The Wiggles offer a plethora of children’s songs for your toddler to sing-along to and no doubt your child probably has their favorite songs that they know the words by heart and sing along to with Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog, Henry the Octopus and friendly pirate, Captain Feathersword. Maybe it’s ‘Hot Potato, Hot Potato’ or ‘Toot Toot Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car‘.

Introducing musical instruments to children at a young age is a fun and creative way for children to learn about music and sounds and enhance their skills.

Research has shown that children that are actively involved in music, those that sing regulary or play a musical instrument are more likely to have improved skills in reading and mathematics when they start to attend school. They also have improved social skills and foster a higher self-esteem and an enhanced ability to focus and control body movements and co-ordination.

At Characters ‘n’ Toons we have an extensive range of Wiggles toys that includes the popular Wiggles musical instruments to encourage music and sound in creative play in toddlers.

The Wiggles guitar plays popular Wiggles songs and features real guitar sounds and drum songs that is perfect for little fans to dance and sing along with the Wiggles and Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog and Captain Feathersword.

We also have a Wiggles keyboard that features the Wiggles songs – ‘Dorothy the Dinosaur’ and ‘Rock-a-bye Your Bear’, ‘Hot Potato’ and ‘Move your Arms like Henry’. The wiggles keyboard also features rhythm patterms, four musical instrument sounds and volume and tempo controls.

Just like so many of the Disney fairy tales that we’ve grown up with, the Disney story of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ was originally based on the traditional fairy tale that was also titled ‘Beauty and the Beast’ by the French author Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. The story was later abridged and republished by French author Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. The tale of Beauty and the Beast is about a beautiful woman that is kept in an enchanted castle by a monstrous beast.

Disney’s film version of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ was up until that time, the first and only animated feature film to ever be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. The film received Academy Awards for Best Music for Original Score and Best Music for Original Song for the song ‘Beauty and the Beast’ featured during the famous ballroom dance sequence between Belle and the Beast.

‘Beauty and the Beast’ is one of the best known animated Disney films and its overwhelming success has seen the adaption made into a long running stage musical. The film has also sparked appearances in other media adaption’s where Belle features in storybooks, comic books, video games, the popular ‘Disney on Ice’ shows. A series of direct to video releases featuring Belle have included ‘Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas’ and ‘Belle’s Magical World’.

Belle is truely a beautiful Disney Princess. She is sweet natured and intelligent and loves to read books. She has long brown hair and beautiful brown eyes. Belle is most commonly recognised wearing a sparkly yellow ballroom gown and often is shown holding the rose that is the symbolism of love throughout the movie. Today Belle remains one of the favorite Disney Princesses of little girls.

Like so many of the Disney animated fairy tales, Walt Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ story was based on the original story by Hans Christian Andersen also titled ‘The Little Mermaid’. Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet and was well known for his children’s stories. His works included many familiar fairy tales that include ‘The Princess and the Pea’, ‘The Ugly Duckling’, ‘Thumbelina’, ‘The Little Match Girl’, ‘The Snow Queen’, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ (that of which Disney has also based their animated film ‘The Emperor’s New Groove’) and many more well known children’s fables and fairy tales.

Ariel, just like the other Disney Princesses, has her own style and visual characteristics. Ariel is a mermaid and has lovely long red hair, beautiful blue eyes, a green tail and she wears a purple bikini of sea shells that form her bikini top.

Ariel has made several appearances in Disney film, in addition to her ‘The Little Mermaid’ debut. In 2000, she appeared in a prequel to ‘The Little Mermaid’ film that was titled ‘The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea’. In recent times Ariel appeared in the prequel ‘The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning’, released in 2008. Both prequel films were released directly to video all feature Jodi Benson as Ariel’s singing and speaking voice.

‘The Little Mermaid’ and Ariel have also featured in a television prequel series, as well as a stage musical performance. She has also featured on many other entertainment mediums that have included video games and music albums. Ariel remains a Disney Princess that is adored by young girls and one of our favorite Disney characters.

