They Built a Whole Playground Out of GARBAGE (And It's Better Than Yours)

[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Hey, what are you all doing there waiting in front of that fence? >> We're waiting for Uncle Smiley to bring the key. This is the day when me and Uncle Smiley started to build the junkyard playground. >> What's a junkyard playground? Well, it's a special kind of playground [music] that you >> Hey, what do you mean you and Uncle Smiley? Well, when all of us and Uncle Smiley built the junkyard playground. Hey, there's Uncle Smiley coming now with the key. >> But what's a junkyard playground? Well, I told you. It's a special kind. >> You know, it's a shame [music] that vacant lots like that just lie around with nobody ever using them except to throw [music] trash and garbage in. >> But what is a junkyard playground? Golly, we've already told you a hundred times. If you don't understand by now, then you just better watch us and Uncle Smiley and find out. >> Yeah, actions speak louder than words. What words? Oh, well, you're too much. >> [music] [singing] [music] [music] [music] [singing] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music and singing] [music] [music] [music] >> What are you all and Uncle Smiley doing here? We're building a spin thing. What's a spin thing? Well, you spin around on it. >> Do you know where we got all the things we're using? Sure, we just found them lying around the lot except the tools. Uncle brought those. Except the rope, too, >> [music] >> cuz me and Uncle Smiley went to a big ship line and they just gave it to us. For nothing? Sure, you can get a lot of things like that for nothing. You've just got to ask. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Is this the junkyard playground yet? Not yet, we've just started building. Takes a while to make things, you know. This is going to be a car. What kind of car? A car car, silly. [snorts] What other kind is there? Well, there are lots of kinds of cars. Real ones and toy ones, yellow ones and there's racing cars and old cars. This is a racing car. And we made it out of old pipes and boards and stuff just lying around the lot. >> Except the cable spools. Uncle Smiley and I went to the power company and they had lots of them lying around, so they gave us some for nothing. >> You know what's so good about making toys with junkyard stuff? Is that you can always take them apart after you get tired of them and [music] make something new again. >> And grownups won't get mad at you for taking things apart. >> [music] >> You know, paint is such great stuff. You can change the looks of anything with paint. >> It's weird stuff, too. I'll bet that wall hadn't been painted in a hundred years and we made it look like new by the time we were finished with it. Where'd you get the paint? Oh, just lying around the ground. No, [music] I'm kidding, but it was almost the same thing, though, because Uncle Smiley went to a big paint company and they gave us most of the paint we wanted for almost nothing. Yeah, because it was all funny colors and kinds that people don't buy much of. I like funny colors. Me, too. >> [music] >> Boy, is paint weird. >> [music] >> What's that Uncle Smiley's making now? Can't you tell? That's a swing thing. Is that like a spin thing? No, you swing on a swing [music] thing and spin on a spin thing. >> [music] [music] >> Wow, where'd you get all those metal barrels? We got them from a big oil company. They had lots in there all over the place. Uncle Smiley told them we were going to build a big junkyard playground and they just gave them to us. But what is a junkyard playground? I keep telling you, you're looking at one right now. You mean all those barrels and things? Well, yeah, but they're only part of a junkyard playground. It's the idea that counts. You mean like taking all sorts of junk and things you can get for free and making play [music] things out of them? Yeah, and the idea that you can take them apart and build something else whenever you feel like it. >> I think I'm beginning to get the idea. >> [music] [music] >> Money can't buy you things [music] that are brand new at any big department store. But it can't buy [music] you the satisfaction of doing so much [music] more. Those throw away things and broken [music] play things are all reusable, you see. Yeah, all that [music] old trash is worth more than new cash, so junkyard makes some room [music] for me. Why don't you come along with us and bring a hammer and a nail, a shovel and [music] a paintbrush and an extra garbage pail. You can create magic with the things that can be found lying on a junkyard ground. Uncle Smiley thought we ought to make a garden, too, with a real tree in it. A lot of us never planted anything before or even seen anything planted [music] except in the movies. It wasn't that hard, though. Did you get those flowers for nothing, too? No, we had to buy them all, but it was worth it. Do you know how important trees and plants are? I bet you think I don't [music] know, but I do. Trees and plants help make the air that everybody in the world breathes and lots of things like that. Hey, you're right. How'd you know about that? I know about a lot of things. >> [music] [music] >> Junkyard playground, junkyard playground, you're not lonely anymore. >> [music] >> We've really changed you and rearranged you, and now you're so much more. Now people pass by, they stop and that's why they never noticed you before. >> [music] >> But you were right there when no one else cared, [music] so junkyard makes some room for me. Why don't you come along with [music] us and bring a hammer and a nail, a shovel and a paintbrush and an extra [music] garbage pail. You can create magic with the things that can be found lying on a [music] junkyard ground. Gotta build a junkyard playground. Gotta build a [music] junkyard playground. >> [music] [music] [music] [music]