Numpup Nursery The Numtums

Honk honk! Honk honk!

# Here come the Numtums They're furry and they're fun

# Here come the Numtums Let's start with number one

# Bendy Go!

# Dar Dar!

# Champer!

# Gladdy!

# Little Sandy!

# Flinders!

# Humpty Do!

# Coogee!

# Hobart!

# Nimbin!

# One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight

# Nine, ten!

# The Numtums! #

Look, the flingos are sitting on their eggs.

Isn't it a lovely sight?

Yes, and nothing, I repeat, nothing, will make them leave their nests.

Five tickets to play flamingo bingo!

Squawk! Squawk! Squawk!

Hey, come back. I thought nothing would make them leave their nests.

Nothing except flamingo bingo,

the number game with flamingo in its name.

Squawk! Squawk! Squawk!

What are they saying?

Allow me, I speak a little flamingo.

Chirrup, chirrup, chirrup.

Burr...

Oh, silly me, that's guinea pig, ha-ha.

Crow, crow, crow.

Squawk! Squawk! Squawk!

They say they would love to play a game of flamingo bingo,

but they need baby-sitters for their eggs.

-We could sit on their eggs.

-Flamingo egg-sitting? Oh, yes!

Squawk! Squawk! Squawk!

There are one, two, three, four, five flamingo eggs

and only one, two, three, four of us.

Make that three. I'm the bingo caller. Bye!

Oh, I love flamingo bingo. Do you think I could play, too?

Oh, of course. We can take care of the eggs. You go and play.

Really? Thanks! See you later.

Hmm, now there are only two of us and five eggs.

We need to get three more egg-sitters to make five.

-Did someone say egg-sitting?

-I sure did.

Why do we have to sit on them?

To keep them safe and warm, so the flamingos can play flamingo bingo.

They really need a break.

The flamingos have been sitting on their eggs for ages.

It's a very important job.

ALL: The flamingos can count on us!

You must be really still, as these eggs as very precious.

Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

-We must be very careful.

-Sorry!

I know, let's play a game.

Oh, oh! Can we play hide and seek? Please...

-Yeah.

-Hmm, hide and seek would be difficult, sitting on eggs.

-Oh...

-I know, I know! How about a game of I spy.

-Yeah, I spy!

Ha-ha, oh, you'll never guess this.

I spy with my little eye, something beginning with the letter E.

Hmm, would that be egg, by any chance?

How did you know that?

-Just a wild guess.

-Hmm, what else can we do?

We could read that Super Numtum comic. Look, over there!

ALL: Oh, yes!

Stop, Humpty Do. You mustn't get off the egg.

Well, I can't quite reach it from here.

Flinders, could you pass the Super Numtum comic, please?

Thanks, Flinders!

What dastardly plan are you cooking up now, Fluffy McTuffy?

-Well, wouldn't you like to know, not-so Super Numtum?

-Might do.

-Oh, really?

-Yes, really.

Well, it's not so much a dastardly plan as a dastardly flan.

Mwa-ha-ha, and mwa-ha-ha some more.

-Go on.

-To the un-naughty eye, this may look like an ordinary flan,

cut into, one, three, six...

Oh, lot's of slices.

But it's actually extra-special, yummy, scrummy flan,

because after just one mouthful, you want more and more and more.

And while everyone is eating flan, I will take over the world.

Let me get this right.

You are taking over the world with the help of a family-sized flan?

That's right. Got a problem with that?

Don't you think you should try a slice first to make sure

it's as yummy and scrummy as you say?

Hmm, you may be right, for once, not-so Super Numtum.

Oh, I'm a little hungry, after all that cooking.

Just a little nibble.

Give me more...please.

Where have all the slices gone?

You ate three slices and then the other two,

that's five slices altogether.

The whole yummy, scrummy flan.

I want more flan!

HER STOMACH GROANS

Oh, sore tummy alert.

That yummy, scrummy flan has made me hungry, oh!

I wonder when the flamingos are coming back.

It's time to play flamingo bingo, the game where

Billy shouts out two numbers and the number they add up to.

If the numbers are on your card, you win one of these prizes.

Now, are you ready to play flamingo bingo?

Yes.

I'm not feeling it...

Are you ready?

-Yes!

-Squawk!

OK, OK, now I'm feeling it.

Beaks down and over to Billy for the numbers.

Three and seven, if we add them together, I make ten.

Four and six.

If we add them together, they make ten, as well.

Say what?

Eight and two, added together, they also make ten.

Oh, I never knew there were so many ways to make ten.

Yes, there are, Billy. Yes, there are.

Hey, I feel a song coming on!

# Ten, so many ways to make it

# Ten, so many ways to break it down

# There's all sorts of combinations

# All kinds of variations

# So let's do a demonstration

# See how we can make ten

# Ten Numtums

# Two trees to stand under

# Wherever we stand

# There's always the same number

# Five under the purple

# Five under the green

# Ten Numtums in two even teams

# But if Champer bounces

# From green to purple

# There'll be four under the green

# And six under the purple

# So how many Numtums in total are there, then?

# That's right, four and six still makes ten

# Ten, so many ways to make it

# Ten, so many ways to break it down

# There's all sorts of combinations

# All kinds of variations

# Spread the word across the nation

# Express your admiration

# Everybody on your feet

# Give it a standing ovation

# There's lots of ways to make ten. #

I hope the flamingos are enjoying their game

as much as we're enjoying this.

Flingo egg-sitting? Oh, yes!

I bet we're the first Numpups to have sat on flamingo eggs, ever.

You're right. I wish I could get my camera and take a photo of us

for Good Egg Magazine.

Did someone say photo and did someone say Good Egg Magazine?

Oh, this is not what I had in mind.

I thought Little Sandy wanted to take a photo of me

for Good Egg Magazine, not get me to sit on

an egg while she fetches her camera.

-Would a joke cheer you up?

-It might.

Why do flamingos stand with one leg on the ground?

I don't know. Why do flamingos stand with one leg on the ground?

Because if they lifted both legs off the ground, they would fall over!

Oh, if they lifted both legs, they would fall over!

Oh, that's very funny, Bendy Go, ha-ha. Oh!

Phew. No harm done.

Whoa!

Something bit me. Ah.

Oh, now there's harm done, my egg is smashed.

-Oh, no, what will the flamingos say?

-And Little Sandy.

Humpty can put it together again.

Hmm, it's not as easy as it looks.

And it doesn't look very easy.

I feel terrible, that poor egg.

And here comes Little Sandy.

-Hey, the egg!

-Oh, we can explain.

Sorry, I broke the egg.

You didn't break the egg, Humpty Do, you hatched it.

Hatched it?

Yes, we now have four eggs and one very cute baby flamingo.

Look!

-Squawk.

-Aw, that is cute. Can we keep it?

Please?

Whoa!

Make that three eggs and two flamingos.

Two eggs and three flamingos.

One egg and four flingos.

Oh, ow, ah!

No eggs and five flamingos.

They've all hatched!

Squawk, squawk.

Aw, look at the ickle-wickle baby flamingos.

We thought we had broken the eggs.

Oh, you've hatched them!

Well, in my book, that means baby flamingos all around.

ALL: Ha-ha-ha!

It's photo time. Say, "Treats!"

Oh, my photo has made the cover of Good Egg magazine. Look!

-I can't see you.

-Just there, look. That's the tip of my nose.

-I think that's just a Termite Treat crumb.

-Well, I think not.

Imagine, little old me on the cover of Good Egg Magazine. Oh!

Fame at last.