Just like so many of Walt Disney’s animated feature films, the story of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ was based on the original fairytale authored by the Brothers Grimm, known as ‘Snow White’ which formed part of their collection of fairytales. The Brothers Grimm consisted of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, who were German academics and well know for their popular fairytales. The Brothers Grimm works consisted of ‘Cinderella’, ‘Rapunzel’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘The Frog Prince’ and ‘Rumpelstiltskin’.

Disney’s Snow White, like all of the Disney Princesses, has a distinctive visual elements and characteristics in her personality. She has black hair, shaped into a small bob cut and wears a red bow in her hair on the top of her head. Snow White wears a dress with a yellow skirt and a blue bodice that features splashes of red on the shoulders of the dress, with a tall white collar around the back of her neck.

The Snow White story and her appearance in Disney’s ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ is centrally based around her wicked stepmother, the Evil Queen that is overcome with jealousy of her stepdaughter. When asking the Magic Mirror ‘who is the fairest one of all?’ and it replies ‘Snow White’, the Evil Queen orders Snow White to be killed. Upon fleeing from the Evil Queen’s attempt to kill her, Snow White runs into the forest and finds some animal friends. She comes upon a cottage and befriends seven dwarfs each named Doc, Grumpy, Sleepy, Happy, Dopey, Sneezy and Bashful. The voice of Snow White throughout the Disney film is performed by Adriana Caselotti.

Being the first Disney Princess, Snow White continues to be one of the most loved and sweetest Disney Princesses and will always have a special place in storytelling and animation history.

In JJ’s yard, Trix tells JJ that Skip has gone to the dump with Molly. JJ asks Trix to take a bag of wood chippings to Bob, because he’s building a climbing frame in the school playground.

Trix arrives and gives the wood chippings to Bob. Bob explains that he’s going to put them under the climbing frame so that if a child takes a tumble, they’ll have something soft to land on. Muck and Trix leave to go to Farmer Pickles to pick up the poles for the climbing frame.

Farmer Pickles is loading pumpkins into Travis’s trailer when Trix and Muck arrive. He explains that he’s going to take the pumpkins to the market and sell them. Trix asks about two pumpkins sitting in a wheelbarrow and Farmer Pickles says that one is for a suprise and the other is for a pumpkin pie at the Harvest Supper tonight that Mrs Percival is going to make in Mr Sabatini’s pizza shop. Trix offers to take the pumpkin to the Mr Sabatini’s pizza parlour for Farmer Pickles.

Muck and Trix deliver the poles to Bob and tells Bob and Wendy about the pumpkin pie and how she has to deliver it to Mrs Percival. Trix tells Bob that she’ll come back to help him when it’s been delivered.

At Mr Sabatini’s pizza parlour, Trix delivers the pumpkin to Mrs Percival and Mr Sabatini. Mr Sabatini asks Trix to stay and watch them make the biggest pie, but Trix has too much work to do and can’t stay.

Trix arrives back to Bob’s worksite and Bob asks her to help Muck move the wooden poles. Bob, Wendy, Dizzy, Trix, Muck and Lofty work on the climbing frame. Bob thinks they need another bag of wood chippings, so Trix offers to go and get another bag.

On her way, she sees Mrs Percival and Mr Sabatini and their finished pumpkin pie. The pie is so big that they don’t know how to get it up to Farmer Pickles, but Trix offers to take it for them. On the way to Farmer Pickles, Trix remembers that she’s forgotten to get the bag of wood chippings. She runs into Spud, who offers to look after the pie while Trix goes to get the wood chippings.

Meanwhile at the work site, Bob and crew are waiting for Trix to bring the bag of wood chippings. Mrs Percival arrives and tells Bob and Wendy that the climbing frame is wonderful and that Trix has taken the pie up to the farm. Bob and Wendy are suprised and Wendy leaves with Lofty to go and get the wood chippings.

Wendy arrives at JJ’s and Trix turns up too to pick up the wood chippings. She tells JJ and Wendy that Spud is looking after the pie and they immediately become worried. JJ says that he’ll take the bag of wood chippings to Bob and Wendy and Trix will go to get the pumpkin pie off Spud.

