the cat, draws attention to his whiskers and sings a 'sniffing' song. Through the windows there are noses and whiskers. John H makes a sock cat with rubber bands and pipe cleaners. He and Jan do the finger-play 'Five Fat Mice', with John W on guitar.
1973
94.1 ep#316 Alister makes an outline of Jan. He draws the mouth with a crayon. From the Useful Box comes buttons for eyes, wool for hair, and a box for a nose. Scraps of material and paper are used to make a patchwork skirt. Jan sings 'Put Your Finger on Your Nose', then 'mouth', 'hair', 'fingers' and 'near the eyes'. With eyes closed, Jan identifies a number of objects by feeling, identifying such elements as rough and smooth, hard and soft, hot and cold, and identifying shapes. It is four o'clock on the clock. The story is 'Fifteen Bathtubs' by Margaret Wise Brown. Alister mimes washing face, hair, teeth, arms and feet as he sings 'This is the Way We Wash Our...'. Through the windows a little boy feels different things with his foot. Jan plays the singing game 'Mr Funnyfeet'. A foot painting is done.
1973
Ep#317 Jan and Alister make a pair of glasses for their outline figure. Alister sings 'These are Grandma's Spectacles'. A pair of goggles are made for Big Ted from an egg carton and string because they are going to ride on a motorbike. Alister and Jan don crash helmets, goggles, leather jackets and scarves to ride their 'bikes' of block, garbage tin lid 'wheels' and coat-hanger 'handlebars'. They sing 'Take You Riding'. Jan explains the value of goggles when bike riding. It is three o'clock on the clock. The story is 'New at the Zoo' by Peter Lippman, in which the problem is to get a newly acquired animal to close its eyes and go to sleep. Jan is blindfolded and plays 'Blind Man's Bluff'. She catches Alister by locating him by sound. Through the windows there is a seeing-eye dog being trained then walking with his new master. The shapes of the windows are used for the game 'See My Fingers'. A game of 'I Spy' is played with verbal descriptions instead of alphabetical hints.
1973
Aka ep#318 Jan and Alister feed the pets. There is a goat visiting Play School. The goat has rather 'strange' tastes. Through the windows a variety of animals are shown using their sense of taste. Jan sings 'Three Jellyfish', with words referring to good and bad taste. The presenters play an identification-by-taste game. It is three o'clock on the clock. The story is 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' by Judith Kerr. Alister sings and mimes the tiger and Jan sings and mimes nursery rhymes inviting the viewer to join in. They look at the visiting goat, who is still eating.
1973
Aka ep#319 Jan and Alister give the outline drawing a new nose and Alister dramatises a few fun limericks in the process. Jan plays an identification game with still photographs. She sings 'If You're Happy and You Know It'. Both play an identification-by-smell game, and sing a sniffing song. It is four o'clock on the clock. The story is about animals sniffing. Jan and Alister sing 'I Went To Visit a Farm, One Day'. Through the windows there are animals using their sense of smell.
1973
Aka ep#320 Alister plays the glockenspiel with low notes and high notes; up and down the scales, fast and slow, loud and soft are all experienced. The song 'Up and Down' is sung. A cake tin lid and rubber bands make a guitar; two flat saucepan lids are cymbals; plastic bottles filled with rice are shook and a real drum are the instruments for a band. It is four o'clock on the clock. The story is told with actions. It is called 'Mr Sleepalot Won't Wake Up'. Loud and soft noises are further developed in the song 'I Like Peace, I Like Quiet'. A sound game is played by identifying sounds on a tape recording. Through the windows John is on a listening excursion. Ears and earrings are added to 'Funnyface' before singing the song of the week.
1973
Aka 95.1 ep#321 Benita and John find milk bottle tops in the Useful Box. Benita makes a milk bottle top tambourine, sings 'My Tambourine'. John accompanies her with a real tambourine then both make some high buildings with blocks, tins and cereal packets as they sing the song of the week 'Build it Up'. They dramatise the rescue of two people from the top of a building by firemen (peg figures) who raise a ladder. Through the windows a ladder is being made. Benita makes the toys climb a step-ladder and sings 'Humpty Climbed the Ladder'. The story is 'The Grand Old Duke of York'. Benita marches her fingers up and down her head as John plays the drum. She lifts her arms up and down as he blows a whistle. They build a tower with cushions.
