It's a frosty day and the Tweenies learn about winter. They make a big winter collage from things they collect in the garden, while they sing What Makes Winter. Judy reads them a story called Ridiculous, by Michael Coleman, about a tortoise who wants to explore winter rather than hibernate.

What Makes Winter?

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Esther Collins

Samantha Dodd

Bats

Snow

The Tweenies play the yes/no game. When no-one can guess what Jake has thought of, they think he's cheating. Jake sulks until Doodles helps him.

Max pays a visit to Battersea Dogs' Home in south London to help a friend to find her dog.

Dog's Home

A bee flies into the playroom and Max shows the Tweenies how to make bumblebees. When Fizz takes them into the garden, something surprising happens.

Bees

Jake uses his new digger to look for treasure in the garden. Bella and Fizz decide to be pirate sisters, and bury a treasure box full of jewels in the sandpit to surprise Jake. But when Jake digs up the box and the treasure is missing, everyone is surprised! Where has it gone?

Digger

Jake finds Milo playing in a big cardboard box. Milo is pretending that it is a submarine and then an airplane. He stays in the box for story time while the others describe the pictures to him. Then they all join him in the box and pretend that it is a runaway train!

Big Box

Fizz goes to the toilet, and comes across a slug. Bella is the only one who likes it, so she tries to convince the others that slugs are great.

Slug

When Bella receives a postcard from her friends in Venice, she teaches everyone to say 'ciao'. They watch a video about Venice, make Italian food and ride in gondolas.

Ciao Bella

Max asks Jake to put away some cooking apples for him, but he decides to eat one (without knowing it is a cooking apple). He starts to feel very ill and is eventually sick. Fizz and Milo are not very sympathetic, but Nurse Bella is.

Jake's Been Sick

Max helps out at a restaurant and demonstrates how to make pizza.

Restaurant

Max suggests that the friends play a game called sardines. Milo hides first in the cupboard followed by Bella, Fizz, Jake and Doodles. Max arrives and tells them a story, but they still do not know how the game ends!

Sardines

Max has mopped the floor so the Tweenies have to remove their muddy boots before they can play indoors, but then somebody steals them.

No Shoes

The Tweenies pinch each other and Judy talks to find out why they done it 1st Milo pinched Bella because he was doing a jigsaw puzzle so Bella took one of the pieces 2nd Bella Fizz and Jake make their own jigsaw puzzles when Fizz offers to help Bella she pinches Fizz 3rd Jake wants to play hide and seek but Fizz doesn't want to so she pinches Jake 4th when Milo upsets Jake over a story he pinches Milo when Judy tells them it's wrong to pinch someone, including friends.

Pinching

Max visits a watermill where he grinds his own wheat, makes his own flour, bakes bread and eats it.

Watermill

The Tweenies have been wearing pajamas Doodles get Fizz muddy so she puts her pajamas on Bella's pants rip so she puts her pajamas on Milo had his pajamas on but Jake doesn't so Milo gets him some dressing up pajamas.

Pajama Time

Milo's friends get their own back when he builds a castle in the garden and tells them to keep out. They build a house in the playroom and tell him to keep out.

Keep Out

Milo learns to take his time, to stop being so clumsy.

Careful, Don't Be Clumsy

While out for a walk in the woods, Max joins a teddy bears' picnic.

A Walk in the Woods

The Tweenies pretend to have stiff bodies when Max suffers from a stiff neck.

Max's Stiff Neck

After throwing a tantrum because she can't have a picnic, Fizz dreams she is unpopular and decides to improve her behavior.

I Hate It

Jake dreams that his beanbag has leaked all over the playroom.

Leaky Beanbag

Jake takes a closer look at the grass in the garden, while Fizz brings her lucky charm bracelet to playgroup.

Blade of Grass

Bella and Jake have a problem with very noisy neighbors, but what can they do about it?

Neighbours

Fizz is sad when her favorite video gets damaged.

Videotape

Max takes a ride on a stagecoach when he visits a coach museum.

Coaches & Carriages

When the Tweenies play at being Robin Hood and his Merry Men, the garden becomes a magical forest.

Arrows

Judy's desert story takes the Tweenies on an adventure in search of buried treasure.

Desert

Judy visits a special village for donkeys.

