Episode 34 Green Balloon Club

# Gather round, one and all

# You gotta answer the call

# Listen up, 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

# So join us...

# ..in our Green Balloon. #

There you are! I've been waiting for you.

Come inside, I've got something exciting to show you.

ALL: Hello!

-Welcome to the Green Balloon Club!

-Look what I've got!

What is it, Lily-Rose?

It's my tooth.

It came out last week.

Wow! It's tiny.

-Is it your first tooth that's come out?

-Yes.

At first, it was really wobbly and annoying

and it felt red and then it came out.

I've got a new, big one growing in already.

Let's see the gap.

Why do our teeth fall out like that, Sky?

When you're little, your head hasn't reached its full size.

You get one set of teeth when you're a child and they fall out

and you get a bigger set.

Do animals' teeth fall out like that too, Sky?

It depends on the animal.

We get two sets of teeth but some animals

get lots of sets throughout their life.

Like sharks, they lose their teeth every week.

Did you know that they have more than 20,000 teeth in a lifetime?

I've got a shark's tooth, would you like to see it?

-Yes, please.

-Shall we do the register first?

-Yay! Can I do it?

-Sure!

-Here you go.

-Thanks.

Right, first up's Lily-Rose.

Chomp, bite, gnash, gnaw! Lily-Rose is here for sure.

LAUGHTER

That was great. Lily-Rose is here.

Now it's you, Ant.

Chomp, bite, gnash, gnaw! Ant is here for sure.

Ant's here.

Now it's me. How did it go?

Chomp, bite, gnash, gnaw! Cat is here for sure.

I'm here.

Now it's you, Skipper.

Chomp, bite, gnash, gnaw! Skipper's here for sure.

Skipper's here.

Now it's you, Jay.

Chomp, bite, gnash, gnaw! Jay is here for sure.

Jay's here.

Now it's you, Sky.

OK, chomp, bite, gnash, gnaw! Sky is here for sure!

Right, Sky's here.

Now it's you. Join in with us.

Chomp, bite, gnash, gnaw! I am here for sure!

Right, everyone present and correct.

Shall we do the Green Balloon Club chant? Yes!

# 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! #

Now can I see your shark's tooth, Ant?

Oh, go on then. Let's go find my collection.

-Is it time for the report?

-No, I can't see anyone down there.

Are you sure? Let me have a look.

Why are you so excited about it?

It's a special one. You'll see.

No, you're right, there's no-one there.

-What are you looking for?

-You'll see soon.

Special report!

-There's Jelly!

-I wonder if she's seen any toothy animals.

-Oh!

-Oh!

He-he.

I'm in Bill Oddie's garden.

-Bill! Bill!

-Yeah?

-Look what I found.

-What've you found?

-Yes, it is my snail.

That's fantastic, isn't it?

She's called Shelly.

What a good name. Shelly because she's got a shell

-and because she belongs to Jelly.

-Yes.

-So it's Jelly Shelly.

-Yes, Jelly Shelly.

This has reminded me,

I was just about to go and make some snail soup.

Oh! No! You can't make snail soup.

No, she's my friend. I love her.

No, no, don't worry. I didn't mean soup out of snails,

I meant soup FOR snails.

Oh, that's all right then.

Would you like some snail soup, Shelly?

-Yeah.

-She says, "Yes."

-She'd love some.

So, how actually do we make snail soup, Bill?

It's really easy, Jelly.

What we need first of all is... Do you know what these are?

-Lettuce, Bill.

-That's right.

This is what's going to go into our soup

and do you know what this is?

-Umm.

-It's a blender.

-Oh!

-Can you say that?

-Blender.

How does it work? What does it do?

When I press this... It's noisy.

Mmmmm...

-Brrr...

-Oh, Bill! Stop it!

-Why? Oh, oh!

-BLENDER DRONES

Oh, Bill! Stop it!

What? No, no, it's too loud.

-What?

-It's too loud.

Can't hear what you're saying. It's too loud.

BLENDER DRONES

Ha-ha! I think that's about it.

-Uh!

-What a relief, isn't it? That's better.

Thank goodness.

There, we've got that lovely green soup.

What are we going to do? Do we need to cook it?

-Cook it? Oh no. We paint it.

-Paint it?

-Yes, which is why I gave you a paintbrush earlier.

-Yes.

Right, OK. And we're going to paint this all over the walls

of the snails' little house here.

That's it, that's good.

So, when the snails go sliming around the edges here, Jelly,

they will have some lovely snail soup to feed on.

They're having a feast. Look at this.

Oh, they love our snail soup, don't they, Bill?

Yep, and here's Shelly, here's yours.

-Is that Shelly's belly, do you think?

-Yes!

-Yeah, well it isn't, you see.

-Oh!

