Cold Germs

"I wonder if cold germs catch colds.... We could ask 'em, but we probably couldn't hear their tiny little voices." - Crawford the Cat.

Here's the video.

Enjoy!

Crawford's Minute Moves

This weekend we excitedly begin our Indiegogo campaign to raise money for the production of new videos for the Crawford the Cat website.    “Crawford’s Minute Moves:  Exercise on Purpose” is a series of 3 minute videos that encourage physical exercise and movement and can serve as a quick energizer when students need a "brain break.”   Currently, we are taking a reprieve from trying to get larger educational concerns to take a look at Crawford and to help fund additional materials for the website.  Instead, we are now turning to our friends, family, educators, and fans of CrawfordtheCat.com to help make these new videos a reality.  Please take a look at our campaign.  If you’d like to support the project with a few dollars, that’d be terrific!  If you like the project, but can’t afford to contribute, you can still help by passing the campaign info along to others.  Thanks much!

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/crawford-s-minute-moves-exercise-on-purpose

 

~ Russ Harris

"My Clean Hands" Ebook

Welcome back to school! Fall is right around the corner and so is the cold and flu season. Helping children remember to was their hands often and thoroughly is always a challenge. Hopefully the "My Clean Hands" ebook featuring Crawford the Cat will be of help. This short, online book at Crawfordthecat.com is aimed specifically at Pre-K through 1st Grade. The pages turn just like a real book when clicked.

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We made this ebook last year for the Crawford website, and it's experienced many pageloads at schools across the country. Teachers have written to us saying they like to use this ebook as a fun way to reinforce an important health lesson while practicing Early Literacy.

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So, if you have a little one in your household, or if you're just young at heart, click this link to see and to read: "My Clean Hands"

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Enjoy!

"100 Word Search Game" on Website

Crawford the Cat’s 100 Word Search Game features many of the first 100 sight words young readers are required to master. We hope our version of this popular game will be a fun, helpful reinforcement for young students .

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If you think you're as sharp as a 1st Grader, give it a try here!

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CrawfordTheCat.com is a free website designed specifically for Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st Grade. CrawfordTheCat.com features fun and entertaining animated videos that promote positive values while implementing simple lessons on personal, practical and social skills. Also age-appropriate games and on-line books are included, as well as down-loadable printables!

"CrawfordTheCat" linked by Teachers!

CrawfordtheCat.com - featuring our favorite cartoon cat and his five-minute animated shorts - has been on the internet since the beginning of the year. In that time, many educators have linked the site to the their classroom website pages.

That is such as honor, and we are very proud! Thank you teachers!

Our site is still new, and there is so much more in the works to be included, but for now we are happy with its humble beginnings.

It you get a chance, click here to check it out, especially if you have a Preschool to 1st Grader in your life.

CRAWFORD THE CAT Website

Lately we’ve been busy at the studio digitizing the "CRAWFORD'S CORNER" shorts and now they are all set to go on Crawford the Cat's new website CrawfordTheCat.com

At this point, 13 “Crawford’s Corner” five-minute videos are now available to watch online. The shorts are educational in nature and are aimed at young audiences, so….. if you have a preschooler , kindergartener or older, or know someone who does, check ‘em out here!

Enjoy.

"O.Ratz in Rat in a Hot Tin Can"

Click here to see VIDEO

I found out that “O.Ratz in Rat in a Hot Tin Can” was no longer available on YouTube, so I decided to put the 7 minute cartoon on our own website for a short time. We made the cartoon with Hanna-Barbera in 1995 for Cartoon Network’s “What A Cartoon Show.” Of course, it didn’t go to series, but it was still a lot of fun to make, and we made some long lasting showbiz friends along the way. ..See the video here and our info page on it here.

Enjoy.

Know a Preschool to 1st Grader? Free online cartoons and games - just for them! Visit “CrawfordTheCat.com”