Katie, Elmo’s friend from a military family, is a special addition to the Sesame Street gang for a traveling show called “Sesame Street and USO Experience for Military Families.” Elmo and friends help Katie open up about her fears and excitement about moving to a new location. USO photo by Fred Greaves
Sesame Street and USO Experience for Military Families is beginning their 6th tour to military families. The tour offers free Sesame Street entertainment to military families. On the tour children are entertained by Elmo, Grover, Cookie Monster, Rosita, and Katie. While traveling to many of their destination the tour uses a bus and on http://www.facebook.com/SesameStreetForMilitaryFamilies they are asking for suggestions for a new name for the bus.
After several years of not seeing the Muppets on the big screen, The Muppets movie made its debut last November. Now without skipping a beat they are working a on a sequel to their $88 million box office success, The Muppets. The movie reunited Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Animal, Fozzie Bear and other Muppet characters. The Muppets have made it way back on top in Pop Culture and are not letting any of that momentum disappear before they release their next movie. No official word on when the next Muppet movie will be released. It was said that it took 5 years to make the 2011 The Muppets movie. It will probably take less time for the sequel – I hope.
DentistIQ.com is reporting hat Sesame Street is part of a program aimed at teaching children early about their dental health. My Teeth, Healthy Me is being brought be Sesame Workshop, Sam’s Club, and MetLife to provide early education in oral care. Multimedia information is being provided in both English and Spanish and is aimed at preschoolers 2 to 5 years old. Children and their caregivers can visit http://www.sesamestreet.org/teeth to watch short videos on dental health and find pintables Sesame Street dental health activities just for kids. Each of the printables has information on dental health and features various Muppets like Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Super Grover, and Cookie Monster.
K’Nex has several different building toys for toddlers to older kids. Sesame Street figures are among the many different K’Nex toys. Coming this Spring will be the newest of the K’Nex sesame Street building toys called Best Friends on the Farm. Best Friends on the Farm will feature farm themed Elmo and Ernie that will each retail for about $7.99.
Celebrate Big Bird Birthday in March at Sesame Place
Sesame Place is a place for Muppets and their fans. Next months those fans can celebrate Big Birds birthday. Big Bird’s birthday has been listed as March 20. Sesame Place will be celebrating Big Bird’s birthday on March 10th and 11th. Sesame Place has been celebrating the birthday of the Sesame Street Mupets annually. Last year there was a birthday celebration for Big Bird at Sesame Place also. Elmo’s birthday was the most the recently celebrated. Visit the Sesame Place website for additional information.
Yeah, you read that right. February 15, 2012 was declared Sesame Street Live Day in Detroit. The wife of Detroit mayor, Dave Bing, made the public declaration as she handed out complimentary tickets to a Sesame Street Live performance in the city. Mrs. Bing was scheduled give away the tickets for “Elmo’s Healthy Heroes”, the performance where Elmo and his Sesame Street friends show Super Grover how to be healthy.
Supreme Sonia Sotomayor was on Sesame Street visiting her friend Maria and having coffee. Of course those know that there was going to be a judge wanted to have their complaints heard by the Justice. Goldilocks and Baby Bear, who learned goes by the name “Baby”, had their case heard. Baby Bear was of course unhappy that someone went into his house and broke his chair. Goldilocks had a few excuses for her actions. Justice Sotomayor seemed to solve the case by having Goldilocks plea bargain to helping Baby fix his broken chair. Then we see the three little pigs and the wolf come along to have their case heard.
This year’s International Toy Fair will be February 12th through February 15th in New York City. During the invent toy manufacturers, like Hasbro, will be introduces new toys to the public. Hasbro has several different toys including those from Sesame Street. The company promises fun new Sesame Street preschool toys that feature Abby Cadabby, Elmo, Super Grover 2.0, Cookie Monster, and, Bert and Ernie. Toys will include an interactive kitchen where children will be a able to practice their culinary arts with Cookie Monster. We will see this weekend what the toy manufacturers have in store for Sesame Street toys.
For those that own a Kindle Fire you can get a free Sesame Street kindle edition book. Count to 10 is available for free for limited time on amazon.com in celebration of Elmo’s birthday. This book by Emily Thompson was first published as a traditional book back in 1986. At that time it was Ernie that was on the cover. The new kindle edition now has Elmo on the cover.
Most people have grown up watching Sesame Street and seeing all the cool Muppets. Now there is a chance to dance and sing along with some of the life size Muppets. Sesame Street Live is holding auditions this Friday in at the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan. The auditions are for those that will be wearing Sesame Street costumes and those that will go without. You also must be ready for a long term commitment; most of the Sesame Street Live productions tour for 10 months.
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