- Once upon a time, - [Moby] I found a garden hose.

- Sh, sh.

No.

Okay.

A long, long time ago.

- [Siblee] I've got the marshmallows.

- Oh Sib, Siblee, sh sh.

Okay, in a castle far, far away.

- [Moby] Has anyone seen the fire extinguisher?

- Guys, guys, I'm trying to do the show.

- [Siblee] Ah, we're getting ready for the show too.

(sigh) - The show's already started.

- [Siblee] Um, but the fire department isn't here yet.

- Ah.

- [Voice 1] Do you think there's a dragon will give me a ride?

- Who is that?

(sigh) Dragons.

♪ Wimee creates, all the day through, ♪ ♪ And you can do it too.

♪ ♪ Think of words, and of rhymes.

♪ ♪ That make Wimee just, ♪ ♪ Please do.

♪ ♪ (vocalizing) ♪ - [Child] It's time for Wimee's Words.

(audience cheering) - Hi friends.

I'm glad you are here.

Glad you're here too.

All right, so let's get things rolling.

I got some questions.

I'm gonna go first to Miss Stephanie.

Hey, Miss Stephanie, hey, when you think of a dragon, what's the first image that pops into your head?

- Fire.

Like a fire breathing dragon.

- Yeah.

It's classic.

Right?

What would a, can you do an impersonation of a fire breathing dragon?

- Oh, sure.

(quietly roaring) - Oh!

(laughing) You froze the camera with that.

You were like, (quietly roaring) and it melted the camera.

I think.

Thanks Miss Stephanie.

We'll check back with you later.

Guess what, friends?

My friend Spark, a real life dragon, is here.

So Spark, when you hear the word dragon, what image pops into your head?

- Well, I have a twin sister that's named Dragolina.

- So you think of Dragolina right away, when you hear the word dragon?

- Yeah.

- That's awesome.

Do you and your sister ever, ever argue?

- Sometimes.

- Yeah.

But then you work it out?

- Yeah.

We usually work it out.

- Nice.

Nice.

Well, thanks Spark.

We'll see you a little bit on the (vocalizing) Friends.

All right, here we go.

I need you to help me out by sharing something fun to do.

(clears throat) ♪ Have you ever seen a dragon?

♪ ♪ A dragon, a dragon.

♪ ♪ Have you ever seen a dragon jumping jacks.

♪ - Oh wait, no.

♪ Doing jumping jacks?

♪ oh, it has to be silly.

Can you imagine a dragon?

I wonder if they'd use their wings?

Or it depends o- Do all dragons have wings?

I'm not sure.

Well, friends let's go to Miss Stephanie.

What is something you think is fun to do, Miss Stephanie?

- I like swinging on the swings.

- That's got a nice sound to it.

Swinging on the swings.

Okay.

♪ Did you ever see a dragon?

♪ ♪ A dragon, a dragon, ♪ ♪ Did you ever see a dragon swing on the swings?

♪ Woo.

That's a fun one.

Hey, Spark.

What's something you think is fun to do?

- Well, I like to bowl.

- Oh, go bowling.

I love it.

Okay.

♪ Did you ever see a dragon, ♪ ♪ Go bowling, go bowling.

♪ ♪ Did you ever see a dragon, ♪ ♪ Go bowling?

♪ (pins crash) Oh, play baseball.

♪ Did you ever see a dragon, ♪ ♪ Play baseball, play baseball.

♪ ♪ Did you ever see a dragon, ♪ ♪ play baseball?

♪ Baseball, batter up.

Same thing.

Did the dragons use their wings?

For the bats?

Or maybe they fly from base to base to base?

Hmm, that's fun.

That's fun.

What do you like to do friends?

I wonder if dragons would like to do it too?

Huh?

I have a feeling.

Well, Hey friends, it's time for today's message from Moby.

(funky music) - So, dragons aren't real.

No, they're pretend creatures.

But, stories about dragons have been around, as long as people have been telling stories.

Yeah.

