Brand New | Go Green with the Grimwades starts 1st November | Milkshake!
Go Green with The Grimwades is back on Milkshake! with a brand new series.
Here's a look into some of the things they will be exploring throughout their brand new series which starts 1st November♻️
Go Green With The Grimwades | S2 Ep1 Repair Bikes | Preview Clip | Milkshake!
Woohoo! Reu is whizzing about on his balancing bike. While Mummy gets her bike ready, Daddy and Houston admire Harper’s hopping. Great balancing!
Mummy makes sure the children understand why carbon-free transport is good news for the planet. But there’s bad news when Mummy discovers that one of the tyres on her bike is flat. Daddy explains it won’t be possible for the family to go out on their bikes today.
There is an alternative, though. Daddy suggests “Grimwade Gang. Let’s go green!” To help them go green, the Grimwades have 5 ‘R’ words to choose from. Their choices are refuse, reduce, reuse, repair or recycle. Today the Grimwade Family decide to repair Mummy’s bike.
Mummy and Daddy invite two cycle instructors to join the Grimwades to make the bikes roadworthy.
At a local park, the instructors lead a family cycling lesson. They begin by checking everyone knows how to stop. As Heze and Hosanna are old enough to try cycling on the road, they have an advanced lesson, learning how to communicate by using hand signals. The others have fun, too, as they play a cycling game.
Then it’s the moment of truth for Heze, Hosanna and Mummy as James takes them on the road. Meanwhile, the others find a cycle path and have fun travelling through the park. Daddy celebrates the bike as a way of getting about without causing pollution.
As Heze and Hosanna’s big adventure comes to an end, the family meet up and agree that not only is cycling a green way to travel; it’s great fun too.
The Grimwades have gone green. Why don’t you go green too? You could prepare to ride a bike by practising your balance. Try standing on one leg!
Go Green With The Grimwades | S2 Ep2 Reuse the Wind | Preview Clip | Milkshake!
It’s a busy day at the Grimwades; the children are outside making windsocks from reused cardboard rolls while inside, Mummy and Daddy do the washing. As the children hang up their windsocks on the tree, washing is hung on the radiators until there is nowhere left to hang anything.
Mummy and Daddy go outside to admire the children’s work and ask if they know what makes the windsock move. The children reply that it is the wind.
Daddy explains he still has to find somewhere to hang the washing, but as he starts to go inside, Mummy stops him and suggests that Daddy should look at the wind, which could be the answer to his problem. To help them go green, the Grimwades use the 5 ‘R’ words. Their choices are refuse, reduce, reuse, repair or recycle. Today the Grimwade Family decide to reuse the wind.
Mummy explains that people used to hang out their washing. Using a tumble dryer isn’t necessary on windy days like today. All they need is a washing line and some pegs.
Meanwhile, Daddy takes Rue and Halle to Brixton Windmill. They meet Abs, the miller, who explains windmills used to use the power of the wind to turn grain into flour to make bread. The children help Abs mill some flour and weigh it out into a bag.
By the time Daddy, Rue and Halle return home, the washing is dry. Rue gives the flour they made to Mummy, something else to reuse. The flour is turned into bread.
The Grimwades have gone green. Why don’t you go green too? You could reuse some cardboard tubes and old material to make some windsocks of your own.
Go Green With The Grimwades | S2 Ep3 Recycle the Drawers | Preview Clip | Milkshake!
Out shopping, Daddy and Hosanna notice a chest of drawers in a charity second-hand furniture shop. Daddy explains that when you recycle furniture by painting it, it’s called upcycling.
Returning home, they find Mummy on the search for Harper’s exercise book. She explains to Daddy that not everything is as organised as it could be.
Daddy volunteers to join in the hunt, and as they look in the front room, the parents discuss the problem that they don’t have enough places to put their special things. Mummy finally finds the book and asks how the shopping trip went. When hearing about the drawers, Mummy rushes outside. Daddy asks Mummy where she is going, and she replies,
“Where do you think? We’ve been saying for ages that we need to get organised; this is our chance. Grimwade Gang, let’s go green!”
To help them go green, the Grimwades use the 5 ‘R’ words. Their choices are refuse, reduce, reuse, repair or recycle. Today the Grimwade Family decide to recycle the drawers, or as Daddy prefers to put it, upcycle the drawers.
While Hosanna and Daddy purchase the chest of drawers the others organise the mess at home into piles. The drawers arrive and the upcycling begins. First, each of the children chooses a different colour and repaints their drawer. Next, Daddy and Mummy empower the children with a positive message to put on the drawer. Finally, Daddy holds a quiz to find out another fact about each of the children to complete the makeover.
The furniture is positioned in place in the Grimwade’s front room. Reu remembers which drawer is his and puts his toy away.
