Happy Pants
Happy Pants is a weekly radio program and podcast distributed nationally for children aged under 10 who are blind, have low vision or a print disability, and their families. The overall aim for this program is to engage and entertain children who have vision loss to support their lifelong literacy and learning through storytelling, activities and more. It’s produced and presented by Geraldine, Rebecca, Kate and Jo at the Vision Australia Radio studios in Perth. You too can put on your Happy Pants and listen live every Saturday at 10am on your local Vision Australia Radio service or online at www.varadio.org. With massive thanks to Callum who first wore the happy pants and presented many fantastic episodes. Happy Pants is proudly supported by the Community Broadcasting Foundation. Please get in touch with us and let us know what you’d like to hear on the program plus find out how you can appear on the show! Email radio@visionaustralia.org.
Episodes
Can you imagine being a tiny little caterpillar in your back garden? You could spend your days climbing up plants stems, eating crunchy green leaves and wriggling about. Maybe you eat so much and your tummy is so FULL that you have to spin a cocoon, have a nap and emerge as a beautiful butterfly! Imagine flying around your garden and suddenly you see a child walking down the path. It's you! You must seem like a giant compared to in...
It's time for another prickly episode of Happy Pants! Everything is out to sting the team today as they search for clues in their pockets. So many things can sting or prick you; bees, doublegees, wasps, rose thorns, ants, mosquitos!
Have you ever been stung by a bee? Did you say "OUCH!"
We also get to hear a story about Daisy, dance along to fun music and hear about all sorts of stings, bites and thorns.
It's time for another episode of Happy Pants! This week we're tackling bucket lists. What does that mean? It can't possibly be a list written on a bucket...
Ahhh.... a bucket list is a list of things you want to do one day. Like going skydiving, learning to surf or climbing Mt Everest. What would be on your bucket list?
We also learn 3 new big words, hear a true story about Lenny, a young boy who dreamed of seeing the Sydney Harbou...
What's in our Happy Pants pockets today? Lots of different things, it turns out.
Geraldine and Maddie chat about all kinds of different things! From hair colour, to favourite sports, to types of shoes or favourite foods. Everyone is different, and being different is wonderful.
What's your favourite food?
We get to listen to lots of silly songs, count along with tricky maths questions and hear a story about Sam, who want...
This week on Happy Pants we're being very quiet. Shhh...
Careful! You don't want them to fly away! There's a mob of emus just over there.
Wait, are you telling me that emus can't fly? I thought all birds could fly! Why do they have wings if they can't even fly?
Maybe listening to this episode will help me understand. Geraldine and Rebecca do talk about the differences between species of birds. Some are big, some are ...
It's another episode of Happy Pants!
This week we wrangled through wacky pockets for wonderful clues. What could these clues mean? Party poppers, bags of balloons and sparkly shiny streamers... Party time!
We also listen along to silly songs, super stories and learn some big, bold worlds. On the topic of words, we learn about Alliteration: when two words next to each other begin with the same sound.
We eagerly expect for you ...
Put on your dancing shoes, it's time for another episode of Happy Pants!
This week Maddie and Geraldine are getting ready for a disco in the park but they need to learn the moves first. Join in with the fun and learn some new dances to silly songs. Dance like nobody is watching!
We also hear a story about a platypus that, no matter how hard she tried, couldn't dance at all!
Welcome back to Happy Pants Headquarters! This week join Geraldine and Jo as they rummage trough their magical Happy Pants pockets for clues. What they find in there points towards the topic of this week's episode and today it just seems to be a load of rubbish!
It's not good to litter! You should always put your rubbish into the right bin, otherwise it will stay on the earth forever. It can even effect animals and their homes. In ...
Welcome back to another episode of Happy Pants with Geraldine and Jo! This week our dynamic duo find all sorts of odd things in their pockets like a ball of wool, a ribbon, clay and a little statue of a Leprechaun. What could these things mean...
Spoiler alert! We're talking around rainbows and seeing the sunny side! Listen along for some fun songs, a silly story and new big words.
Welcome back to another episode of Happy Pants!
