Thomas Starks Kids MusicChildren's Music Reviews & Lyrics

The Backyardigans!

Nick. Jr has always been helping kids get into music early, but not in the way you would first assume. Rather than having kids memorize specific songs from their favorite programs intentionally, certain shows target other senses. Remember Blues Clues? That helped kids with their memories and cognitive functions. The Backyardigans helps them with remembering melodies.

The songs in the show are all original pieces and free music is now available online for every kid out there to enjoy. Usually each episode has three or four songs and kids will pick up on them. There’s a catchy theme song when the show begins and whenever they’re ready to go on an adventure together, and they certainly love adventures!

The show is about five best friends who hang out in their backyards and use the power of their imagination to go on wild and crazy adventures. Pablo, Tyrone, Uniqua, Tasha, and Austin are really exploring the confines of a yard, but to everybody watching, they could be in space, under the sea, or even in the future. The great thing is that the songs in the show will all be about where they are and what they’re doing. They’re always new and exciting!

Their music adventures are definitely a great way for kids to get in tune with new melodies!

A perfect choice for children aged 2-5, The Backyardigans is an animated Childrens TV Show, now also available in DVD, which features five animal friends who each have a wild imagination, fantasizing that their backyard transforms into a place full of exciting adventures. This new world is quite different to the one in which they live, and it’s here that they experience a day of learning and excitement,  before returning home for snack time.

Pablo…Pablo…PABLO, yes you got it! Pablo is definitely one of the friendly characters on the show. A blue and yellow penguin, Pablo gets himself very heavily involved in situations and issues that surround him. His best friend, the good natured mouse Tyrone, is the complete opposite. Unlike Pablo, this orange character leads a very laid back life. Uniqua is yet another friendly character on the show. Always dressed in pink, it’s quite surprising that she’s a tomboy. Like Uniqua, Tasha, the small yellow hippopotamus is a very sweet girl, yet also quite rational. Austin, the purple kangaroo, is originally shy, but overtime becomes more involved in the show, sharing his smart and imaginative mind with his new-found friends.

Check out this free music video of The Backyardigans that I found.

The show is very unique, with each episode featuring its own musical theme. According to Underthree, “Each half-hour episode of this Emmy® Award-winning show features a unique music/dance genre with four original songs, along with real choreographed movements recreated in animation”. Not only is the show creative in recreating its own songs specific to the musical theme, but it produces songs of that same musical genre and choreographs the dance moves to be of that same music style.

The episodes focus on music and dancing as much as they do on the stories. These story-driven musicals stimulate children to stretch their imagination together with these friendly characters, as they sing and dance along with them. “Kids will find themselves being sucked into the world of The Backyardigans’ imagination. The songs are all fun and energetic and I think the kids would love to sing and dance along”. [Backyardigan Review]. As quoted by Rave and Review, “As well as being catchy and cute, The Backyardigans is great because it teaches kids that you really are never bored if you’ve got an active imagination”.

If you don’t own The Backyardigans, be sure to purchase it for your children. You wouldn’t want them to miss out on the magical musical adventures of these 5 friendly animals.