Dragons usually play the role of the bad guy, who needs to be defeated.

But for being a bad guy, dragons are pretty popular.

Yeah.

Most dragons have wings, scales, claws, and breathe fire.

(laughs) Many also have horns or sharp teeth.

Yeah, they come in all sorts of colors, and being pretend, they can look any way they want to.

So, if you made a dragon, what would your dragon look like?

Hmm, I think I would have- (funky music) - I would want to make a dragon that has really big wings, so big it's just like, (whooshing) it'd be the fastest flying dragon in the universe!

Oh woo.

Okay.

Friends, it's time for todays, 1, 2, 3 sentence story.

Beginning, middle, end.

That's right friends.

Let's write a story in three sentences.

In the first sentence we set the scene, in the second sentence there is a problem.

But don't worry, in the third sentence, there is the solution.

So friends, share with us a person, place or thing.

AKA a noun.

Hmm.

Let's go to Spark for the very first word.

Any word at all.

What word are you thinking of?

- I'm thinking ninja.

- Oh ninja.

Thanks Spark.

Okay, our story's got a ninja.

(clears throat) In a far away land, ninja sat in a chair, thinking about the day.

Hmm.

So, this ninja is just relaxing.

Usually you think about ninjas, they're always- got something to do.

But this ninja is just resting, ah.

There's the start of our story, but there's a problem.

No.

What word could inspire today's problem?

I'm gonna ask Miss Stephanie for today's word.

What word?

Any word at all?

Could be silly.

Could be serious.

- Let's go with screwdriver.

- Ah!

Screwdriver.

Nice.

Okay.

Hmm, typically a screwdriver solves things, but today is screwdriver is the problem.

All right.

Okay.

Let's see.

Long- Wait, no.

In a land far away, a ninja sat in a chair, thinking about the day.

He wanted to build a house, but his screwdriver was missing.

(gasp) No.

How does he attach all the things together, to build a house, with no screwdriver?

In fact, there are no hammers, there are no drills, there's nothing.

How does this ninja solve the problem?

(vocal fanfare) Eating ice cream.

Indeed.

Ice cream is the solution.

Okay.

Watch this.

Ha ha.

Here we go.

From the top.

In a land far, far away a ninja sat in the chair, thinking about the day.

He wanted to build a house, but could not find his screwdriver, or any tools.

He decided to eat some ice cream, which inspired?

Hmm.

(laughing) I was going somewhere and then I just kinda lost it.

I wonder.

Hmm.

Ninja.

Think like a ninja.

Think like ice cream.

Ooh.

Think like a dragon.

Hey dragon, dragon on the Wimage board.

Maybe this dragon could help us.

Oh yes, yes.

Dragon.

Let's see.

Ooh.

Ooh ooh.

What if the dragon brings the I, Hmm.

Hey Spark.

I'm wondering if you could help me out.

I'm struggling here.

I've got a dragon.

So I'm, I'm thinking how to think like a dragon, to solve this.

We gotta build a house, we gotta find a screwdriver, and it's got something to do with ice cream.

Any ideas, to help me out?

- What if the ice cream is screwdriver ice cream?

(gasp) - That's awesome.

Thanks Spark.

Okay.

So, a dragon brought, a screw driver ice cream... How do I put this into few words?

Hey Steph.

Steph's a great editor, reviser.

Any thoughts on how we take this?

The screwdriver is, the ice cream is a screwdriver.

You see what we got, any input to help the team?

- I would say, you took the screwdriver shaped ice cream, and got to work.

- Yeah.

That's what it is.

You're right, because the shape, it was the shape of the ice cream, is what made it screwdriver ice cream.

And it was really, yeah.

We had to build the house in the winter, in Michigan maybe, to keep the ice cream frozen.

Okay.

I'm gonna put it all together, from the top.

Right?

Okay.

In a land far away, a ninja sat in a chair, thinking about the day.

He wanted to build the house, but he could not find his screwdriver, or his tools.

