As a kid, knowing that you don’t feel happy is one thing but being able to express in words that you are feeling sad or embarrassed and knowing how to create solutions to those feelings is something entirely different. This is where The Adventures of Napkin Man online interactive episodes come in.
Recently I sat down with Carter (5) and Sophie (3) to check out four of The Adventures of Napkin Man interactive episodes that are available online through Kids CBC. Each of the interactive episodes features a different emotion and teaches kids how to realize them and work on solutions.
Napkin Man Interactive Episode themes
Fun for One (Feeling left out) – It’s okay to be alone at times but you can also make your own fun.
Get well soon (Empathy) – If you are feeling bad for someone else it can help to do something that will cheer him or her up.
Bad Hair Day (Embarrassment) – Sometimes we aren’t comfortable about our appearance, even from a simple hair cut. It’s important to remember that everybody feels this way sometimes and to have the courage to work through it.
Bye Bye Boogaloo (Loss) – If someone important in your life passes away, celebrate their life and the memories that you have of them.
Interactive activities
Throughout each of the 12 minute episodes there were also four interactive activities. These activities include creating music to match the moods of certain situations, matching games, a balloon pop it game, and more.
With the voice prompts the activities were easy enough to use that Sophie was able to manoeuvre them independently. They were also captivating enough that they entertained both Carter and Sophie, and still do.
How the kids responded
The Adventures of Napkin Man interactive episodes have had an impact on Carter and Sophie in different ways. A little over a year ago we had to put our family cat Wishu down. When we watched the Bye Bye Boogaloo episode Carter was able to talk about how he felt about Wishu being gone and also talked about telling happy stories about Wishu to help him feel better.
Sophie on the other hand is very captivated with the cartoon aspect of Napkin Man. Every morning she wakes up and her first activity it to draw her own Napkin Man and pictures of situations that took place in each of the Napkin Man interactive episodes. While these pictures are not obvious to anyone else, to Sophie she is creating pictures where one friend is making another friend laugh.
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My favorite episode to watch with my lttoe one was Fairy Lights. Mr. Anthony and Napkin man are great at reminding not just kids but adults too that disapointments happen but you can try again. Love the fairy dance he has to help flap it out! Great role model for kids and adults!
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We enjoyed fun for one. Really gives the kids something to consider for options.
Absolutely! Sometimes you just have to make your own fun!
We like Bad Hair Day (Embarrassment) !
i like bye bye boogaloo
My child likes Get well soon (Empathy) the best.
Bad Hair day was my favorite
I am surrounded by females of every age, and we all loved the Bad Hair Day.
Ha ha ha this made me laugh! 🙂
Bad Hair day we enjoyed the most!
Bad Hair episode was good.
I like bye bye boogaloo
My grandson giggled & laughed at Bad Hair Day!
Get Well Soon: I have been talking to my kids about empathy.
I loved the bad hair day!
Bad Hair day was my favorite
We enjoyed Bad Hair Day.
Loved the bad hair day
I liked the bad hair day
Get well soon was our favourite.
I liked the get well soon episode (lots of people in our life who are sick right now)
I loved Bad Hair Day best!
Bad Hair Day for sure!
Bad hair day was good. I can relate!
napkin Man – Get well soon is our favorite!
Bad hair day
Our favorite was Fun for One (Feeling left out). It gives the message that sometimes it is OK if we are by ourselves.
Bye Bye Boogaloo was adorable!
I liked take a break/hurry up and wait as I can relate to this
The Napkin Man Bad hair day one is so fun (and relatable).
Bad Hair Day!
I liked the bad hair day : )
My favorite episode was Fun For One, with 3 kids, someone is always feeling left out.
The Bad Hair day, I can relate! LOL
I like Bye Bye Boogaloo (Loss). It is sometimes difficult to talk to kids about loss and this would explain things better in terms they understand.
Haven’t watched any yet, but can’t wait to check them out with C. Today I got told “growing up is hard, Mommy”. Hopefully these episodes will help.
Bad Hair Day
I liked the bad hair day
Haven’t watched them yet but will be sure the kids see them soon.
Bad Hair Day was our favourite
I liked Bad Hair Day best.