The Grimwades have gone green. Why don’t you go green too? You could decorate a shoebox, like Reu does, to keep your special things.
Go Green With The Grimwades | S2 Ep4 Reduce on the Beach | Preview Clip | Milkshake!
The Grimwades are having a family day out at the seaside. They go to the park, have a paddle and enjoy a picnic. They don’t have much rubbish, but when they find a waste bin they think twice about filling it up as in popular places like the seaside, bins can fill up quickly and spillover. Mum suggests, “Grimwade Gang, let’s go green!”
To help them go green, the Grimwades use the 5 ‘R’ words. Their choices are refuse, reduce, reuse, repair or recycle. Today the Grimwade Family decide to reduce.
This is easy for the Grimwades. To reduce rubbish in the bin, they decide to take it home and put it on the compost. They then notice a community litter group and ask what they are doing. The group are doing an organised litter pick, so the Grimwades volunteer their services.
The organiser kits out the children with gloves, a bucket to collect the rubbish and a litter picker, and they head off to reduce litter on the beach.
Hosanna talks to the Head Ranger for the beach to understand why, though there aren’t many people on the beach, there is still lots of litter. She shows Hosanna the strandline where litter in the sea is left on the beach after high tide.
Heze and Halle are shown the different types of litter and are asked to conduct a survey to find out what type of litter is the biggest problem. Heze reports that the biggest problem is fishing line, with 22 items found.
The Grimwades have gone green. Why don’t you go green too? If you have a picnic somewhere, try and use as many reusable items to contain it. And if you do have any rubbish, please take it back home with you.
Go Green With The Grimwades | S2 Ep5 Refuse Party Plastic | Preview Clip | Milkshake!
It’s Hosanna’s 9th Birthday. Over breakfast, Hosanna is quizzed about her likes so that the family can plan a surprise birthday party. She mentions she doesn’t like single-use plastic as she thinks it is very bad for the planet.
In the kitchen, Mummy writes a shopping list as the family secretly meet without Hosanna’s knowledge. With the news that Hosanna doesn’t like plastic, Mummy tells the others that they will have to rethink. To avoid Hosanna hearing, they whisper, “Grimwade Gang, let’s go green!”
To help them go green, the Grimwades use the 5 ‘R’ words. Their choices are refuse, reduce, reuse, repair or recycle. Today, the Grimwade Family decide to refuse single-use plastic.
Daddy leaves with a shopping list, but instead of buying plastic plates, he asks a passing neighbour if he can borrow some.
Daddy, Heze and Reu return with the plates and find the others have made popcorn. Mummy sends them off to find deckchairs and a projector to create a cinema party for Hosanna.
That last thing on the list is pass the parcel. Heze explains to Reu how the game works. They wrap a parcel with extra layers of old newspaper. Reu wonders what is inside.
With everything ready Daddy goes to set up the party at a hall.
Hosanna is taken on a walk and gets a big surprise. Reu wins pass the parcel, finding a dinosaur under the final layer of newspaper and Hosanna gives her plastic free party a thumbs up.
The Grimwades have gone green. Why don’t you go green too? You don’t need to wait until your birthday to play pass the parcel. It’s a fun game any time of the year.
Go Green With The Grimwades | S2 Ep6 Reduce Food Miles | Preview Clip | Milkshake!
At the Grimwade’s House, Daddy finds Halle and Harper standing very close to each other while Hosanna keeps her distance at the other end of the room. Mummy wants them to understand the difference between near and far.
Daddy returns to the kitchen where the boys are making a fruit salad.
Mummy shows Hosanna a map of the world and explains she wants to find out how far their food has travelled. She calculates how many food miles are in the fruit salad.
In the kitchen, Daddy explains that if all their food comes from far away, that larger number of food miles will contribute to the family’s carbon footprint. Suddenly the boys hear Mummy shout out in shock. The total amount of food miles in the fruit salad is 26,758. Reu thinks that there is only one thing for it, “Grimwade Gang, Let’s Go Green!”
To help them go green, the Grimwades use the 5 ‘R’ words. Their choices are refuse, reduce, reuse, repair or recycle. Today the Grimwade Family decide to reduce their food miles and set themselves a challenge to source the rest of their food for tonight’s dinner locally.
Mummy, Hosanna, Halle and Reu go in search of some locally grown food at an allotment. By swapping their homemade biscuits with the people on the allotment, they return with broad beans, eggs and honey.
When the others return home with the food they are greeted by the others dressed as waiting staff, who offer them an a la carte menu. Mummy chooses scramble eggs, Hosanna and Halle have egg sandwiches, while Reu opts for a boiled egg.
The Grimwades have gone green. Why don’t you go green too? You could reduce your food miles by growing some cress on your windowsill.
