SMarteenies
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Smarteenies! is a version of children's art programme SMart designed for pre-school viewers. It is shown on the CBeebies channel daily.
The programme starts with the four presenters determining who is to do the first piece (with the rhyme: "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, Smarteenies guess who'll have a go"). After each piece, the programme returns to this screen to select the next presenter.
[edit] Presenters
The presenters are the same as those who presented the original show, SMart:
- Mark Speight - who often simultaneously produces a normal-sized and large-scale version of the same scene (e.g. using mops instead of paint-brushes for the large version). He also presents another segment where he creates art using cut-out shapes from his 'Shape Store'.
- Jay Burridge - Jay often appears as 'Man of Letters', wearing a postman-style cap and carrying a messenger bag covered with cut-out letters. This contains items all starting with a particular letter which he then uses to produce a piece of art.
- Kirsten O'Brien - who appears with a puppet dog called Doogy. Doogy normally has to go out in his car to get things for Kirsten. Kirsten also presents a segment called Pattern Palace, where she uses different art media to create fun and colourful patterns.
- Bizi Lizi (Lizi Botham) - who either makes pictures using thumbprints on the screen or visits a group of children to make something.
Mark and Kirsten are now the only two presenters of SMart, but all four present in Smarteenies as it was made prior to the other two presenters leaving.
