The Kid Should See This.
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There's just so much science, nature, music, art, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them...
But we don't underestimate kids around here.
Kid-friendly not-made-for-kids videos for all! Collected by Rion Nakaya and her three four year old co-curator.
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Not only does this classic Sesame Street short explain paper recycling in a relatable way, but it’s always great when the music is unique to the video rather than catering to popular music or “kid’s” music. Bonus: “Old papuh, new papuh!” …love that old NYC flavor.
Classic Sesame Street time! Kids get help making drum from a barrel against the backdrop of New York City in the early 80s. The video doesn’t dive deep into it, but there’s even more detail in just how the notes are made exactly to specification:
…fine-tuning is done by lightly tapping the note area to stretch it appropriately. Tune down, hit it from above. Tune up, hit it from below. That’s the easy way to describe it, but the full tuning process involves making sure the whole note area is harmonically balanced (getting the octaves to match)…
For more detail, check out the set-up of the notes on the Tenor Pan.
via mikesenese.com.
Such a simple but meaningful illustration of how communication works. It’s a classic from Sesame Street, of course.
In this classic mix of puppetry and animation, Harry demonstrates the art of Visual Thinking to Kermit; and what it does to you once it gets out of control.
This is one of the most well known Sam and Friends scenes… from 1959.
From 1979: a collaboration between Sesame Street and Philip Glass entitled, Geometry of Circles. You can find more background on BrainPickings.org.
Thanks, Jason.
