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Gardening
Gardening is one of the first ways children see cause and effect play out slowly: a seed goes in the soil, water comes, and weeks later something green appears. It brings together dirt, weather, patience and food in a way small children can touch and understand. A calm series about growing things gives them the language for it, and often sends them straight outside to look at a plant of their own.
For 2-year-olds
At two, gardening is mostly sensory. Wet soil, a watering can, a leaf that feels different from a petal. Toddlers do not yet grasp that a plant takes weeks to grow, so what sticks is the doing: digging, carrying, pouring. Look for episodes with simple, repeated actions and clear naming of what is on screen, so your child can point and say 'flower' or 'seed' along with the story. Long, quiet shots of a garden help more here than a plot does.
Bing
Frog
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Bing and his friend Sula find a frog in the garden while helping Flop water the plants, and decide to make it a home in a bucket. They bring the frog grapes, lettuce, milk, a bed and a blanket, but it will not settle and hops away. With Flop's help, Bing works out that the frog has gone back to its own dark, wet, slimy pipe because frogs like different things than he does. The episode ends with Bing recapping what he learned and the familiar 'it's a Bing thing' tag.
Guess How Much I Love You
Field of Flowers
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Little Nutbrown Hare sets out one spring morning to pick purple flowers to share with his father and friends in the meadow. He gathers so many that the butterflies who feed on their nectar are left with none, so with help from Little Field Mouse and Bluebird he leads the butterflies to a large field of flowers far away. Along the way he learns that the flowers are there for everyone to share. The story ends back home, where father and child exchange their 'Guess how much I love you'.
Duck & Goose
Measuring Tree
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On measuring day, Duck finds he has not grown at all while his friend Goose did, and he badly wants a new, higher mark on their measuring tree. The two try one idea after another in their grassy meadow, stretching, tiptoeing, planting and watering Duck, and even yoga, but nothing changes his height. After meeting a gopher, Duck realises that standing on the gopher's mound of dirt lets him reach a higher mark. They celebrate, then agree that high or low they are splendid just the way they are.
Barney's World
One Ripe Tomato
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In Nona's garden, three friends, Vivi, Mel and David, each pick out big plans for a single ripe tomato, from pizza sauce to pico de gallo to planting seeds. When they cannot agree who should have it, they ask Barney, who gathers them in a purple circle to listen to each other's ideas. Hearing everyone's plan, Vivi decides the fairest thing is to share the tomato so they can all enjoy it. The episode ends with the friends eating pizza together and Vivi giving Nona a painting.
Numberblocks
One, Two, Three
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Three, the yellow block character, performs four short magic tricks for her friends One and Two using apples: a find-the-apple cup game, an apple-on-top balance game, a surprise reveal that shows '1 + 2 = 3', and a final trick that makes the apple cores grow into three new trees. The action takes place outdoors on a grassy hill with a few simple props. Along the way the characters introduce counting to three, the words 'first', 'second' and 'third', and the ideas of bigger and smaller. The episode ends with Three sharing the new apples so all three friends have some.
Barney's World
Save the Garden
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In a sunny town park, Vivi and her friends discover that Nona's garden has become tired and overgrown and decide to bring it back to life. When the job feels too big, the purple dinosaur Barney leads them through an imaginative adventure as butterflies and ladybugs, where they learn to move acorns one at a time to guide some squirrels away. They carry that lesson back to the garden, getting others to help with small steps until the whole space is restored. Nona returns to find it transformed and gathers the children into a grateful hug.
Tractor Ted
Munchy Crunchy
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An animated green tractor called Tractor Ted and a gentle narrator introduce Farmer Tom, Midge the dog and a real working farm. The episode follows how carrots are grown and harvested: children pull carrots for their supper, machines chop the tops and dig the carrots up, and a factory washes, sorts and bags them ready for the shop. Along the way a farm worker named Les loses his tractor keys until a dog finds them. It closes at the end of the day with Farmer Tom back at the farmhouse.
For 3-year-olds
Three-year-olds start to connect steps in order: first you dig, then you plant, then you water. This is the age where a garden becomes a small routine your child can predict and join in on. Series that show one clear task from start to finish, with a child-sized job in it, match this well. Watch for stories where the grown-up lets the child do the pouring or the picking, since that is exactly what your three-year-old wants to try at home.