Fortunately, a dragon delivered a screwdriver shaped ice cream cone, and he, the ninja got to work.

Woo.

What teamwork friends.

Wimage board.

Woo hoo.

We gotta have a dragon dance.

Woo hoo.

Woo hoo.

(vocalizing) Thanks team.

That was awesome.

Woo, friends.

Guess what?

We are gonna learn how to make a really cool puppet.

It's time for Explore and Create.

(funky music) That looks so cool.

- This, is a dragon puppet, that I thought we could make together.

Are you ready, Wimee?

- Yeah, I'm ready.

- [Stephanie] Okay.

So let me show you what I have here.

- Okay.

- You will need a pair of scissors, a pen or a pencil, a glue stick, a marker of any color, a paper bag, and I chose red for fire, and I wanted purple for my wings and my scales, but you can choose whatever color you want.

So, I'm gonna move this over, and I'm going to draw the wings.

And so the way I did it, was start off like the top of a heart.

Can you see that?

- [Wimee] Yeah.

- [Stephanie] Yeah.

So, it's facing me, and then we're gonna count to three.

We go 1, 2, 3.

Wimee you count with me for this side?

- [Wimee] Yep.

- [Stephanie] Okay.

- [Together] 1, 2, 3.

- [Stephanie] So we have our wings.

For our scales, we're gonna draw the shape of triangles, and I thought we could draw three of them.

So you can count with me.

- [Stephanie] One.

- [Wimee] One.

- [Stephanie] Two.

- [Wimee] Two.

- [Stephanie] This one is, three.

- [Wimee] Three.

- [Stephanie] All right.

And then I decided to put ears.

There are lots of different shapes of dragon ears, and so I thought I would just do a swoop, and then do again, 1, 2, 3.

- Nice.

- [Stephanie] Swoop.

1, 2, 3.

And then I take my scissors and I cut them all out.

Ta-da I have them already cut out for us.

- Oh.

Ha ha ha.

- [Stephanie] The magic of television.

- Yeah.

- [Stephanie] All right.

And then, the part of your paper bag that opens, that's gonna be where the mouth is.

- Nice.

- [Stephanie] All right?

So you're gonna flip it onto the back, take your glue stick, and put some glue in the middle, to stick on the wings.

Like so.

And then I took a big spring of glue, up and down its back.

And then I take the triangles, and I'm just gonna put the edge of each triangle, in the glue.

One.

Two.

Three.

- Nice.

- [Stephanie] And that way, now I can take the tip of them, put my finger here and go, push it up, so that the scales stick up.

- Nice.

- [Stephanie] All right.

I'm also gonna put the ears on the top here.

- Okay.

- [Stephanie] So real quick, put our glue, and we have the start of our dragon.

Now we're gonna just flip it over and do the face.

So, I decided to use green.

This dragon will have green eyes.

So, you make circles, a big circle and then two smaller circles in the middle.

And then for the nose, or the snout?

I did 1, 2, 3, a little, like upside down smiley faces, and then part of circles right here for those nostrils.

And then lastly, I flipped the, this up, can you see that?

- Yeah.

- [Stephanie] And I drew, like a big smiley face.

Two of them.

- It's a happy dragon.

- [Stephanie] That's right.

So it looks like the jaw of the dragon.

And then, lastly, is I'm gonna cut some strips from my red paper.

That's gonna make the fire for us.

- Ooh.

- [Stephanie] All right.

So you would cut three of those, or however many you'd like, and then I took it and I wrapped it around the pencil.

- Ooh.

- [Stephanie] Like this.

Ta da.

and then glued it onto the mouth.

So we'll just have one for, for now.

- Okay.

- [Stephanie] And that is a dragon.

- [Wimee] Ha ha ha, whoa.

- So we'll have our parent dragon and our baby dragon.

I like that.

- Oh, that is so fun.

Miss Stephanie, thank you so much for showing us, that awesome dragon puppet wha- people can make at home.

- You're welcome.

Bye friends.

- Ha ha.

