Playful Problem Solving

Short Form All Aboard the Play Train hero

Detailed Goal: Self-discipline and task persistence

Short form: All Aboard the Play Train (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad find a way to keep their rock ‘eggs’ from falling off the train.

Short form: Ramp it Up (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad are trying to ramp a ball into a basket, but the ramp keeps moving.

Short form: Flying (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad make clouds to stick onto the side of their slide, so that, when they slide, it feels like they’re flying through the sky.

Short form: Chicken Goes Bananas (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma, Jad and Chicken are playing “Shopkeeper”, but their box shop isn’t tall enough for Basma and Jad.

Short form: Jad's Favorite Ball (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Jad’s ball gets stuck under a bush. They get it back by connecting two sticks to reach it.

Short form: In Limbo (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad have to figure out a way to hold up one side of their limbo pole so that they can both play the game with just the two of them present.

Short form: Basma According to Jad (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Jad's drawing of Basma gets blown up into a tree. They get it down by sticking tape onto the end of a stick and pulling it out.

Short form: Oh My Hat (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad use ribbons to figure out how to get Gargur (Grover)’s hat to stay on his head when he slides down the slide.

Short form: Leave it to Them (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad make a broom to sweep up leaves so that they can use the leaves to make a loopy rainbow.

Short form: Basma's Surprise (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Jad, Gargur (Grover), Chicken and the Birds are preparing a surprise party for Basma!

Short form: Pass the Banana (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma, Jad, Gargur (Grover), and Chicken are having a relay race, using a banana as a baton. Chicken can’t hold onto the banana with her wings, so they make her a pouch for the banana, inspired by Gargur (Grover)’s water bottle holder.

Short form: Step Up to the Table (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad make a staircase so that Chicken can get up to the bench and watch them play table tennis.

Short form: Seat for Chicken (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
There isn’t enough space for Chicken in the car. Basma and Jad make Chicken a sidecar so that she can drive with them to see the Amazing Forest Birds.

Short form: The Big Parade (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Gargur (Grover) wants to wave his flag in The Big Parade, but it turns out... he doesn’t actually have a flag.

Short form: Chicken Mountain (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad make a bridge so that their rock friends can cross safely over a busy road and get to Chicken Mountain.

Short form: Sack Race (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad fix two holes that Gargur (Grover) cut out of his burlap sack, so that he can experience what a proper sack race is all about.

Short form: Taking The Birds for a ride (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad want to take the Birds for a ride in their car, but first they have to figure out a way to get the car to move.

Short form: Parachutes (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad make a parachute for their ball so that it falls to the ground slowly.

Short form: Safari (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad’s home-made elephant keeps falling over while they’re on their safari.

Short form: The Picture Book (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad have made a Picture Book with illustrations of their adventures. It’s not bound though, so the pages keep getting blown away.

Short form: The Best Band in the World (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Chicken wants to join The Best Band In The World, but first Basma and Jad have to figure out how to keep Chicken’s squeaky ball instrument in place.

Short form: Big Scary Lion (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad make a lion’s mane for Chicken so that she can take part in their Jungle Picnic.

Short form: Space Rocket (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad are trying to send their rock friend astronauts into space, but the rocket keeps breaking.

Short form: Let’s Dance (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Jad’s drumsticks aren’t making the right sound, so Basma and Jad figure out how to make the ends bigger and softer.

Short form: The Big Picture Show (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
Basma and Jad need to figure out how they can hang up their pictures so that they can invite Gargur (Grover), Chicken, and the Birds to their Big Picture Show.

Short form: Like Dominoes (Playful Problem Solving), Season 3
The table is wobbly, so Basma and Jad’s big plan to feed the Birds in an extra special way comes undone.

Ahlan Simsim: Cart Makeover (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are working as a team to decorate Grover's cart, as a surprise for Grover. But they have conflicting ideas about how to decorate it. They decide that Basma will decorate two sides of the cart, and Jad will decorate the other two sides.

Ahlan Simsim: Paper Planes (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are working together as a team to fold a big paper plane. They realize they both want to be the one to fly the plane. They solve their problem by sharing the paper and making two paper planes. Grover and Chicken join in and also want to play. They share the paper again so that everyone has a plane to fly.

Ahlan Simsim: Ramp It Up (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are playing Catch the Shooting Stars. They have a pile of balls that represent stars, a basket to catch them in, and a ramp on The Park Wall. Jad rolls the ball up the ramp and Basma catches the ball in her basket. Soon, Basma wants to roll the ball too, so they take turns. Then Chicken arrives. They let her join the game and she also gets a chance to catch and throw the shooting stars.

Ahlan Simsim: Washing Line (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad want to have an art show and need somewhere to display their paintings. Grover shares his washing line with them.

Ahlan Simsim: Team Picnic (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Team Picnic (Basma, Jad and Grover) are preparing for their picnic. They realize they have a problem when they discover that everyone wants to be the one to carry the "super-special picnic basket". They resolve their dilemma by taking turns carrying the basket to The Park Bench.

