Bouncy Beds Nina and the Neurons

# If you've got a question and you don't know where to go

# Ask Nina for some help cos she's got a science show

# She makes sense of her senses

# While helping all her fans

# By doing her experiments with potions and with bangs!

-# Touch your tongue

-Tongue!

-# Fingers

-Fingers!

-# Eyes

-Eyes!

-# Ears

-Ears!

-Nose

-Nose!

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know

# Luke, he helps us with our eyes and Felix with our touch

# Ollie sniffs out smells and scents and Belle, she hears so much

# Bud is Ollie's brother, he helps us with our taste

# They're Nina's little Neurons and they're coming to your place

-# Touch your tongue

-Tongue!

-# Fingers

-Fingers!

-# Eyes

-Eyes!

-Ears

-Ears!

-# Nose

-Nose!

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know. Oh, yeah! #

Hello. I found these springy things in my drawer.

And if you push it down...

Ha ha! And let go... Oh!

Oh, ha ha!

It springs back up. Great fun.

BEEPING

I hear a beep, I see a flash. I wonder what they're going to ask.

Hi, Nina!

Hello there.

I have a question for you.

What makes my bed so bouncy?

Oh, that's a great question.

What makes my bed so bouncy?

A bouncy bed is a really useful invention.

But what makes a bed bouncy?

Why don't you come to my workshop and we'll check it out?

Bye, Nina! See you soon!

Bye.

I'll need some help to answer this one, and I know just who to ask.

OK, Neurons, time to get to work.

Neurons at the ready, Nina!

OK. Today's question is what makes my bed so bouncy?

Which Neuron would be most useful to find the answer?

ALL: Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!

Will it be fabulous Felix?

I can help so very much if you need the sense of touch.

Will it be...beautiful Belle?

I send messages to brain from ear.

-If there's a sound, I'll help you hear.

-Will it be lovely Luke?

For looking or seeing, day or night,

-I'll help you with your sense of sight.

-Will it be awesome Ollie?

If it's pongy or whiffy, but you can't tell,

-my messages help your sense of smell.

-Will it be baby Bud?

Sour, salty, bitter or sweet, I'm your taste buddy whenever you eat.

ELECTRONIC BEEPING

It's Felix!

-Oh!

-Go, Felix!

Go, Felix! Go, Felix!

Go, Felix! Go, Felix! Go, Felix!

-Go, Felix!

-Marvellous. A little touch can mean so much, Nina.

Thanks, Felix.

Today's question is what makes my bed so bouncy?

Felix will be helping, because he can FEEL how bouncy something is.

But stand by, I may need help from all of you.

I need to get the workshop ready before the Inventors arrive.

Elouise, Bethany and Zoe want to find out about bouncy beds,

beds that are comfy, or springy, cosy and sinky-inny.

So, today, for one day only,

Elouise, Bethany and Zoe become the Inventors.

-Hi, guys!

-Hi, Nina.

Come on in. Welcome to my workshop. It's lovely to see you.

Your question is, "What makes my bed so bouncy?"

-So, why do you want to know that?

-I love my bouncy, comfy bed

and I just want to know what makes it so bouncy.

Oh, well, on our beds we have mattresses.

So, let's find out if it's the mattress that's bouncy

and there's a mattress over here. Let's gently kneel down

onto the mattress...Oh!

And let's see if the mattress is bouncy.

THEY GIGGLE

-The mattress is definitely bouncy.

-Bouncing is a fabulous feeling

because it makes you feel as light as air.

Whoo! Ah! Whoo-hoo!

If mattresses weren't bouncy, they wouldn't be very comfortable.

But we really shouldn't bounce on our beds. Sorry, guys.

I think we should stand up now.

Oh!

So, we know that mattresses are bouncy, but why?

Let's get inside and have a closer look. Follow me.

Now, taking things apart is my job.

-It can be dangerous, so don't do this yourself.

-That's right.

Nina's been specially trained.

There are lots of sharp bits inside that could harm you.

This is what the inside of a mattress looks like.

-There are loads of springs.

-Yeah, big springs.

Now, let me have a look with my Nina-Cam.

Whoo! Whoo!

Would you like a closer look at that, guys?

Just be careful, it's got a little jaggy end.

-It's very springy.

-That's right.

-You can make it smaller, but it'll just spring back again.

-Exactly.

It's this springiness that makes beds so comfortable to lie in.

The springs let us land softly on a mattress when we lie down.

Imagine lying down on a hard stony floor at bedtime

instead of a lovely, bouncy bed. Oh!

But it's not just us that need to land softly.

Something very big and very exciting needs to land softly too.

-Shall we go and see another invention?

-Yeah!

