Noggin shared laughs, learning, and lots of memories with kids’ favorite characters. Here’s a snapshot of all the best things that happened in Noggin this year:  

Kids Got More Mindful 

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Imagination Trip Collection

Kids Got Moving 

1.86M Views

Ready, Set, Race Collection

Kids Learned Giant New Words

5.83M Views

Word Play Collection

Kids Grew Math & Literacy Skills

4.13M Plays

Noggin’s Learning Missions 

Kids Appreciated Arts & Cultures

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Take a Closer Look Collection

Cheers to an even brighter 2021!

Noggin shared laughs, learning, and lots of memories with kids’ favorite characters. Here’s a snapshot of all the best things that happened in Noggin this year:  

Kids Got More Mindful 

1.05M Views

Imagination Trip Collection

Kids Got Moving 

1.86M Views

Ready, Set, Race Collection

Kids Learned Giant New Words

5.83M Views

Word Play Collection

Kids Grew Math & Literacy Skills

4.13M Plays

Noggin’s Learning Missions 

Kids Appreciated Arts & Cultures

3.35M Views

Take a Closer Look Collection

Cheers to an even brighter 2021!

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Countdown to the Holidays With Noggin!

Do one or try them all: Get into the holiday spirit with Noggin’s bucket list!

What to Watch in Noggin

Find these favorites by visiting the Holiday section in the Noggin app (tap on the snowman located in the top carousel when you first launch the Noggin app).

A Kinderwood Holiday

Blue’s Night Before Christmas

Pups Save Christmas

What to Read in Noggin

Find these favorites by visiting the Holiday section in the Noggin app (tap on the snowman located in the top carousel when you first launch the Noggin app).

The Little Christmas Tree

Santa’s Little Helpers

Happy Holidays, Bubble Guppies

Print, Play & Create Together

PRINT: Stockings!

PRINT: Ornaments!

Countdown to the Holidays With Noggin!

Do one or try them all: Get into the holiday spirit with Noggin’s bucket list!

What to Watch in Noggin

Find these favorites by visiting the Holiday section in the Noggin app (tap on the snowman located in the top carousel when you first launch the Noggin app).

A Kinderwood Holiday

Blue’s Night Before Christmas

Pups Save Christmas

What to Read in Noggin

Find these favorites by visiting the Holiday section in the Noggin app (tap on the snowman located in the top carousel when you first launch the Noggin app).

The Little Christmas Tree

Santa’s Little Helpers

Happy Holidays, Bubble Guppies

Print, Play & Create Together

PRINT: Stockings!

PRINT: Ornaments!

Here’s what kids learned while using Noggin this January!

Top Visited

Noggin Knows

Skill Built:

Literacy

Curiosity 

Movement

When your child joined our teacher Emmanuel in Noggin’s preschool classroom, they learned all about dinosaurs, plants, space, and the ocean along with their favorite Noggin characters. They’ll also were able to meet experts on each topic. Your child also moved their body and created a new song and dance based on what they learned! Ask them to show you!

Top Game

Friends Create & Color

Skills Built:

Appreciation of Diversity

Identity

Arts

In this game designed to help your child appreciate diversity, they got creative with their favorite Noggin friends by choosing different hairstyles, clothing, colors, and accessories for them. They learned that friends may look similar to or different than you — there are all kinds of friends! Try talking with your child about what similarities and differences they notice in their own friends or family members.

Top Mission

On the Job – Insectologist 

Skill Built:

Math

Curiosity

Literacy

In this episode of On the Job, your child learned all about the life cycle of a butterfly — metamorphosis — and what an insectologist does, when they helped a caterpillar turn into a butterfly with Zooli and Noggin’s insectologist, Professor Maria Poza! As an assistant insectologist, your child also practiced counting leaves to feed the caterpillar, learned new vocabulary like larva, and used their memory skills to remind Professor Poza of the steps in metamorphosis. Try lay a movement game with your child and act out the steps of metamorphosis: curl up like a tiny egg, crawl along like a caterpillar, spin around to make a cocoon, and then stretch up high to become a butterfly!

Here’s what kids learned in Noggin in November

Top Watched

Imagination Trips: The Ocean with Blue

Skill Built:

Self-care

Mindfulness 

Deep Breathing

When kids took a deep dive into the ocean on an Imagination Trip with Blue, they practiced deep breathing and mindfulness as they explored.