Donkey Village

Bella uses the pictures on a willow-pattern plate to help tell a story.

No Words

Max tells the classic story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. Meanwhile Jake and Doodles start to feel very greedy.

Pigs

Fizz finds it difficult to get to sleep. What will make her go to sleep?

Go to Sleep Fizz

Milo leads a mission to Mars, assisted by Jupiter Jake and Daring Dog Doodles.

Milo's Rocket

Max uses his video camera to film a day in the life of the Tweenies – but nothing goes the way he planned.

Steam Train

The Tweenies are making patterned wrapping paper. Bella tells Jake to draw stripes, but Jake does not know what stripes are. Doodles introduces him to a zebra and they visit the land of stripes, where everything is stripy, so Jake learns how to paint his stripy wrapping paper.

Stripes

Jake has fun in the car with his mom whilst stuck in a traffic jam. Meanwhile, the same cannot be said for the rest of the gang. Bella, Fizz and Milo are all bored at playgroup without Jake.

Car Journey

Milo brings in a big bag of pick-and-mix sweets, but he will not share them with the other Tweenies. He refuses to have melon with them, and then eats so many sweets he feels sick. He decides to give away his last three sweets to the others and eat melon instead!

Milo's Sweets

Judy is on holiday in Scotland, bobbing up and down in a boat.

All at Sea

Jake tries to find out where the spots on the new playroom curtains have gone. The others make spotty masks and sing a spotty song. Max explains the spotty curtain mystery.

Spots

When Milo finds ants in the kitchen he and Fizz use the computer to learn all about them. They use their magnifying glasses to look at them closely and the Tweenies imagine they are in an anthill dancing with the ants. Bella catches the ants in a jam jar and the Tweenies release them in the garden - much to Judy's relief!

Ants

Judy learns Scottish dancing in a castle and goes in search of fluffy rabbits.

Highlands & Islands

The Tweenies want it to snow and play snowy games inside, then they wish for it and it really does snow in the garden.

The friends learn all about bats and Max invents a game about them.

Max makes a castle in the garden, with Doodles as the dragon.

King of the Castle

The Tweenies help Judy and Max decorate the playroom then agree it looked better before.

Decorating

Judy turns her hand to cheese-making on a trip to Cheddar Gorge.

Say Cheese

A visit from Max's sister Polly leads to confusion for both of them.

Oh, I Forgot!

Bella and Fizz learn about crocodiles, while Jake has a bad case of crocodile tears.

Crocodile Tears

Up & Away

Fizz dress up as a butterfly, Bella puts on her fairy princess costume, and Milo pretends to be an eagle – but Jake cannot find an outfit with wings on. The others pretend to fly in the garden, so Jake dresses as Dotman to join in their game. Max buys them all new costumes with wings on, but they have done enough flying for one day.

Wings

Bella brings her check quilt into the playgroup and shows the others how to make check patterns. Max tiles the kitchen floor with a check pattern, Fizz makes a check painting and Milo and Jake play a game with check tiles.

Checks

The Tweenies think that Max and Doodles are going to leave them forever.

Don't Go Max

The friends learn about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, and decide to hold their own Hanukkah party. They watch a video, make potato latkes, play dreidl, make a menorah, hear the story of Hanukkah and open presents.

Hanukkah

When Milo puts his coat on back to front, the Tweenies decide to do everything muddled up. They play muddled up hide-and-seek, do a muddled up painting and muddle up the playroom.

Muddle Day

Judy visits a power station in the middle of a Scottish mountain.

Jake's Mountain

Max finds the other Tweenies useful when they become cranes for the day.

Cranes

Milo's box contains an amazing secret, and the others cannot believe what is inside.

What's in the Box?

Jake is sick in bed on Christmas Day, so his friends come to visit to make him feel better.

White Christmas

Max has some presents for Santa but first he has to find him.

Searching for Santa

Max tries his hand at skiing but finds that it is not as easy as he thought.

Slippery Slopes

Bella has found out that her name means beautiful and the other Tweenies use the computer to find out the origins of their names.

The Name Game

Tweenies Bella, Milo, Fizz and Jake get into many adventures such as visiting a farm, watching puppet shows, learning new songs and listening to stories.

What Makes Winter?

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