Sarah and Duck
Lots of Shallots
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Sarah and Duck find tiny seeds tucked inside their newspaper and decide to plant them in pots in the living room. They water the soil, get muddy, clean up and then wait through dinner and bedtime for something to happen. The next morning small sprouts appear, and Sarah looks them up in her vegetable book before a character called the Plate Girl arrives to confirm they are shallots, the baby onions that stay small. The episode ends with Duck giving the little shallots gentle 'lessons' in the garden.
Phoebe & Jay
The Green Pepper
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Grandma trusts Phoebe and Jay to look after the community garden's first bell pepper until it ripens from green to orange. Using a moisture meter, a watering can and plenty of patience, the children keep the soil just right through sun and rain while shooing a hungry squirrel named Harold. When they realize Harold only wants the pepper because his own food got soaked, they build him a dry home for his acorns. The pepper ripens, they pick it, and share a salad with a neighbor.
Peppa Pig
Bicycles
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On a sunny day Peppa, George and their friends ride bikes near Daddy Pig's garden, where he is proud of the large pumpkin he has grown. After friends point out that her bike still has stabilisers, Peppa asks Daddy Pig to take them off and practises until she can ride on her own. Excited by her new skill, she races off without looking and squashes the pumpkin. Daddy Pig reassures her that she matters more than the pumpkin, then turns it into enough pumpkin pie for everyone.
Curious George
Ladybugs!
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George is given a bag of ladybugs at Flora's plant stand and wants to keep them on his newly planted tomato. When they keep flying off, he tries setting out water and gathering flowers, then mistakes striped potato beetles for yellow ladybugs and puts them on his plant. Flora spots the chewed leaves, identifies the beetles, and together they count and remove all ten before releasing them in the woods. The episode closes with George's plant safe and the family sharing a picnic supper in the garden.
Peppa Pig
Frogs & Worms & Butterflies
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In this episode Peppa and George help Grandpa Pig in his garden and start playing at being different animals. After watching a butterfly, Peppa pretends to be one, George wants to join, and Grandpa shows him how to be a wriggly worm. They then spot a frog and decide to play frogs, which means jumping in a big muddy puddle. It ends with everyone splashing together and Peppa declaring she likes frogs the best.
Alma's Way
Alma's Rescue Repair
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Alma, a girl from the Bronx, watches her Papi head off to rescue a squirrel and decides to start her own service, 'Alma's Rescue Repair.' She fixes a friend's wind-blown music stand and a neighbour's tomato tower, but hauling her tools back and forth is tiring and they keep falling off her wagon. After seeing how Mr. Ramirez keeps all his tools in his shoe shop, Alma sets up her repair service at home so people come to her. The episode ends with her helping again from her organised home base.
Hello, Jack! The Kindness Show
Jack's Surprise for Mr. Prickles
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In the town of Clover Grove, cheerful host Jack learns that his new neighbor Mr. Prickles is homesick and misses the garden at his old home. Jack teams up with his friend Bibi, Chef and a young helper named Hugo to secretly plant a new garden full of tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini, plus a painted rock gnome named Terry. Songs about kindness thread through the gardening, all set in a bright cafe and backyard. At the reveal Mr. Prickles is delighted and says his house finally feels like a home.
Lovely Little Farm
Photo
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On a countryside farm, sisters Jill and Jackie prepare their animals for a special farm family photo before baby Josh falls asleep. Jill works through one small hitch after another, leading wandering goats with carrots, cleaning dusty chickens and making the pony Pickle a straw bow so she feels included. The whole household, animals and all, finally gathers for the picture, and the family tells Jill she brought everyone together. The episode closes with a gentle goodbye as two sheep leave for the fields and grandfather Jamma announces he is moving in.
Pretzel and the Puppies
Do the Doxie
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Pretzel, a dad dachshund, takes his five pups to visit their grandmother Nana while Mom is at work. They discover that Nana's exercise class is closed, so the pups set out to find another way for Nana and her neighbourhood friends to move their bodies. After trying gardening and a tea party, they land on a dance party. The episode ends with everyone, including Mom, dancing the Doxie together.
Sago Mini Friends
Home with Herb
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Harvey the dog promises to look after Herb, a small plant belonging to his friend Alan. When Herb keeps looking sad, Harvey and his friends Jack and Ginger try squeaky toys, a trip to the playground, and books about what plants need, but nothing works. They finally realise Herb is only happy when he is held, and Alan returns with a special holder so Harvey can keep him close. A short closing segment follows Harvey singing about all the things he is thankful for.