Because that is a foot.

The whole of that, they just have one big foot.

JELLY LAUGHS

They should hop, really.

-You're telling me a fib.

-I'm not, it's one big foot.

It doesn't hop, it pulls itself along.

-You can see it sort of gripping and...see that?

-Yeah.

Sort of shlurp, shlurp, shlurp.

Yes, yes, it's eating!

Exactly. It's a tiny mouth, it's sad, isn't it?

It's got a turned down mouth.

Yes, it's amazing. I've never seen a snail's mouth before.

-Neither have I.

-Can you see it on here?

Has it got little teeth in there? Can you see?

Yes, oh, I know about snail's teeth.

-Do you?

-Yes, they've got lots.

-But they must be very, very tiny.

-Yes, they are very tiny.

-Right.

It's a pity that a lot of people don't like snails, isn't it?

They go "Ugh!"

Yes, I love them so much

so they should be loved and not trodden on.

I think that's a very good idea.

Jelly was so lucky to see some snail's teeth. That was amazing!

Look, Lily-Rose, I've been through my collection

and found some animal's teeth and an animal's skull.

What's this one?

Well, that's a shark's tooth.

It's very pointy and smooth.

Well, it has to be cos sharks eat a lot of meat

and they've got to have something sharp to tear it up.

-And what's this one?

-Well, that's a horse's tooth.

Look, these bits are pointy too.

Yes, but they're actually the roots that go up to your gum

and this bit's flat so that they can chomp up all the vegetables.

And what's this one?

Well, that's a rabbit's skull.

That's amazing!

And can you see the rabbit's teeth?

Like this.

Yes, and they're used for tearing apart the grass.

It's so amazing how rabbits' heads are really big

but inside the bones are really small.

Yes, and we've got to be very delicate because it could break.

It's very smooth.

Hey, I've got a tooth game for us to play. Ready?

Yes!

OK, I'll put these over here.

Right, what you have to do is you have to match some animals

with the type of food it would eat and then decide

which type of tooth it would use.

Do you think you can do it?

Yes!

OK, then. Let's start with the cow.

-Which food do you think?

-Grass.

-Grass, OK.

-And what type of tooth would the cow use?

-Mashers.

Mashers? OK, which one's that then?

-The flat one.

-This one? OK, lovely.

So, it's that type of tooth.

OK, let's start now with the tiger.

-The tiger?

-What food would the tiger eat?

-Meat.

-Meat, OK.

And what type of tooth?

-Tearing.

-Tearing.

-A tearing tooth, is that this one or this one?

-This one.

-OK, and why is that?

Cos it looks like a shark's tooth and sharks eat meat.

That's great, yes. OK, we'll put that there.

And last, but no means least, the squirrel.

OK, and what's that?

An acorn.

OK, and which type of tooth would the squirrel use?

The last one.

This one. OK, that's the biting tooth.

OK, and do you think that's the only tooth it would use?

-No.

-No.

-OK, what other tooth do you think...

-That one.

Why do you think a masher?

To chop it first.

-This one would be, yes, to bite it.

-And then mash it.

-And why's that?

-That'll help it swallow it.

-Absolutely.

What type of teeth do we have?

-Everything.

-All of them!

-Yeah, we do.

When we get older, we have 32 teeth

and we've got biting teeth, mashing teeth and tearing teeth,

so we can eat lots of different food. It's great, isn't it?

But mine won't be as big as those ones!

Did you know that dolphins are the animals with the most teeth?

-They have over 200.

-Wow!

-That's amazing.

# She wore blue velvet

# But in my heart there'll always be

# Precious and warm, a memory

# Through the years

# And I still can see

# Blue velvet

# Through my tears

# Blue velvet. #

Cat, do dogs have to clean their teeth like we do?

Yes, they get food stuck in-between their teeth

so we have to be careful they don't go bad.

Can we clean Skipper's teeth?

No, I left her toothbrush and toothpaste at home.

They have a special toothpaste

-but we can give her a dental chew if you want.

-OK.

What does that do?

It gets all the bad stuff off of her teeth.

I give it to her every night.

-A bit like we clean our teeth before we go to bed?

-Yes.

Dogs have got big, pointy teeth called canines

and that's for the lots of meat they eat.

Saliva helps clean her teeth too.

I don't feed Skipper anything with sugar in

to keep her teeth nice and healthy.

What lovely teeth she'll have.

I spy something blue, club members.

Let's see. Is it time for this week's report?

-No, I think it's this week's spot.

-Huh!

This week we're spotting crocuses.

Here are some clues to help you spot some.

They come in different shapes and colours.

Crocuses are star-shaped flowers.

These ones here are a purple colour.

They also come in yellow and white.

Crocuses like to flower early in spring.

