Green Balloon Club - Season 1

Green Balloon Club - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes48
DatesJun 20, 2008 - May 29, 2009

Episodes

Meeting the Green Balloon Club
Season 1Episode 124 min

Meeting the Green Balloon Club

Lily-Rose, Ant, Cat, Jay, Sky and Skipper the dog meet at the foot of the Green Balloon in a virtual clubhouse, made from recycled bottles and boxes. The balloon carries the clubhouse and the children around the country, linking to stories sent in by viewers and special reports from Jelly. Join the club online and earn green stars for helping maintain the environment.

Jun 20, 2008
Animals Under the Water
Season 1Episode 224 min

Animals Under the Water

Interactive nature show for young children, with viewers' stories and reports from Jelly.

Jun 27, 2008
Dragonflies
Season 1Episode 324 min

Dragonflies

The team find out about fruit and dragonflies and travel over the Scottish Highlands to find out what wildlife lives there.

Jul 4, 2008
Bugs Hunt / Isles of Scilly
Season 1Episode 424 min

Bugs Hunt / Isles of Scilly

This time, the gang are on a bug hunt and Jelly is visiting the Isles of Scilly.

Jul 11, 2008
Lily-Rose Plants Nasturtiums
Season 1Episode 524 min

Lily-Rose Plants Nasturtiums

Lily-Rose gets planting and Cat finds out about night-time creatures.

Jul 18, 2008
The Team Go to the Coast
Season 1Episode 624 min

The Team Go to the Coast

The team go to the coast to find out about the wildlife living there.

Jul 25, 2008
Ant's Special Visitor
Season 1Episode 724 min

Ant's Special Visitor

Ant brings a very special visitor to the club.

Aug 1, 2008
Heathland
Season 1Episode 824 min

Heathland

The balloon travels over heathland and the children look out for wildlife.

Aug 8, 2008
Busy Bee Boogie
Season 1Episode 924 min

Busy Bee Boogie

The team discover a forest of flowers, and the ground crew learn how to do a buzzy bee boogie.

Aug 15, 2008
Under the Sea
Season 1Episode 1024 min

Under the Sea

This time, the balloon flies over the coast and the team explores under the sea.

Aug 22, 2008
Sweet Lavender
Season 1Episode 1124 min

Sweet Lavender

This time, the team discover how sweet lavender is, what a rat's skull looks like and watch Nature Chris being put through an army assault course.

Aug 29, 2008
All the Senses
Season 1Episode 1224 min

All the Senses

The Green Team use all their senses to explore the world around them.

Sep 5, 2008
Building a Nest
Season 1Episode 1324 min

Building a Nest

Jelly sends in her special report as she finds out what it is like to hug a tree. Jake and Ant find out how tricky it is building a nest and Cat and Lily-Rose make paper cup squirrels. Some Green Balloon Club members deliver a report all about house martins, and a wonderful heather spot.

Sep 12, 2008
Life on the Waterways
Season 1Episode 1424 min

Life on the Waterways

The Green Team are finding out about life on the waterways and Cat finds out about water voles. Green Balloon Club members Louie and Stanley send in a report from the Grand Union Canal, while the ground crew are in Sale, Cheshire, doing some nature printing in the garden, and Jelly is spotting her very first jay in Bill's garden. Club members Cristina and Christopher in Waltham Abbey set a spot which can be found in ponds and rivers.

Sep 19, 2008
Mud Festival in Wales
Season 1Episode 1524 min

Mud Festival in Wales

It is messy time at the Green Balloon Club. The balloon is heading to a mud festival in Wales and the green team are having lots of messy fun with compost and clay. Jelly meets up with Green Balloon Club members Louie and Stanley for a trip on a canal boat and look at the wildlife along the banks.

Sep 26, 2008
Canal Boat
Season 1Episode 1624 min

Canal Boat

The Green Team go on a treasure hunt. Lily-Rose, Ant, Cat, Jay and Skipper and Green Balloon Club members are on the hunt for nature treasures. The team gather reports from Robert who is friends with his local seal, some Green Balloon Club members who are looking for nature treasure in their local park and Jelly with her friends who are looking for treasures on the seashore.

