Caring For Each Other Resources
Your friends on Ahlan Simsim are here to support you during the COVID-19 health crisis. We know that these are stressful times, and families everywhere are creating a new sense of normalcy. So our website is filled with content you can use to spark playful learning, offer children comfort, and focus a bit on yourself, too. The resources below can help your family play, learn, and breathe deeply together—and we'll keep adding more in days and weeks to come, including new messages from your Ahlan Simsim pals. Stay tuned for more! #CaringForEachOther
Storybooks
Using your imagination
Let's Play
Understanding germs/virus
Staying Healthy
Let's Play
Let's Play
Topic: Learning Through Play
Detailed Goal: Using your imagination
Audience: Children 3-8
Play can help develop your child’s vocabulary, build their muscle coordination, and can even decrease stress levels for you and your child! All you need to play is your imagination. Read this storybook to see how the Sesame Street friends use their imagination.
Staying Healthy
Staying Healthy
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Understanding germs/virus
Audience: Children 3-8
Safe and proper hygiene practices are critical to staying healthy. This storybook introduces your child to the concept of germs, mask hygiene, and the importance of handwashing.
Caregiver Resources
Taking care of oneself
Caring For Our Children
Virus facts, explaining to kids
Talking to Children About COVID-19
Taking care of oneself
We Are Safe and Together
Caring For Our Children
Caring For Our Children
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Taking care of oneself
Audience: Children 3-8
Uncertainty can be stressful for both caregivers and their children. This infographic provides caregivers with tips on how to facilitate calm and positive interactions and conversations with their children.
Talking to Children About COVID-19
Talking to Children About COVID-19
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Virus facts, explaining to kids
Audience: Children 3-8
Talking to children about COVID-19 can be tricky. This infographic provides caregivers with simple language and tips to share with their children to help them stay healthy and feel safe.
We Are Safe and Together
We Are Safe and Together
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Taking care of oneself
Audience: Children 3-8
Taking care of ourselves is taking care of our families. This infographic provides tips on how you can take care of everyone in your family, including you!
Activities for Kids
Safe coughing and sneezing
How to Cough and Sneeze Safely
Handwashing
We Can Wash Our Hands
Handwashing
Washing Your Hands Maze
How to Cough and Sneeze Safely
How to Cough and Sneeze Safely
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Safe coughing and sneezing
Audience: Children 3-8
Practicing safe sneezing and coughing can help prevent the spread of germs. In this sheet, Grover teaches your child the three steps to safe sneezing and coughing.
We Can Wash Our Hands
We Can Wash Our Hands
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Handwashing
Audience: Children 3-8
Washing our hands properly helps us stay healthy. In this sheet, Raya helps your child understand how to properly was their hands.
Washing Your Hands Maze
Washing Your Hands Maze
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Handwashing
Audience: Children 3-8
Washing our hands throughout the day keep germs away. Invite your child to use their finger to trace Cookie Monster’s journey through this maze, and make sure he washes his hands along the way.
Videos
Importance of playing
Mae's Minute: Play is Powerful
Staying inside
Elmo's World News Special Report: Pretend Play
Exercising inside
Elmo's World News Special Report: Freeze Dance
Using imagination to play
Elmo's World News Special Report: Imagination
Recognizing and identifying shapes
Elmo's World News Special Report: Finding Shapes
Utilizing items around the house to play
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: All Kinds of Play
Using “I wonder” questions when playing
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Wonder
Using creativity to make puppets, a world, and a story
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: How to Make Your Own Story
Virus facts, explaining to kids
Mae's Minute: Talking to kids about Coronavirus
Safe coughing/sneezing
Elmo's World News Special Report: Cover Your Cough and Sneeze Dance
Understanding germs/virus
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Virus Facts
Health promotion
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Vaccines
Social distancing rationale/practice
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Social Distancing
Mae's Minute: Play is Powerful
Mae's Minute: Play is Powerful
Topic: Learning at home through play
Detailed Goal: Importance of playing
Audience: Children 3-8
Mae explains in a minute how playing can help with a child’s development and create a bond with their caregiver.
Elmo's World News Special Report: Pretend Play
Elmo's World News Special Report: Pretend Play
Topic: Learning at home through play
Detailed Goal: Staying inside
Audience: Children 3-8
Elmo delivers a special news report with his friends about how playing pretend inside can be a safer option than playing outside.
Elmo's World News Special Report: Freeze Dance
Elmo's World News Special Report: Freeze Dance
Topic: Learning at home through play
Detailed Goal: Exercising inside
Audience: Children 3-8
Elmo delivers a special news report with his friends about how playing freeze dance is a fun way to get exercise.
Elmo's World News Special Report: Imagination
Elmo's World News Special Report: Imagination
Topic: Learning at home through play
Detailed Goal: Using imagination to play
Audience: Children 3-8
Elmo delivers a special news report on how children are using their imaginations to play indoors.
Elmo's World News Special Report: Finding Shapes
Elmo's World News Special Report: Finding Shapes
Topic: Learning at home through play
Detailed Goal: Recognizing and identifying shapes
Audience: Children 3-8
Elmo delivers a special news report about finding shapes in everyday objects around the house.
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: All Kinds of Play
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: All Kinds of Play
Topic: Learning at home through play
Detailed Goal: Utilizing items around the house to play
Audience: Children 3-8
Raya and Grover put on a pop-up playdate using their imaginations and items found around the house.
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Wonder
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Wonder
Topic: Learning at home through play
Detailed Goal: Using “I wonder” questions when playing
Audience: Children 3-8
Raya and Grover perform another pop-up playdate on how to use “I wonder” questions when feeling bored inside.
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: How to Make Your Own Story
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: How to Make Your Own Story
Topic: Learning at home through play
Detailed Goal: Using creativity to make puppets, a world, and a story
Audience: Children 3-8
Raya and Grover make their very own Pop-Up Playtime stories at home by crafting puppets, a world, and a story.
Mae's Minute: Talking to kids about Coronavirus
Mae's Minute: Talking to kids about Coronavirus
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Virus facts, explaining to kids
Audience: Children 3-8
Mae takes a minute to help caregivers talk to their kids about the coronavirus.
Elmo's World News Special Report: Cover Your Cough and Sneeze Dance
Elmo's World News Special Report: Cover Your Cough and Sneeze Dance
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Safe coughing/sneezing
Audience: Children 3-8
Elmo delivers a special news report about how kids are staying healthy at home by coughing and sneezing safely.
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Virus Facts
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Virus Facts
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Understanding germs/virus
Audience: Children 3-8
Raya and Grover put on their own pop-up puppet show to explain what Coronavirus is and how germs can spread.
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Vaccines
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Vaccines
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Health promotion
Audience: Children 3-8
Raya and Grover perform another pop-up playdate to explain what a vaccine is and how it can help you fight germs.
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Social Distancing
Pop-Up Playtime with Raya and Grover: Social Distancing
Topic: Environment and Health
Detailed Goal: Social distancing rationale/practice
Audience: Children 3-8
Raya and Grover put on their pop-up playdate to explain how staying apart can help keep others healthy.