JJ delivers the wood chippings to Bob and tells him that Wendy and Trix have gone to the pumpkin pie. When Wendy and Trix arrive, Spud is shooing away birds from the pie. Wendy calls Bob to tell him that Spud has the pumpkin pie and it’s all in one piece.

Bob and crew arrive at Farmer Pickles farm and Farmer Pickles shows the suprise pumpkin lantern for the Harvest Supper to everyone. Mrs Percival cuts up the pumpkin pie and offers the first piece to Spud, who looked after the pie.

Characters in Trix’s Pumpkin Pie (in order of appearance):
Trix, JJ, Bob, Wendy, Muck, Dizzy, Lofty, Farmer Pickles, Travis, Mrs Percival, Mr Sabatini

Wendy tells Bob that JJ has just phoned and the wooden beam for Mr Ellis’ ceiling has arrived. Bob replies that he’ll pick it up on the way to Mr Ellis’ cottage. Bob explains that he has to replace a rotten wooden beam for Mr Ellis. Bob, Muck, Lofty and Dizzy leave for Mr Ellis job and Pilchard sneaks into Muck’s dumper.

At JJ’s, Bob discovers that the beam is a different colour to Mr Ellis’ other wooden beams, but JJ suggests they treat it with some antique wax. Lofty takes the beam and Trix goes to put the trestles in Muck’s dumper and finds Pilchard. Bob now has to drop Pilchard back at the yard on the way to Mr Ellis’ as cat’s aren’t allowed on building sites.

Bob stops by the yard and drops off Pilchard, but she follows them off to Mr Ellis’.

Mr Ellis’ is observing the beam and Bob explains that he has to cut the beam and make it the same colour as the other wooden beams in his ceiling.

Suddenly Pilchard arrives and hides beside the cottage, watching some mice scurry over to Bob’s work site. Mr Ellis brings some tea and biscuits to Bob. Bob eats one of the biscuits and keeps the other one for a treat, leaving it on the floor, but the mice start to eat it. Pilchard, seeing this chases them away, but suprises Bob just as he is about to begin cutting the beam. Bob explains that it’s too dangerous for Pilchard to play on building sites and puts her in the house.

Bob finishes cutting the beam and decides to eat his other biscuit, but finds that it’s gone – the mice have taken it. Mr Ellis tells Bob that he’s had alot of biscuits go missing.

Unaware to Bob and Mr Ellis, the mice go into Mr Ellis’ house and Pilchard starts making a lot of noise. Bob phones Wendy to come over right away.

Bob begins working inside and puts Pilchard outside, so she doesn’t cause an accident. Wendy and Scoop arrive. Bob finds his biscuit on the floor in the house and wonders how it ended up inside. When Wendy comes inside, Pilchard gets inside and chases the mice outside into Muck’s scoop. Bob and Mr Ellis finally realise why Pilchard has been acting so strange and who’s been eating the biscuits.

Wendy and Bob continue working on Mr Ellis’ ceiling. The job is complete and Mr Ellis is pleased. Bob suggests that they now need to find a place for the field mice and Muck suggests a field, so Bob asks Muck to take them to Farmer Pickles field. Pilchard is sad that the mice are gone and there is nothing to play with, but Mr Ellis gives Pilchard a wind up mouse to play with instead.

Characters in Pilchard and the Field Mice (in order of appearance):
Wendy, Pilchard, Bob, Scoop, Lofty, Dizzy, Muck, Roley, JJ, Trix, Mr Ellis

In JJ’s yard, Bob is picking up supplies with Scoop and Muck. Bob explains that the mayor has asked them to build a new pavilion for the annual flower show. JJ says that the mayor has asked Molly to make a special statue for the park entrance, and they all see Molly working on the statue of a horse.

Spud arrives with Travis and Bob asks him to load the statue on Travis’ trailer. Spud thinks the statue is a real horse, but Molly explains that it’s just a statue. They all leave to the park.

