Bing

'You can't stop the bangs but you can help them be quiet.' Sula and Amma go round to Bing's house to watch the fireworks. Sula doesn't like the bangs so she is wearing her earmuffs but Bing thinks he is brave enough to watch the fireworks outside in the garden. Suddenly there is a huge bang and a super-loud rocket sends Bing racing back inside and under the kitchen table in shock. Flop makes Bing an unconventional pair of earmuffs of his own so that he can enjoy the fireworks without the bangs.

'If you break a special thing, you can put it in the Bye Bye Box and it keeps it safe so you don't ever forget.' Bing plays with a new orange balloon but when he bounces on it too enthusiastically, it pops. Bing is sad to lose his new toy, so Flop helps him put the balloon fragments in the Bye Bye Box, a memory box where things too broken to be fixed but too special to throw away are kept.

'Even if it's your turn, you can't run in front of a swing.' Flop is pushing Bing on the swing in the park when Pando arrives and wants to have a go too. They agree to let each other have turns by counting up to ten, but when Pando has his turn he won't count properly. Bing gets so cross he runs in front of the swing and gets bumped.

'I did like my tower but it was more fun making a rainbow tower with Coco!' Bing is busy building a tower as tall as he is with his blocks, and is upset when Coco arrives and hijacks the blocks so that she can make a rainbow pattern with them instead. When even Charlie wants to play with the blocks, it is clear a new game needs to be found so that they can all play together.

'If you're very quiet, and statue-still, then the duckies will come.' Bing and Sula go to the park to feed the ducks. Sula is very good at standing quietly and giving the ducks just the right amount of food. Bing throws all his duck food into the water in one go and gets more than he bargained for when a big flappy goose comes to gobble it all up.

'You can mix things up but you can't mix them down again.' It's snack time for Bing but the only banana left is too mushy to eat. Flop suggests making a smoothie with it instead. Disaster strikes when Bing's carrot accidentally gets put into the blender as well and, when it gets shredded, Bing is upset to discover that his carrot has changed and that he can't have it back.