Top Ten Educational Kids Shows
With shows like The Day My Butt Went Psycho, Sanjay and Craig and Breadwinners, these educational shows are long-forgotten.
Sesame Street is a long-running American children's television series, produced by Sesame Workshop and created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. How is the longest running educational kids show with the most variety not at the top?
Should be number 1! It has great messages, teaches good lessons, and it's super cute!
Teaching preschoolers the ABC's and 123's for nearly 50 years.
Blue's Clues is an American children's television series that premiered on Nickelodeon in 1996. Producers Angela Santomero, Todd Kessler, and Traci Paige Johnson combined concepts from child development and early-childhood education with innovative animation and production techniques that helped their... read more I think that this show is very awesome because I grew up with it, and I think that it is very useful for little children. I also like Steve/Joe/Kevin's listening skills because they are very funny. I hope it gets revived for a 7th season sometime in the future.
Hallelujah, someone has actually remembered the actual presenter on the UK version. It did come from America but had different versions.
This and Sesame Street are tied for me!
The Magic School Bus is a Canadian/American Saturday morning animated children's television series, based on the book series of the same name by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and combining entertainment with an educational series. Broadcasting & Cable said... read more Teaches children about science, such as the water cycle, solar system, electricity, chemical reactions.
Peg + Cat is an American/Canadian animated children's television series based on the children's book "The Chicken Problem", which was published in 2012. The series is created by Billy Aronson and Jennifer Oxley and produced by The Fred Rogers Company and 9 Story Entertainment. It debuted on most PBS... read more This show is educational. Peg sings while solving each problem and teaches little kids math skills. I wish this were around when I was a little kid.
Dora the Explorer (2000 - 2019) is an American preschool educational animated TV series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, and Eric Weiner in which Dora goes on adventures with her friend, a monkey named Boots. It teaches you Spanish, how to count in Spanish, and the characters are appropriate (yes, they are creepy though).
VeggieTales is an American series of direct-to-video children's computer animated films created by Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki featuring antropomorphic fruits and vegetables in stories conveying moral themes based on Christianity VeggieTales is amazing! Unlike these shows that are not as educational, like My Little Pony, Caillou, Dora, and Peppa Pig, this show is actually educational.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is an animated children's television series based on the fourth incarnation of Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise. The show follows a studious unicorn (later an alicorn) pony named Twilight Sparkle (Tara Strong) and her friends Applejack (Ashleigh Ball), Rarity (Tabitha... read more I love this show. Should be number one as friendship is very important.
It teaches us friendship lessons.
Arthur is a Canadian/American animated educational television series for children, created by Cookie Jar Group and WGBH for PBS. I like Arthur. He does amazing exploring.
LazyTown is an English-language Icelandic children's educational musical action comedy program made by an international crew and performed by a cast from Iceland, the United States and the United Kingdom.
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine biologist and animator the late Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. SpongeBob is currently the most popular show on Nickelodeon, as well as the longest running show, running for 23 years, and is beginning its 13th season... read more The first few episodes taught us life lessons, like not to be funny for friends or never to give up. Not the stupid stuff the new episodes give.
Zoboomafoo is an American/Canadian zoological children's television series that originally aired from January 25, 1998 to November 21, 2001. It is still currently shown in syndication and was regularly shown on Sprout until 2011. A total of 65 episodes were aired. The Kratt brothers are experts on animal behaviors, diets, and habitats.
The Backyardigans is a Canadian–American CGI-animated musical TV series created by Janice Burgess, It is a co-production of animation studio Nelvana and Nickelodeon Animation Studios.
Clifford the Big Red Dog is an American-British educational animated children's television series, based upon Norman Bridwell's children's book series of the same name. Produced by Scholastic Productions, it originally aired on PBS Kids from September 4, 2000 to February 25, 2003.
Teletubbies is a British pre-school children's television series created by Ragdoll Productions' Anne Wood CBE and Andrew Davenport, who wrote each of the show's 365 episodes.
It is owned by Canadian Studio WildBrain, which is the largest independent Children's and Adolescent's Film Studio
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood is an American half-hour children's television series that was created and hosted by namesake Fred Rogers. How is this not #1? This man devoted his life and career primarily to help children grow in both maturity and understanding of love and the world around them. He always made sure to remind each of his viewers that they are special just for who they are.
The whole down-to-Earth simplicity of the show proves that you don't need enormous special effects or crazy bizarre characters to captivate your young audience. Just a real world setting and a friendly guy who wants to welcome you to his neighborhood.
Barney & Friends is an American children's television series aimed at children from ages 1 to 8, created by Sheryl Leach and produced by HIT Entertainment. It premiered on PBS on April 6, 1992. The series features the title character Barney, a purple anthropomorphic tyrannosaurus rex who conveys educational... read more
Reading Rainbow is an American half-hour children's television series that aired on PBS Kids from June 6, 1983, to November 10, 2006, with a total of 155 half-hour episodes spanning over 21 seasons.
Bob the Builder is a British children's animated television show created by Keith Chapman. In the original series, Bob appears in a stop motion animated programme as a building contractor, specialising in masonry, along with his colleague Wendy, various neighbours and friends, and their gang of anthropomorphised... read more
Caillou is a Canadian educational children's television series that was first shown on Teletoon (both English and French versions), with its first episode airing on the former channel on September 15, 1997; the show later moved to Treehouse TV, with its final episode being shown on that channel on October... read more