It's time for the Animal Town picnic, but Ari is growing impatient waiting for Ms. Llama's famous ketchup, which just won't come out of the bottle. Meanwhile, Elinor and her friends follow a bee to its hive and observe the honey-making process, where they discover that honey is goopier when it has less water in it.
When Ms. Mole forgets her glasses at school, Elinor and her friends follow her to return them. Ms. Mole can’t see anything without her glasses! The kids travel throughout Animal Town, just missing Ms. Mole at every turn. During their travels, the kids realize Ms. Mole has been shopping and getting around using different senses. By the time they finally reach Ms. Mole and return her glasses, she’s got all her shopping done without them. Cool!
Elinor and her friends want to bring Ms. Mole a cupcake for her birthday, but they're worried it will get squished on the way to school. The kids find inspiration in nature when they observe how different animals/creatures stay safe using their shells as a defense mechanism. Elinor, Ari and Olive use this idea as inspiration to make a shell around the cupcake using a hard coconut. Because of the kids' hard work and ingenuity, the cupcake makes it all the way to school without being squished, just in time for Ms. Mole to enjoy her present. Yum!
Elinor has a need for speed and wants to make her racecar go faster! So, she and her friends observe birds and fish and come to realize that they are both very fast, because of the shape of their bodies, tails, and wings. The kids then decide the best way to make their race car go faster is by changing its shape.
Elinor, Olive, and Ari are helping Ari's dad rake the leaves in their yard, which leads them to wonder, "Who rakes the leaves in the forest?" They need more observations, so they head out to the forest, where they look at the leaves more closely and notice that some of them are fresh, others are a little worn, and others are really old and crumbling.
Elinor and her friends volunteer to help Mr. Raccoon put up a sign for his bakery, but the sign keeps blowing away in the fall breeze. After Elinor observes a spider in its web and how the wind doesn't seem to affect it at all, she learns things that are wide will catch the wind, but if they have lots of holes like a spider's web, they will not.
It's Plant Day at school and Elinor is super excited to get a beautiful plant to take home. When she gets a cactus, she's a little disappointed at first, but after some careful observations, she and her friends learn lots of cool things about it, like how it grows in the desert, how it doesn't need much water, and how the spikes keep it safe.
It's Elinor's Dad's birthday and they're going camping.
The three kids see a cute turtle while on the park's newest bike path.
As Elinor and Ari help Miri walk, Olive doesn't know how to do a special jump.
Elinor learns that on Camilla's necklace is a "leaf charm", so she wonders how leaves come in different shapes.
Elinor and her class are painting outdoors with the town's enthusiastic art teacher, Mr. Lion, when they run out of paint. A flabbergasted Mr. Lion apologizes, but soon the kids begin to experiment with natural items they find, and discover nature is full of colors you can use to paint: grass paints green and you can use strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries to paint your canvas. The kids happily finish their paintings, and when they're all done, Elinor proudly shows off her picture, which shows her true love of nature.
Elinor and her friends learn what makes Olive's mom's curry so spicy.
After playing too much baseball, Ari's muscles hurt.
Elinor and her friends must sneak past Mz. Mole to surprise her for Teacher's Day.
Rudy, the pig, helps Elinor and her friends sniff out some truffles.
Elinor is the new Clean Captain at school and takes things too far.
During their visit to the beach, Ari and his friends learn why we lose our teeth.
The kids take a field trip to a cloud forest and learn that clouds have water in them.
After Olive needs a red crayon for Valentine's Day, they learn how crayons are made.
Junior Ranger Elinor and Ranger Rabbit's favorite spot in the forest is ruined by a fire.
Ari and his friends learn why babies need a little more attention than they do.
The kids are inspired by different colored foods.
The kids join a wildlife photographer and learn how to snap the perfect picture of a puffin