1973
Aka ep#322 Benita and John find a pile of shoe boxes. They build them as high as they can as they sing 'Build it Up'. Benita opens all the boxes, looking for shoes. She finds them and other items which she uses to dress up as Miss Gloria Grand who goes to a ball. They listen to waltz music (From 'The Sleeping Beauty') and sway in time to the music. Then strong working music ('Anvil Chorus') for rhythmic hammering, and accelerating 'monster' music ('Hall of the Mountain King') for big stepping and arm-flinging during which John dresses up in sheet, carrier bag and shoe boxes as a Monster. The story is 'The Musical Gloves' which mysteriously make the sounds of a tambourine, castanets and cymbals as he drives. He exchanges them for a car radio. They play the three instruments and sing 'Oh We Can Play'. Through the windows children are washing, dusting and polishing a car. The presenters sing, then listen to some music on the shoe box car radio.
1973
Aka ep#323 Benita and John clap the syllables of their names, the names of the toys and the words of 'Build it Up', and the name of the day. The visitor is a cockatoo. They examine its crest and feet and how it walks on its perch and on John's arm. Through the windows there are flamingos. John mimes, and sings 'Standing On One Leg'. The story is about a little girl who can't sit still. Benita and John play musical statues and sing 'You Can Stamp Your Feet'. Through another window there are flamingos, owl, fowls, lyrebird and kookaburra. Benita and John sing 'Let's All Laugh Together', inviting participation on kookaburra laughs, then they sing and clap 'Hello Cocky', a song for the cocky.
1973
Aka ep#324 Benita builds a picture of a house and skyscraper on the feltboard, using the shapes of oblongs, squares and triangles, while John sings 'Build it Up'. He uses the same shapes on the floor to make pictures of a boat and robot, then uses circles of thick wool to make pictures of a face and fish. Benita plays a game of musical shapes in the air: circles, oblongs, triangles and squares. The story is about a circle who couldn't make up its mind about what it wanted to be. Both presenters mime and sing about the actions to be observed on a double-decker bus. John and Benita mime and play the tambourine and triangle while they sing 'Oh We Can Play', then use the triangle as a hill for a recitation with walking fingers of 'Jack and Jill'. Through the windows a house is being built. John sings 'Building Up My House', miming laying bricks, woods awing and hammering nails. They pull down the shapes from the feltboard to sing a variation on the 'Build it Up'.
1973
Aka ep#325 Benita raises and lowers her arms as John blows up and down on his whistle. Then Benita 'builds up' John as she sings 'Build it Up'. They play a guessing game about the name of today. Both present themselves as labourers on a building site and dig a hole in the ground using mock tools: a spade, a pick and a pneumatic drill, as they sing 'The Hole In The Ground'. They look through the ROUND WINDOWS to see film of a building site which features a mechanical scoop, a cement mixer, bricklaying, and a pneumatic drill. Benita sings a drilling song with hand actions. The story is 'I Want To Go On a Bear Hunt', told with hand actions. Benita is dressed in a rug as a bear. She takes Big Ted on a bear hunt, singing 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and discovers the other Play School toys. They look at some pictures, in each of which there is one thing that doesn't belong with the others, and sing 'What Do You See Here?'. John plays three of the musical instruments seen during the week: tambourine, drum and cymbals. Both sing 'Build It Up' for the last time.
1973
Aka 96.1 ep#326 Lorraine and John use matchboxes to make a train. Other boxes from the Useful Box are used for signals, a station and larger engines for a story. Through the windows a family is travelling on an electric train and there are a variety of different types of trains and rolling stock. The song of the week 'Fast and Slow' is sung. This participation song is used with various actions through the week, with building blocks as the railway lines and figures made of peapods. The matchbox train is tested. John sing 'This Old Man'. It is six o'clock on the clock. The story is 'The Little Coal Truck' told with the box trains and corrugated paper lines. Large blocks are used to make a mountain for the 'Bear Went over the Mountain'. Lorraine draws the transport vehicles for the song 'I'd Like to Drive a Big Blue Bus'.
1973
Aka ep#327 Lorraine and John bounce a ball and sing the 'Fast and Slow' song. Through the windows are a large variety of ships. Lorraine sings 'Here is the Sea'. Their dress up game centres around the building of various types of boats with large blocks and a few simple extras. 'Boats' is sung with fishing gear for the rowboat, an egg-beater engine for the motor boat and for the ocean liner, the captain has his cap, and passenger has her hat and dark glasses. The clock says six o'clock. The story is told with finger puppets. John sings 'A Sailor Went to Sea' with verses for head, shoulders and tummy. At the felt board, Lorraine builds up a sea scape, asking where the various items belong - sea, or air.