Oct 3, 2008
Basil the Kitten
Season 1Episode 1724 min

Basil the Kitten

Basil the kitten has come to Balloon Club with Cat, and the team look at how he is like his larger African cousins. There is a special report from Nature Chris who is in the Massai Mara with the Big Cat team. Skipper is a bit put out by all this talk of cats and the team do their best to cheer her up. Also, Jelly reports from a scarecrow festival whilst Green Balloon Club members find out about wading birds and wildfowl.

Oct 10, 2008
Apples
Season 1Episode 1824 min

Apples

Jelly is harvesting apples in an orchard while Lily-Rose and Ant are starting a planting experiment to see if they can grow an apple tree. Cat and Jay are finding out about deer with the help of Green Balloon Club members Melina and Naureen.

Rhys and Jem are setting the week's spot - and it is a pretty dangerouse one! And finally the team all head down to the woods for the Green Balloon Club song to see what wildlife they can find there.

Oct 17, 2008
Owls / The Seashore
Season 1Episode 1924 min

Owls / The Seashore

The Green Team find out about owls and club members Ellie, Jodie and Erin meet a tawny owl. The Ground Crew check out what wildlife can be found on the seashore and even try a bit of snorkelling.

Jelly and her friends revisit the Jelly garden they helped to make in Plymouth earlier in the year to see how it is growing. Jake is inspired to make an autumn owl picture while club members Emily and Chloe find a bird for viewers to spot wherever they live.

Oct 24, 2008
Halloween
Season 1Episode 2024 min

Halloween

It is Halloween and there are some spooky goings-on in the Green Balloon. Jelly visits Bill to see if her pumpkin has grown big enough to become a lantern, and looks for bugs in Bill's garden.

Cat finds out about bats and asks why people find them scary. Green Balloon Club members Sam and Ben set a slightly spooky spot while the Green Team take on the challenge of the Tower of Flour.

Oct 31, 2008
Birds in Autumn
Season 1Episode 2124 min

Birds in Autumn

The Green Balloon Club team are having a good look at autumn - how the leaves change colour and whether it is possible to preserve their lovely shades.

Jelly pays a visit to Bill Oddie and finds out what's happening in his bird boxes at this time of year. Many birds migrate now, but Jay and the Ground Crew have a look at the ones that stay at home and find out how experts research their lives.

And Green Balloon Club members Annabelle and Jessica set one of the stay-at-home birds as the week's spot.

Nov 7, 2008
Wild About Woods
Season 1Episode 2224 min

Wild About Woods

The Green Team are going wild about woods. Green Balloon Club member Ralf is reporting from a woodland event, finding out what fun can be had in your local wood. Cat and Skipper are looking at badgers whilst Jay and Ant make a badger from newspapers. Jelly is visiting Bill Oddie in his garden where they will be making an unusual bird feeder.

Nov 14, 2008
Hibernating Birds
Season 1Episode 2324 min

Hibernating Birds

The Green Team are learning about hibernation and Jay is finding out if birds hibernate. Ant looks at hibernating insects and makes a bug box for minibeasts to sleep in over the winter. Lily-Rose is looking at how her seeds do in winter, while Cat finds the champion hibernator of them all - the dormouse.

Also, Jelly and her friends call in on some hedghogs getting ready for winter at St Tiggywinkles and there is a special guest appearance from Justin as a Green Balloon Club member helps his tortoise get ready to hibernate.

Nov 21, 2008
Jumping Salmon / Ferret
Season 1Episode 2424 min

Jumping Salmon / Ferret

The Green Team marvel at just how athletic some creatures are. Green Balloon Club members from Cardiff show what brilliant jumpers their local salmon are while the balloon is visited by a very athletic little friend: Georgina the ferret.

The Ground Crew are on a mission to find out who is the speediest - ferrets or them. Club members Sara and Indigo, set a spot which can be found in gardens, parks and countryside all across the country.

Lily-Rose makes a little ferret to play with once Georgina has to go home. And everything concludes with the Green Balloon Flying song - looking at the wonder of bird migration.

