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Ages 5 - 7

Bright Sparks

The age where children stop watching and start doing. Bright Sparks episodes are built to be paused, joined in with and finished with something in their hands.

Bright Sparks

Ages 5 - 7

18 minute episodes

Bright Sparks

What This Library Is Built Around

Bright Sparks is our busiest library. Episodes are built in two halves: a story that sets up a problem, then a make-along where our host builds the answer at a pace a five year old can follow. Every make-along uses materials you already own, and the episode pauses itself at each step rather than racing ahead of a child still cutting out a circle.

18 minute episodes 5 live make-alongs each week
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What Makes It Work

Four Decisions Behind Every Episode

Something to show at the end

Nearly every episode finishes with a made thing, not just a watched thing.

Built-in pauses

Episodes stop and wait at each step, so nobody is left behind mid-glue.

Reading woven in

Words appear on screen as they are spoken, gently, without turning it into a lesson.

Printable companions

Cut-outs, templates and colouring sheets for the episodes that need them.

Themes

What Your Child Will Find Inside

  • Make-along crafts using what is already in the drawer
  • Story adventures with a puzzle to solve each episode
  • Early reading games and rhyme challenges
  • Numbers, patterns and shapes hidden inside games
  • Kitchen science that does not stain anything
  • Draw-along episodes at a genuinely followable speed

Live Sessions

Five live make-alongs each week, thirty minutes each. The host reads the chat, uses real names and waits for slower hands. Materials are posted in your library the day before.

What You Will Need

Paper, scissors, tape, crayons and whatever the recycling box holds. We publish the material list forty-eight hours before every live session.

Sample Content

Episodes From This Library

Free to watch, no account needed, so you can judge the pace before anything is set up.

All Samples
Junk Drawer Robots 18 min
Make-along

Junk Drawer Robots

Bright Sparks

Where Does Rain Go? 18 min
Story adventure

Where Does Rain Go?

Bright Sparks

Draw A Dragon With Me 18 min
Draw-along

Draw A Dragon With Me

Bright Sparks

Other Age Groups

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Send us your child's age and what they are into. We will set up a profile, point you at the episodes families start with, and let you decide from there. No card details are taken to begin.