1973
Aka ep#328 Lorraine and John are preparing the visiting animal's food. John gives a clue to its identity in mime - an elephant. Abu is from Ashton's Circus. John and Lorraine look at her and feed her. Her trainer gets her to show some simple tricks. Through the windows various animals are shown working for humans, including horses, donkeys, elephants and camels. Dapple with cushion hump is a camel for Humpty to ride. 'Donkey Riding' is sung. Dapple is moved fast and slow, leading to the week's action song. It is six o'clock on the clock. The story is 'Four to Get Ready' by Florence Laughlin, and follows through the speed theme of the week. 'Fast and Slow' is sung. With an extra pair of shoes, a mop, a blanket and head made with a cereal pack, John plays the donkey for the toys to ride.
1973
Aka ep#329 Lorraine and John pin children's transport pictures on the picture-board. 'Fast and Slow' is sung. Through the windows we see roadmaking and vehicles using the roads. Lorraine sings 'I'd Like to Drive a Big Blue Bus'. A bus is built with cardboard cartons and, with the toys as passengers, John drives the 'bus' and Lorraine is conductress. 'Round and Round' is an action song sung with the 'bus'. It is six o'clock on the clock. The story is 'Clanky the Mechanical Boy' by Kenneth Mahood, about a robot and a car factory. Lorraine designs a cardboard carton car with wings and cutouts to decorate it, then with John working some traffic signals they introduce the rules of the road with traffic lights.
1973
Aka ep#330 The pictures on the noticeboard are changed so that they recap the points of the week through the children's pictures. Lorraine sings 'I'd like to Drive a Big Blue Bus'. Having blown up a balloon, an attempt is made to keep it flying in the air by blowing. Through the windows there are flying animals, and rockets, jets, propeller driven planes, birds and insects. Lorraine moves her hands like a butterfly then sings 'Little Peter Rabbit'. John mimes a helicopter and sings 'Zoom Zoom'. It is six o'clock on the clock. The story is told with the toys and a cardboard box rocket. 'Astronaut Song' is sung. Lorraine mimes a space-walk with the typical slow movements. 'Fast and Slow' is sung and completes the week on speed and transport.
1973
Aka 97.1 ep#331 Jan and John make a milk bottle top tinkler from a small paper plate, lengths of wool and milk bottle tops. All items come from the Useful Box. The poem of the week 'Wind' is recited and is accompanied by footage of 'windy' situations. John experiments with making the sound of the wind with his voice. Jan sings 'In The Windy Weather' with actions. John makes more wind noises on a kazoo made from the inside of a lunchwrap roll, tissue paper and rubber band. Jan plays nursery rhymes on the recorder asking John and the viewer to identify them. It is eleven o'clock on the clock. The story of 'Mr Crabby Cross' is acted out. Jan sings 'Follow Me to Stamping Land' with actions. John enters blowing the bagpipes. Through the windows there are a variety of bands with differing musical instruments. John and Jan dress up as members of a pop band and mime to a record, singing 'Rock around the Clock'.
1973
Aka ep#332 Jan and John blow the Tinkler they made on Monday and sing 'In the Windy Windy Weather'. Both make kites from pieces of paper and string. John extends this by miming a kite action with his hand. It is half past twelve on the clock. The story is 'Zozo Flies a Kite' by Margret Rey. John sings 'Jimmy Monkey'. Jan says a poem with a peg doll dressed as a parachutist. The peg has strings and a piece of light plastic attached to form the parachute. Through the windows there are parachutists. John and Jan dress up in real parachutist gear, and go parachuting in a block plane. pull the ripcords, and the parachutes comes out.
1973
Aka ep#333 The visiting pet is a cockatoo. Attention is given to his wings and how he flies. John mimes little birds flying and big birds flying then sings 'Jump' with slow and quick flapping for participation. Jan makes a bird from corks, matchsticks and feathers. She sings 'Zoom'. It is two o'clock on the clock. The story is 'Who Took the Farmer's Hat?' by Joan L Nodset. Jan sings 'Over in the Meadow' and shows a real bird's nest, then proceeds to make one out of twigs, leaves, feathers, etc. Through the windows there is a bird in flight. Jan sings 'Who Has Seen the Wind?'. The poem 'Wind' is recited. A feather is used for a blowing game needing control of breath. Both sing 'Lets all Clap Together'.
1973
Aka ep#334 Jan and John W listen to the sound a wind machine creates then John draws a free expression painting to the different sounds of the wind machine. The poem 'Wind' is recited. John W mimes washing hanging on a line and sings a song about it. Jan dresses Jemima as a scarecrow and sings 'When All the Cows are Sleeping'. It is three o'clock on the clock. The story is 'The Scarecrow and the Dandelion'. Through the windows John H is with a group of children flying kites. John W washes his hair by blowing it with a hair-dryer.
