Top Tips: Podcasts & audio stuff for kids

Podcasts and audio books remove the visual impact while enjoying the magic of the spoken word…we asked our Facebook community to share their favourite audios and podcasts that they have used….

Check out this fantastic list of 20 Awesome Podcasts Your Kids Will Flip For published by Red Tricycle and compiled by Frannie Ucciferri, Common Sense Media. It has a great explanation of how to use podcasts, and lists 20 of the best for kids in detail.

Also, the team at the new Screenagers podcast, put together this list of 22 Podcasts Kids and Teens are Listening to Right Now.

Steve Schiff compiled The 15 Best Podcasts for Kids That Adults Will Like Too for fatherly.com and there are some fantastic suggestions on there (with everything from music, science, bedtime stories, to actors acting out stories written by kids… and more).

The ABC published this list of the Seven kids’ podcasts for any parent about to lose their mind on a road trip.

Beyond Empathy has a suite of podcasts called Podcasts from the Edge, made collaboratively with young people (who happen to live in places that are considered disadvantaged) that use a unique blend of fictional and informational stories, where young people are leading conversations about anything and everything that is important to them.

Project Ari is a wonderful short podcast for kids aged around 8-10, which is designed as a tool to help start meaningful conversations with kids about respectful behaviour. So well done!

Our Facebook followers also suggested:

Kinderling Kids Radio – Family-friendly kids radio for children and their grown ups.

Short and Curly (An ABC podcast) – “a fast-paced fun-filled ethics podcast for kids and their parents, with questions and ideas to really get you thinking.”

Fun Kids Science Weekly (from the UK) – exploring weird and cool science stuff.

Barefoot Books podcast

Marvelous Musical podcast by David Walliams

Nanogirl’s Great Science Adventures

Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest

BBC Earth Podcast

Singalong with Angie Who

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Six Minutes – Gen Z Media

Fierce Girls on ABC Radio

Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls podcast

But Why: A podcast for curious kids by NPR