Take a look at our ‘Behind the spells’ film to see how we made the Big World Magic spell movement sequences: I'm very pleased and proud to be able to say that Tree Fu Tom, the show I have been working on for the best part of five years, is soon to launch on the CBeebies channel. I was inspired to create Tree Fu Tom because I found out that many children today are not being exposed to or experiencing the full range of movements they need to develop typically. In every adventure there are critical moments when Tom's normal action and magic skills are not enough to overcome the challenges that he and his friends face. Best of all is to hear that children are copying the movements! Better still if they are practicing the moves and incorporating them in to their play as repetition is key to getting maximum developmental benefit.

Thanks very much for all of your comments; it’s very interesting and exciting to hear what you think about the show (good and bad!) and how you and your children are engaging with Tree Fu Tom. The show may surprise little ones – so if you do have younger children, you may want to watch the first episodes with them to talk about how exciting it is. I felt that we should use the power of TV and the web to do something to support movement development at this critical time in their lives. In a nutshell, Tree Fu Tom is an epic, comedy, fantasy, action-adventure series following the amazing adventures of a young boy from our world called Tom. Tom is able to create magic by doing sequences of cool-looking, simple, fun movements called 'Tree Fu'. Using Tree Fu, Tom is able to transform into a magical superhero, travelling to 'Treetopolis' - an enchanted, miniature world nestled in an ancient tree at the bottom of his garden.What the children won't know is that the 'Tree Fu' spell moves they're copying have all been designed by Child Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists from the movements that experts use to help children with conditions like Dyspraxia to assist and enhance the development of all participating children (whether they have movement challenges or not). Summary: Tree Fu Tom Complete. A boy goes to the woods behind his house and enters a magical world, where he becomes a superhero.

It's different but of course embodies everything you've come to expect and trust from a CBeebies show; everything always works out in the end and every episode has a strong emotional theme and a moral lesson.To help further with this, all of the spells from the TV shows are put in to Spell School in the Tree Fu Tom Adventures game environment via here: I'm Dan – Producer working in CBeebies and proud dad of a five-year-old daughter who watches CBeebies even when I'm not testing new programme ideas on her – so I hope that means we're doing something right! Tree Fu Tom is also a fully multiplatform production which means it comes with an amazing online experience through which children can enter the magical world of Treetopolis.