For 4-year-olds
Around four, waiting becomes the real theme. Children can now hold the idea that something is growing even when nothing looks different today, but the patience for it is still being built. Look for episodes that come back to the same plant over time, or that show mild disappointment when a seed does not come up. Four-year-olds also love naming and sorting, so series that distinguish between vegetables, herbs and weeds give them something satisfying to chew on.
Bluey
BBQ
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In this Bluey episode, Bandit fires up the backyard BBQ while the cousins gather and the adults try to relax. When salad is requested, Bingo is put in charge and ends up collecting a real green pepper, then yellow and red flowers as Muffin asks for each colour. Her attempt to make mud 'salad dressing' with the garden hose floods part of the yard before things settle. The family sits down together to eat sausages and Bingo's colourful flower salads.
Bluey
Camping
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Bluey meets Jean-Luc, a French-speaking dog, while her family is camping in the Australian bush. Over several days the two invent games together, pretending to live in the forest, planting a seed and chasing a wild pig. One morning Bluey finds Jean-Luc's tent packed away and learns his family has gone home. Her mum comforts her with the idea that special people sometimes come for a while and then leave, and the seed they planted grows into a small tree.
Llama Llama
Forgotten Fuzzy
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Little Llama packs a big bag and goes for his longest sleepover yet at Grandma and Grandpa's house. After a day of picking vegetables, cooking, riding the tractor and stargazing, he realizes he left his stuffed Fuzzy Llama at home and cannot imagine sleeping without him. His grandparents comfort him, and Grandpa offers Little Linty Llama, the very toy he slept with as a boy. The next morning Little Llama reunites with Mama and Fuzzy, proud that he stayed the whole time and made a new friend.
Doc McStuffins
A Bad Case of the Pricklethorns
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Doc McStuffins runs her pretend clinic in the backyard, where the boys' inflatable toy Boppy keeps springing leaks. After patching and pumping him up once, Doc retraces what happened, realises the rose bush thorns are to blame, and diagnoses a 'bad case of the prickle thorns.' She explains how the thorns cause the holes and advises everyone to keep away from sharp things. The episode ends with Will and Donnie happily playing with a repaired Boppy well away from the roses.
Pinkalicious & Peterrific
All Tangled Up
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In the town of Pinkville, a delivery mix-up brings balls of yarn instead of flower bulbs for the annual Flowerfest. Pinkalicious and her brother Peter rally the townspeople to use up the yarn by making crafts, learning to knit from Mr. Crunk, and finally wrapping the whole park in colorful yarn. The town decides the park looks best this way and celebrates Yarnfest instead. A short live-action segment then follows a real yarn artist sharing her street art.
Mopatop Shop
This Way To The Garden
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Mopatop runs a shop where he promises to find whatever a customer could think or dream of. A mole named Rolly Moly comes in wanting a sign that reads 'this way to the garden', then a fence, before realising he has no garden at all. With Mopatop and his garden-loving assistant Puppyduck, he builds one piece by piece, adding flowers, grass, bees, butterflies and a bird in a tree. When the big clock signals closing time, the mole heads off with his finished garden and Mopatop waves him goodbye.
Max & Ruby
Max's Wormcake
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Ruby, a young rabbit, sets out to plant a marigold garden in the backyard for her dolls, explaining how the flowers need water, soil, stones and plant food. Her little brother Max keeps gathering the same worms, water and stones to build his own 'worm cake.' When Ruby finally goes to plant her marigolds, she finds Max has used everything and grows frustrated. In the end Max helps return what the flowers need, and Ruby thanks him.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Muffin Party
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Moose decides to throw a muffin party, but after the muffins are eaten and his recipe card gets soaked, one ingredient becomes impossible to read. With help from Mouse, Cat and Piper, who spots a buttery hoofprint clue, and plenty of encouragement, Moose bakes the muffins anyway and improvises the final ingredient himself. His guests love the 'freewheeling muffins', and Moose is proud he pulled it off. The episode closes with the series refrain asking what happens next.
Super Truck of Car City
The Bulldozer
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At the site of Car City's new library, Carl finds Billy the bulldozer still working despite a cold. Carl sends him home to rest and calls in Super Truck, who drives to his cave and transforms into a bulldozer to take over the shift. Together with Edgar the excavator and Ethan the tipper truck, he pushes the scattered bricks into a pile, loads the mound of earth and spreads it across the front garden. The library is finished in time to open that evening, and the friends say goodbye until next time.