Ahlan Simsim: Dance Off (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma, Jad and Chicken are a Dance Team. They are practicing their dance when, all of a sudden, they hear music coming from a distance. Grover and The Birds are also a dance team. They want to show each other their dances. They all enjoy a great dance-off.

Ahlan Simsim: Playing with the Birds (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are playing Drop the Ball with the Birds, but they don't have a goalkeeper while The Birds do. They solve their problem by taking turns to be goalkeeper.

Ahlan Simsim: The Guess Guess Game (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Team Basma and Jad are playing The Guess-Guess Game with Team Birds. It works like a typical charades game. One team picks a card and needs to act out the picture on the card. The other teammates try to guess what's being acted out. The problem comes in when both Basma and Jad want to be the one to act out the word. They realize that they must take turns! The Birds inform them that the teams must also take turns to play.

Ahlan Simsim: Cheer Cheer (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma, Jad and Chicken are doing a cheer together, as a team. Chicken is struggling to learn the cheer. They try to teach Chicken again but they do it at the same time, confusing Chicken. They decide to take turns teaching.

Ahlan Simsim: Masterpiece (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are each going to paint a picture of The Birds, but Jad forgot to pack his canvas. They decide to share Basma's canvas and paint together.

Ahlan Simsim: Block Town (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are building a town with blocks. Jad is building the school and Basma is building the houses. Basma builds faster than Jad and by the time he wants his next block, Basma has already used up all the blocks to build houses. They decide to share the blocks equally between themselves. Grover arrives and they share the blocks again.

Ahlan Simsim: Airplanes (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are a flying team. When they realize they both want to be the pilot, they decide that the best way to get the most fun out of their flying time is to take turns at being the pilot.

Ahlan Simsim: Puzzle Pals (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are working as a team to build a puzzle. They realize that in order to build the puzzle together, they need to share the sample image of it.

Ahlan Simsim: Bench Time (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
It's story time. Basma and Jad are ready to tell their story. They really want their audience to sit on The Bench and enjoy the story in comfort. After a whole lot of British-style over-politeness, Grover, Chicken and The Birds all share The Bench and listen to the story.

Ahlan Simsim: Treasure Hunt (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are playing as a team, setting up a treasure hunt for The Birds in The Play Place. They only have one map, so they share it so that they can mark the spots where they hide the treasure.

Ahlan Simsim: Banana Train (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are playing Banana Train. They’re delivering play-play bananas to Chicken, who runs a banana store. Basma and Jad both want to pull the train, though if one of them doesn't hold the cargo car in place, the cargo car will fall off the track. They decide to take turns being the conductor. While one of them is the conductor, the other one holds the cargo car in place.

Ahlan Simsim: March Madness (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
All the characters are taking part in The Big Parade. Basma, Grover and Jad are playing instruments, and Chicken and The Birds are marching. They realize that they need to take turns playing their instruments or else it’s chaos. After a successful run through, The Birds want to make the music and Basma, Jad and Grover must do the marching. They take turns again.

Ahlan Simsim: The Long Haul (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are playing airplanes. They decide to fly around The Park, but for that they need one big airplane. They build the big airplane together, but it seems it can't fly that far. They decide to take turns to fly it around The Park. At each stop, something fun happens. In the end, they reach their final destination!

Ahlan Simsim: Puppet Show (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are playing together as a team to put on a Puppet Show. They realize that sharing the stage makes the whole experience more fun.

Ahlan Simsim: Making Space for Chicken (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma, Jad and Chicken are going to work as a team to make an art project. Chicken is bringing a few of her things to The Workshop. Chicken arrives, but a problem arises when Basma and Jad can't give up any
space on their shelves. They end up sharing their shelves with Chicken.

Ahlan Simsim: The Big Race (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad decide to have a Big Race, to find out which of their favorite items go down the slide fastest. Basma finds a blanket she plans to use to carry all her items to the slide. Jad has nothing to use to carry his items, so they decide to share the blanket.

Ahlan Simsim: A Care for All (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are getting ready for The Fruit Market. They're running late, and there are too many pieces of fruit to carry. Grover shares his cart with them so that they can get all their fruits to the market together.

Ahlan Simsim: Paper Cup Telephone (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are playing Telephone-Telephone! A problem arises because they both talk into their paper cups at the same time! They realize that it would work better if they take turns to talk.

Ahlan Simsim: Gone Fishing (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are playing Catch the Big Fish! Their rods get entangled which makes it difficult for them to fish. They decide to take turns fishing. Grover arrives and wants in on the fishing action.

Ahlan Simsim: The Funky Chicken (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma, Jad and Chicken are a Dance Team. They are making up a new dance. Basma wants to show them all the moves but Chicken and Jad also want to come up with new moves for the dance. They decide to take turns to teach new dance moves and make a brand new dance together.

Ahlan Simsim: Give Us a Clue (Playful Problem Solving), Season 4
Basma and Jad are playing with a rubber ball. The ball gets away from them and they decide to find the ball together, as a detective team. But they only have one magnifying glass. They decide that they are going to take turns using the magnifying glass until they discover the location of their ball.