Bob, Wendy, Spud, Travis, Lofty, Scoop and Muck are in the park and Lofty is unloading the statue from Travis’s trailer. Bob and Wendy assemble a red curtain around the statue in preparation for it’s unveiling.

The gang leave to put up the pavilion and Travis returns hom, but Spud remains to guard the statue. Spud unveils the statue and begins to ride the horse and suddenly the statue breaks.

Bob, Wendy, Lofty, Muck and Scoop are building the pavilion and Spud finds them and takes some tools and materials without Bob and Wendy noticing in an attempt to fix the statue.

Bob and Wendy have used all their materials but discover that the pavilion isn’t finished. Mr Bentley arrives and announces that the mayor has asked him to do the statue unveiling, but he’s concerned that he has to write a speech and rehearse. Wendy announces that Bob and her will help him to prepare for the unveiling of the statue.

Bob, Wendy, Mr Bentley and Lofty return to the statue and find Spud. Mr Bentley practices his speech and then unveils the curtain to find a wooden statue replacing Molly’s statue.

Bob, Wendy and Mr Bentley are shocked to find the new statue and Bob realises it’s where the missing pieces of the pavilion have gone. Molly arrives and asks what has happened to her statue. Spud apologises and explains that he broke the horse and tried to make another one. Spud shows Molly the broken statue and she thinks that it can be fixed as good as new.

Bob and Wendy are back to work, completing the pavilion with the missing pieces, while Molly has fixed the statue and Lofty is helping to lift it back in place.

It’s the day of the flower show and Mr Bentley begins his speech and tries to unveil the statue, but the curtain is stuck. Spud tries to help, but ends up pulling down the entire curtain on top of himself and Mr Bentley.

Characters in Spud’s Statue (in order of appearance):
Bob, JJ, Scoop, Muck, Molly, Spud, Travis, Wendy, Lofty, Mr Bentley

The story begins when Sheryl Crow sings ‘It’s Almost Christmas’ with Elmo.

Stiller the Elf arrives in Sesame Street to choose the lucky person to countdown to Christmas and has selected Oscar the Grouch to countdown Christmas. Stiller the Elf tries to persuade Oscar by singing ‘Countdown Christmas’ but Oscar declines and all of the countdown boxes disappear.

Stiller the Elf is devastated that the countdown boxes are gone, but Elmo has an idea and makes a wish on a star for a Christmas miracle. Suddenly Abby Cadabby appears and has box number ten. With each box there’s a special countdown to Christmas suprise.

#10 Countdown to Christmas – Jennifer Hudson sings ‘Carol Of The Bells’.

Elmo, Abby and Stiller the Elf hear a scream and find that Bert has the number nine countdown to Christmas box.

#9 Countdown to Christmas – Charles Blitzen announces that they are now eight boxes away from Christmas.

Abby Cadabby and Elmo are comforting Stiller the Elf, when suddenly Super Grover crashes with the eight days to Christmas countdown box.

#8 Countdown to Christmas – Big Bird sings with Anne Hathaway, ‘I want a Snuffleupagus for Christmas”.

Stiller the Elf tells Elmo that he’s looking for a new job because when Christmas doesn’t come this year, he’s going to be fired. Elmo reassures him that Christmas will come. Big Bird arrives with the sevem days to Christmas countdown box wrapped in a bow.

#7 Countdown to Christmas – Bert and Ernie are directoring Tony Sirico and Steve Schirripa to star as Bert and Ernie in the Bert and Ernie Christmas Special.

Stiller the Elf is practicing apologising for ruining Christmas when suddenly Ernie appears with not box number six, but box number five. Stiller the Elf tells Abby and Elmo that it won’t work because it’s not the next number in the countdown, but Elmo tries it anyway and nothing happens.

Abby takes Stiller the Elf to get some water and calm down. Elmo waits for box number six to appear and becomes worried that Christmas may never come again. Alicia Keys arrives to sit with Elmo and reassures him, singing ‘Do you Hear what I Hear?’ with Elmo. Alicia gives Elmo box number six.

