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Early 90s live action kid show Live Action TV

Okay, let's try this since I've been wracking my brain over it.

I saw the show here in Quebec in the early 90s. The French title is so ridiculously generic ( "L'Envolée" ) I've just never been able to figure out the original title.

It was maybe Australian, or Canadian, maaaybe British but I doubt it was American because otherwise I probably would have found it by now. The show had at least two different incarnations (it's possible the two were actually dubbed under the same name but were actually two different shows?) in two different seasons.

The first one would always open with the main group of multicultural kids that were roughly in all the episodes (but they were so bland I can't remember if they even had names) in a super boring situation. Like a classroom or stuck indoor by bad weather during vacation. At one point one of them would visibly have an idea and the idea would physically pop out of their head with cheap SFX that would see their head open like someone just taking scissor to a picture of their head and this sort of papery looking animated thing would come out and whisk everyone away. The thing usually had a banner trailing behind or the word 'IDEA' written in big font on it. It looked like someone animating on paper instead of cells and maybe with water color or pencils? Basically the flying away thing would be when the theme song kicked in. Then the kids would be taken to this green screen land and some indoor sets where they would explore aspects specific theme word through a series of imaginative surreal vignettes. I remember one episode was about 'Colors' and the character was reprimended by the art teacher for picking the 'wrong color' to paint this scene of a horse on a plain and the kid paint outside and you can see a similar scene to what he painted with all the colors mixed up just like his painting. There wad this other vignette in the 'Box' episode where a girl happen upon this sort of postal sorting facility type of thing where (I want to say it was a black actress?) a woman is putting boxes in various oddly shaped holes in the walls. Each box has a name with a description of a person on it and each hole has a 1 word description. The girl starts pointing out that depending on how you turn the boxes around and interpret the description the boxes (and thus the people) can fit under different category but in the end it just frustrates the worker who chases her away. I think one episode was about 'Rythm'. There wasn't a lot of episodes so that's why it didn't feel American (like, not the standard 13 minimum you'd see in the US).

The second incarnation had a running plot and was centered on this magical abandonned lot in the middle of a town. The group of kids (this time it included a girl in a wheelchair? I want to say blonde but I may be wrong) would enter through a door that was only painted on a tall wooden picket fence and on the other side was this place where their imagination made things real? But then this guy wanted to turn the lot into some boring thing like a parking lot or a shop? And as the show progressed we learned about the guy's ancestor who originally owned the lot and the shop that was there? And the kids even encounter the original owner in their and they're wondering if it's his ghost, or memories or travelling through time? At the end they manage to get the descendant in the imagination land and he realizes he can't go through with it and he opens up the wooden fence, revealing this beautiful field behind that we never saw before with like... maybe a stream through it? And he opens up this nice place in the middle of the city to everybody.