Let’s Grow: Lend A Helping Hand | DVD Review

Company: HIT Entertainment & Lionsgate
Item Reviewed: Let’s Grow: Lend a Helping Hand DVD

The debut title in the all-new Let’s Grow series of DVDs, Let’s Grow: Lend A Helping Hand has blossomed onto DVD from Lionsgate and HIT Entertainment. This initial title in the Let’s Grow series features preschool favorites Barney™, Bob the Builder™, Thomas & Friends™, Fireman Sam™ and Angelina Ballerina™ in fun learning adventures about helping others.

Co-branded by HIT Entertainment and Sprout®, each DVD in the Let’s Grow series is uniquely themed and focuses on areas preschoolers encounter everyday – cleaning up, manners, safety, friendship, cooperation and more. Episodes are woven together by live-action segments featuring hosts from Sprout’s original Sunny Side Up Show, along with their puppet friend, Chica the Chicken. The hosts and Chica introduce each story, demonstrate easy-to-make crafts tied to the program’s theme and encourage young viewers to practice what they’ve learned. Each Let’s Grow DVD will include a Parent Resource Guide filled with tips and discussion starters.

Through positive messages, captivating stories, imaginative fun, and familiar faces, Let’s Grow taps into HIT Entertainment’s library of quality programs to help parents help their young ones navigate their world.

Meet Kellysm and Chicasm, the hosts of TV’s “The Sunny Side Up Show” on the 24-hour preschool channel, Sprout®.  Join them as they host this special collection of delightful adventures featuring your favorite friends, Barney, Bob the Builder, Thomas & Friends, Fireman Sam and Angelina Ballerina, and discover how quickly things can go from squeaky clean to terribly messy.  Throughout all the stories and with Kelly and Chica’s help, your children will learn that when friends work together, any job can be fun!

Hosts Kelly and Chica describe what a “helping hand is” and show young viewers how they can be helping hands at home by creating a recycling bin, putting away their clothes, turning off the lights and using kind words to help others feel better. So follow along with these five episodes and learn about the importance of “lending a helping hand!”

Episodes include:

• Thomas & Friends “Dirty Work”
• Barney “Litterbot”
• Bob the Builder “Clean as a Whistle Bristle”
• Fireman Sam “Mother’s Helper”
• Angelina Ballerina “The Ballerina Ragdoll”

My Thoughts

Quality educational children’s DVDs are a huge part of how I teach my daughter. Actually it is how I have taught all my kids. And the shows that come from HIT Entertainment and Lionsgate are great tools and have since helped me teach my daughter right from wrong, left from right and how to say please and thank you. I have not gone wrong in having her watch these shows. And Lend A Helping Hand just gives me more opportunity to teach her. Recycling and helping our world is very important to us and now we can have our toddler have a hand in that as well as she learns the importance of lending a helping hand. I loved this series and look forward to all the others that will be released. A definite for my DVD shelf!