Episode 12 Green Balloon Club

# Gather round one and all

# You've gotta answer the call

# Listen now, look around you

# There's a magical world

# To explore

# There's a nature adventure

# Coming your way soon

# So come and join us

# In this green balloon

# And when we fly

-# We're higher than the moon... #

-Moo!

# ..So join us

# A-a-a-all

# In our green balloo-oo-oon. #

I spy a Green Balloon Club member.

Hello! Come on in.

ALL: Hello!

Welcome to the Green Balloon Club.

You're probably wondering why we're dressed up.

Today is senses day on the Green Balloon Club.

Do you know what our senses are?

It's how we experience the world - through seeing, hearing,

tasting, smelling, and touching.

The Green Team are all dressed as a different sense.

Can you guess which is which?

Is everyone here?

-Lily-Rose?

-I can smell that I'm here.

Ah! I see. Lily-Rose is smelling,

using her big beautiful nose.

And how about Ant?

I can feel that I'm here.

Oh, good. So, Ant is feeling, using his big, ginormous hands.

-And what about Cat?

-I can see that I'm here

Cat's seeing. Did you guess that? And Skipper?

Skipper can hear that she's here.

Oh, Skipper's hearing. Well done, Skipper.

And how about Jay?

I can taste that I'm here.

-TOOT! TOOT!

-Ha-ha!

I think that's enough tasting, thanks, Jay.

How about YOU? Which sense would you choose to be?

Smelling...

touching...

seeing...

hearing...or tasting?

-TOOT! TOOT!

-Hee-hee!

I think it's time we did the Green Balloon Club chant.

ALL: Yeah!

DRUMS BEAT

# We love animals, plants and birds

# We love snails and slugs

# Large and small, we love them all

# And we never ever step on bugs

# Cos we are the Green Balloon Club. #

Let's get our senses on alert and see what we can find out.

Skipper can hear something down below. Perhaps I should go and see.

-Or perhaps I should go and taste.

-TOOT! TOOT!

No, this one's definitely for Cat's eyes.

Thank you very much, Jay.

Skipper was right.

-I spy some Green Balloon Club members.

-Who is it?

-It's Toby, Molly and Oliver.

-Hello!

Hello!

Hello!

Welcome to our very special garden.

You can see it...

hear it...

sniff it...

-eat it...

-and touch it.

It's called the senses garden because seeing, eating, hearing,

smelling and touching are all our senses.

We helped design and build it.

It's in the shape of a flower.

Each petal of the flower has plants in it,

which you can use a different sense to enjoy.

This one has lots of colourful flowers for us to see.

I really like this yellow sunflower.

-The next petal has plants for us to listen to.

-Ssh!

Can you hear the grass rustling?

It sounds like, shhwoo-shhwoo.

I like this petal in our garden best.

You can taste all the special plants here.

-We've planted mint...

-I don't like it.

-I do.

..chives...and parsley.

Remember, you shouldn't eat garden plants

unless a grown-up says it's safe.

Mm! Something smells lovely.

That's a petal with lots of sweet-smelling flowers in it.

Mm. This is the lemongrass, my favourite.

We need our hands for this part of the garden.

Here, there are lots of plants

that feel interesting to touch.

This is a conifer.

These are lamb's ears.

They feel really fluffy.

Thanks for visiting our senses garden.

Bye!

I love that garden. I always love flowers because they smell so nice.

But it was also great because it had all the senses in.

-Ant, what's this you've got here?

-It's a senses game.

You spread out all the pictures and pick a card that matches your sense.

So, I get all the ones with smelling.

Skipper gets all the ones with hearing.

And I have to have all the ones that you can feel.

I get it.

-Can I go first?

-Yes.

I can smell one that's mine.

It's a rose.

Mmm!

I'm gonna choose the hedgehog.

-Can you give me a hand, Lily-Rose?

-There you go.

-Thank you.

I could feel it's spiky.

Your turn, Skipper.

-I think he might like the rabbit.

-You can't listen to a rabbit.

You're so clever - that's right! The bell.

That one's yours. Your turn, Lily-Rose.

I can smell another one that's mine.

There. An onion.

Now, I'm gonna choose the rabbit, because it feels soft and furry.

With its little bobby tail.

Thank you.

Your turn, Skipper.

Skipper might like the robin because he can hear the robin singing.

Yes. There you are.

Now, what's this?

-It's...popcorn.

-Popcorn.

You can smell popcorn...

BOTH: ..you can hear popcorn

and you can feel popcorn. Hmm...

I definitely think that the best sense for enjoying popcorn is...

-..tasting.

-Jay!

Oi!

Did you know that snakes use their tongues to taste the air?

