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What are some nice short videos for youngish kids to watch? (lemmy.nz)
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I have kids ages 4-7 and they quite like watching a little snippet of something while they brush their teeth.

One thing they have been into recently is these stop motion videos on youtube on a channel called Peapea. However, it's obvious that M&Ms and Coke give them lots of money because it's all you see in many of the videos. But these are good videos, as the kids like them and while the full youtube videos are 30 mins long, within this there are lots of shorts only a few minutes long each. Perfect for bushing teeth. Also a bonus is those videos don't rely on sound, so they can watch and understand it without telling each other to brush queiter.

Does anyone have suggestions for anything similar that isn't plastered with Cocacola and is suitable for the 4-7 age range?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The Disney plus app has lots of shorts if you have that. We’ve done the spidey and his amazing friends, Winnie the Pooh, and Bluey. There’s lots more on there, even like Cars and Frozen ones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks, will check it out!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Puffin Rock episodes are 20 minutes

Charlie’s Colorforms City episodes are 14-25 minutes

Word Party episodes are 13 minutes

Number Blocks episodes are 5 minutes each

How’s It’s Made have 3-4 shorts in each 20 minute episode, so each clip is about 5 minutes long

Music videos are usually about three minutes long

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How It's Made fucking slaps and I wouldn't hesitate to show it to kids that age.

Fuck man, I fucking love me some How It's Made.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is exactly what my little kid says.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm imagining your little kid saying "How It’s Made fucking slaps" 🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I've got the first season downloading 🙂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Puffin Rock is great, and those 20 minutes are split into 3 episodes. Number Blocks is also nice an has a killer intro song.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Plus Puffin Rock is narrated by:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the suggestions!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They Might Be Giants have some kids’ albums for which they also made music videos.

The band OK Go also has some fun videos that kids would enjoy and couple kid songs videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ooh I like that suggestion. They would probably love the OK Go ones. I'll have a look at They Might Be Giants music videos too. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Storybots is a great one. Fairly educational and some of the songs are genuinely good. There are both shorter videos on YouTube and long form episodes available.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks I'll check it out!

[–] mlegstrong 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tom and Gerry or Looney toons

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ooh great suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

If these aren’t canceled, then Bullwinkle and Rocky

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Cat videos

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bluey is great for that age, I can't recommend it enough. For brushing teeth maybe Bluey shorts?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are Bluey shorts?! We've watched a fair amount of Bluey episodes, didn't know there were shorts. I'll look into it, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I loved the 1940s Superman cartoon as a kid. they are about 10 minutes each and don't have dialog. just music and sound effects. Totally still hold up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ooh I'll see what I can find, thanks for the suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are public domain now and on YouTube!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh nice! I have quite the list of things to work through now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We use the little mole for brushing teeth, but our kid is a bit younger. However, I don't remember a time in my life where I would not enjoy that little fella. You have videos from 5 (most) to 30 minutes (2) on youtube. There is no speech too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Great, thanks, I'll check it out!