Sesame for Families
Everything you need to help children grow smarter, stronger, kinder
Scroll to discover printables, videos, and more on topics important to your family or the families you work with.
Watch and Play: Elmo Runs the Race
Watch this episode and explore ways to extend the learning at home.
Watch and Play: Cookie Monster’s Big Puzzle
Watch this episode and explore ways to extend the learning at home.
Watch and Play: Abby’s Magical Beasties
Watch this episode and explore ways to extend the learning at home.
Watch and Play: Grover’s Super Suitycase
Watch this episode and explore ways to extend the learning at home.
Trash is Treasure
Watch the Mecha Builders repurpose old materials into something new!
Monster Meltdown
Meltdowns happen… but they are somewhat predictable! As you try to handle them, curiosity and patience go a long way.
Parenting Moment: Reflecting
The way you talk with children matters… your words have power!
6 Ways to Practice Nurturing Parenting
Tips from a pediatrician on understanding, empathizing with, encouraging, and positively guiding children.
C is for Choice
A game about making choices, big and small.
Try It! Stop, Stretch, Switch
Try this strategy to help little ones transition away from screen time.
Understanding Digital Well-Being: A Guide for Parents & Caregivers
Digital well-being is about understanding and making choices about media as a part of family life, in order to learn, play, connect, relax, and feel closer to one another.
I Love the Rain
Watch Elmo and Grover sing about how rain helps Earth’s people, animals, and plants live and grow.
Featured Resource Categories
Discover tons of resources that help kids (and parents!) with what matters most in young lives: health and wellness, social-emotional skills, and school readiness.
Healthy Minds and Bodies
Help children build healthy habits to last a lifetime.
ABCs and 123s
Build vocabulary, spark curiosity, and help children think critically, preparing them to succeed in school and in life.
How to Talk to Kids about Tough Topics
Caring adults can help kids learn coping and resilience-building techniques to help them face tough challenges like divorce, foster care, grief, and more.
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Milestones: Your Two-Year-Old
All children grow and develop at their own pace; use this chart to guide your expectations and observations so you can talk to your child’s pediatrician about questions or concerns.
Toddler Tips: Meltdowns
Strategies for during and after a meltdown…and even some ways meltdowns might be avoided.
Elmo’s Magic Blanket
When Elmo is sick and has to stay in bed, he plays pretend with his blanket or sheet.
Descubra imprimibles, videos y otros temas para ayudar a las familias con las que usted trabaja.
El desafío de la familia Monstruo-Hada
Abby y Rudy alegran el tiempo en familia con un juego que pueden jugar en cualquier momento y lugar.
Monstruos atentos: Guía para el podcast Por la paz
Una guía con consejos para usar con la serie de podcast de Monstruos atentos
Canción Mi cuerpo, mi mente con Elmo y los amigos
¡Todo está conectado! Cuerpo sano en mente sana para que nos sintamos bien por dentro y por fuera.
Niños quisquillosos para comer
En sus propias palabras
Una página para colorear que ayuda a los niños a explorar las palabras que nombran sentimientos.
O es de Opción
Un juego que enseña a tomar grandes y pequeñas decisiones.
¡Inténtenlo! Alto, estirarse, cambiar
Hagan esta estrategia para ayudar a los pequeños en la transición del tiempo de pantalla.
Bienestar digital: Una guía para padres y cuidadores
El bienestar digital consiste en comprender y tomar decisiones sobre los medios como parte de la vida familiar para aprender, jugar, conectarse, relajarse y sentirse más cerca entre sí.
Brazaletes de amistad
Cuando es difícil estar separados de los seres que amamos, las cosas más pequeñas pueden convertirse en grandes recordatorios de que alguien nos ama y está pensando en nosotros.
Play time and reading time are great times for learning.
Snow Day on Sesame Street
A story about the ways screen time can be “together time.”
Snow Monster Maker
Conduct your own temperature experiment.
Play I Notice, I Feel, I Can
Children can help their Sesame Street friends manage their big feelings with a three-step strategy.
Making It Work
An interactive game that helps children build flexibility.
Feelings, Feelings, Everywhere
Everyone has different feelings, at different times, for different reasons—and all our feelings have a place.
C is for Choice
A game about making choices, big and small.
Counting Outdoors: Memory Match
A concentration-style counting game featuring things children see in the natural world.
Abby’s Letter Garden
Prepare children for school success by exposing them to uppercase letters.
Slow It Down
It’s time to relax, and Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby guide you in these exercises to help calm children experiencing overwhelm with big feelings.
Twiddlebug Toss
Help the Twiddlebugs experiment with a catapult—then make your own!
Transitioning Between Parents
Read this storybook to help your child come up with a simple routine on days they are going between homes.
The Monster-Fairy Family Challenge
Abby and Rudy help spark fun family time with a game you can play anytime, anywhere.
Reading Adventures
Sharing stories now lays the foundation for a lifetime of reading.
The Feeling Basket
A story about “finding a place” for big feelings.
Elmo’s Brain Games
You can help children build important skills in everyday moments.
Resources to support children and families… and you!
Building Resilience in Children and Families
Give children tools and coping skills to overcome both little and big challenges to help them learn and grow.
Roads to Resilience
A course highlighting some of the best assets from topics across SesameWorkshop.org with customized approaches, and tips and tricks on using these resources in your work with caregivers and their children.
Traumatic Experiences: First Steps to Hope (Part 1)
Part one of an interview series with Ann Thomas from The Children’s Place.