8) Cool School
Stepping away from the education channels comes Cool School. This is meant to be a fun and engaging channel for children that offers a wide variety of nursery rhymes, crafts, fairy tales, educational videos, fun stories and more.
9) Hoopla
Hoopla has been around for ages and is one of the most popular and well known channels for kids. Hoopla for kids features characters that all children love such as Ben, Annie and Mango. All these characters engage your child as they sing and dance to nursery rhymes and other types of children’s songs.
10) Khan
These are a series of free educational videos on a wide variety of topics. You can find all kinds of educational videos in Khan for just about all age groups that cover topics such as math and history.
11) Girls Can Be Geeks Too
Girls Can Be Geeks Too is a channel that aims to serve the message that girls don’t have to be into girly things and they can be into geeky or scientific things if they want. The girls featured in the channel will show your daughter how to create some scientific work. They will also give demonstrations of their work and do all kinds of geeky things.
12) Incredible Science
Speaking of science-themed channels that are meant to show off really cool and geeky things, there’s another channel that’s meant for both girls and boys here. Incredible Science features a lot of different scientific experiments and demonstrates how some really cool, scientific toys work. There’s a lot of hands-on learning projects that you can follow along with and do right from home with some common household items. There’s a lot of music in these videos as well, so they’re very engaging for all ages.
13) Art For Kids
Is your kid into art? The Art For Kids Hub allows your kid to explore his/her creative side. The channel features a father who loves doing art projects with his kid. There are plenty of ideas here and all of them are inexpensive.
14) Cosmic Kids Yoga
Now, most children probably aren’t going to be jumping for joy at the idea of Yoga but it’s definitely worth an option to give it a shot. Doing Yoga at an early age helps build confidence, it keeps kids relaxed and Yoga, in general, builds up your confidence. Cosmic Kids Yoga is recommended for ages 3 and up and even parents can play along to help relieve stress with some easy-to-follow Yoga.
15) Disney Shorts
As a parent, you probably grew up watching Disney movies. Some of them date back decades and have been historical classics ever since. Well, Disney has their own Disney Shorts channel for kids as well where they feature a lot of short clips. Re-live some old classics with your kid such as The Lion King, Little Mermaid, Bambi and other countless timeless movies from the Disney collection.
There are endless numbers of channels for kids on YouTube. Channels like the ones in the list are usually the best providers of free and educational entertainment for your kids. However, while technology has come a long way in providing safe and free entertainment and even with the ability to set up parental filters on computers, there’s still a lot of things out there that children shouldn’t stumble into. So, parental guidance is still a must.