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Paper

Paper is an accessible and versatile material with endless possibilities for imaginative play

and creativity. Young children enjoy paper art and craft activities such as collage, painting,

drawing, folding and cutting. They also enjoy using paper to play games, such as pass-the-

parcel, and to make dress ups, such as elephant ears, pirate hats, party hats and horse tails.

This week in Play School we use paper to make a cubby house for the toys, a kite, paintings,

paper chains, paper hats, a newspaper, cards and much more! We also make our own

paper to demonstrate the importance and practice of recycling this valuable resource.

Each day this week we ask you to imagine, what “If All the World Were Paper”? This question

is posed in the song sung every day at the Paper Calendar.

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Monday

PRESENTERS

Justine Clarke – Alex Papps

PIANIST

Franky Valentyn

STORY

P. B Bear Fly Away Kite

Author & Illustrator: Lee Davis

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited, London

FILM

Dress for a Mess

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Make some paper hats to wear.

Have a paper aeroplane race with a friend

or family member.

Invite your friends over for a painting party.

Make a kite from a painting.

SONGS

Our House

Composers: Carl Smyth & Chris Foreman

Move Over and Make Room

Composer: Traditional

Publisher: ABC Music Publishing

If All the World Were Paper

Composers: J. Whitfield & P. Reade


Watermelon

Composers: Peter Dasent & Arthur Basting

Publisher: Origin/Control

Knees Up Mother Brown

Composer: Harris Weston & Bert Lee

Publisher: Albert Music

Let’s Go Fly a Kite

Composer: Richard M. Sherman & Robert B.

Sherman

Publisher: Walt Disney Music

Friends All Together

Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage

Publisher: Control/Origin

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MAKE AND DO

How to Make a Golf Ball Painting

You will need:

Plain paper

A plastic tray

Different coloured paint

Golf balls

A spoon

Place a piece of paper in the plastic tray.

Spoon different coloured paint on the piece of paper.

Put two golf balls in the plastic tray. Rock the tray back and forth, rolling the golf balls all over

the paper.

Take out the golf balls and look at the colourful patterns you have created. Some colours

may have mixed and made new colours.

Try experimenting with different colours.

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Tuesday

PRESENTERS

Karen Pang – Jay Laga’aia

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

TOLD STORY

There was a Princess

(A story told by the Play School Team)

FILM

Whales at Sea

(Play School, ABC)

ANIMATION

Incy Wincy Spider

IDEAS FOR LATER

Make an aquarium diorama in a recycled

cardboard box. Paint the inside of the box

blue, like the sea. Hang sea creatures from

the top of the box so they dangle down.

What can you add for the ocean floor?

Make a newspaper horse tail and go for a

gallop.

SONGS

Making a Hat

Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage


I Like Swimming

Composers: Phil Barton, Ben O’Hara & Kristy

Gentz

Publisher: ABC Music Publishing/Larrikin

Incy Wincy Spider

Composers: Traditional

Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing




There Was A Princess Long Ago



Giddiap Horsey

Composers: L. Scott & L. Wood

Publisher: Harrup Publishing

Let’s Dress Up

Composers: Peter Dasent & Garth Frost


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MAKE AND DO

How to Make an Ice Block Boat

You will need:

Coloured paper

Safety scissors

A straw

Tape

Tac

A rectangle takeaway container

Vegetable dye

A jug of water

A tray

A full bath, water trough or a large bowl

of water

Cut a triangle from a piece of coloured paper.

Tape it to a straw to make a mast for your ice

block boat.

Secure the mast to the inside of the takeaway

container with tac. Make sure the mast stands

up straight.

Add a few drops of vegetable dye to the jug

of water.

Fill the takeaway container with the coloured

water.

Put the takeaway container on a tray and

place it in the freezer.

When the water has frozen, the mast will be

suspended in ice and you will have an ice

block boat!

Remove the ice block boat from the container

and float it in a full bath, water trough or a

large bowl of water. What happens to the

boat?

How to Make an Ice Cube Painting

You will need:

Ice cubes made with different coloured

vegetable dye and water

Plain paper

Select one ice cube and move it across a

piece of paper. As the ice block melts, it will

make a colourful pattern.

Try using different coloured ice cubes!

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Wednesday

PRESENTERS

Andrew McFarlane – Justine Clarke

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

STORY

Hamilton’s Hats

Author: Martine Osborne

Illustrator: Axel Scheffler

Publisher: MacMillan Children’s Books

FILM

Children Digging at the Museum

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Make some floppy elephant ears from

newspaper and stick them to a headband.

Make an elephant tail from newspaper and

stick it to a piece of elastic. Put on your

elephant costume and try balancing “step

by step on a piece of string” stretched out

on the floor.

Play a game of “Find the Treasure”. Hide

something in your house or garden and

send a friend or family member on a

mission to find it. Give them verbal clues to

help them on their way: tell them they are

“cold” if they are a long way away from

the treasure, “warm” if they are getting

close or “hot” if they have almost found it!

SONGS




Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear



One Grey Elephant Balancing



Making a Hat

Composers: Sophie Emtage & Peter Dasent


Friends All Together

Composers: Sophie Emtage & Peter Dasent


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MAKE AND DO

How to Make a Teddy Bear Paper Chain

You will need:

A3 coloured paper

A marker or pencil

Safety scissors

Fold a piece of A3 coloured paper in half three

times.

Draw the outline of a teddy bear on the folded

paper, with the arms and legs pointing

outwards and reaching the edges.

Cut around the teddy bear with scissors, being

careful to avoid the edges where the teddy’s

arms and legs meet the paper.