This week, join Geraldine, Jo and Rebecca as they look at what Happy Pants has put in their pockets. It could be anything! Today they have something very unusual in store for us...super glue, an umbrella, play dough and a rock... what could these objects mean?
Of course! These are all ideas! The team look at the invention of these objects and how they solved a problem. We also g...
Welcome back to another episode of Happy Pants! On this show, Geraldine and Rebecca look in their Happy Pants pockets to see what's inside. Today they find ingredients to make fresh bread! There's truly nothing better than a warm slice of bread straight out of the oven with LOTS of butter.
We get to learn four new big words, listen along to some silly songs and hear a story by Pamela Allen about a King who LOVED brown bread w...
It's another egg-citing day in Happy Pants Headquarters! Do you know why?
That's right: it's Easter time for those who celebrate. Today Kate, Geraldine and Maddie decorate Easter Eggs, listen to some fun music and hear a story about the Easter Bunny. They also talk about the origin of certain traditions like hot cross buns or chocolate eggs.
Did you know that Easter Eggs haven't always been made of chocolate? Imagine that!
Li...
This week, join Maddie and Geraldine as they talk about VERY BIG THINGS and also very small, tiny things. Some animals are REALLY big like elephants, giraffes or whales. Some organisms are minute like ants and microbes. In this episode we get to learn a bunch of BIG scientific words and what they mean.
We also hear some fun songs and Kate reads a story about a little whale named Gigantic with a BIG heart.
Do you have a favourite bi...
Welcome back to the Happy Pants Headquarters! Today, Geraldine, Maddie and a special third host try to figure out what their Happy Pants pockets have in store for them. A hand on a stick, a mosquito net and itching cream... what could these mean.
If you guessed insects and bites you'd be simply WRONG! That, my friend, is called 'jumping to a conclusion.'
Other than bamboozling our dear listeners, the crew do some tricky maths quest...
On Happy Pants this week, Geraldine and Kate talk all things sleep. From why we call them pajamas to why old time-y folks used to wear those little floppy hats to bed. Some people find it easy to get to sleep and others can toss and turn for hours.
We get to hear a story about Luna, who just couldn't get to sleep. As well as listening to a lot of fun music and learning two new big words.
So get comfy, put on your pajamas and ...
This week join Geraldine, Rebecca and special guest Maddie at Happy Pants HQ as they decode what the episode is about. In their pockets they find clues: a comb, gold buckles and an ornate box. What could they possibly mean?
We also get to listen to some fun music, hear a classic children's story and learn two BIG WORDS. Maddie joins to talk about the TV Show "Maddie and Triggs" (no relation) which is an animated kid's show about Ma...
On this spooooky episode of Happy Pants, Geraldine and Rebecca find spiders, snakes, monsters and more in their pockets. Happy Pants is doing its' best to scare them! Get ready to be amongst all the creepy crawlies and learn that although something might look scary, it might be even more scared of you.
We get to listen to a book about Andi (who is never scared), hear some spooooky songs and learn lots of fun facts about terri...
Hello and welcome back to Happy Pants. Before I start this description can you keep an eye on my robot friend Hal for a minute, thanks!
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Okay I'm back, thanks for keeping Hal company.
In this episode Geraldine and Rebecca talk all things robots! Like my friend Hal, robots can be useful for helping with everyday tasks, like a robot vacuum or a car that drives itself. Toda...
YeeHaw!
Howdy pardner and welcome to the ol' West where the fierce jillaroos Geraldine and Jo round up stories, boot stomping songs and cowboy jokes... a lot of cowboy jokes. The Happy Pants crew are donning their best spurs and cowboy boots for today's episode wherein they talk about the differences between cowboys in America and Australia and what they have to do in their job.
Listen along for a wild ride of an episode!
If ...
This week Geraldine and Jo find some cryptic clues in their Happy Pants pockets that lead them on a treasure hunt all around the headquarters. Along the way they listen to some energising music, learn lots of BIG words and hear a story from the perspective of an invisible friend named Kevin.
Do you have an invisible friend? What's their name? What do they look like? Invisible friends are special because only you can see them ...
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