Nov 28, 2008
Mini Christmas Trees / Badgers
Season 1Episode 2524 min

Mini Christmas Trees / Badgers

The Green Team starting to think about Christmas: they have an idea for making mini Christmas trees. Cat finds out about pine martens. Green Balloon Club members Josh, Oscar, Henry and Ben file a special report on winter vegetables, while the Ground Crew set out in search of badgers. The Green Team really get in the Christmas mood with a new song, Whatever's Good at Christmas, featuring Bill Oddie and Jelly.

Dec 5, 2008
Christmas Tree / Reindeer
Season 1Episode 2624 min

Christmas Tree / Reindeer

Christmas is getting near and Sky has bought a Christmas tree for the Green Balloon. May and Alfie send in a report on choosing their Christmas tree too and the Green Team set about making decorations - festive snowflakes for the tree.

Green Balloon club members Jorge and Zoe are lucky enough to meet some reindeer and send in a special report whilst Antoinne and Chantel set a seasonal spot to look out for this week. Bill Oddie, Jelly, Nature Chris and a host of children and animals join the Green Team for the fantastic Green Balloon Christmas song, Whatever's good at Christmas.

Dec 12, 2008
The Story of Christmas
Season 1Episode 2724 min

The Story of Christmas

Christmas is near and the Green Team are thinking about presents. They receive a beautiful book, The Story of Christmas, and within its pages see the story of the Nativity told by the animals. Children from Hillhouse Primary school team up with Nature Chris and the animals from Lee Valley Farm to share the story.

Back in the balloon, the team look at the Christmas presents they could provide for their local wildlife and make a beautiful star for the Christmas tree. After a seasonal spot, the team join up with Bill Oddie, Jelly, the Nativity cast, Bollywood dancers, Irish dancers and break dancers in the Green Balloon's Christmas song, Whatever's Good at Christmas.

Dec 19, 2008
Happy New Year / Fun in the Snow
Season 1Episode 2824 min

Happy New Year / Fun in the Snow

The Green Team are all together again and full of wishes for the New Year. Jelly and her friends find out how to recycle your Christmas tree, whilst Green Balloon Club members, Alice, Oscar and Rory, are having fun in the snow.

Cat and Skipper are finding out about squirrels and Ant and Lily-Rose make a New Year collage showing all the wildlife they hope to spot this year. Club Members Oliver and Harry set a very colourful bird for us to spot this week.

Jan 9, 2009
Lily-Rose Hates Winter
Season 1Episode 2924 min

Lily-Rose Hates Winter

It is January and Lily-Rose is feeling fed up with winter. Her flowers have died and there is no wildlife around to spot. The Green Team set about showing her that there is still plenty to do and see in the winter.

Green Balloon Club members Tegan, Jack, Charlie and Tyler are busy feeding and spotting the birds in their garden, whilst the Ground Crew set out on a mission to see what winter wildlife they can find in their local park.

Jan 16, 2009
Birds in Winter
Season 1Episode 3024 min

Birds in Winter

The Green Balloon Club have a good look at the birds in the winter garden. Club members, Antoinne and Chantal join in with the Big Garden Birdwatch, whilst the Ground Crew set off on a mission to find out why starlings make amazing patterns in the sky.

Cat and Lily-Rose are making comical dancing birds and we have a close look at stoats who are also great movers. Green Balloon Club members Amy and Ellie set another widespread bird as this week's spot and finally the whole team imagine what it would be like to go flying South like a migrating bird.

Jan 23, 2009
The Green Balloon Club Pantomime
Season 1Episode 3124 min

The Green Balloon Club Pantomime

It is panto time in the Green Balloon. Join the Green Team as they tell the story of Lily-Rose Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolves. Green Balloon Club member Andrew shows us how to plant a tree and Bill Oddie introduces Jelly to some of the creatures that visit his garden.

Jan 30, 2009
Making Bread
Season 1Episode 3224 min

Making Bread

It is panto time in the Green Balloon. The Green Team learn how bread is made. Jelly files a special report from a flour mill and the team try their hand at making bread hedgehogs. Cat is finding out about real hedgehogs while Green Balloon Club members from the Lee Valley are looking for winter wildfowl and set us a seasonal spot.