Top Game

Dora’s Ancient Egypt Adventure

Skills Built:

Math and Literacy Skills

History

Expressive Vocabulary 

When kids joined Dora on her adventure, they learned about ancient civilizations by steering Dora’s raft left and right up the Nile River; solving a puzzle made out of hieroglyphics; and searching a dark pyramid for artifacts.

Top Mission

Messed Up Metropolis

Skill Built:

Math

Patterns

Copies & extends repeating and growing patterns

When kids joined fellow agents Marshall from PAW Patrol, Milli from Team Umizoomi, and Gil from Bubble Guppies on a mission to save the city, they used their pattern skills to complete a series of challenges.

Here’s what kids learned in Noggin in October 2020

Top Visited

Dinosaurs

Skill Built:

Vocabulary

Dinosaur | Extinct | Paleontologist

Herbivore | Carnivore | Omnivore

Excavate | Fossil

When your child visited the Dinosaurs section of the Noggin app, they learned all about being a paleontologist — a scientist who studies dinosaurs. Through our Word Plays, your child learned simple definitions for giant words. Try helping them use the words above in a sentence!

Top Game

Santiago of the Seas: Islas de los Tesoros!

Skills Built:

Directions & Language

Left from right | Up and down

Spanish words | Izquierda (left) & derecha (right) | arriba (up) & abajo (down)

In this learning game designed to help build your child’s comprehension skills, kids identified directions and used different languages! They steered the crew’s ship, El Bravo, arriba y abajo to avoid obstacles launched by Bonnie Bone; they read Santiago’s magical compass and determined derecha from izquierda, and they found magical treasures on their journey!

Top Mission

Case of the Mysterious Dinosaur

Skill Built:

Reading

Words and sounds

Identifying syllables | Counting syllables

In the Case of the Mysterious Dinosaur, kids traveled back to the time of dinosaurs with agents Wally, Zeg, and Deema, and used their syllable skills to find out which dinosaur the mysterious fossil belongs to. Continue practicing syllables with your child at home! Play a game where you point to different objects in the room—have your child identify and count the number of syllables in the name of the object. Can you find a word with 3 syllables? 4? Who can find an object with the most syllables? Have fun!

Noggin, Sparkler Learning, and AppleTree have teamed up to create Ready Grow. It’s a fun and educational way for schools and families to build connections and boost preschoolers’ learning with help from Dora, Peppa, the PAW Patrol, and children’s other best buddies from Nick Jr. 

Access Ready Grow for FREE

Signing up for Ready Grow is easy! Just select your role to find the info you’ll need to get started:

I’m an Administrator
I’m a Teacher

I’m a Parent

What’s Included in Ready Grow:

As part of our program we will provide thousands of families with FREE access to Noggin, Sparkler, and Every Child Ready’s instructional model.

AppleTree is the curriculum backbone of Ready Grow. Each month, AppleTree has a new theme like Family & Community or Outer Space.

Preschoolers can open the Ready Grow hub in the Noggin app to find ebooks, games, and interactive videos aligned with the theme that will help them keep learning what their teachers have taught; parents can use Sparkler’s app to find curriculum-aligned do-together games, activities, and projects that extend the learning even more — helping families learn off screen and through play. 

Noggin is where children play to learn with the characters they love!

Noggin’s Ready Grow hub offers games, interactive videos, and eBooks, all led by children’s favorite characters so children can play independently and keep the learning going beyond the classroom!

Sparkler is how families help kids learn through play!

Sparkler gives parents/caregivers access to fun, play-based learning activities aligned with AppleTree’s curriculum and the Ready Grow content in Noggin! Sparkler also helps families and teachers connect and helps families keep track of all that they accomplish together.

Get Started:

I’m an Administrator

I’m a Teacher

I’m a Parent

If you’re looking to create even more magical family moments, try Noggin’s smart & fun extras!

Noggin Storytime

Noggin Storytime, available on Google Assistant-enabled devices, offers engaging Nick Jr. stories designed to grow your young reader’s love for literacy. Just say “Hey Google, read me a Noggin story!” or ask for a specific Noggin Storytime book, and kids can dive into interactive page-turning adventures featuring their favorite characters!

Noggin Music

Find Noggin’s “Let’s Dance” album now on Spotify and have a dance party at home or on the go with 10 of your child’s favorite Noggin songs!

