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
Welcome back to another episode of Happy Pants! This week, join Maddie and Geraldine as they discuss all things bicycles and birthdays. It's bound to be a brilliant episode with books, big words and birthday candles.
Thew crew also tell some silly jokes, explore the history of bikes and discover why we celebrate birthdays. So put on your party outfit and your bike helmet and let's get listening!
This week on Happy Pants we're all taking a well earned holiday. Holidays are fun because you can go to the beach, or the zoo or a theme park. Where is your favourite place to go?
Don your orange pants and join Geraldine and Jo as they chat about all the places you can go on vacation and the activities you can do. As well as reading a story, discovering why they're called 'holidays' and hearing some fun music.
Now if you don'...
It's your lucky day, as Geraldine and Kate have another Happy Pants episode for you! This time their pants are orange, the kind that reminds you of marmalade on toast or the flame of a candle. In their pockets are a series of clues they have to piece together. Today we have some weird items including a horseshoe, clover leaves and a bone... What could they possibly mean?
Today we get to hear a story read by the lovely Maddie about ...
This week Geraldine, Rebecca and Maddie are all wearing the same coloured happy pants - bright red, with a white stripe down each leg. Their tops are red with a white trim. They're dressed ready for Christmas!
How do you celebrate? This week the team speak about some of their Aussie family traditions, the origins of Christmas pudding and how Christmas ham became a 'thing'. And doesn't everything taste better when it's been barbecue...
This week join Geraldine and Bec
As they look in their pockets and have a check
what Happy Pants has put in there
and decode what it wants us to share.
It tells of howls, woofs, barks
and long walks in the park
of happy wagging tails
and stealing the morning mail.
The crew, even me, is stuck in rhyme
this doesn't happen all the time
come sing a song and hear a story
till everything is hunky-dory.
Geraldine and Kate's happy pants this week are dark blue, the kind of blue that makes them think of how it feels to jump into the pool for that first swim of summer.
Their happy pants pockets are full of all kinds of useful items this week - a piece of coiled wire, a rag, a spray bottle, a feather duster. It's time to give Happy Pants Headquarters a spring clean!
Along the way you'll hear music, a story about Lucy Lemon, learn some...
What do you want to be when you grow up?
There are many different jobs you can do, such as a bus driver, a farmer, a construction worker or an artist. This week in the Happy Pants Headquarters Geraldine, Kate and Maddie talk about different jobs you can have and how those jobs are important.
Of course we all know that the most important job in the world is writing descriptions for Happy Pants podcast episodes. In fact, withou...
This week the Happy Pants team's happy pants have labels all over them from different places, like London, Venice, Morocco... some are places they've been and others are places they might like to go. Where in the world would you like to visit? Where in the world do you call home? Let us know! Email radio@visionaustralia.org.
Tune in for some big words and their meanings, activities, songs, and a reading of 'When I Can Fly' by Katie...
It's finally starting to feel like summer! It's the best time of the year because you can go swimming in the pool, at the beach or at the river, with your friends or family. Swimming can be lots of fun but it also comes with risks that you need to know about. Geraldine and Rebecca tell some stories to remind you of how to be safe around water.
They also splash through some fun songs, do some Aussie maths and learn new big words (wh...
What do Winnie the Pooh, Paddington and Baloo all have in common? They're all bears!
This week you'll learn about book bears - the kinds of bears you find in a story book - and all the wonderful stories that go along with them. There'll also be music, and silliness, and movement, and a story! Albert's Tree, by Jennie Desmond. If you can stick around to the end of the episode you'll hear a SUPER, MEGA Big Word Alert - for a word tha...
On this week's food-themed episode, Jo and Geraldine find pots and pans in their pockets, along with some meat, herbs and vegetables. All the makings of a good casserole or stew!
There are songs, some big words (and what they mean), a little game - lots to entertain you.
Plus, you'll hear a story from Vision Australia's Feelix Library, Wombat Stew by Marcia Vaughn. Can the animals find a way to stop the hungry dingo from devou...
Halloween is coming up on 31 October! Are you dressing up this year? Here are some jokes to get you in a spooky mood...
Why did the skeleton show up to the party by himself?
He had no body to go with.What do witches put on their bagels?
Scream cheese.How do you make a skeleton laugh?
Tickle his funny bone.
This week both Geraldine and Maddie's happy pants are orange, the kind of orange that m...
Ahh finally, a Happy Pants episode all about my favourite sport: Australian Rules Football!
Wait... not that kind of goal?
More like, dreams, aspirations and achieving-your-goals kinda goals. Well, it isn't footy but it is a very inspiring topic. Join Kate and Geraldine this week as they search their green Happy Pants for clues. They find all sorts of funny things in their pockets!
We also hear some fun songs, true inspiratio...
Before you read this, take a deep breath in through the nose. Hold it for three seconds, then breathe deeply out through the mouth feeling your stomach deflate. Maybe do a couple more, in and out. Do you feel nice and calm now?
This week Jo and Geraldine talk about buckets. Yep, that's right.
Not just literal buckets you carry milk or water in, but metaphorical ones filled with love, happiness or kindness. They discuss how yo...
A super-special guest is joining Gemma at Happy Pants Headquarters this week - it's children's book author Deb Fitzpatrick!
This week, Gemma's happy pants are a waxy green that remind her of eucalyptus leaves, the sort of leaves you can crush between your fingers to get that fresh, eucalyptus smell. Deb's happy pants are a light blue denim, which make her think of the beach: sea breezes, the salty smell of the water, the sand...
MEEOOWWW!
What was that? Maybe Happy Pants can give us some clues...
Listen along to help Geraldine and Kate figure out what topic Happy Pants has chosen for today. Maybe it has something to do with that loud meow-ing noise...
Anyways... the gang puts on their thinking cats to do some fun maths equations and read "Arthur" by Amanda Graham and Donna Gynell.
WOOF!
What is making that noise! Maybe you should listen along and hel...
How do you get to school? Do you ride your bike? Or maybe you walk. Do you employ the Mum and Dad taxi, or take public transport?
Join Geraldine and Jo as they talk about the many different ways to get to school or work in the morning. Including very realistic transport like a fold away helicopter or fairy wings! We also get to hear a story about animals going to work and picture how funny a giraffe would look on a bicycle...
Happy...
It's another egg-citing day at Happy Pants Headquarters as Geraldine and Kate egg-splore what's in their pockets. Lots of wriggly, fluffy and crawly creatures are about!
They chat about what an emu, spider, echidna, frog and gecko all have in common, as well as playing some fun songs to dance along to and listen to a story about Evie's special friend. We also hear some funny yolks about termites and solve some tricky maths problems...
Today on Happy Pants... or was is tomorrow? or Yesterday? But if Happy Pants day is today is yesterday tomorrow?
Join Geraldine and Rebecca as they get all muddled up in the days of the week thanks to the help of Happy Pants. They delve into how the days of the week got their names, why we measure time in the ways we do and learn some new big big words. While also having fun and dancing...of course!
We also get a story about a litt...
What was that sound?
It was a bird, but what kind of bird? Well, Geraldine and Maddie are here to identify it, with the help of Happy Pants' seemingly endless pockets.
Amongst birding; the gang also listen to some songs, hear a story about a cat and their bird friend and learn a couple of new Big Words.
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