The school holidays are fast approaching and many parents are wondering what they can do to keep their children entertained for the next three weeks.
If you’re not going on vacation or have a lot of activities planned, the streaming platform Showmax has created a watch list for kids during the school break.
This list promises to keep mom and dad from screaming with grief for the next few weeks.
School holiday checklist for kids
District Patrol
One of the most popular animated action adventures follows the paw-somest pups in Adventure Bay.
Paw Patrol has won an Emmy and received 35 awards at the Nickelodeon awards.
Streaming from seasons one to eight, your kids can watch Ryder and his heroic kids – Chase, Marshall, Rubble, Skye, Rocky, Zuma, Everest and Tracker – as they jump in to save the day.
Paw Patrol: The Movie and special Mighty Dog and Ready, Race, Save! also available on Showmax.
Nickelodeon’s Blaze and the Monster Machines
The show follows monster truck Blaze and his human friend AJ as they experience exciting challenges and adventures in Axle City.
Blaze and the Monster Machines is also a great learning show. Friends like Darington and his sidekick, Stunt Kitty, Starla the cowgirl truck, Stripes the driver, Zeg’s dino-truck, and the reliable mechanic, Gabby – they will join preschoolers in fun challenges that help build their skills of numerical sense and recognition color to the basics of measurement, motion, friction, and simple machines.
Seasons one to six are on streaming platforms and on Nickelodeon channel DStv 305.
The Smeds and Smoos
Supports locally generated events called The Smeds and Smoos by South African Daniel Snaddon and Samantha Cutler.
The alien animation is an adaptation by South African Julia Smuts Louw of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s best-selling picture book of the same name.
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It tells the story of two families whose children, Bill and Janet, fall in love and run away together. Chased by his grandfather, Eyang Smed (comedian Bill Bailey) and Eyang Smoo (Adjoa Andoh from Bridgerton).
Two young aliens lead their families in a chase across space, giving them the opportunity to find out that they have more in common than they think.
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
It is described as a very good show in the statement because it shows drawing tutorials, and fun songs to sing with family and friends including things to do and do. With all that, follows the funny story of 10-year-old Tom.
The story is based on the best-selling book series by Liz Pinchon that has been translated into 44 languages.
Koral Camp: SpongeBob’s Under Years
A classic for many including adults, the global massive SpongeBob franchise. Coral Camp: SpongeBob’s Under Years will go back in time when the main character is 10 years old.
This is a great time when SpongeBob and his friends spend the summer building campfires underwater, catching wild jellyfish, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck in the craziest camp in the kelp forest!
Fantastic Beasts: The Secret of Dumbledore
This would be great for children under seven years old as well as for adults. The Harry Potter universe is hugely popular and continues to grow.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secret of Dumbledore is the third installment in the Harry Potter prequel series. The film is set a few years after the events of The Crimes of Grindelwald (the second film) and follows Newt Scamander and his partners, who are tasked by Professor Albus Dumbledore with a mission that takes them to the heart of the Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald’s army.
The impressive cast includes Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander and Oscar nominee Jude Law as Professor Albus Dumbledore, with the role of Grindelwald now played by BAFTA nominee Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) replacing Johnny Depp.
Compiled by Sandisiwe Mbhele