Join gentle, curious Bear and his dynamic group of friends from Woodland Valley (Tutter, Ojo, Pip and Pop, Treelo, and Luna) for some humorous learning adventures designed with... more
solve and up-to-date graphics with fast action, using some of the world's favourite children's characters. The programme delivers a fun-filled experience which children will want to repeat again and again.Bear's Imagine Thatwelcomes players into the Big Blue House. There they meet Ojo, who is imagining she is Ojo Angelo a world famous felt-tip and crayon artist. Ojo has a small problem and needs help: she has run out of things to draw, but as the child explores the house and plays the activities Ojo will get lots of inspiration. There are five creative activities, but before they can begin the child must sign in as Bear's guest. There are several different rooms with arrows pointing to new rooms. If a magnifying glass appears the child can take a closer look at part of the room or enter an activity. When the cursor changes to a yellow paw they can get information from one of the characters or interact with an object.The first activity:--"Story Maker"--shows Treelo and Ojo making up stories. The player can help them or they can make up their very own story. There are four different settings plus all the characters from the Big Blue House. The child can choose backgrounds, place stickers and even record their own narration."Bear Crafts", the second activity, has the child joining Bear in the attic, to either help him make some crafts or design some of their own. If they can imagine it they can build it.There is lots of fun in the "Sundae Bar", the third activity, as Tutter has invented a Mouseapult! He needs help to test it and the player must try and catch the scoops of ice-cream Tutter sends their way. Once caught they can either make an ice-cream sundae for one of the characters in the house or make one for themselves.Number four activity, "Pip and Pop Jam", is all about helping Pip and Pop to complete some songs they have almost finished. Once this is done they show their thanks by singing the songs.The last activity, "The Puppet Theatre", asks the child to help Tutter and Ojo put on fairy-tale puppet shows featuring the Big Blue House characters. Now and again Tutter stops the action and the player chooses what happens next.All the activities give Ojo inspiration for new drawings, and they can be printed out and coloured in. This programme is brimming with storytelling, music and creativity, and is a journey of discovery for any child. --Lynne Unwin
A review by belfin on Bear In The Big Blue House - Tidy Time With Bear (DVD) September 8th, 2005
Author's product rating:
Did you enjoy it?
Loved it
Story
Good
Characters / Performances
Outstanding
Special Effects
Standard
How does it compare to similar films?
Not applicable
Advantages:
Henson puppets rock
Disadvantages:
gets addictive
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
It's only over the last 3 years that I was made aware of Bear in the Big Blue House when it was on Channel 5's Milkshake - a series of programs aimed at the under 5's on between 6.30 and 9.30 in the mornings. Every time the theme tune for this came on my son would stop what he was doing from an early age and start laughing - we ended up taping one episode to start with just to stop him crying, it was great. Now 3 years on he still loves this big furry bear and all his friends who he helps along the way.
Bear lives in Woodland valley in a big blue house and there are a number of friends who spend time with him. Tutter is a small blue mouse who lives in the house with Bear - he has his own little mouse hole where he tries to fit as much cheese into as possible. OJo is a young female bear cub who's favourite toy is snow bear. Pip and Pop are 2 fun loving otters who live in the pond in the garden. Treelo is a mad lemur who finds it difficult to stay still for long and gets very excited. Ray and Luna are the sun and moon who sing songs with Bear in the morning and at night. Then there is Shadow - a shadow who tells strange little stories or tells rhymes in the form of shadow puppetry. There are also other characters who pop in to the show from time such as Doc Hogg - the piggy doctor and Grandma Flutter who is Tutter's granny.
In this dvd we have 3 episodes of Bear all to do with cleaning and tidying up. Working like a Bear is the first in which we see Tutter doing a bit of spring cleaning and hear the songs Working Like a Kid and Everybody in the Tub where the friends all get clean at the end of the day. We are also told of different types of jobs that people do.
Woodland House Wonderful is about getting the house clean in time for the photographer of the local magazine to take pictures of his house in a sort of OK style or so Bear thinks. After a lot of hard work singing Clean up the House as they go he realises that she wanted to see all the mess and take a more natural approach. We hear Everybody in the Tub again as they all clean themselves again and Brush Brush Bree as the importance of dental hygiene is explained.
We Did I Our Way is all about working together to get things done and shows the importance of teamwork. Songs featured in this episode are Get It Together and Clean Up The House. It may seem that the songs are repeated a lot but I feel that this is a good idea as your child recognises them and starts to join in.
There are other similarities in all episodes of this show such as when Bear sniffs out a smell at the start of each one and the goodbye sequence with Luna. The most hilarious part of the shows though is when Bear dances - he really rocks and this encourages the child to join in with the catchy songs. There tends to be a moral in each of the stories whether it's about sharing or help others and although there are certain learning scenarios it is more about fun and entertainment than the likes of Barney who focuses more on learning.
You can tell that Jim Henson production has a hand in the making of this show as the puppets are very realistic and each character has a very distinctive personality. Reminders of the early muppets are visible with some of the crazy characters.
This is a great fun dvd with sing a long extras and a bear brochure with colouring pages you can print off if you have a computer. Just right for small children. It's around 70 minutes long with all 3 episodes so you get good value for around £10 although there is a special gift pack around if you look hard enough which comes with a bear toy and you would normally pay around £12 for this.
Great fun with laughs all the way - what more could you ask for.
Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 02/09/2002
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: CDRP 1025
Barcode: 5035822102514
DVD Description
Join gentle, curious Bear and his dynamic group of friends from Woodland Valley (Tutter, Ojo, Pip and Pop, Treelo, and Luna) for some humorous learning adventures designed with preschoolers in mind. Features the episodes Working Like a Bear and Woodland House Wonderful.
Languages
Main Language: English
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