Pacca Alpaca: 1 to 10

Pacca Alpaca: 1 to 10 is an animated video for children aged 4 to 9 in which Pacca Alpaca helps them count from one to ten, over and over, with things from the real world.

Pacca Alpaca is a fantastically fluffy guide who travels the world with children, discovering languages and cultures along the way. This episode is all about numbers. It opens at Pacca's carousel, and then the counting starts: one, two, three; then up to four, then to five, a little further each time, until children reach ten.

Each number is shown with real photographs and film, framed like a picture on the wall, while a row of coloured blocks counts along beside it. Children count elephants, aeroplanes, paper dolls, shoes, eggs, squares of chocolate, pairs of sunglasses, balls, ladybirds, horses, cupcakes and rubber ducks, and they count fingers with a pair of hands on the screen. Pacca joins in, and there is a trip under the sea in a yellow submarine to count the fish.

At the end, Pacca counts all the way back down from ten to one. With so much repetition over about eleven minutes, the video suits children who are just learning their numbers, and older ones who like to count along out loud. It is not music-free.