Young children are both physical and sensory explorers and so love to dig. Digging in sand and soil, gravel and even sticky mud provides lots of opportunities for energetic action. It also offers encounters with all the different materials and textures that digging reveals. The young child's interest is also captured by different animals that dig and digging machines. The range of machinery such as graders, backhoes and excavators that can dig up roads and dig deep holes for houses, dams and city buildings can be a special fascination. In this series of Play School we have lots of fun as we explore digging in all sorts of places and situations. We uncover new items each episode by digging in the sand pit, while through the windows, we see children engaging with the world of digging around them - at the beach, a community garden, a wildlife park, a puppet workshop and a construction site.