Play School (1966)
Mini Beasts (3)
TV-G
S286 • E3 Jul 3, 2013 25mSeries 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
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