#6 Countdown to Christmas – Christmas Countdown report by reindeer Charles Blitzen announcing that there’s worldwide hysteria after word has spread that Stiller the Elf has ruined Christmas for everyone.

#5 Countdown to Christmas – Jamie Foxx sings ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ with a dancing nutcracker Elmo.

Stiller the Elf becomes worried that there are still four boxes to countdown to Christmas. Suddenly the three bears appear with boxes four, three and two.

#4 Countdown to Christmas – Charles Blitzen gives a special message to Stiller the Elf.

#3 Countdown to Christmas – Count von Count is singing ‘I Saw Three Ships’ when Ty Pennington arrives and Count announces an Extreme Makeover Christmas Carol Edition, requesting more ships.

#2 Countdown to Christmas – Brad Paisley sings ‘Jingle Bells’.

Finally Stiller the Elf believes that the last box will turn up, he believes in miracles and finds the last box. The box opens and a cookie appears and suddently Cookie Monster appears and destroys the countdown to Christmas.

Stiller the Elf, Elmo and Abby Cadabby encourage everyone to believe in Christmas miracles and suddenly Santa arrives.

#1 Countdown to Christmas – Kevin James sings ‘We Believe’.

Everyone at Sesame Street celebrates and Stiller the Elf thanks Elmo for helping him believe in miracles.

Bob arrives with the airconditioning unit and tells Lofty that it’s ready for Mr Sabatini. Wendy is sanding shelves for Mrs Percival.

Molly is painting and Wendy announces that Molly is painting a picture of Lofty too. Lofty asks to see it, but Molly says as soon as she’s finished painting the shelves. Lofty attempts to paint, but finds out that he can’t hold the brush and it’s very difficult.

Bob calls Lofty to lift the air conditioning unit. Bob tells them all how the air conditoning unit works and tells them after they do the job for Mr Sabatini, they will get the wallpaper and finish the library in the junior school.

Bob, Dizzy, Muck and Lofty arrive at Mr Sabatini’s reastaurant to install the air coniditioning unit. Bob installs the unit with Lofty’s help and the job is complete and the restaurant is now nice and cool. Mr Sabatini thinks that he’ll now redecorate his restaurant and Lofty suggests he uses the colors of the peppers, yellow and green. Mr Sabatini and Bob think that Lofty is great with color, but he’s too big to get into the restaurant and help paint.

Bob gets a call from Wendy and Bob instructs Lofty to go to JJ’s to get the wallpaper so they can start the library.

At JJ’s, JJ and Skip leave to go on a delivery when Lofty arrives. Trix and Hamish are in the yard and Trix sees that Lofty is unhappy and asks why, to which he replies that he would like to be an artist, but it’s so difficult. Trix tells him that they can tidy up the yard, which will be fun. Lofty is stacking paint and Trix tells him that he’s very artistic.

Mrs Percival sees the furniture that Molly and Wendy have been working on and loves it.

Back at JJ’s Trix has stacked the supplies really high and just as Mr Dixon arrives with the wallpaper the supplies tumble to the ground, tipping over the paint and supplies and Lofty picks up Mr Dixon, saving him.

Bob, Muck and Dizzy arrive at JJ’s and see the mess and Mr Dixon tells them that Lofty saved him, but in the process has squashed the wallpaper. Bob tells him it was just an accident, but Lofty says that he’s big and clumsy and will never be an artist. Bob instructs Muck and Dizzy to go back to the yard and he’ll stay and help tidy up before JJ gets back.

JJ arrives and helps tidy up too. Lofty asks JJ if there is anymore wallpaper, but JJ replies that there is only plain wallpaper and Mrs Percival wanted really bright colors for the library.

Lofty has an idea and pours some paint out onto the ground. Driving through it, he drives onto the wallpaper and paints it. With the help of Trix, they paint the wallpaper.

