Favourite films for younger children
Staycalm
idea what is out there. I vaguely remember seeing Dumbo when I was pretty
young but have hardly seen any animated films other than Toy Story.
What would you say are the 5 (or 10) best videos for kids under 5? I'm
thinking film type things rather than TV shows like Wiggles or Hi-5.
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Wendy
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>I'm interested in starting a bit of a collection for Pascal but I have no
>idea what is out there. I vaguely remember seeing Dumbo when I was pretty
>young but have hardly seen any animated films other than Toy Story.
>
>What would you say are the 5 (or 10) best videos for kids under 5? I'm
>thinking film type things rather than TV shows like Wiggles or Hi-5.
Finding Nemo
Monsters Inc
Lion King
sorry, they are all we have, but they are great!
Wendy
Rebecca's Mummy
Kelly
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> I'm interested in starting a bit of a collection for Pascal but I have no
> idea what is out there. I vaguely remember seeing Dumbo when I was pretty
> young but have hardly seen any animated films other than Toy Story.
>
> What would you say are the 5 (or 10) best videos for kids under 5? I'm
> thinking film type things rather than TV shows like Wiggles or Hi-5.
>
Emily loves Jungle Book - the original, she doesn't mind Jungle Book 2 but
prefers the original... It would be her all time favourite.. Wendy has
said some of the ones we have..
They also like Peter Pan, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Piglets Big Movie and
The Tigger Movie... They pretty much like most movies as long as they have
seen it 3 times, for some strange reason, they have to watch it 3 times
before they like it enough to talk about etc...
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Kelly
Mummy to Emily nearly 3 and Isabella 17mths
Marc
Not sure about under 5 exactly but:
Bedknobs and broomsticks; Mary Poppins; Jungle book versions; Shrek maybe a
little too old; Ice Age; Monsters Inc - maybe a bit scary;
Marc
kiticat
I just asked Katherine her favourites and they are:
Piglets big movie
Mickeys magical christmas
Finding Nemo
Tiggers movie
Monsters Inc
Little Polar bear
I tried her on the five doctors (Doctor Who) but it gave her nightmares
and she asked to wait until she was 5 before she watched it again :-/
Sarah
Jarkat2002
>Piglets big movie
>Mickeys magical christmas
>Finding Nemo
>Tiggers movie
>Monsters Inc
>Little Polar bear
>
>I tried her on the five doctors (Doctor Who) but it gave her nightmares
>and she asked to wait until she was 5 before she watched it again :-/
>
>Sarah
I missed the OP but anyway :) .....
These are the DVD's and tapes that are requested by my 5 year old most often:
Snowman (a British animated short film, not frosty)
The Red Balloon
Yoga for Kids
The Fox and the Hound
The Secret of NIMH (I loved this book when I was a kid)
Lately my DD is very into 'The Munsters' and 'The Adams Family'
I would like to get some DVD's of the old Little Rascals, but they are hard to
find! :)
~Kat
"The early bird gets the worm, the second mouse gets the cheese."
kiticat
>
> I missed the OP but anyway :) .....
> These are the DVD's and tapes that are requested by my 5 year old most often:
>
> Snowman (a British animated short film, not frosty)
Aww, I love the Snowman - makes me all weepy. Its the one that katherine
summarised a couple of years ago by telling me 'its all about a 'nowman
who melts a little bit' :)
Sarah
Jarkat2002
>summarised a couple of years ago by telling me 'its all about a 'nowman
>who melts a little bit' :)
>Sarah
awwwwwwwwwwwwww :)
Speeking of weepy .... we also love The Little Prince.
Jarkat2002
oops!
Speaking
That's what happens when a 14 month old is helping me type!
enigma
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> I'm interested in starting a bit of a collection for
> Pascal but I have no idea what is out there. I vaguely
> remember seeing Dumbo when I was pretty young but have
> hardly seen any animated films other than Toy Story.
you might want to preview *any* Disney movie with your kid's
quirks in mind before letting them watch. in the beginning of
Dumbo, for example, his mother is killed for acting to protect
Dumbo... the newer Disney movies (since Walt died) are way
more saccarine, but the older ones are truer to the original
stories, at least.
as far as videos, Boo has loved the I Love Toy Trains series
(they're up to around 14 now, plus 2 Christmas, a Big Trains &
a 'music' video). he also likes Phoebe's Farm (a farm tour
guided by an adorable 4 year old).
movies he likes are: Monsters, Inc., Nightmare Before
Christmas, & Chicken Run (but he finds parts of it scary). he
loves Wallace & Grommit.
he has Kipper, Bob the Builder & Thomas the Tank engine on
video (i dislike Thomas. it encourages his tendency to crash
his toys). we rarely watch tv.
