High-energy contest has loads of play, some trivia learning.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 4+?
Any Positive Content?
Violence & Scariness
very little
A few challenges come with consequences, like getting a bucket of water dumped on the head. These are mostly for parents, who react with enthusiasm. One challenge involves kids driving a kid-sized electric excavator to break foam blocks -- they wear helmets for safety. Other challenges happen in bounce houses and are mostly safe.
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Show is part of the Blippi franchise. Winners receive a yearly membership to Discovery Cube, an interactive children's museum. A brief commercial plays.
Positive Role Models
some
Blippi and Meekah show positive and friendly interactions towards each other and all contestants. They are enthusiastic and curious throughout the competition. Both hosts demonstrate positive social and emotional skills like taking turns and cheering up their teammates. While having difficulty in a challenge, a few of the kids contestants react with slight frustration.
Positive Messages
some
While there may not be any explicit lessons, all episodes contain examples of teamwork, sportsmanship and perseverance. Families encourage children to never give up.
Educational Value
a little
Some challenges include trivia questions to help kids prepare for school, such as guessing the alphabet, identifying colors and letters, and the order of the planets. Hosts encourage kids to be creative by moving and dancing.
Diverse Representations
a little
Positive and friendly interactions between characters from different age and ethnic groups. The hosts are a White men and a Black woman, and families from various ethnic backgrounds participate in the show. Families from various ethnic backgrounds participate in the show, and most of them have traditional family structures consisting of a mother and a father.
Parents need to know that Blippi and Meekah's Game Show is a spin-off of the preschool show Blippi. In the series, Blippi and his best friend Meekah host a game show between two sets of families. The teams compete, one at a time, in age-appropriate challenges involving strength, skill, and teamwork. Performance is not directly evaluated, and points are only scored at the end. The hosts are always kind and encouraging, guiding the contests when they have trouble. Some challenges include consequences such as getting soaked with water, but these are mostly targeted at the parents. Diversity is present but limited to race/ethnicity, with the majority of families of contests representing traditional family structures. Winners receive a membership to an interactive children's museum.
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What's the Story?
Preschool-friendly characters Blippi and Meekah are the hosts of a lively game show between two families. Two sets of parents and two kids compete in a series of energetic challenges where they must work together to capture flags, dig foam letters and answer trivia questions to score points. At the end of episode, both families are declared winners.
High-energy, colorful and easy to replicate, this Blippi spin-off's major victory is inspiring families to get together for off-screen activities. With challenges that are simple to do at home (except for a bouncy house), Blippi and Meekah's Game Show offers entertainment for preschoolers and inspiration for parents and caretakers to engage in activities together that encourage creativity and inspire curiosity. The show's simple production and repetition is age-appropriate and facilitate comprehension.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the skills that lead to the best results in competitions like Blippi and Meekah's Game Show. Encourage your children to consider what's most important: strategy or speed?
Some kids breezed through the challenges whiles other had a harder time. Did the host or characters say anything to encourage the players? Keep an eye out for identifying positve behaviors, like cheering and rooting for teammates.
How do you think the players felt when they didn't win a game?
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