Feb 6, 2009
Blue Tits
Season 1Episode 3324 min

Blue Tits

The first signs of spring are starting to appear and birds are looking for places to build their nests and start a family. Jake is putting up a new home for his robins and introduces a family of blue tits. The Green Team have a look at the different homes that animals live in whilst Jelly visits some children in West Sussex who are making a wormery. Lily-Rose has brought her hyacinth to Club to show everyone how it is growing. And Green Balloon Club members set a spot that should be growing somewhere near you.

Feb 13, 2009
Lily-Rose's Tooth
Season 1Episode 3424 min

Lily-Rose's Tooth

Lily-Rose has lost her first tooth and she brings it in to show the Green Team. So Ant in turn shows her his collection of animal teeth and they look at what jobs the different kinds of teeth do. Jelly and Bill set up a fantastic experiment to see if they can see a snail's teeth. Green Balloon Club members Ellie and Tilly find some beautiful garden birds - but not the sort you usually find in your back garden.

Feb 20, 2009
Weather with Nature Chris
Season 1Episode 3524 min

Weather with Nature Chris

The team are joined by Nature Chris and are having a weather day. They discover different ways of making rainbows and have a look at one of Britain's most brightly-coloured birds. Green Balloon Club members Megan and Ellie are out in the snow showing us how a hedge is planted, whilst Jelly and her friends are down on the farm to meet some racing pigs.

Feb 27, 2009
Skipper's Birthday
Season 1Episode 3624 min

Skipper's Birthday

The Green Team wonder when Skipper's birthday is, because she is a rescue dog and Cat does not know exactly when she was born. There is no time like the present, so the team decide it is the perfect day to celebrate Skipper's birthday. Jelly and her friends visit the Dogs' Trust and find out about rescue dogs whilst Green Balloon Club Members Aaron, Alia, Lillas and Kyle report on the daffodils which have come into bloom where they live.

Lily-Rose is inspired to make Skipper a daffodil birthday card and Skipper's best friend, Floyd comes to tea.

Mar 6, 2009
Creatures That Communicate Using Vibrations
Season 1Episode 3724 min

Creatures That Communicate Using Vibrations

Lily-Rose, Ant, Cat, Jay, Sky and Skipper the dog travel Great Britain in a green hot-air balloon. The Green Team are finding out about creatures that communicate using vibrations. Green Balloon Club members Lukasz, Tabitha and Xavier are on the trail of a greater spotted woodpecker, whilst Jelly and her friends head to Scotland to go dolphin spotting. The Green team find out about how spiders use their webs and even make a communication system of their own.

Mar 13, 2009
Ladybirds and Hyacinths in Spring
Season 1Episode 3824 min

Ladybirds and Hyacinths in Spring

Spring is on the way. Ant has found his first ladybird of the year; it looks as if they are coming out of hibernation. Lily-Rose's hyacinth has bloomed and Green Balloon Club members Malikah, Centaine and Zahra are finding first buds and shoots where they live. Sky starts off a bean seed experiment whilst Jelly is visiting some friends who are working in a kitchen garden.

Mar 20, 2009
The Lifecycle
Season 1Episode 3924 min

The Lifecycle

The Green Team find out about the life cycle. Ant brings in some pupae that he is watching, hoping that they will soon hatch into butterflies. Green Balloon Club members Maisie, Christopher and Jada find frogspawn in their local pond, while Jelly and her friends check out the bird life on the estuary. Jay learns about puffins.

Mar 27, 2009
Animal Tracks
Season 1Episode 4024 min

Animal Tracks

The Green Team are going tracking. Every creature makes a different print, but can they recognise them? Green Balloon Club members Joanne, Jack, Jonathan and Niamh are on the East Anglian coast looking for a beautiful bird called an Oyster Catcher. The Ground Crew set off on a tracking mission too and find something quite a bit larger. Cat finds out about Hares, whilst Lily-Rose and Ant make a peacock using their own prints.

