Jim Henson's Word Party

Franny wants to build a very tall, ‘princess’ tower out of her building blocks, but the other babies don’t know the words for the different shapes of the blocks. If they are going to build this tower together, the babies need to visit Word Wally to learn the words for different shapes! /At bedtime, Lulu can’t sleep because she has lost her favorite pillow. The other babies want to help Lulu find it, but Lulu doesn’t know the word for the shape of her pillow. After a visit to Word Wally, the babies learn that Lulu’s pillow is shaped like a diamond. Now they can begin their search so that they can all get back to bed and go to sleep!

While playing tag, Kip accidentally tags Bailey on the elbow. That tickles Bailey so much that he toots his trunk and blows Kip into a beanbag. Kip loves this and wants to tag Bailey again, but he doesn’t know what part of the body the elbow is. The babies call Word Wally and Kip learns where the elbow is. Now he can tickle Bailey again and go flying! / While playing on the playground, Bailey falls over and gets an “ouch”, but he doesn’t know the name of the part of his body that hurts. With Kip’s help, Bailey starts to feels better, but he still wants to know the word for this part of his body. The babies call Word Wally and Bailey learns the word for Shoulder. Now his shoulder feels all-better!

Lulu didn’t take her nap today and quickly becomes angry, sad and tired, which prompts the other babies to convince her to lie down and finally take her nap. Once Lulu wakes up, she feels much better, but doesn’t know the word for how she is feeling. With some help from her friends and Word Wally, Lulu figures out that she is feeling happy! / The babies are surprised to find a large egg in a nest in their playroom. They go through a wide range of feelings, like surprised, worried and excited as they care for the egg and wait for it to hatch. They also start to get frustrated because they can’t wait to meet their new bird friend!

As the babies are getting ready for bed, they decide to play a new game that Bailey invented call “Light and Dark,” but Lulu can’t play because she doesn’t know what those words mean. The babies make a quick trip to Word Wally so they can play their game before it’s time to go to bed! / The babies are having some quiet time, but Kip and Lulu don’t know the words for quiet or whisper, so they keep being loud and shouting, which frustrates Franny and Bailey. The babies visit Word Wally so that Kip and Lulu can learn the words they need to know to play quietly!

As the babies have fun on the playground, Kip demonstrates his favorite movement. The others think he’s just walking, but Kip knows better. He just doesn’t know the word for this movement. Word Wally helps Kip learn that it’s called marching, which is the perfect movement for having a parade! / When the other babies are having fun doing different movements, like running, jumping and hopping, Bailey wants to try, but he isn’t very good at any of them. The other babies console Bailey by telling him that he must be good at some movement, but which one? After visiting Word Wally, they discover that Bailey is really good at shaking!

Franny has invented a new game, The Color Monster, where she pretends to be a silly monster that can only be stopped by different colors. The babies have to learn their colors and stop the Color Monster before Bailey gets a little too scared to have fun! / The babies each get a new balloon, but Franny accidently pops Lulu’s! The babies rush to help a very sad Lulu and get her another balloon, but Lulu doesn’t know the word for color balloon she wants. After some help from Word Wally, the babies get Lulu another turquoise balloon!

After finding a giant cardboard box in their playroom, the babies decide to use it to play pretend, turning it into different vehicles -- a sailboat, an airplane and the vehicle that takes you into space… but what’s that called? After a visit to Word Wally, the babies turn the box into a rocket, so they can pretend to visit outer space! / The babies are all set to race some fun toy vehicles, like a racecar, a motorcycle and a bus, but Franny doesn’t have a vehicle. After looking in the playroom, Franny finds a vehicle none of the babies have ever seen before: a bulldozer. Franny quickly realizes, though, that her bulldozer is not very good at racing, but it is very good at moving dirt!

When it’s time to play outside, Lulu is sad because she has to leave her friend Raffe inside… until she meets a brand new friend outside: a pretty butterfly! However, when the butterfly flies away, Lulu gets help from the other babies to find her new friend again. / After drawing a flower on the playground, Franny wishes she could make a real flower. Bailey says he knows just where to do that and takes the other babies over to the garden, where they all learn how plants grow out of the dirt from little seeds into big plants and even flowers!

While eating healthy vegetables for lunch, Franny asks Lulu what vegetable she wants and Lulu says she wants a cupcake! Uh, oh. With Word Wally’s help, the babies teach Lulu about all kinds of different vegetables until they find one that she likes… broccoli! / While playing a game, Bailey loses his apple, which he had been looking forward to eating all day. Have no fear, the other babies vow to help Bailey find his apple, but soon realize that Lulu doesn’t know what an apple is. After some help from Word Wally, Lulu realizes she knows exactly where Bailey’s apple is!

Each of the babies talk about what kind of animal they are, but when it’s Lulu’s turn, she says she is a “noodle.” The other babies know that she isn’t a noodle, but what is she? After seeking out Word Wally’s help, Lulu is proud to announce that she is, in fact, a panda! / While playing farm, the babies each pretend to be a different farm animal: Bailey is a cow and Franny is a lamb, but both Lulu and Kip want be a chicken. Uh oh! Lulu can be a girl chicken, or hen, and Kip can be a boy chicken, but what is that called? After a visit to Word Wally, Kip is ready to be a rooster! Cock-a-Doodle-Do!

When the babies learn they’re going to have a special treat of ice cream today, Kip and Franny argue about which one of them makes better ice cream sundaes. To end the argument, Bailey comes up with a great idea: they should both make a sundae and then he and Lulu will taste them and decide which one is the best! What a yummy contest! / After he gets a fun new toy, Kip is reluctant to put it down and play outside in nature, until he realizes how much fun it is to be outside and see clouds, smell flowers, touch the trees and hear the birds chirping. In fact, Kip realizes, nature has something for all of your senses!

Lulu is having so much fun playing that she doesn’t want to go to bed, keeping the other babies up all night. The next morning, Lulu doesn’t understand why everyone is tired, so the others must teach her that during the day, you should be awake and at night, you should be asleep. / While playing follow the leader, Kip has his feelings hurt by Franny, who won’t let him by the leader because he doesn’t know the words for the different opposites in the game. Kip seeks out Word Wally’s help to learn the words so he can finally be the leader.

All of the babies pretend to have different jobs, except for Lulu, who instead helps everyone else with their jobs. Lulu then decides that she wants her own job too, but doesn’t know the word for it. After some help from Word Wally, Lulu has fun pretending to do her job, a police officer! / All of the babies want to do jobs, like a chef, a bus driver and a doctor, but aren’t quite sure how to do those jobs, until they get help from Bailey. After getting help, the babies all think Bailey should have the job of the person who helps people learn how to do things, but what is that called? Oh yeah… a teacher!