  • Color Song
  • Alpha Beats
  • Count it Out
  • Counting in Spanish: Five Speckled Frogs
  • Welcome Home
  • Good Manners
  • Thunderstorm Groove
  • The Snizzle
  • Sunscreen
  • Winner at Dinner

Keep checking back as we plan to continue adding extras!

Have a Halloween Watch Party! 

Why go trick-or-treating when the real treat is hosting a not-so-spooky stay-at-home Halloween movie night? We’ve got a plan for you to make Halloween a fright-free night — cuddle up with your child and watch their favorite characters solve Halloween mysteries! Look for our movie night picks in the Noggin app (Halloween hub), then talk about what you’ve learned with our conversation starters. 

WATCH: What is Blue Afraid Of? 

Blue is scared, which means, we’ll have to play Blue’s Clues to determine what is frightening her. Is it a ghost? Is it a goblin? Does it hoot or howl? Find out and then discuss the episode to help your child talk about their fears. 

Conversation Starter: “How did Blue get over her fears?”

WATCH: Haunted House Party

Boo! The Bubble Guppies are invited to a costume party at a haunted house! This invitation results in them learning that things that appear spooky aren’t always what they seem — in fact, they aren’t scary at all!

Conversation Starter: “Do you know what ‘SPOOKY’ means?” 

WATCH: Pups and the Ghost Pirate

It’s Halloween! Capt’n Turbot has decorated an old wreck as a pirate ship for a town party. After a few mysterious events, the party-goers conclude there is a ghost aboard the ship, and the PAW Patrol pups are called to investigate. 

Conversation Starter: “Do you think ghosts are real?” 

WATCH: Mustache Day

While out trick-or-treating, Wally and friends discover the biggest treat in the world. Watch to find out what it is and help Wally as he uses the power of words to solve problems along the way. 

Conversation Starter: “Can you tell me a word related to Halloween that ends in ‘at’?”

WATCH: Ni Hao, Halloween

Trick or treat, it’s Halloween! Kai-Lan and her friends dress up to go trick-or-treating with YeYe, but just as they’re heading out, Rintoo sprains his ankle! How can Kai-lan comfort her frowning friend who can’t enjoy the rest of the night with her?

Conversation Starter: “When things go bad, how do you make things better?”

5 Smart & Fun Halloween Activities to Try This week

Don’t cancel Halloween. Get creative! Here are 5 fright-free ideas you can try at home, inspired by the Halloween section in the Noggin app!

1. Put on a Shadow Show

 In “Truck or Treat” Blaze and AJ teach kids about shadows. Watch to learn how shadows are made and see what shadows AJ and the Monster Machines make! Get inspired to put on a shadow show of your own at home. How many different shadows can you make? 

Build Skills: As you make shadows with your child, talk about shapes you can make and how different shapes look like different things! This builds your child’s math skills and their ability to solve problems. 

2. Do the Costume Limbo

This may not be a traditional Halloween activity, but you can make it one with the help of Blue and Steve and their catchy “Costume Limbo” song! Grab a broom and see how low you can go!

Build Skills: When you and your child try to go under the broom without bending, you practice using your big muscles and get stronger!

3. Play Costume Charades

From the mummy mambo to the vampire twist, learn moves from the Backyardigans and then come up with your own moves! How would a cat dance or a spider? Make up 2 or 3 moves in order and see if your child can guess what you are and copy your moves. Now have your child make up some moves!

Build Skills: When you dance with your child, you practice moving your big muscles and follow directions to make dance moves in order!

4. Replace Fear with Fun

Things that go bump in the night might give kids a fright! Let’s face those Halloween fears! Watch “What is Blue Afraid Of” to help get the conversation started. Like Steve, let’s draw some pictures of what makes us afraid, then let’s think of ways to make these things a little silly. When you talk things through, things may not seem as scary as your child thinks.  

Build Skills: Sometimes children are afraid of things and we don’t even know it! When you and your child draw and talk about their fears, children begin to name and describe their feelings—this helps them understand and control their fears!

5. Have a Halloween Cookoff

Feetloaf anyone? Your kids will have a blast transforming dinner into simple monster meals! Our “Happy Halloween Cookoff” game features recipes you and your child can easily make in real life!   

Build Skills: When you and your child follow a recipe, you practice remembering and following directions!

Have a Halloween Watch Party!

