“If you dream it, you can make it!” Introducing The Paper Girls Show, an original STEAM-based MIPTV- and Kidscreen-award-winning animated YouTube series from Global Tinker and FableVision Studios. Designed to inspire young girls to have confidence in their intellectual capabilities and create their own innovative solutions to everyday problems, the show follows Caily and Reese, best friends and makers who are fueled by curiosity and creativity! Along the way, they discover the fantastical paper world of Confetti, where they find inspiration to solve their real-world dilemmas.
Each episode introduces viewers to a different type of accessible technology, from 3D printing to paper circuitry. Global Tinker also partnered with Brooklyn-based STEAM camp company and magazine Curious Jane and Taro’s Origami Studio to create free DIY STEAM-related craft videos and origami projects using affordable materials that align with projects highlighted in each episode. By infusing STEAM curricula with great storytelling, The Paper Girls Show empowers girls to create, imagine, and learn as they become problem solvers just like Caily and Reese. Season 1 is being released on The Paper Girls Show’s YouTube channel. Check back every Wednesday for a new episode!
The Paper Girls Show Episodes
Episode 1: “Something Fishy”
Reese is participating in a local fashion show and has to get crafty when Caily’s fish tank overflows and ruins all of her fabric. The girls head to the colorful paper world of Confetti for some inspiration from their friends Kami and Dev.
Episode 2: “Museum Mayhem”
Confetti’s new recycling program threatens Queen Frivol’s prized landfill of non-biodegradable junk. To get around the new law, she declares her junk pile a national museum. With Queen Frivol’s junk pile getting bigger, Kami enlists the help of Reese and Caily to shut down the bogus museum and get rid of the supersized pile of junk.
Episode 3: “Mice To Meet You”
The maker studio Stax by Jax has a mouse problem. The little furry critters have been sneaking in at night and nibbling on the pencils and books and infiltrating the shop’s snack stash. When the mouse problem becomes unbearable, the girls head to Confetti for help.
Episode 4: “Bot We’re a Team”
Reese and Caily’s robotics team can’t agree on a design for their robot for an upcoming competition. In Confetti, Kami introduces them to her uncle, Professor Seymour, a talented inventor who created the first robot Shredder. His story gives the girls an idea for how they can compromise and design a bot that everyone’s on board with.
Episode 5: “The Inspo-Buddies”
After Edie accidentally records over a treasured family vacation video, Caily is determined to lock her out of her computer. In Confetti, Queen Frivol is trying to steal Dev’s family’s secret lemonade recipe to win a contest. Caily and Reese show Kami and Dev how to write the recipe in invisible ink, and in the process, discover an idea for an Edie-proof computer lock.
Episode 6: “Paws-itively Fabulous”
When Jax’s ferret Jennifer sprains her leg, Edie wants to help her get around the studio. In Confetti, Queen Frivol’s Shredders are polluting Parchment Pond with her unwanted garbage, and ruin an animal habitat in the process.
Episode 7: “Dev-astated by Fame”
The girls go to Confetti to cheer Dev up after a disastrous audition for the Confetti’s Got Talent show, judged by Queen Frivol. Caily shares her dilemma of wanting a drum set and her mom’s objection to the resulting racket. One of Dev’s comments inspires them to make a drum set out of paper and conductive ink, which they demonstrate on their DIY web show, “Made Wrong.”
Episode 8: “Not Remotely Funny”
Reese and Caily are mortified when their paper airplane note flies off course and lands on another student’s desk, earning them detention. Determined to perfect their paper plane, they jump at Kami’s invite to Confetti for a ride in Professor Seymour’s airship and navigate their way to a solution.
Episode 9: “A ‘Shred’ of Difference”
Queen Frivol is furious when she discovers that her beloved Shredder, Melvin, has been recycling items from her prized junk pile at Uncle Seymour’s Fix It Shop. Kami and Uncle Seymour ask Reese and Caily to hide Melvin until the Queen calms down, and Melvin makes mountains of shredded paper for Edie’s Earth Day presentation.
Episode 10: “Fin-tastic Fabio”
Caily asks Jax for help figuring out why her fish Fabio isn’t feeling well. He encourages her to look at a sample of Fabio’s fish tank water under a foldscope, and Reese’s research catches the culprit. Kami asks the girls for help with Dev, who is terrified that Parchment Pond is haunted by glowing ghosts, but a paper microscope reveals the truth.
Episode 11: “Let’s Make a Mistake”
This music video for the song “Let’s Make a Mistake” is an anthem for The Paper Girls Show and the maker generation. The song celebrates imperfection, learning from mistakes, and encourages curiosity and out of the box thinking to help make the world a better place.
Episode 12: “Trash Talk”
Queen Frivol hosts a talk show, Trash Talk, with the help of her producer/camera operator/sidekick Melvin the Shredder. In this installment, she beats Dev at a rigged game of Name that Tune and snores through Kami and Uncle Seymour’s demonstration of solar power.
