Instructify

November 10, 2009

When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Like actually go there, meet Speedy Delivery, check out the Trolley, all of it. If I’d only had the good sense to be born twenty years later, I could have paid a visit via the internet to the excellent Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood website.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on the PBS Kids website lets you look at classic clips from the show. Elementary kids can watch video field trips in which Fred Rogers takes in a performance by Yo-Yo Ma, visits a museum, and guides kids on a trip to the doctor’s office for a checkup. Kids can read stories, play games, and build a neighborhood of their own.

Naturally, you can’t visit Mister Rogers Neighborhood without taking the Trolley to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where kids can make stories with X the Owl or create their own kaleidoscopes with Lady Elaine Fairchilde, plus lots more fun with these puppet pals.

There’s a lot more to do on this site than I can list in the article, so your best strategy is to head there yourself. Kids can have some educational fun, and they can play in the neighborhood I most wanted to when I was a kid (well, I wanted to drive on Sesame Street, too).

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