I like the Get Well Soon one 🙂
We haven’t watched any episodes yet.
for sure the bad hair one
Bad hair day , how can you not lol !
Bad Hair Day ! 🙂
My girls and I love Napkin Man and the Get Well Soon episode was great!
I like the Bad Hair Day episode.
My favourite was napkin man bye bye boogaloo.
Bad hair day is great.
We didn’t watch them all yet, but so far our favorite is the Pick Elephant.
for me it would be – Fun for One (Feeling left out)
I like Fun for One. These are great shows – I will be sure to share them with my kiddos!
My daughter loves the first episode. Grabbed her attention immediately.
Bad hair day was our favorite!
We liked Bad Hair Day the best.
my granddaughter said Bad Hair day was her favorite
fun for one. i feel like its really relatable and children struggle with that lesson
I liked the bad hair day episode
Get well soon (Empathy) is my favourite!
My favorite was Bad Hair Day
Bad Hair Day was my FAVE!
bad hair day.
We really like the bad hair day one
my niece and i both love Bad Hair day
My oldest daughter really liked Bad Hair Day and Fun for One. These are really great!!
bad hair day!
I liked the bad hair day
The bad hair day was a good one.
He really liked Fun for One
bye bye boogaloo
I have never watched any of these but Fun For One sounds like it would have a great lesson for little ones.
I liked the bad hair day.
My favourite was the one I live daily. Bad hair day.
They are all great, to pick one I would have to say Bad Hair Day.
I loved Bad Hair Day best!
bye bye boogalo
i like bye bye boogaloo
The Bad hair day one!
We liked the bad hair day one.
I like the BadHair day episode
I liked the Get Well Soon one best today .
The “Get Well Soon” episode was the favorite; good message with that one.
We like Bad Hair Day (Embarrassment
My favourite is the Bad Hair Day
Fun for One (feeling left out) is an important one for us because my son is left out a lot as he has autism.
I like Bad Hair Day.
I think that this series is great for children.
Lol! Bad Hair Day is the best!
We love Bad Day Hair the best….awesome
We liked the Bad Hair Day best.
I havent watched many but did love the Bad Hair Day!
Since I’ve lost a child and my kids lost their (triplet) brother, it would be interesting to see how the “Bye Bye Boogaloo (Loss)” episode teaches kids.
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We love the Get well soon episode.
The Bye Bye Boogaloo because that’s where we are right now
my son will love this!
Get well soon (Empathy) I’m a big advocate of teaching this asap along with kindness.
We liked Bye Bye Boogaloo
We love the Fun for One episode! With three little monkeys, each sometimes wants some alone time and this really helped 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
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Bye bye bigaloo for sure. I lost my mom May of 2014 when I was pregnant with my 3rd baby girl. Dealing with such a huge loss while pregnant with 2 small children was a nightmare. That episode would have been perfect. I will definitely be showing my girls. My grandmother (my moms mom) passed away on January 25. We got really close and talked on the phone for almost 2 years. Hey it could even help me if I watch it.
Bookaboo!
Another Mommy was so right!
Bye bye Boogaloo
We really enjoyed Fun For One. It helped with some things my daughter is going through at preschool. I love Napkin Man.
I liked Bye Bye Boogaloo
I liked Fun for One
I like Get well soon!
Bye Bye Boogaloo was my favorite. Great way to introduce children to loss of a loved one.
Feeling left out is something we’ve had to talk about with the 6 year old lately. I am going to show him this episode! thanks!
I like Fun For One.
Bye bye boogaloo
Fun For One is my nephew’s favourite.
my granddaughter liked Get well soon
Fun for one
Fun for one really struck home with my son. Love this show!
My favourite was Bye Bye Boogaloo 🙂 I have never heard of Napkin Man before. I’m going to show my son tomorrow!
I liked That’s My Baby.
Loved bad hair, bawhaha it was good.
I think the Get Well Soon ( empathy) would be most relevant for my granddaughters. I hope to share it with them.
Get Well Soon
We like bye bye boogaloo!!
I like the Bye Bye Boogaloo just because I have had so much loss in my life.
I enjoyed Fun for One most