Mother Hen lays an egg, but she has no idea how to hatch it. Her attempts include feeding it spaghetti (strings ), rocking it (a pull-tab cradle), and warming it (a fabric sweater). When nothing works she sleeps on it--and it hatches

Poor Pig - all he wants to do is play with his friends, but, being squirrels, hedgehogs, a dormouse and a tortoise, they have all gone to sleep for the winter. So Pig has the grand idea of going to sleep himself.