Love it.

All right, friends.

It's time for Siblee's Joke.

I wonder, I wonder what he's got for us today.

(cheering) - How do dragons weigh themselves?

- I don't know.

How do they weigh themselves?

- They have scales.

Ha ha ha.

(cheering) - They have scales.

Do you have scales?

Didn't think so.

Friends, let's take a deep breath.

Breathe in.

Hold it.

Let it out.

It's time for slowing down.

(calm music) Breathe in, breathe out.

I think that dragon and that duck became friends.

I like that.

All right friends, we love books.

Our friends from Los Angeles Public Library, are here for today's Check Out This Book.

(funky music) - Hello, I'm Andreas from the Los Angeles Public Library.

I wanted to tell you about a book.

Dragons Love Tacos, by Adam Rubin, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri, and published by Dial Books for Young Readers.

If you wanna make friends with a dragon, you only need one thing.

Well, more like a boat full of things, because dragons really love tacos.

In this book, one kid invites all the dragons in their neighborhood, to a giant taco party.

There are purple dragons, and orange dragons, dragons with blue wings and red spikes.

Just remember there's one thing dragons hate, and that's spicy salsa.

It makes them cough sparks and sneeze fire.

But, that wouldn't be a problem, right?

What could possibly go wrong, if you invite a bunch of dragons in your living room?

(speaking Spanish) Well, I'm getting hungry all of a sudden, so I better go, check out these books at your local library, and find out what happens.

(funky music) - [Narrator] Wimee sat down, looked around the room, and began to wonder.

He dreamed of discovering the most magical book in the world.

- Hm?

What?

Oh, hoo hoo hoo.

I can't believe it.

This is amazing.

Hoo hoo.

Guess what, friends?

It's time for, Dragon Chat.

(funky music) Ha ha.

Spark.

This is your first, no not first time, I'm sorry.

You've been on the show with us a few times, but this is your first time being on the whole episode.

- Yeah.

I love it.

- I know.

We're so glad you're here, but we wanna get to know you better.

So, one thing I know, from knowing you Spark, is that you love bowling.

- Yes I do.

- Yeah.

Tell us, tell us about your love of bowling.

- Well, I first started because my dad taught me how to.

- Cool.

And so, do you like, you and your dad go bowling together sometimes?

- Yeah.

We love to.

- Yeah.

And do you get competitive?

Do you both like, try to get your best scores?

- Sometimes, my average is usually a hundred.

- A hundred?

- Yeah.

- That's great.

Wow.

How long have you been bowling?

- Just about two years.

- Nice.

Nice.

Are, are you on a bowling league?

- Yeah.

You wanna know who's on it?

- Yeah.

Who's on the bowling league?

- Well, there's Mr. Grumphrey, Mr. Mustachio, - Yeah.

- And Mr. Pistachio and then sometimes it's Siblee.

- Oh, ha ha ha.

That's a great team, I bet.

Yeah.

Right, a dragon who bowls?

I, I know.

And you've you, do you ever have to like, stretch out your, your arms and, and warm up?

- Yeah.

'Cause if I don't, I might fall down the lane.

But that's why have my wings.

- I was- Perfect.

I was just gonna ask, do you ever use you wings when you bowl?

- Yeah.

Sometimes if my legs get tired, I just fly down the, I just fly to do the thing.

- Man.

Hey, do you think I could, I should ask around about getting wings installed?

Any insight?

What, what should I, if I try to get wings installed, what model or what, what type of design should I go for?

- Maybe come to my cave sometime, and you can hang out with me and figure it out.

- I would love to, that's so thoughtful of you Spark.

Man.

Awesome.

Well, Hey, do you have any ad- We got a question for here.

How old are you Spark?

- Oh, I'm just about three years old.

- Now, is that dragon years or people years?

- Dragon years.

- Gotcha.

Okay.

Gotcha.

Man, it's so cool hearing- I, I'm just, you got me inspired to wanna bowl.