They're small flowers that don't really smell

but look very pretty.

They open up like this.

They're also very clever.

When the weather gets cold and it becomes dark at night,

they protect themselves by closing up.

Now see if you can spot some.

Bye!

I love crocuses, they're so pretty.

Cat, hey look, I've found some animal teeth on the website.

There's two animals to choose from for this week's password.

There's a toothy crocodile or a rat. Which one should we go for?

-Umm...

-Hey, did you know that the crocodile has 60 teeth?

That's nearly twice as many as we have

and their teeth fall out a lot, I think.

But not every week like sharks' ones.

No, not as often as that. Sharks' teeth fall out the most

but rats' teeth keep growing throughout their whole life

so they've got to keep gnawing to wear their teeth down

or else they'd fall over them.

Can you believe that?

So, which one should we choose, Cat, the crocodile or the rat?

-I think we should have the rat.

-Should we?

Let's choose the toothy rat.

Yay!

Good, we're in. Remember this week's password is the rat.

Beneath the towns and cities in Britain,

live some of our most common neighbours.

I wonder if you can guess which animal I am.

I have a small, pointed face,

dark, round eyes,

a long tail

and long, sensitive whiskers.

Yes, I'm a brown rat.

Some people say that you're never more than a few metres from a rat,

but, personally, I'm a shy animal

so I like to keep clear of people.

I live here, underneath the streets of a town near you.

I live in the sewers. It's perfect since it's warm in winter

and cool in summer.

It's a great place because food passes down the drains

and to me without me having to go anywhere.

These tunnels are also a great place to raise my litter of baby rats.

Now, there's a flood on its way so it's time to move my babies

to a safer place away from the rising water.

It's hard work moving them one by one.

Rats have very good senses.

Although my eyesight isn't that amazing, I make up for it

by having especially good senses of hearing and smell.

That's how we keep in touch with our ratty friends

by leaving little scents to smell and by making high-pitched squeaks

to let each other know who's around.

So, if you ever see a little animal scurrying about,

it might be me, a brown rat.

Jay, Jay! I can see some Green Balloon Club members.

Let's see!

At last, it's time for this week's report

and it's a special one because those members

are my little sisters, Ellie and Tilly.

Let's see.

Hello!

Hello!

Hello!

Today, we have come to look for peacocks.

Why don't you come and help us?

That's not a peacock.

That's definitely not a peacock, Tilly.

We're looking for a large, colourful bird.

Look!

Wow!

-Can you see it?

-A peacock!

Look, there it is. It's a beautiful blue and green colour.

That's a male peacock, it's nice and colourful.

The females are called peahens but they're not as nice and colourful.

Let's see if we can find any more.

They like to hide in bushes and trees

where they also build their nests.

Did you know that wild peacocks come from

Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka? Many, many years ago they were brought

to this country and tamed and kept as pets.

Some have escaped and become wild.

PEACOCK CRIES

That's a funny sound.

You can usually see them in parks and gardens like the ones here.

Peacocks like to eat plants, fruit and insects.

They like bread too.

Look there's some more up there!

The male peacock has some long, beautiful feathers

that sometimes he sticks up and shakes to show off.

-It looks like an eye.

-It's really pretty.

Peacocks have very long necks

and love to strut around and look very funny.

-Shall we try?

-Yeah!

Peacocks are really amazing birds.

We hope you liked looking at them with us. Bye!

Bye Ellie, bye Tilly! See you later.

They were so lucky to see peacocks, they're one of my favourite birds.

Me too. Peacocks' feathers are so amazing and pretty.

Jay, do birds have teeth?

No, birds have beaks instead.

Different birds have different shaped beaks.

The beaks are shaped for the food they eat,

like teeth are for animals.

Let's find out about beaks!

That's a good idea but we'll have to find out another day

because we're landing!

And, whenever we land, it's time for a song!

# See the leaves in a spin

# Tossed and blown all by the wind

# It's like they're waving summer goodbye

# And the colours change to golden brown

# Flying high as they leave the ground

# Till they're just a speck against the sky

# I see them flying

# Watch them flying

# To places that are wonderful and new

# To see them flying

# It's just like angels on the wing

# Can we come flying too?

# See the birds

# How high they swoop

# Full of grace

# They loop the loop

# Living free

# So high above the crowd

# And they're making circles in the sky

# Calling out, it's migration time

# I wish that I could soar beyond the clouds

# You'd see me flying

# Watch me flying

# In circles just like life that will renew

# The birds are flying away

# Returning in the spring

# Yes, they'll come flying

# Sun will be shining

# We'll all go

# Flying too. #

-Thanks for flying today.

-See if you can spot a crocus.

-Or a peacock.

-Look after your teeth.

-And your dog's teeth.

-See you.

Bye!

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