Why go trick-or-treating when the real treat is hosting a not-so-spooky stay-at-home Halloween movie night? We’ve got a plan for you to make Halloween a fright-free night — cuddle up with your child and watch their favorite characters solve Halloween mysteries! Look for our movie night picks in the Noggin app (Halloween hub), then talk about what you’ve learned with our conversation starters.

WATCH: What is Blue Afraid Of?

Blue is scared, which means, we’ll have to play Blue’s Clues to determine what is frightening her. Is it a ghost? Is it a goblin? Does it hoot or howl? Find out and then discuss the episode to help your child talk about their fears.

Conversation Starter: “How did Blue get over her fears?”

WATCH: Haunted House Party

Boo! The Bubble Guppies are invited to a costume party at a haunted house! This invitation results in them learning that things that appear spooky aren’t always what they seem — in fact, they aren’t scary at all!

Conversation Starter: “Do you know what ‘SPOOKY’ means?”

WATCH: Pups and the Ghost Pirate

It’s Halloween! Capt’n Turbot has decorated an old wreck as a pirate ship for a town party. After a few mysterious events, the party-goers conclude there is a ghost aboard the ship, and the PAW Patrol pups are called to investigate.

Conversation Starter: “Do you think ghosts are real?”

WATCH: Mustache Day

While out trick-or-treating, Wally and friends discover the biggest treat in the world. Watch to find out what it is and help Wally as he uses the power of words to solve problems along the way.

Conversation Starter: “Can you tell me a word related to Halloween that ends in ‘at’?”

WATCH: Ni Hao, Halloween

Trick or treat, it’s Halloween! Kai-Lan and her friends dress up to go trick-or-treating with YeYe, but just as they’re heading out, Rintoo sprains his ankle! How can Kai-lan comfort her frowning friend who can’t enjoy the rest of the night with her?

Conversation Starter: “When things go bad, how do you make things better?”

5 Smart & Fun Halloween Activities to Try This week

Don’t cancel Halloween. Get creative! Here are 5 fright-free ideas you can try at home, inspired by the Halloween section in the Noggin app!

1. Put on a Shadow Show

 In “Truck or Treat” Blaze and AJ teach kids about shadows. Watch to learn how shadows are made and see what shadows AJ and the Monster Machines make! Get inspired to put on a shadow show of your own at home. How many different shadows can you make? 

Build Skills: As you make shadows with your child, talk about shapes you can make and how different shapes look like different things! This builds your child’s math skills and their ability to solve problems. 

2. Do the Costume Limbo

This may not be a traditional Halloween activity, but you can make it one with the help of Blue and Steve and their catchy “Costume Limbo” song! Grab a broom and see how low you can go!

Build Skills: When you and your child try to go under the broom without bending, you practice using your big muscles and get stronger!

3. Play Costume Charades

From the mummy mambo to the vampire twist, learn moves from the Backyardigans and then come up with your own moves! How would a cat dance or a spider? Make up 2 or 3 moves in order and see if your child can guess what you are and copy your moves. Now have your child make up some moves!

Build Skills: When you dance with your child, you practice moving your big muscles and follow directions to make dance moves in order!

4. Replace Fear with Fun

Things that go bump in the night might give kids a fright! Let’s face those Halloween fears! Watch “What is Blue Afraid Of” to help get the conversation started. Like Steve, let’s draw some pictures of what makes us afraid, then let’s think of ways to make these things a little silly. When you talk things through, things may not seem as scary as your child thinks.  

Build Skills: Sometimes children are afraid of things and we don’t even know it! When you and your child draw and talk about their fears, children begin to name and describe their feelings—this helps them understand and control their fears!

5. Have a Halloween Cookoff

Feetloaf anyone? Your kids will have a blast transforming dinner into simple monster meals! Our “Happy Halloween Cookoff” game features recipes you and your child can easily make in real life!   

Build Skills: When you and your child follow a recipe, you practice remembering and following directions!

Noggin, a highly trusted, research-based, learning service for children ages 2 – 6, is committed to ensuring that families have access to engaging and proven educational experiences every day.  Through our partnerships, Noggin Cares is helping tens of thousands of families across the United States learn and play together, at home!

Learn More About Our Noggin Cares Partners

Keep checking back as we continue to add partners. If you represent an organization and would like to partner with us, please contact us at NogginCares@viacom.com.