i dislike Disney's (well, Eisner's) business practices, so we
don't have any Disney videos (i think NMBC, James & the Giant
Peach & Monster, Inc were distributed by Disney, but they
aren't Disney films).
lee
Nic
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Shrek (bought it when testing TV screens when we wanted a new TV set)
Shrek 2 ( yet to be released on video/DVD cept our house :P )
Wiggles bay (got for birthday this year)
Wiggles (other) like yummy yummy, clock etc,
Cartoon things (like bugs bunny, daffy duck etc on DVD for $5 each at big w)
Finding nemo
Ice age
Bob the builder (was a faze)
Teletubbies (was a faze)
Hi 5
Play school
The Simpson's
The out list and never liked,
Arthur (on channel 2, he is a mouse)
Monster Inc (to scary)
Barbie of swan lake (or something like that)
I have to say most of the stuff my dd has watched or likes watching has to
be pretty exciting or fun to watch, or various noises/shapes etc otherwise
she will lose interest and complain it is boring.
Having said that she now loads and unloads her own DVD's into the machine
and knows how to play and stop them. (which is great as I don't have to sit
and watch the wiggles 50 times with her in a week, if she had her own way of
course which she doesn't)
Nic
Teri
"Staycalm" <lizi...@hatespam.optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> idea what is out there. I vaguely remember seeing Dumbo when I was pretty
> young but have hardly seen any animated films other than Toy Story.
>
> What would you say are the 5 (or 10) best videos for kids under 5? I'm
> thinking film type things rather than TV shows like Wiggles or Hi-5.
>
> --
> Liz
>
are now 5.5 and 3.5 and these are still favorites. There Goes a Fire Truck
... Police Car... Rescue Vehicle ... Race Car ... Helocoptor ....Airplane
.... Monster Truck ... Army Tank ....School Bus. Very Educational and fun.
My 3.5 yo will tell you everything you need to know about stabilizers on big
rigs or why fire trucks and rescue vehicles carry the jaws of life.
Teri
>
>
Nic
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Nic
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Lina
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My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service... Ummm... those are my
favorites, but are totally kid safe.
Kara H
"Staycalm" <lizi...@hatespam.optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> I'm interested in starting a bit of a collection for Pascal but I have no
> idea what is out there. I vaguely remember seeing Dumbo when I was pretty
> young but have hardly seen any animated films other than Toy Story.
>
> What would you say are the 5 (or 10) best videos for kids under 5? I'm
> thinking film type things rather than TV shows like Wiggles or Hi-5.
(In no particular order)
1. Nemo
2. Toy Story
3. Babe (the pig)
4. Brave Little Toaster (my sister who just turned 4 is OBSESSED with this
movie!)
5. Rugrats Movies
She likes TV show movies a lot. The problem with most movies is that there
are a few scary parts that might throw them off like in Lion King, Snow
White, 101 Dalmatians, Nemo, etc. She enjoys watching 'Casper the Friendly
Ghost' movies which are NOT scary but I always wonder if she thinks about it
after the movie is over.
-Kara.
Night Owl
"Staycalm" <lizi...@hatespam.optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> idea what is out there. I vaguely remember seeing Dumbo when I was pretty
> young but have hardly seen any animated films other than Toy Story.
>
> What would you say are the 5 (or 10) best videos for kids under 5? I'm
> thinking film type things rather than TV shows like Wiggles or Hi-5.
>
> --
> Liz
>
are expensive but the young kiddo ones are really decent. Otherwise I liked
the Blue's Clues and that type... Dd learned alot from them.
Anni
enigma
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we have tractor & train from that series. Boo loves the
tractor one, but not the train one. he doesn't like the
narrator on trains... who is also the narrator on most of the
others, so i didn't bother to even try them. Boo thinks adults
acting like buffoons are stupid (guess he'll hate Jerry Lewis
movies too) <shrug> i agree they learn a lot from them though
:).
lee
Teri
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If the question is 'where', then you can try Amazon. If the question is
'why' it's because the kids love them and learn from them :-)
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Teri
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> > forever. They are now 5.5 and 3.5 and these are still
> > favorites. There Goes a Fire Truck ... Police Car...
> > Rescue Vehicle ... Race Car ... Helocoptor ....Airplane
> > .... Monster Truck ... Army Tank ....School Bus. Very
> > Educational and fun. My 3.5 yo will tell you everything you
> > need to know about stabilizers on big rigs or why fire
> > trucks and rescue vehicles carry the jaws of life.
>
> we have tractor & train from that series. Boo loves the
> tractor one, but not the train one. he doesn't like the
> narrator on trains... who is also the narrator on most of the
> others, so i didn't bother to even try them. Boo thinks adults
> acting like buffoons are stupid (guess he'll hate Jerry Lewis
> movies too) <shrug> i agree they learn a lot from them though
> :).