OK. Let's go.

Oh! I wonder where we're going today.

I love seeing the big inventions.

BELLE: Um... Something big that needs to land softly.

I just haven't got a clue what that could be.

-OLLIE:

-Well, I think we're about to find out.

Looks like we've arrived.

ENGINE WHIRRS

Oh!

This truck is called a monster truck and you can see why.

It's not like any other truck.

Look at those wheels, they're enormous.

Is it going to drive over those cars?

I think it is!

There it goes.

THEY GIGGLE

Wow!

The cars are getting all squashed.

Oh, oh!

Look at the way the monster truck

bounces when it drops back down the other side.

Wow!

So something as huge and monstrous as a monster truck

can be bouncy too. Let's go and look.

-I can see springs.

-They're bigger than the springs on my mattress.

They certainly are. These springs help the truck to bounce.

But what makes springs so bouncy?

Come on, Inventors, let's go back to the workshop and get inventing!

It's good that mattresses are so bouncy,

but who invented the springy mattress?

Oh, oh! I know that.

Mattresses have been around for a long, long time.

But unfortunately, they were not very comfortable.

Look at him - tossing and turning.

His mattress is made from straw.

That man trying to get to sleep is Heinrich Westfal.

One night, many years ago, he had an idea.

If he put bouncy springs into his mattress instead of straw

it may make it super comfy and very bouncy.

Next thing he knew, he was fast asleep

and never had an uncomfy sleep ever again. Lovely.

So, your question was, "What makes my bed so bouncy?"

We've found out that beds are bouncy because they have springs in.

But what makes a spring so springy?

Well, I think we need to get inventing to find out.

So, the first thing we need to do is cut out our special shapes.

Next, we're going to stick down one of our shapes.

Put glue on the back and stick it on the cardboard.

Glue it on.

Good, smoothing it down.

Now, let's cut it out.

Be very careful when you're using scissors, they can be sharp.

There we go. Next, we're making our springs.

Take a strip of each colour

and hold it like that.

I'm going to take a piece of sticky tape to hold it together.

There we go.

Then, take the strip that's underneath

and fold it over.

Then, take the other strip and fold it that way

and keep doing that,

and you're still keeping that nice, straight edge.

That's great.

Let's have a closer look at this springy thing.

If I press it down...

it goes down like that...

and if I let it go... Whoo!

..it goes back up again. The reason it's springy

is because it wants to get back to the shape it was in.

To do that, it has to... push back upwards.

So, let's use our springy springs in our mattress. Let's get sticking!

Give it a good squash down.

It's sticky! But it's great fun.

So, now we need to take the top of our mattress, the yellow bit,

and let's cover it in glue because then we can stick in on top

and hold it down.

Oh! So, well done, Inventors.

We've made our very own mattresses but they look a bit bare.

Why doesn't everyone take a duvet cover?

That's brilliant.

It's going to have to be somebody's bed now.

So, is there anyone lying around here that might need a bed?

Little Ted. Aw!

Let's pop him in bed. There you go.

You can put your favourite doll or action figure in.

They'd have a lovely night's sleep in a beautiful bouncy bed.

Your question was, "What makes my bed so bouncy?"

We've answered it. We've found out most mattresses

are bouncy because they have springs in them, which are bouncy

because when you stretch them and squash them together

they always want to go back to their shape.

When you roll around in your mattress, you push the springs down

and the springs push back up again. That's why mattresses are so bouncy.

-Thanks for your brilliant question.

-Thanks, Nina! Bye.

Bye.

If you want to make today's invention,

just go to the Nina section on the CBeebies website.

That gives you instructions you need to make your own,

or you may have other ideas of what to invent.

-Bikes!

-Cranes!

-Binoculars.

-Television.

-Speakers.

And cars!

# We all love inventing

# Whoo-oh-oh-oh-oh Go inventing!

# We all love inventing

# Why don't you try it too?

# Inventions make life easier

# And help us get things done

# Go inventing!

# I always like to take a look

# At how they work and run

# Go inventing

# We all love inventing

# Whoo-oh-oh-oh-oh Go inventing!

# We all love inventing

# Why don't you try it too? #

I've had a fabby day.

I liked all the boinging bouncing on the beds best,

-although Nina said you shouldn't do that.

-I really enjoyed myself,

especially when we saw what the inside of a mattress looks like.

-It's really springy.

-It's been such a great day, man.

We saw some mean-looking monsters.

Well, monster trucks. Ha ha!

It's been a marvellous day.

I enjoyed watching the Inventors make those paper springs.

They made the mattress so comfortable.

Our day's been bursting with inventions.

Hope you enjoyed it, bye.

ALL: Bye!

Go inventing!