Apr 3, 2009
City Farm / Baby Rabbits
Season 1Episode 4124 min

City Farm / Baby Rabbits

Lily-Rose, Ant, Cat, Jay, Sky and Skipper the dog travel Great Britain in a green hot air balloon. The team have some very special visitors in the balloon: a pair of baby rabbits. Jelly and her friends set off to a city farm to discover what baby animals they have there, and at the same time get involved with some pig racing.

Green Balloon Club members Ben, Elliot, Macey and Benjamin are planting some bulbs ready for summer whilst Lily-Rose is getting very excited about planting some vegetable seeds and growing her own dinner.

Apr 10, 2009
Dig In
Season 1Episode 4224 min

Dig In

The Green Team join the BBC's Dig In Campaign for some spring vegetable planting. Lily-Rose has a lovely new window box which she plants with carrots, beetroots, red lettuce and butternut squash, at the same time planting tomato seeds in a propagator. Ant and Cat think of a clever way to make seed markers from polystyrene food trays.

Green Balloon Members around the country have been busy too. Maisie and Charde report on the tadpoles that they've found in their local pond and Jelly visits Bill who has been recording the creatures that visit his garden.

Apr 17, 2009
Toy Farm / Baby Animals / Incubator
Season 1Episode 4324 min

Toy Farm / Baby Animals / Incubator

Cat has brought a great toy farm to Club and the Green Team find out about baby farm animals. Green Balloon Club members Eddie, Joe and Bethany head off to a farm to find some baby animals and report back on them.

Nature Chris has an amazing surprise for everyone - he's brought in an incubator. Could it be that a chick will hatch before their eyes? Jelly is visiting the Isles of Scilly and looking for seals - perhaps she will find a baby seal?

Apr 24, 2009
Bluebells / Planting On
Season 1Episode 4424 min

Bluebells / Planting On

The Green Team are amazed by just how fast things can grow. Green Balloon Club members Lydia, Thomas, Edward and Kimberley report on the beautiful bluebells in their local wood.

The Ground Crew is up very early to listen to the dawn chorus. Jay and Cat find out how to replant their runner beans and kidney beans into larger pots as they have grown so much, whilst Lily-Rose and Ant find some clever ways of printing a vegetable garden.

May 1, 2009
Stag Beetles
Season 1Episode 4524 min

Stag Beetles

Ant has brought in his prize model of a stag beetle and the team find out about Britain's biggest insect - sadly under threat in today's world.

Green Balloon Club members Robert, Alexia and Joshua report on what they are doing to help build homes for stag beetles. Jelly visits Bill Oddie and they go on a bug hunt to see what they can discover in his garden.

Lily-Rose is particularly fond of bees as they help pollinate her flowers, so she and Cat make a bee model. And finally Club members Jasmine and Jimmy set a beetle spot for everyone to look out for where they live.

May 8, 2009
Animals That Live in Dens
Season 1Episode 4624 min

Animals That Live in Dens

The Green Team have built a fantastic den inside the Green Balloon and are thinking about animals that live in dens and under the ground. Green Balloon Club members, Jazmin and Pandora, report on a family of foxes that have made a den in their Auntie's garden, whilst Jelly has her very own den made specially for her at a Forest School.

Lily-Rose and Ant make beautiful butterflies to decorate their den and Club Members Alex and Rebecca set this week's spot which should be appearing in a tree near you right now.

May 15, 2009
Ocean in a Box
Season 1Episode 4724 min

Ocean in a Box

The Green Team make their own nature worlds, and Cat and Ant make an ocean in a box. Jelly visits friends in the Scilly Isles and goes rockpooling. Also, Green Balloon Club member Harry visits his grandad's animal rescue centre and meets some tiny baby birds. Also, club members Rebecca and Christopher set the Spot of the Week.

May 22, 2009
Four Seasons
Season 1Episode 4824 min

Four Seasons

The Green Team are thinking about the four seasons and trying to decide which is best. Could it be spring as it's so full of new things? Could it be summer because it is such fun? Could it be autumn because it is so beautiful? Or perhaps it's winter because it's so exciting? Green Balloon Club member Nansi shows us the flowers and birds around Cardiff cathedral whilst Jack and Dhunya set a very special spot of the week.
May 29, 2009

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