> lee
My kids love adults acting like buffoons :-) ... but I can certainly see
why Boo wouldn't ...
Teri
DeliciousTruffles
Finding Nemo gives Katerina nightmares if she watches it in the late
afternoon. It's a very serious movie but very beautifully done.
Mine love Monsters, Inc. and there is only one scary part that I skip
(the beginning). Go figure.
We only have to skip one part in Shrek as well.
We have quite a few Disney movies but we have to skip parts in all of them.
Winnie the Pooh is good and no skipping parts required.
They also like Charlotte's Web.
I bought Sinbad recently (about 3 weeks ago) and I haven't watched it
because it starts out scarey for them and they request that I take it
out. Therefore, I have no idea if it's any good.
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Dizzysmamma
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> thinking film type things rather than TV shows like Wiggles or Hi-5.
>
> --
> Liz
Anything Veggie Tales. Iron Giant, almost anything Disney, main exception
would be The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It shows the murder of Quasimodo's
mother and the attempted burning of a family's home with them still in it.
Hmmmm Let's see. DS's all time favorite movie is Godzilla. He would watch
it 5x a day sometimes. Bambi is one of his favorites.
Angela
Drop45
I like to buy them used. The baby thrift shop (as i call it, but it's Once
Upon A Child) has them for 3.40 And i rent them free at the library, ours
has a HUGE selection and most rentals a for a week! Others we get as gifts.
DS is 3 and is watching a Thimas DVD right now. He loves:
There Goes a Train
Choo-Choo Trains: Up CLose and real persoanl (something like that)
Alphabet Train
I wanna be an engineer
(catching the theme yet??)
Great one's for the younger crowd are:
Alphabet Jungle
The Numbers Game
These are both Sesame Street and kids learn to count and learn the alphabet
from them
The Sesame Street tapes Silly Songs 1 & 2 were a ton of fun too. But that's
from TV - not what you wanted - sorry.
DS isn't into Disney films yet - except NEMO, loves Nemo! The others have
not held his attention, and he has a great attention span.
Maybe i will try watching one of the movies listed with him.
BTW - why does the mom always have to bite it in disney movies?
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My kids like the Winnie Pooh movies, and the Pippa Longstockings movies.
We had the latter from the library, and they still ask for them - two
months later!
We tested some others, but my son has scenes in them where he starts to
cry. So Shrek or Monsters,Inc. are out.
My DH also found a series called "Once upon a time there was man", in
German, obviously, don't know if there is an English version as well.
Quite short pieces, but my kids seem to like the first two or three parts.
But those are meant for older kids, so I guess they did not learn much out
of those.
Sometimes Bob the Builder or "Benjamin Bluemchen" (a German series about a
talking elephant living in a zoo with a human friend called Peter, a
series I know from my own childhood) are asked for, but not often.
Most questions I get is for Pippa Longstockings.
Bye from Hamburg,
Diana
Teri
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> BTW - why does the mom always have to bite it in disney movies?
I believe Walt's mom bit it early on in his life ... it eludes me now, but I
believe it was fairly traumatic for him.
Teri
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van
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I can't go for 5 - but we've recently discovered that ds (22m) loves The
Sound of Music....he loves the children, music, dancing, singing bicycles,
cars, water...you name it. When we've had it playing he stands there
absolutely entranced, apart from the odd occasion he takes himself off to
dance along with the children.
another video we've bought, but haven't shown him yet as he's too young, but
which we were both brought up on and loved, is Jungle Book
Van
Irish Marie
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> idea what is out there. I vaguely remember seeing Dumbo when I was pretty
> young but have hardly seen any animated films other than Toy Story.
>
> thinking film type things rather than TV shows like Wiggles or Hi-5.
>
Oops, just noticed you wanted films! DD likes the Barbie films (The
Nutcracker and Rapunzel), they both enjoyed Brother Bear and Lilo & Stitch,
Lady & The Tramp is another favourite.
Marie
Nic
I think I worded my question wrong. It should have been ( Where do you , not
why do you ) But anyway thanks for telling where you got them. Im intrested
in buying some for my children. Im going to go and have a look.
Nic
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toto
wrote:
>I would like to get some DVD's of the old Little Rascals, but they are hard to
>find! :)
>
>~Kat
You might enjoy this photo album then
http://www.west.net/~ke6jqp/ourgang.htm
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Dorothy
There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..
The Outer Limits
toto
wrote:
>Why do you buy these type of video's/dvd's from ?
>
>Nic
Amazon.com carries them
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005U2KB/102-0027324-1430573?v=glance
toto
>> What would you say are the 5 (or 10) best videos for kids
>> under 5? I'm thinking film type things rather than TV shows
>> like Wiggles or Hi-5.
>>
>> --
>> Liz
Piggybacking because I lost the OP.
I would look for things that are a bit different than the *movies*
I have seen though I loved the original Jungle Book and
some others like that.
