Places and Spaces - Under the Ground Play School : Season 23 Episode 13

Aka 4.3 Benita and John look at two diamond pythons visiting from Taronga Zoo with their keeper. The pythons' sleep propensities are discussed, their scales and colouring, and their movement. Benita makes a cotton-reel snake, threading reels onto a piece of cord, adding eyes with a marker and scales from pasted on tissue paper. John makes mud pies in small tart tins, adds sand sprinkles and gum leaves for decoration. Benita makes a cubby from cushions for Little Ted, Jemima, Lisa and Banana. The story is 'The Ants' by Richard Tulloch. Through the windows children help make mud for mud bricks, and a house from mud bricks is started. The calendar wheel reveals underground animals: snake, rabbit etc.