The wallpaper dries and they take it to the library and start installing it and all the furniture. Mrs Percival thinks the wallpaper looks marvelous and they all go to tell Lofty how clever his idea was. Molly shows Lofty the painting she made of him and tells him that it’s called Lofty the artist.

Characters in Lofty the Artist (in order of appearance):
Dizzy, Bob, Muck, Roley, Scoop, Lofty, Wendy, Mr Sabatini, JJ, Skip, Trix, Hamish, Mrs Percival, Mr Dixon

Bob instructs Roley and Dizzy to look after the yard, while he gets to work in the town hall square. Mr Bentley radios Bob from the town hall square and announces he’s ready to get to work. Bob replies that they’re on their way.

Bob explains to Scoop that it’s the Winter Fair tonight and there will be stalls, games and yummy food. Scoop, Bob, Muck, Wendy and Lofty head off to the town hall square. In the town Spud is looking at Mr Bentley’s map of the town hall square.

Mrs Potts tells Mr Bentley that her knitwear stall has a wonky leg and Mr Bentley replies that he’ll get Bob to fix it when he arrives.

Bob, Wendy and the crew arrive at the town hall square and Mr Bentley gives them plenty of jobs that need completing and asks Bob the start by putting up the lights. He tells them not to forget the blow up Santa, the main attraction of the fair. Mr Fothergill tells Mr Bentley that he wants his stall bigger. Mr. Beasley tells Mr Bentley that he still can’t find his stall.

Farmer Pickles arrives with Travis and Mr Bentley asks if he’s brought Humpty the pig for the guess the weight of the pig competition, to which he replies that he has.

Molly reminds Mr Bentley that her new roof needs fixing. Mr Bentley instructs Bob to call him on the walkie talkie before he puts Santa in place.

Mr Bentley goes to look at Mrs Potts wonky leg, checks in with Molly about her new roof and tells Pam that he’ll organise her stall to be turned around. At Mr Sabatini’s pizza stall, Mr Bentley suggest some decoration so everyone knows it’s a pizza stall and tells him he’s get Bob to pick them up from his restaurant. With thanks, Mr Sabatini gives Spud and Mr Bentley a free slice of pizza.

Mrs Percival asks Mr Bentley where she’s to position her stall to which he consults his map. Spud eats his free slice of pizza and takes Mr Bentley’s to give to him.

In the meantime, Bob, Wendy, Lofty, Scoop and Muck are inflating the Santa with the pump. Bob radios Mr Bentley to let him know that Santa is being blown up, but Mr Bentley is busy trying to find Farmer Pickles as he’s setup Humpty’s pen in the wrong place and will be with Bob when he can.

Mr Bentley is becoming frustrated and finds that the Humpty’s gate isn’t secure. Mrs Percival arrives requesting help finding her stall and they both leave. Spud stays to look after Humpty’s pen, but Humpty escapes from the gate and eats Mr Bentley’s pizza.

Bob and Wendy have inflated Santa and Mr Bentley arrives to help. Spud is chasing Humpty the pig around the town hall square and amidst the disturbance the Santa balloon gets a hole in it from the walkie talkie and deflates and many of the stalls get damaged.

Everyone is upset and disappointed, but Bob announces that if they all work together they can get everything fixed. Spud, Bob and Mr Bentley get Humpty back in his pen. Bob turns around Pam’s stall. Wendy fixes Mrs Potts wonky leg. Wendy repairs the hole in the inflatable Santa.

Everything has been fixed for the Winter Fair and it’s a great success. Mr Bentley thanks Bob and Wendy for all their help. The Mayor radios Mr Bentley and tells him how pleased she is with the fair that she wants him to organise the fair next year and every year from now on.

Characters in Mr Bentley’s Winter Fair (in order of appearance):
Bob, Wendy, Lofty, Roley, Dizzy, Scoop, Muck, Mr Bentley, Spud, Mrs Potts, Mr Fothergill, Mr Beasley, Farmer Pickles, Travis, Molly, Pam, Mr. Sabatini, Mrs Percival, Humpty