Open up the folded paper to reveal lots of

teddy bears holding hands! Draw a face on

each teddy and paste on some paper clothes.

How to Play “Musical Dig”

You will need:

Buckets

An object to bury in each bucket, such

as a ball, a toy dinosaur, a toy car and

a necklace

Shredded or scrunched newspaper

Music

Place one object in each bucket and cover

with newspaper.

Mix up the buckets until you can’t remember

which bucket holds which object. Place the

buckets in a row, leaving enough space for

you to move around each one.

Ask a friend or family member to play some

music. When it starts, dance and skip around

each bucket. When the music stops, find the

nearest bucket and dig to find what surprise is

hidden inside!

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Thursday

PRESENTERS

Alex Papps – Justine Clarke

PIANIST

Franky Valentyn

STORY

Animals Aboard!

Author: Andrew Fusek Peters

Illustrator: Jim Coplestone

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited, London

FILM

Robin Skiing

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Scrunch up newspaper and make a

meteor storm or play newspaper basket

ball.

Take a trip to the snow and build a real

snowman or make a ‘snowman’ from lots

of foam and bubbles in the bath.

Make a newspaper roll cubby and hang

things from it such as stars, a moon or any

dangly decoration you wish.

SONGS

Humpty Dumpty



Sally Go Round the Stars



Come to the Party

Composer: George Dewey

Publisher: A & C Black

Silly Sausage Dance

Composers: Vanessa & Karina Johnston

Publisher: Jingle Jam


Composers: J Whitfield & P Reade


Down to the Bottom

Composers: Chris Harriott & Simon Hopkinson

Publisher: ABC Music Publishing/Music Sales

Bananas in Pyjamas

Composer: Carey Blyton


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MAKE AND DO

How to Make Your Own Newspaper

You will need:

An old newspaper

Coloured paper

Coloured markers, crayons and

pencils

Old magazines

Safety scissors

Paste

Make a newspaper that tells your own news!

Decide what stories you would like your

newspaper to tell. Use coloured markers,

crayons and pencils to draw, write or

illustrate these stories on pieces of coloured

paper. You might also like to use photos or

pictures from old magazines.

Paste your drawings, stories and magazine

cut-outs into an old newspaper. You might

like to make different sections in your

newspaper, for example you could stick

images of bicycles, soccer balls and people

running and exercising in a sports section.

How to Play a Pass-the-Parcel Dress Up

Game

You will need:

Different dress ups made from paper,

such as a bow tie, hula skirt, pirate

hat, party hat and a pair of elephant

ears and an elephant tail

Lots of newspaper or wrapping paper

Tape

Wrap one or two dress up items in paper and

tape.

Add another layer by putting in more dress

ups and wrapping them with paper. Keep

wrapping and adding dress ups until you

have a few layers.

Sit in a circle with your friends, turn on some

music and start to “pass-the-parcel.”

When the music stops, the person with the

parcel gets to take off the top layer and put

on the paper dress ups inside.

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Friday

PRESENTERS

Jay Laga’aia – Karen Pang

PIANIST

Holly Bury

TOLD STORY

Will I Ever Get My House Painted?

(A story told by the Play School team)

FILM

Children Playing in a Park

(Play School, ABC)

ANIMATION

Jump and Jiggle

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Make a pom-pom spider. Attach a piece

of elastic so your spider can bounce

around. Sing “Incy Wincy Spider”.

Make some birthday cards for your friends.

Make a pretend pirate ship with a

cardboard box, a broom for a mast and a

sheet or pillow case for a sail.

SONGS




Incy Wincy Spider

Composers: M Miller & P Zajan


I Like Swimming

Composers: Phil Barton, Ben O’Hara & Kristy

Gentz

Publisher: ABC Music Publishing/Larrikin

Nicky, Nacky, Knocky, Noo



It’s My Birthday Today

Composer: Peter Dasent & Arthur Baysting


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MAKE AND DO

How to Make Recycled Paper

You will need:

Used paper such as scrap paper, wrapping paper, old newspaper and tissue paper

Two large bowls or buckets

Water

A blender

A kitchen cloth

Newspaper

A rolling pin

Vegetable dye (optional)

Tear used paper into small pieces and place in a large bowl or bucket. Cover the torn paper

with warm water and set aside to soak for about 30 minutes.

Pour some of the soaked paper into the blender and cover with more water. Blend until the

paper turns into a sloppy pulp. If you want to make coloured paper, add a few drops of

vegetable dye before blending.

Place a newspaper on your workspace and cover it with a kitchen cloth.

Scoop up some of the pulp with your hands, squeeze out the excess water and place it on

top of the kitchen cloth. Press the pulp out flat with your fingers.

Fold the kitchen cloth over so it covers the pulp. Roll over the kitchen cloth with a rolling pin

to flatten out the pulp and squeeze out more water. The newspaper underneath the cloth

will soak up the excess water.

Peel back the kitchen cloth and leave your paper in the sun or in a dry place until dry.

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How to Make a Climbing Spider

You will need:

Cardboard

Coloured crayons or markers

String

Straws

Safety scissors

Tape

String or wool

Draw a spider on a piece of cardboard and decorate using coloured crayons or markers.

Cut out.

Cut two lengths of straw, about 2cm each. Tape the two pieces of straw to the back of your

spider.

Cut a 1 metre length of string or wool.

Fold the string or wool in half and tape the middle to a table or a doorway.

Thread each end of the string or wool through the straws on the back of your spider.

If you hold one end of the wool or string in each hand and pull, one hand at a time, the

spider will climb up!

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