Bob the Builder
Scratch's Hidden Treasures
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Scratch, a small new digger, arrives for his first day on Bob's construction team and is disappointed when Bob asks him to watch the others instead of giving him a job. He visits Scoop, Muck, Roley and Wendy hoping to help, and each one tells him to watch and learn. While practising digging on his own, Scratch uncovers a buried vase that the museum curator David Mockney recognises as the long-lost Mockney Monk vase. The episode ends with Bob and the team welcoming Scratch as a full member of the crew.
For 5-year-olds
Five-year-olds want reasons. Why do roots grow down and stems grow up, why do plants need sun, what do worms actually do in the soil. This is a good age for series that explain the mechanics behind the garden without dropping the wonder, and that show trying something, watching what happens, and adjusting. Stories where a plan fails and gets rethought are worth more here than stories where everything blooms on cue.
Stillwater
Stuck in the Rain
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Michael is disappointed when rain cancels his baseball game, so his neighbour Stillwater, a wise panda, shows him another way to see the day. Stillwater explains that he treats the rain as a raincoat and tells the story of Odette, a gardener who removes the bees from her garden and then loses all her fruit. Michael takes the lesson to heart, realises rain helps things grow, and starts having fun racing leaf boats and jumping in puddles. The episode closes with the children playing happily in the rain.
Stillwater
Soaked
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Two brothers, Carl and Michael, accidentally soak their sister Addy with water balloons and knock her freshly baked cupcakes into the mud, then hide because they fear she will be angry. Their neighbor, a panda named Stillwater, finds them and, while they help him pull weeds, tells a story about a gardener named Arjun who kept putting off a small task until it grew impossible. The brothers realize hiding will not help and apologize to Addy, who forgives them and shares a new batch of cupcakes. The episode ends with everyone playing together with water balloons.
Stillwater
Larger Than Life
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Carl, a young boy, spends all his birthday money on a toy robot he imagines will be fifty feet tall and able to shoot light beams. When the package arrives it holds only a small robot, and Carl is deeply disappointed. His neighbor Stillwater, a panda, tells him a story about his friend Dahlia, who planted melon seeds, grew pumpkins by mistake, and turned them into a pie everyone loved. Carl decides he can still have fun with the robot in a different way and plays imaginative adventures with Addy and the others.
Fancy Nancy
Shoe La La!
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Nancy falls in love with a pair of forty-dollar red shoes and is told by both parents that they cost too much for shoes she cannot wear every day. After learning the difference between a want and a need, she decides to earn the money herself through extra chores like weeding the garden and saving her piggy bank money. At the store she is caught out by sales tax and comes up short, then earns a tip by giving another shopper honest shoe advice. She finally has enough and buys the red shoes.
Ada Twist Scientist
Garden Party
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Ada, Rosie and Iggy discover that Iggy's mom's garden has wilted, so they set out to bring it back to life. They observe the plants, form a hypothesis, test sun and water in a lab, ask Iggy's dad for expert advice about fertilizer, and finally build a machine that waters and feeds the plants automatically. The garden thrives and the friends hold their garden party. The episode closes with a real robotics engineer showing his garden robot and a fun fact about seeds.
Lovely Little Farm
Egg
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On a working farm, sisters Jill and Jackie discover that a special golden egg has rolled away from its nest. Farmer Jill organises the animals into a lookout team and reasons her way around the barn, yard and fields to track it down, while Jackie sets herself the job of collecting the hens' eggs and learns how to lift a chicken gently. The goats Biff and Bob eventually find the golden egg in an old bucket, and it is reunited with its carers. The episode closes with the family planting sweet-corn seeds just before the rain, then heading out to bring the last animals inside.
Jessica's Big Little World
Sleepover
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Jessica packs for an overnight stay at Grandma and Granddad's house but leaves her favorite toy, Small Uncle, at home. Across the day she plays hide and seek, dances, visits the garden, and makes a jiggly dessert with her grandparents. At bedtime she cannot sleep and cries because she misses her toy, until Grandma sits with her and helps her remember the fun she had. The next day Jessica returns home and happily reunites with Small Uncle to tell him all about it.
Andy Pandy
Puppeteer Pandy
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Andy Pandy, a puppet boy in a striped romper and nightcap, plays with his friends Looby Loo the rag doll and Teddy the bear in a pastel nursery. He slips a sock with button eyes over his hand to make a puppet, and the friends also spend time in a garden with flowers, planted carrots and a red worm. An off-screen narrator describes the action throughout. The episode ends on a 'JimbleJam' card with a 'Play Next Episode' prompt.
