The YouTube Kids app which provides prescreened age appropriate content for children is getting into the Halloween spirit. From now through November 1 it will be treating kids to some spooky but not scary fun with festive Halloween themed playlists. These playlists that include Get Ready For Halloween With Nickelodeon!, ABC Kids' Giggle and Hoot, and Art for Kids Hub will be full of videos filled with costumes, tricks and treats. The app will also be highlighting an exclusive Oddbods series and a Halloween special titles Zombie Hotel.
Get Ready For Halloween With Nickelodeon!
Are you ready for Halloween? This playlist hosted by Nickelodeon star Jace Norman is aimed to get kids involved with diy Halloween projects. The Merrell Twins demonstrate how to create the spookiest Halloween costume in your neighborhood; learn to make Halloween slime with JoJo; and watch a trick-or-treat taste test with some of Nickelodeon's favorite stars.
Giggle and Hoot: Halloween Favorites on Youtube Kids!
The Big Boo
Jimmy Giggle and Hoot have put together a bootastic playlist of their Halloween favorites for the YouTube Kids App!
Art for Kids Hub’s October Month of Making
Art for Kids Hub has compiled a super fun playlist of art projects especially for Halloween featuring painting, origami, drawing, and paper cutouts!
Oddbods Halloween Special
This exclusive series created specifically for YouTube Kids viewers features the characters young viewers know and love from the hit animated series. The show stars seven furry, colorful friends who live in the small town of Oddsville and like to get into all sorts of mischief.
Zombie Hotel Halloween Special
Pass the Fawlty Towers, turn right after the Adams Family’s and you’ll find the ZOMBIE HOTEL! Wide eyed twins Fungus and Maggot will welcome you, along with their Mom and Dad Zombies, Rictus and Funerella, and a team of wacky employees who never run short of oddities. But don’t worry, the twins and their human school pal Sam will come to the rescue whenever you’re served pigs eye soup for lunch or if your room is next to a couple of loud vampires.
One of my family's Halloween traditions has been to tune into Disney Junior to watch their annual broadcast of the animated television special SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN based upon the bestselling book series by Joe Troiano. Having cut our cable subscription, my kids were disappointed that they wouldn't be able to see this beloved Halloween special this year. They were so excited when a Spookley plush pumpkin arrived at our house along with the television show on Blu-ray.
This Halloween season, for the first time ever, SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN can be purchased in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo pack. It is available at retailers across the United States as well as on Amazon.com. This animated television special will make a great addition to any home video library that you will want to pull out and watch together as a family every year at Halloween. It is spooky fun that isn't scary so all ages will enjoy the show.
SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN tells the story of a square pumpkin living in a round pumpkin patch on Holiday Hill Farm. Although Spookley initially faces ridicule from his fellow patch-mates, he goes on to save the day during a terrible storm. As a result, all the pumpkins in the patch learn that the things that make you different make you special.
To share my family's excitement about being able to watch SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN on home video, A Geek Daddy also is giving away a prize pack featuring a square pumpkin plush toy and the Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack of the Halloween special. Throw your name in the hat for a chance to win this great giveaway by completing the entries in the rafflecopter form below before Wednesday, October 18 at 11:59 pm ET. Must be a US resident over 18 years old to be eligible to win. Good luck!
October is National Bullying Prevention Month and Spookley is serving as the official Spokes-Pumpkin for PACER'S National Bullying Prevention Center. PACER is a non-profit organization based in Minneapolis that provides resources to address bullying as a serious community issue that impacts education, physical and emotional health, and the safety and well-being of children. For more information about Spookley's activities please watch the PSA below and visit PACER.org/Bullying.
Bullying is a central theme of SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN. In a world where the only good pumpkins are round pumpkins, Spookley is teased because of his square shape. Shunned by the other pumpkins, Spookley is befriended by Edgar, Allan and Poe, three hilarious spiders, who convince him that, square or not, he has a right to be the Pick of the Patch. But Big Tom and Little Tom, the pumpkin bullies in the patch, continue to tease and taunt Spookley. Encouraged by kindly Jack Scarecrow and his bat sidekicks, Boris and Bella, Spookley tries his best, but he isn’t sure he has what it takes until a mighty storm threatens Holiday Hill Farm. When the storm blows the round pumpkins across the patch towards the raging river, Spookley realizes it is up to him and his square shape to save the day.
In addition to the animated special, the Blu-ray + DVD Combo pack also includes 5 exclusive video picture books*:
The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin;
The Legend of Beacon the Bright Little Firefly;
The Legend of JellyBean and the Unbreakable Egg;
The Legend of Lyla the Lovesick Ladybug;
The Legend of Mistletoe and the Christmas Kittens.
* not available in High-Definition
To learn more about Spookley and his friends at Holiday Hill Farm, where "Every Day is a Holiday" visit holidayhillfarm.com which has FREE coloring book and activity sheets to download and music videos to watch including Halloween is Fun and Bugs! I Love 'Em All.
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