Series 277: My Favourite Things
Episode 1
My Favourite Things
Young children are curious about the world and enjoy exploring new objects and places. They also find security and pleasure through revisiting and reconnecting with familiar people, places and things. In this series of Play School we focus on ‘favourite things’ – special objects and collections as well as special relationships, pets, and places and favourite things to do. The concept of ‘favourite things’ is explored through singing, moving, pretending, making and creating, looking at books and listening to stories. Children and families are also encouraged to remember their own special times, places and people as the Play School presenters share experiences and memories. In each episode we sing ‘My Favourite Things’ and place something special on the Play School treasure shelf.
PRESENTERS
Alex Papps – Emma Palmer
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
STORY
The Runaway Hug
Author: Nick Bland
Illustrator: Freya Blackwood Publisher: Scholastic Australia
FILM
Art Class
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
- Visit a garden in the early morning or evening and see if you can find a snail out for a slippery, sliding walk. If you gently place the snail on black cardboard you will see the silvery trail that is left behind.
- Make a book of patterns! Staple a few pieces of blank paper together and create a page each for spots, stripes and zigzags. Then make a mixed up pattern page with spots, stripes and zigzags all together.

SONGS
Off to the Library
Composers: Peter Dasent & Arthur Baysting
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
Making a Hat
Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage
Publisher: Origin/Control
Spots are Great
Composers: Peter Dasent & Mark Barnard
Publisher: Origin/Control
My Favourite Things
Composers: Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers
Publisher: Imagen
It’s So Nice to Have A Cuddle
Composer: Sandy Tobias-Offenheim
Publisher: ABC Musi