Go Green With The Grimwades | S2 Ep7 Reuse Wool | Preview Clip
At the Grimwade’s House, Daddy makes animal sounds while Mummy gets out toy farm animals for Harper, who wants to make a toy farm.
To help Heze, Hosanna and Halle, who are doing some school work about sheep, Mummy sets up a video call with a real farmer in his field.
After the call, Mummy realises that she has snagged her woollen jumper, and it begins to unravel. She tells Daddy that she will have to throw it away. Daddy thinks there may be an alternative and suggests, “Grimwade Gang, let’s go green!”
To help them go green, the Grimwades use the 5 ‘R’ words. Their choices are refuse, reduce, reuse, repair or recycle. Today the Grimwade Family decide to reuse the wool from Mummy’s jumper.
Grandma Melanie arrives and teaches Halle to finger knit while attempting to teach Daddy to knit with needles.
Meanwhile, Mummy takes Heze, Hosanna, Harper and Houston to a city farm to look for sheep. They watch a sheep being sheared, and the farmer gives some cleaned sheep’s fleece to Harper to take home.
At the Grimwades house, the old wool has been reused into new chains and squares. Daddy tells Grandma about Harper’s plans to make a toy farm. This gives Grandma an idea. She suggests the knitted squares could create a patchwork of fields.
Harper returns with the rest of the family to show off her wool and discovers a city farm of her own on the dining room table. Mummy suggests reusing some of the sheep’s fleece to make sheep and complete the toy farm.
The Grimwades have gone green. Why don’t you go green too? Before you throw away something that’s made of wool, try and reuse it. You could make a farm like the Grimwades or make pom-poms.
Go Green With The Grimwades | S2 Ep9 Reuse at the Fire Station | Preview Clip | Milkshake!
The Grimwades are visiting their local fire station. They meet Cheryl, the firefighter, who explains that in the case of a fire, you, ‘Get out, Stay out and call 999.’ She then activates a turnout drill to show how the firefighters practice getting into the fire engine quickly. The family follow Cheryl as she gets into her protective gear and jumps on board the fire engine in 30 seconds!
Reu asks to look at the back of the engine where the fire hoses are kept. Cheryl explains that London Fire Brigade reuse their hoses. They can be reused in all sorts of things, including belts and furniture.
Mummy and Daddy explain that the garage is full of wellington boots that they no longer need, but they don’t know what to do with them.
To help them go green, the Grimwades use the 5 ‘R’ words. Their choices are refuse, reduce, reuse, repair or recycle. Today, the Grimwade Family decide to reuse their wellington boots, but unusually, no one has a clue how to reuse them. Puzzled, they walk home past a florist with an attractive display of flowers outside when suddenly it dawns on Daddy that they could turn their old wellington boots into plant pots.
Hosanna and Halle go home with Mummy to decorate the wellington boots while the other children stay with Daddy to choose which plants to buy.
When the plant choosing team return home, it’s the perfect opportunity to work out their exit plan by counting the doors they can exit in an emergency. With their escape plan sorted, the planting of the wellington boots commences, and a fire station themed plant display comes together.
The Grimwades have gone green. Why don’t you go green too? Recycle an old wellington and see what you can grow.
Go Green With The Grimwades | S2 Ep10 Repair Shoes | Preview Clip | Milkshake!
At the Grimwade’s House, Reu is looking at photographs of Mummy and Daddy’s wedding. She tells the family that she still has her wedding outfit and decides to show it to everyone.
Meanwhile, Hosanna has a problem with her trainers. The shoelaces are broken.
Mummy comes downstairs with her wedding outfit. The dress is in good condition, but the shoes are ruined. Daddy explains he has a similar problem with his shoes and shows everyone that the soles are broken.
In total, the Grimwades have three pairs of shoes that need repairing. Daddy can think of only one solution. “Grimwade Gang, Let’s go green.”
To help them go green, the Grimwades use the 5 ‘R’ words. Their choices are refuse, reduce, reuse, repair or recycle. Today, the Grimwade Family decide to repair their shoes, and Daddy proposes a visit to the cobblers.
At the Cobblers, Heze hands over Mummy and Daddy’s shoes. They are invited to go into the factory and see how the shoes get repaired. First, Daddy’s shoes are repaired with the sole fully replaced.
Back at home, Reu enjoys a foot-related activity too. Mummy and Hosanna help him cover his feet in paint so that he can make footprints.
Harper and Halle watch Mummy’s heel getting reglued and help find some new heel tips, which they hammer into place.
Back at home, that still leaves one pair of shoes in need of repair - Hosanna’s trainers. Heze comes to the rescue when he suggests that the laces could be replaced with some old ribbon that they have.
The Grimwades have gone green. Why don’t you go green too? If you have a pair of shoes with laces you can’t use anymore, replace them with some new laces or ribbon and give them a whole new look.
Originally published: October 25, 2021.
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