Snakes smell things with their tongues,

so when they sense something is near or there is danger,

they put their tongues in and out to find out what's around.

-I never knew snakes tasted the air with their tongues.

-Amazing.

TOOT! Here we go again.

-Well, I am the sense of taste.

-I'm the sense of sight.

I'm going to go looking. Ha!

-With those glasses, you look like an owl.

-Do owls have good eyesight?

Brilliant.

Is it a jay? No.

I'm a little owl and this is my mate.

We are the smallest owls of all the owls in Britain.

We're found all over the country.

I might be small,

but just look at my big, round eyes.

I use my big eyes for hunting in the dark,

although we often come out during the day.

It's spring time and the fruit orchard is bustling with wildlife.

The birds are singing.

The bees are buzzing from flower to flower

and the fruit blossoms are blooming.

It's a fantastic place to live.

For almost four weeks, my mate has been sitting

on this year's clutch of little owl eggs.

You see, soon we're going to be proud parents.

My mate keeps her eggs nice and warm

until a tiny white body peeps from under her wing.

The first owl chick has hatched at last

and soon the rest hatch.

Whilst Mum keeps guard, I hunt night and day

and bring back tasty snacks for our chicks to eat.

Chicks love their tasty worms,

beetles and even snaffle up small mice.

What a beak full of grub!

In just a couple of weeks,

our chicks have become grey bundles of fluff.

Altogether, there are five healthy chicks.

They look like scruffy little pom-poms.

By the end of the summer,

the fruit trees are brimming with juicy pears

and the chicks are old enough to leave the nest.

But soon they'll have to learn to fend for themselves.

-Special report! Special report!

-That's Jelly.

Come to think of it, Jelly's got eyes like an owl, too.

She must be pretty good at seeing. I wonder what she's seeing today.

Yoo-hoo! I'm up here.

This is special reporter Jelly, for Green Balloon Club,

in a lighthouse in Plymouth.

I'm going to do some gardening with my friends.

I've got my watering can.

Hm, so I'm going to go and join them

all the way down the steps.

One steps.

Two steps.

Three steps. More steps.

Lots and lots of steps!

Here's all my friends.

Hello, Amy-Rose. Hello, Josh. Hello, Mrs Jones.

-Hello.

-Hello, Jelly.

I've got my watering can. What are we planting?

-Grass.

-It's green just like you.

Yes, green like me. But it doesn't look like the grass

in your school field. It's long and feathery.

It feels all tickly.

-Ha-ha! Tickly! Is it time to do the watering now?

-Yes.

-You could carry on with the watering and we'll finish the planting.

-OK.

-Are you ready to do some planting?

-Yes.

Josh, would you like to take your trowel up there?

I'll come and help you in a minute.

Can you dig a hole and put these plants in?

I'll help you get them out of the pots.

Keep digging, there. I'll go and help Josh, yeah?

I'm going to put it in the soil.

We cover it around it.

It feels lovely and soft.

-How are we doing, Josh?

-OK.

Brilliant, that's a fantastic hole.

Are we ready to plant this one? I think we are.

OK, Josh. Can you help me? Pull it.

It's quite hard to get out. It's big.

Are you gonna help me plant it, then?

We need to put the earth back now. Push it in gently with our hands.

-The garden is nearly ready.

-Jelly will love it when she sees it.

-Oh! Have we done all the gardening now?

-Yes.

If you look really carefully, the garden is also a picture.

A picture? Oh.

A picture of someone special.

I wonder who it is.

It would have to be someone who was green.

-Who is it?

-It's Jelly!

Me?

Oh, wow, yes, look!

It really is a Jelly garden!

I love it. Thank you so much.

It's been so much fun, but I have to report back to the Green Ballon Club.

I'm sure they'll have a great view of my garden from up there.

Bye-bye for now.

-Bye.

-Bye. Thank you.

Special reporter Jelly reporting for Green Balloon Club

from the Jelly garden. Back to you in the green balloon. Up, up and away!

What a great garden. If you visit Plymouth,

why not go along and see how Jelly's garden growing?

It's time we saw what this week's secret picture password is.

This week, we have a choice between the grass snake or the little owl.

Shall I give you a clue to help you guess? OK.

-Oo-o-o-o-oh!

-SHE LAUGHS

That was a little howl, which sounds like little owl.

That's this week's secret picture password.

Let's click on the little owl. Yes!

That takes us inside the balloon

so we can join in with the club's activities.

Hey, Sky. Why did the owl 'owl?

I don't know. Why did the owl 'owl?

Because the woodpecker would peck her!

-TOOT!

-Very good.

Because the woodpecker would peck her!

Woodpeckers peck at wood to look for tasty grubs to eat

or to build a nest in a tree hole.

