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Daniel's Doll

Episode: 317b
Air Date: September 5, 2017
Previous Episode: 317a - Firefighters at School
Next Episode: 318a - Daniel's Very Different Day
Purchase/Stream: Amazon

Daniel Tiger is pretending to be Tigey the Adventure Tiger. Grandpere is visiting and has sewn homemade baby dolls for Daniel and Margaret. He explains to Daniel that he is both a sailor and a doll maker.

At the treehouse, Daniel plays with Katerina Kittycat and O the Owl who are pretending to be a super ballerina and a super librarian. Rather than be Tigey the Adventure Tiger, Daniel decides he'd rather care for his baby doll and pretend to be a daddy instead.

Katerina and O play family with Daniel. Daniel make-believes that they are caring for lots and lots of babies.

While their babies sleep, Daniel and his friends pretend in different roles. Katerina pretends to be a baby while O is a grandpa and a doctor.


Strategy

  • "You can be more than one thing."

Songs


Appearing In This Episode


Live Action Segment

The live action segment following this episode includes a boy visiting a fire station.

  


Notes

The storyline from this episode is featured in the book Daniel and the Firefighters.


Images

      

Episode Credits

Written by Jennifer Hamburg
Created by Angela C. Santomero
Based on the work of Fred Rogers

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