Best Kids Podcasts

August 14, 2017 4:51 PM

During a long car ride this past weekend, I put on some episodes of Wow in the World for my four year old, and he loved them. I particularly liked that they were better than his usual request of poppy kids music. Unfortunately, episodes only come out twice a week. What are other podcasts, preferably short and educational, that are aimed at young kids?
posted by noneuclidean to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

Best answer: Brains On! is very similar to Wow in the World (and honestly I find it less annoying).
posted by soren_lorensen at 5:19 PM on August 14, 2017 [1 favorite]

Best answer: I was just on an episode of But Why? a VPR podcast about kids' questions. No music, just Q&A type stuff.
posted by jessamyn at 6:10 PM on August 14, 2017

I used to really enjoy NPR's How To Do Everything, which is not a kids' podcast per se, but it's very kid-appropriate and had a lot of kiddo listeners. It's no longer publishing but there's a long back catalog.
posted by radioamy at 7:00 PM on August 14, 2017

Best answer: My kids adore Finn Caspian!
posted by rabidsegue at 8:26 PM on August 14, 2017 [1 favorite]

- Brains On
- Storynory
- Some episodes of Radiolab ... Argentine Invasion was a favorite. It talks about life-or-death battles between ant colonies!
posted by Ostara at 9:14 PM on August 14, 2017

Not a podcast but we listened to TONS of chapter books on tape in the car when mine was little.
posted by latkes at 7:44 AM on August 15, 2017

Best answer: My kid and the adults riding along with her adore Story Pirates for road trips. The concept is like Drunk History, only swapping a 5-to-10-year-old storyteller for the drunk, and audio theatre for TV as the medium.
posted by dr. boludo at 9:41 AM on August 15, 2017

Tumble, Brains On, and Storytime are our favorites.
posted by songs_about_rainbows at 6:09 PM on August 15, 2017