In fact, do you have any advice, for someone who's new to bowling?

- Well, my dad always tells me to, shake hands with the middle pin, which means try to go for the middle pin, and the one on the right or the left.

- Okay.

- Try to hit both of those, and that's a strike ball, usually.

- That's great advice.

I'll try that next time.

Awesome.

Well Spark, thanks so much for today's Dragon Chat.

- See ya.

- Oh man.

This is so fun.

I love hanging out with friends, thinking together, creating.

Hoo and guess what, friends?

We've got a fun new segment, to put into the mix.

It's called Very Short Songs.

(radio static) ♪ A green wagon, ♪ ♪ Wheeled behind the blue dragon.

♪ (radio static) - That was a pretty short song.

I like it.

I like it.

You know wha, I gotta, I gotta say, many of you know, our, our, our, our favorite, one of our favorite people of all time, Jim, who runs the show.

Who's on the show.

Hey Jim, you got, can you come on?

You, you made that song.

- I did with your help, of course Wimee.

- well I just sang, ♪ Green wagon.

♪ Yeah, but you, you're man, I just love it.

You're so awesome, Jim.

- Well, thanks.

You're pretty awesome too, Wimee.

- Okay.

Let's get back to it.

Okay.

Ha ha ha.

Okay, friends, it is time for checking in, with the Wimage board, to see if there's an update.

Hmm.

I wonder if Wimage board, have you- (gasp) Whoa, look at the tacos.

Dragons do love tacos.

Look at the ice cream, man.

Oh, look at this happy dragon.

Let's bring Spark in.

Hey Spark.

Do you, I, I should ask you, how do you feel about tacos?

- I love them, just not with salsa.

I- not like salsa.

- Gotcha.

That's kind of, yeah.

And, and, oh man, this dragon's upside down.

Ooh.

Do you, look at the size of the wings on this dragon.

I bet that dragon.

Oh, like he, I wonder if those wings help spin, if that's part of the- Man.

Well, thanks Wimage board.

Great job.

And um, Spark and, and Miss Stephanie, and friends at home, it's time for another game.

It's time for Find it Fast.

(Car whizzing, and music) Friends, can you find something that starts with D?

Can you find something that is strong?

And something that is big?

Dragon starts with D, dragons are pretty strong, and I think most dragons are pretty big.

Hmm.

Let's see some examples.

Oh, let's ask, let's ask Spark.

Spark.

What have you found?

- Well- (muffled) - Oh, ha ha ha.

I can't.

I'll translate 'cause it's in your mouth.

It, is it tape?

(muffled) - Duct tape.

- And, it's big and also it's very strong.

- Wow.

It is.

Ding, ding, ding, ding.

I wonder if you unrolled that all the way, how long that would be.

That would be big, yeah.

Miss Stephanie, what have you found?

- Wimee, I have a really big container of bubbles.

- Whoa.

- Yes.

- That's a lot of bubbles.

- Something strong.

I was kind of thinking that this dragon, would be really strong once it grows up.

If it was real.

(Wimee laughing) - I like it, I like the way you think.

Friends, can you find anything that starts with D, something strong, something big?

Hmm.

Something big.

A building?

Buildings are big.

Now with big it's all, it's really all relative to the size, or not the size, the perspective.

Right?

'Cause that bubble, that big bottle of bubbles, was a big bottle of bubbles, but compared to say like a, like the world's largest water bottle, might be small.

Do we have a world's largest water bottle?

I don't know.

Now anyways, I'm just thinking.

Well, friends, you guys are awesome, and I'm glad you're here.

Another great episode.

Great job everybody.

Woo hoo.

I'm glad you were with us.

It's time to dance, if you're watching right now.

If you're in a chair, if you're in the living room, if you're at school, if you're at home, dance with us.

Yeah.

Look at all these dragons.

Ooh, let's pretend to fly.

- Wimee's words is brought to you by Acrisure, Consumers Credit Union, Meijer, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

And with additional support from these great partners.

(upbeat music)