Sesame Street wants kids to not only learn about healthy eating, they want them to also have access to healthy foods. Sesame Street and AmeriChoice will be teaming together to provide bilingual educational resources for parents to make healthy choices to food.
Program outreach will include bilingual (English and Spanish) Healthy Habits kits with an original DVD starring the Sesame Street Muppets and a documentary of families along with their children using a variety of strategies for maintaining Healthy Habits for Life despite limited financial resources.
The kits will also include child-friendly recipes, activity cards and a parent/caregiver guide with information about healthful eating and ways to make nutritional and economical food choices for the entire family. In addition, AmeriChoice will send Healthy Habits for Life messages and information to low-income and vulnerable populations in public sector health care programs via the Web, physician mailings, and member mailings and newsletters that will go to 3 million members.
For the remainder of 2010, your preschooler can get free admission to the Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. The free passes are a way to celebrate the new Sesame Street Safari play area opening at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay this March. The passes are available only for children that are Florida residents 5 years-old and under. You can go to http://sesamestreetsafarioffun.com to register for the free pass.
“Sesame Street Live: When Elmo Grows Up” will be in Mansfield, Ohio at the Renaissance Theater from March 23rd to March 24th 2010. If you leave a comment at http://blog.cleveland.com/westsidemom/2010/02/sesame_street_live_-_review_an.html you can be randomly entered to win a 4-pack of tickets to the “Sesame Street Live: When Elmo Grows Up.”
A new Sesame Street App has been released. Elmo’s Monster Maker App is available for the iPod and iPhone. The app allows iPhone and iPod touch users make their very own monster and send it to a friend. Because there are thousands of combinations, it’s easy to change the monster’s appearance. Once you’ve finished, Elmo will dance and play with the monster. Elmo’s photos of the monster can go straight to a user’s iPhone or iPod touch photo album.
Discussing the loss of a parent or love one can be difficult for children. Sesame Street is airing a special on PBS in April to help to communicate grief and loss to children. Katie Couric will be onboard with the Sesame Street Muppets for this special program.
“Death and loss are a part of life, but they are very difficult for adults to discuss, much less children,” said Katie Couric. “I’m honored that Sesame Street, with its long history of tackling difficult issues with sensitivity, caring and warmth asked me to be a part of this important project. I hope that it will provide families with the tools to help them cope, begin the healing process and ultimately adjust to their ‘new normal’ in the healthiest way possible.”
What would any little kid like more than to see someone they know appear on one of their favorite shows? Hugh Jackman’s kids will get to experience every kid’s dream when their daddy appears on Sesame Street. Hugh Jackman joins a long line of parents and grandparents that have been able to grace the Sesame Street screen.
There will be new Sesame Street themed feeding accessories available later this year. Munchkin is teaming with Sesame Street Workshop to make the feeding accessories available.
“Feeding is one of the largest infant categories, and we are excited to expand our partnership to include this important segment,” said Doug Gillespie, Munchkin vice president of marketing. “We can’t wait to turn our designers loose on creating innovative feeding products featuring the vibrant, evergreen Sesame Street characters.”
Sesame Street already has Sesame Street themed food through their partnership with Earth’s Best. There are also other Sesame Street dinnerware and Sesame Street bottles currently on the market now. The addition will add to the choices that parents can choose from. We know they will look great because it will be all about Sesame Street.
A new Sesame Street play area is coming to Busch Garden Tampa Bay. Busch Garden Tampa Bay is located in Tampa, Florida and is part of the SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment group that also includes Sesame Place in Pennsylvania. Busch Gardens Tampa bay will include many of the Sesame Street characters that you will see at Sesame Place.
Sesame Street Safari of Fun will include a new junior roller coaster designed for parents and children to ride together. “Air Grover” is full of mini-dives and twisty turns as families soar through the Sahara. Other kid-sized rides include “Zoe-Patra & the Hippos of the Nile,” a splashy flume ride through the famed river; “Rosita’s Djembe Fly-Away,” a swing ride that sends kids whirling above the African canopy; “Elmo’s Safari Go-Round,” a tribal-inspired carousel with Elmo and his friends; and more. “Oscar’s Swamp Stomp” provides cool water fun, and “Bert & Ernie’s Water Hole” is a wet adventure filled with bubblers, geysers, jets, dumping buckets and more. A photography studio gives kids the chance to share a hug and a smile with Sesame Street friends, and musical performances bring tales of adventure to life.
A touring exhibit of the creations of Jim Henson is making its way through many museums throughout the country. Henson created some of our favorite Muppets, including many of those seen on Sesame Street. Although he has may be gone, his creative and imaginative characters live on.
Without “fences” to limit where his imagination could roam, Jim Henson (1936-1990)—artist, puppeteer, film director and producer—created elaborate imaginary worlds filled with unique characters, objects, environments and even languages and cultures. His work is enjoyed in dozens of languages in more than 100 countries. Jim Henson’s Fantastic World, a new exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and The Jim Henson Legacy, offers a rare peek into the imagination and creative genius of this multitalented innovator and creator of Kermit the Frog, Big Bird and other beloved characters.
The tour started in September 2007 at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, the exhibit is at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi. You can find it there until April when it moves on to National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA. The exhibit stays for 10 weeks at each museum. Over the past few years the touring exhibit has been at several different museums throughout the country.
Taylor Morgan is excited to play his hometown of Knoxville in the Jan. 1-3 Sesame Street Live stage production of “Elmo’s Green Thumb.” But friends from his Farragut High School theater days won’t recognize the 26-year-old.
The son of Dennis and Shirley Morgan portrays Bert, the quirky, fretful “Sesame Street” character and pop culture icon, in the show at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum. In the role the actor/dancer/singer wears a “full body” character costume complete with the big Bert head, orange puppet hands and big saddle oxfords.
This is probally not the first time a Sesame Street Live actor has been able to perform in front of his or her hometown but it is still exciting.
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