Woodpeckers have super-strong beaks and bones in their head

to help them cushion each peck.

Let's see how good you are at listening, Skipper. Sit.

Up.

Stand. Bow. Good girl, Skipper.

I spy some Green Balloon Club members.

Let's give a big hand for the Spot of the Week.

Hello!

This week we're spotting grasshoppers.

Here are some clues to help you spot some.

Grasshoppers are insects with big eyes.

They have six legs and four wings.

Grasshoppers use their legs like a catapult to push themselves away.

They can leap 20 times the length of their own body.

Grasshoppers are usually found in fields and meadows

where there's lots of food for them to eat.

Their favourite food is grass and leaves.

Grasshoppers like to sing in summer.

They sing by rubbing their back legs

against their front wings.

So, remember the clues.

Grasshoppers leap very far.

They're found in fields and meadows

where there's lots of food for them to eat.

Grasshoppers love to sing during the summer.

-Now YOU spot some.

-Bye.

-Bye.

OK, Green Team, here's a senses challenge for you.

What's in the boxes?

But you have to guess what's inside the boxes

by using your other senses. You're not allowed to look.

OK. Who's going to go first? Ant?

OK, now you've got to try and have a feel inside your box,

and guess what it is by feeling.

You're going to have to take your hands off first!

OK.

-What does it feel like?

-Ow.

Ooh! Is it prickly?

It's quite big.

-It's quite big.

-And it's quite light.

Do you know what it might be?

-I think it might be a pine cone.

-A pine cone?

Take it out, let's have a look. Yay!

He was right. It's massive, isn't it? OK.

Now, here is the listening box.

-It's Skipper's turn. Can you help her, Cat?

-Yeah.

Have a feel inside. Let's see if we can all listen.

CHIRRUPING

What's that?

CHIRRUPING

What do you think it is?

I think it's a bird off the shelf, because it's not there any more.

SKY LAUGHS

Shall we see if she's right? Have a look inside.

Yeah! Well done, Cat.

OK, Lily-Rose, would you be able to guess yours by smelling?

-What does it smell like?

-Smells like food.

-It smells like food. What type of food?

-Food for bees.

Food for bees?

What do you think, guys?

-I think it might be lavender.

-You think it might be lavender?

Wow, shall we have a look inside to see if you're right? What is it?

It IS lavender! Mmm.

You're absolutely right, it is lavender.

Oh! And last, but no means least,

it's Jay's turn. Now, you've got to taste yours.

THEY GIGGLE

-Can you taste it? What does it taste like?

-I can't taste it.

OK. How about using your other senses? You might want to feel.

-It feels...

-Or hear.

-Can you hear it?

-RUSTLING

(What's that? Can you hear that?)

-It feels quite crispy.

-It feels crispy?

What does it smell like?

-It smells like the cinema.

-The cinema!

And they're quite small. I think there's lots of them.

-Lots of them. Would you like to have a guess?

-I think it's popcorn.

Popcorn? OK, have a look inside.

Yeah!

Yay! You were right.

-OK.

-Brilliant! Can we eat it?

-Yeah. I made it for all of you.

But you'll have to eat up quickly because we're coming in to land!

-And wherever we land, it's...

-ALL: Time for a song!

# On the breeze a seagull flying

# In the sea the children splashing

# On my feet my flip-flops flopping

# Oh what a lovely sunny day today

# Ice-cream melting in the heat Pebbles crunch beneath your feet

# Shells are washed up by the tide Just behind the donkey ride

# It feels good to get away

# On our summer holiday-ay-ay

# We'll say ooh, ay-oh

# A-ha, so put out your hands

# And stretch as high as you can reach

# We'll say ooh, ay-oh

# A-ha, so play in the sand all day

# Having fun out on the beach

# Beanie hats and red sunglasses

# Hide-and-seek and big sandcastles

# In the rock pool We've found treasure

# Is it a fossil or a shell?

# Who can tell?

# Toes that wiggle in the sand Fall down when you try to stand

# Laughing as the waves roll in Tomorrow do it all again

# I'm so glad we came away

# On our summer holiday-ay-ay-ay

# We'll say ooh, ay-oh

# A-ha, so put out your hands

# And stretch as high as you can reach

# We'll say ooh, ay-oh

# A-ha, we'll play in the sand all day

# Having fun and we'll say, ooh

# Ay-oh, a-ha, so put out your hands

# And stretch as high as you can reach

# We'll say ooh, ay-oh

# A-ha, we'll play in the sand

# All day... #

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-Bye!

-Thanks for flying with us today.

-Keep on spotting wildlife.

-Don't forget to use all of your senses.

-TOOT! See you next week!

-Bye!