Try Peter and the Wolf
http://www.sendit.com/video/item/7000000084554
or Fantasia
(Disney, but a wonderful film anyway)
http://disneyvideos.disney.go.com/moviefinder/products/1826803.html
How about this one:
My neighbor Totoro
http://www.greattapes.com/gt/product.phtml/totorod?16304018075610724698441482
Or
The NeverEnding Story:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005LKHZ/102-0027324-1430573?v=glance
or
The Emperor's New Clothes (Danny Kaye's version)
Or George Balanchine's Nutcracker
Actually this listing has many great ones:
http://www.greattapes.com/gt/dvds.phtml?16304018075610724698441482
Puester
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> "Staycalm" <lizi...@hatespam.optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> > I'm interested in starting a bit of a collection for Pascal but I have no
> > idea what is out there. I vaguely remember seeing Dumbo when I was pretty
> > young but have hardly seen any animated films other than Toy Story.
> >
> > thinking film type things rather than TV shows like Wiggles or Hi-5.
> >
>
My grandson loves a wonderfully animated Japanese
folk-tale movie called Totoro. He's lukewarm
about The Lion King. He does have lots of TV
videos of The Wiggles, Dora the Explorer, and
various Maisy Mouse videos.
At a very young age he began to enjoy the
Baby Einstein series and right now he's captivated
by a similar series called "Baby Gourmet" all about
food. He askes for "Baby Mor-gay" often. We find
that he also watches some of the very earliest videos
on a completely new level of understanding and
interest right now.
You might do well to rent a few to see what he likes.
Their taste and interest levels change so quickly and
so frequently it's hard to guess what he will like.
gloria p
Cheryl
<karaeh...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>"Nic" <n...@hotmail.com.nospam> wrote:
>
>> The out list and never liked,
>> Arthur (on channel 2, he is a mouse)
>
>Heheh, I think he is an aardvark. I remember this because he had to do a
>spelling bee and he was practicing for an entire show- aa-rd-vark!
>
>> Barbie of swan lake (or something like that)
>
>My sister has this in a pack of 3 with Barbie Rapunzel and Barbie Princess
>(?) and she LOVES them. She watched it 4 times in a row one day. Lol
>
My second son loves Barbie in the Nutcracker because of the dancing,
my daughter likes Barbie of Swan Lake because of the "orsie", none of
them really like Barbie Rapunzel even though it has dragons. Oh, the
oldest likes the Mouse King in Nutcracker Barbie, Tim Curry is an
_excellent_ villain ;) and the star game on the Swan Lake DVD.
I second the idea of going to the video store. What they like changes
so often it's cheaper to hire the weeklies. Mine have liked at
various times:
101 Dalmations (animated version)
101 Dalmations 2 - Spot's London Adventure (animated)
Stuart Little (known as Stupid Little for some reason)
Return to Never-neverland
Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
All the Pixars (Toy Story 1&2, Bugs Life, Monster's Inc, Finding Nemo)
Antz
The Adventurers Downunder
Shrek (they are desperate for my birthday so we can go see Shrek 2)
There have been more, I just can't think of them now. The all time
favourite at the moment is episodes of Dora the Explorer that my
sister taped from Nick Jr (Foxtel).
--
Cheryl
Mum to Shrimp (11 Mar 99), Thud (4 Oct 00)
and Mischief (30 Jul 02)
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"Staycalm" <lizi...@hatespam.optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> I'm interested in starting a bit of a collection for Pascal but I have no
> idea what is out there. I vaguely remember seeing Dumbo when I was pretty
> young but have hardly seen any animated films other than Toy Story.
>
> What would you say are the 5 (or 10) best videos for kids under 5? I'm
> thinking film type things rather than TV shows like Wiggles or Hi-5.
>
Maurice Gregoire
Clues. I have a few of each and they are great educational videos. She loves
them.
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> "Staycalm" <lizi...@hatespam.optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> > I'm interested in starting a bit of a collection for Pascal but I have
no
> > idea what is out there. I vaguely remember seeing Dumbo when I was
pretty
> > young but have hardly seen any animated films other than Toy Story.
> >
> > What would you say are the 5 (or 10) best videos for kids under 5? I'm
> > thinking film type things rather than TV shows like Wiggles or Hi-5.
> >
>
> Emily loves Jungle Book - the original, she doesn't mind Jungle Book 2 but
> prefers the original... It would be her all time favourite.. Wendy has
> said some of the ones we have..
> They also like Peter Pan, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Piglets Big Movie and
> The Tigger Movie... They pretty much like most movies as long as they
have
> seen it 3 times, for some strange reason, they have to watch it 3 times
> before they like it enough to talk about etc...
>
> --
> Kelly
> Mummy to Emily nearly 3 and Isabella 17mths