Amazon Streaming Free Kids’ Shows

For all the parents who have recently found themselves playing the role of teacher—and for all the temporarily housebound kids, too—Amazon is making more than 40 children’s shows available for free.

Variety reports that the programs were once available only to Prime members, who pay $119 per year for access to free television series, movies, music, shipping privileges, photo storage, and a heap of other benefits. You’ll still need to set up an Amazon account to watch the newly complementary kids’ shows, but it won’t cost you anything.

The shows are a mix of entire Amazon original series like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Pete the Cat and select seasons of PBS classics like Arthur (season 10), Cyberchase (season 1), and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (seasons 1 and 2).

The collection varies by country: Lucky youngsters in Europe, for example, get to watch worldwide favorite Peppa Pig for free. Amazon has set up a landing page so you can see the full offering, organized into categories for preschoolers and kids from 6 to 11 years old.

Since many of the programs are educational, parents might feel a little better about letting their kids spend more time than usual in front of a screen. Amazon original Annedroids covers a variety of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) themes, and PBS’s WordWorld teaches preschoolers how to form words. There are even a few episodes of LeVar Burton’s 1990s classic Reading Rainbow, in which celebrity guests narrate children’s books.

It’s not the only part of Amazon’s digital catalog now available for free. The technology conglomerate also released more than 80 family-friendly films through IMDb TV, including Scooby-Doo (2002), Stuart Little (1999), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), and All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989).

For other ways to keep your kids (and yourself) entertained during quarantine, check out Libby, the app that lets you download books, audiobooks, and more from your local library.

[h/t Variety]