1973
Aka ep#335 A leaf mobile is made from leaves and string suspended from a coathanger. The concept of balance is introduced. 'Wind' is recited. Jan floats leaves on water and John sails a boat made from a matchbox, pop stick, stick and leaf. Both sing 'Two Little Boats'. Through the windows John H and children are sailing model boats. Jan does a finger play 'Five Little Ships'. John W makes a picture by blowing paint through a straw. He extends Jan's blowing up of a balloon into a mime segment. It is half past ten on the clock. The story is 'Gilberto and the Wind' by Marie Hall Ets, which sums up all the wind activities of the week. John W does a tree collage. Both sing with actions 'Trees'.
1973
Aka 98.1 ep#336 Benita and John thread together some bits and pieces from the Useful Box: paper cups, cotton reels, cardboard cylinders, matchboxes, etc, to make a mobile. They make a necklace with macaroni and bottle tops, and an ear ring with bottle tops and pipe cleaners. The picture of the week is: animated building blocks which build up and fall down. Benita puts on her make up and sings 'Put Your Finger On Your Nose' (then lips, cheek and fingers). The story is 'A Big Ball of String' by Marion Holland. John mimes a balloon inflating and deflating. They draw faces on balloons, happy and sad, and sing a 'Smiling and Crying' song. A simple flipbook with faces is made. Through the windows there are children at a string puppet show. They present a cotton reel puppet and string puppet. Benita mimes a puppet and John pretends to pull the strings.
1973
Aka ep#337 The toys are dressed up for an observation and memory game. John H pretends to be Mr. Fish who lives in the river: he is repeatedly asked, 'Mr. Fish, Mr. Fish, who can come over the river?' and he allows someone wearing a nominated article of clothing to cross. John W builds a tower of blocks and sings 'Build It Up'. John mimes a building going up then collapsing. Benita sings a cumulative action song, 'Let Everyone Join In The Game'. It is four o'clock on the clock. The story is about a new striped shirt, enacted by the three presenters. Old clothes from the story are used for a nonsense dress-up activity. Through the windows we see the work of the Smith Family, a charity organisation in NSW which collects, sorts and distributes used clothing. Benita makes a simple dress for Jemima out of an old shirt and sings 'Mary Wore a Red Dress'. They make up verses to suit what they and the toys are wearing.
1973
Aka ep#338 Benita and John look at the housing and living space of the mice, budgies, goldfish and guineapigs. John constructs a henrun, the wire fence to keep them safe and stop them running away. They feed the visitors, a hen and chicks and say the poem 'Said the First Little Chicken', then sing 'Old Macdonald'. Participation is invited on animal noises. The story is 'The Lost Puppy', about a dog who gets out of his yard when a gate is left open. John sings 'Five Little Puppydogs', a fingerplay. Benita looks at pictures, trying to find some hidden animals. John hides Henrietta the white mouse. Through the windows there is a variety of fences and how they stop animals from getting in or out. Benita sings 'Little Bo Peep' with Jemima and Sam the Lamb, 'Little Boy Blue' and 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'. They collect the chicks.
1973
Aka ep#339 Benita and John sing a name song, 'What Do You Think My Name Is?' which involves toys and viewer. John topples a pile of matchboxes, then sticks then on his collage which gradually takes the form of a house when he adds pop sticks. Benita sings 'Build the House Up Very High', first with hand actions, followed by a mime. John pretends to consider buying the 'brick' Benitahouse. The story is about building three houses and making a junk sculpture: a cow. They present a silly verse about mooing and chewing, then look at pictures of other junk sculpture. John makes a tower of boxes which collapses. Through the windows we see the demolition of various buildings. The presenters play skittles with newspaper balls and cardboard cylinders.
1973
Aka ep#340 John is hiding behind an old door, and Benita asks him to come out. They use the old door raised at one end to find out how well various things will roll down. They build a billycart with wheels and axles from an old pram, a length of timber and a box. Benita sings an action song, 'Johnny Works With One Hammer' then, with the toys aboard, rides down the slope of the old door. It is eight o'clock on the flower clock with a bus on a road, underneath. The story is 'The Bold Bad Bus' by Wilma Horsbrugh. An action song incorporates the main feature of the story (Wheels going round, people bouncing up and down, babies crying). They draw pictures of faces expressing different moods. Benita draws Jemima, then cuts up the picture to make a simple jigsaw puzzle. Through the arched window there is a car assembly line, cars on the road and the crushing of old cars. Benita and John assemble tyres, blocks and a cable reel into a car and sing 'Riding In My Car', before the car falls apart.