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Babies The arrival of a baby is a new beginning for every family, bringing lots of joy and change to all. This week in Play School, we learn about babies and their growing stages through songs, stories, films and creative play. We also look at ways to involve young children with their new brother or sister to avoid feelings of displacement and encourage them to feel proud of being “big” and their capabilities. Throughout the week, we feature a special series of baby films that look at different aspects of a baby’s daily routine, such as sleeping, playing, eating and bathing. Episode 1 PRESENTERS Jay Laga’aia - Leah Vandenberg PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY The Red Woollen Blanket, Bob Graham, Walker Books 1988 FILM Families Playing at the Park (Play School, ABC) BABY FILM SERIES Babies Sleeping (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER Have a look at your baby pictures. What did you like to do as a baby? Make a growth chart for a baby. Record their height as they get older. Have a Picnic with Your Toys. Pretend your toys are babies and have a pretend picnic in the backyard or a local park. Babies like to eat mashed up banana, drink water and play ball. Rock your toy baby to sleep and sing a lullaby. SONGS Peek-a-boo Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Cuddle Up Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage Publisher: Origin/ Control Doin’ It Composers: Peter Dasent & Arthur Baysting Publisher: Origin Come on And... Composer: Louie Suthers Everybody Do This Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing MAKE AND DO How to Make a Craft Cradle for a Toy Baby You will need: - A medium sized box - Tape - Cardboard Safety scissors - Two pool noodles - A stapler - A pillow - A toy - A blanket Tape the bottom of a medium sized box closed. Leave the top of the box open, either by folding in the sides or removing them with safety scissors. Cut four strips of cardboard, each about 6cm wide and long enough to fit around the end of a pool noodle with a little bit of overlap. Fit one strip of cardboard around the end of a pool noodle and staple the ends together to create a circle. Once fitted and stapled, remove the cardboard circle from the noodle. Repeat this process with the three remaining cardboard strips. Turn the cardboard box upside-down and tape a cardboard circle near each corner, on the long sides of the box, as pictured. Bend one pool noodle and push either end into a cardboard circle to keep it in place. Repeat this process with the other noodle. The noodles will make the box rock like a cradle. Put a pillow and a toy in your cradle. Cover the toy up with a blanket. You can make a smaller craft cradle using a shoe box and two curved wooden coat hangers, with the hooks removed. Tape the coat hangers to the bottom of the shoe box to make it rock. How to Make a Dangly Garden Mobile Make a mobile for a pram or stroller using a coat hanger, ribbons, clothes pegs and home- made decorations, such as those described below. Simply tape a peg to each end of a piece of ribbon. Use one peg to clip the ribbon to the coat hanger, and the other to attach your decoration to the ribbon. Make as many decorations as you like! You will need: - A coat hanger - Lengths of ribbon, each 30cm-40cm long - Clothes pegs - A ball of wool - A small pompom - Pipe cleaners - Safety scissors - Craft feathers - A pair of orange and black stripy baby socks - Coloured paper - A length of thick rope, about 60cm long - Cellophane  A Bird Decoration Use a ball of wool as the body of your bird. Tape on two craft feather wings and a small pompom head. Cut a pipe cleaner in half, bend it into a triangle beak shape and tape to the pompom head. A Bee Decoration Roll up one baby sock and push it to the bottom of the other baby sock. Twist a pipe cleaner around the sock, securing the rolled up sock at one end. This will be the head of your bee. Bend the pipe cleaner to look like two antennae. Tear a pair of wings from coloured paper and tape to your bee, just behind its antennae. A Snail Decoration Curl a length of thick rope into a spiral and tape to secure. Twist a pipe cleaner around one end of the rope – the end on the outside of the spiral. Bend the pipe cleaner to make two antennae. A Butterfly Decoration Twist a square of cellophane in the middle to make two butterfly wings. Hold two pipe cleaners together and twist them around the middle of the cellophane to secure the wings. There should be left over lengths of both pipe cleaners poking out at either end of the cellophane wings. Bend the two pipe cleaners at one end apart to create antennae, twist the two pipe cleaners at the other end together to make a body for your butterfly.