SciShow Kids
Worms Are Wonderful
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Jessi, a science host, and her robot friend Squeaks introduce earthworms and explain what makes them special. Standing in an illustrated set, she covers how worms differ from insects and snakes, how they move and breathe, why they live in burrows, what they eat, and how they enrich soil through tunnelling and composting. Real footage of worms, birds and soil is mixed with cartoon diagrams of worm anatomy. The episode closes with the message that healthy worms mean healthy soil and healthy people, and a thank-you to the viewer.
Leo the Wildlife Ranger
Asian Elephant
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Leo, a junior ranger, plants an apple tree with his puppy Hero and discovers a baby Asian elephant nearby. He photographs it and his sister Katie shares facts about the species, then the group travels through the lowland forest to find the baby's mother. Along the way they follow footprints, rest at a watering hole and slip past approaching crocodiles. The episode ends with the baby reunited with its mother and a short recap of what the children found and learned.
For 6-year-olds
At six, gardening can carry bigger ideas: seasons, food coming from somewhere, taking care of something over months. Children this age can take genuine responsibility for a plant or a patch and feel the weight of forgetting to water it. Look for series with a longer thread, where growing something is tied to a friendship, a shared project or a place worth looking after. The garden works best now as a setting for real problems, not as a lesson about seeds.
Craig of the Creek
Monster in the Garden
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Craig and his siblings spend a weekend at their grandparents' house, where granddad's vegetable garden is being mysteriously eaten. Craig teams up with granddad to build a fence and set traps, imagining the culprit is a shapeshifting monster. After each plan fails, he patiently watches the garden at night and discovers the real thief is a deer slipping through a hole in the fence. Grandma, a city councilwoman, calls to have the fence holes patched, and the mystery is solved.
Pinecone & Pony
In Plain Sight
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In a fantasy training world, warrior-in-training Pinecone is paired with the quiet, nature-loving Wizkid Fauna to care for a magical snake root plant and earn a plant care token. Distracted by jealousy over her best friend Hawthorne befriending Annabelle, Pinecone bungles the plant care while Fauna patiently does the real work. By the end Pinecone admits she did not earn the token and gives Fauna the credit, then makes up with Hawthorne. The episode closes with Fauna inviting Pinecone to the hidden waterfall.
Lovely Little Farm
Babies
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On their countryside farm, sisters Jill and Jackie welcome a newborn lamb and their new baby brother. Jackie sets out to prove she is a big sister by finding the perfect name, testing many silly ideas before she and Jill agree on Joshy. Along the way they feed the ewe Barbara, mind a duckling left to watch a golden egg and plan to plant sweetcorn. The episode closes with the golden egg rolling out of sight and the animals setting off to find it.
The Magic School Bus
Meets the Rot Squad
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Ms. Frizzle's class holds a rotten-food contest, and winner Wanda receives a young tree she wants to plant in a vacant lot full of dead logs. When Wanda calls a service to haul away one rotting log, the Magic School Bus shrinks the class to bug size so they can see the fungi, beetles and slime molds living inside it. The children learn that rot is nature recycling itself and race to stop Larry from removing the log. In the end they save it, plant Wanda's tree, and feed it compost.
Work It Out Wombats
Special Delivery
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Three wombat siblings set out to make a special delivery across the giant tree where they live. They sketch a route on a map, compare two paths, then test their plan by sliding, swinging and climbing through the branches, watching what goes wrong and changing course along the way. Neighbours greet them as each item arrives. By the end the wombats reach their goal by breaking the job into steps and adjusting when something does not work.
Lovely Little Farm
Sisters
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Two sisters, Jill and Jackie, wake up to the news that their new baby brother has been born. Across a day on their family farm they meet him, learn to hold him gently, and help pick vegetables for soup and care for the animals. Jackie, eager to give the first hug, practises waiting by looking after a golden egg, while a little duck proves how helpful it can be. The episode closes with the sisters tending a sheep that is about to have her lamb.
Gigantosaurus
Please Don't Pick The Flowers
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In a colourful dinosaur land, four young friends, Rocky, Bill, Tiny and Mazu, spend the day near the swamp. When Bill discovers how tasty the floating flowers are and picks far too many, the whole food chain starts to break down, leaving the horseshoe crabs, the birds and even the giant Giganto hungry. Mazu explains how the animals all depend on one another, and the friends set out to dig up a bone, return the flowers and scatter seeds. By the end the ecosystem is working again and Bill has learned how one small choice can affect everyone.