Netflix’s New Year’s Eve countdown helps parents tuck in kids early
Netflix is bringing back its family friendly collection of New Year’s countdown videos, and you can start watching them today.
If you’re unfamiliar with the annual tradition, Netflix releases a series of short videos featuring kids’ favorite characters so the younger members of the household can celebrate the turn of a new year, too.
Parents love that the videos can be played ANY TIME of the day.
This means kids still get a midnight-style New Year’s Eve countdown and can be hustled off to bed early.
This year, there are 14 videos (five more than last year), and some are geared toward older siblings thanks to YPulse research that showed 70 percent of Generation Z and millennials prefer staying home on New Year’s Eve, Netflix said in a release.
What you need to know
- Streaming starts Wednesday, Dec. 26.
- To find the videos, type in “countdowns” on Netflix’s search option.
- All videos are about five minutes long.
- Each video ends with a New Year’s Eve countdown to ring in 2019.
This year’s videos
Alexa & Katie
All Hail King Julien
King Julien must protect the kingdom from secret agents and stampeding clones, among other things, while keeping the party rockin’.
Beat Bugs
Five happy bugs use songs from the Beatles to learn big lessons about the world around them.
Boss Baby
Fuller House
Larva Island
Yellow and Red are island castaways. They compete with animals, insects and one dim-witted man on an exotic island for food, shelter and survival. Also, the chance to escape.
Motown Magic
Pinky Malinky
This animated mocumentary follows Pinky Malinky, a positive hot dog, living in a human world. With the help of his friends, Babs and JJ, they embrace life in their beloved town and school in Sackenhack.
Prince of Peoria
A 13-year-old prince named Emil poses as an exchange student and strikes up an unlikely friendship with an American overachiever named Teddy who’s his total opposite.
Skylanders Academy
A ragtag group with elemental skills must learn to quell their egos to protect the Skylands from evil. They must learn to trust each other and fight as a team in order to balance the land and maintain harmony.
Spirit Riding Free
The wild mustang Spirit meets his match when he finds a girl named Lucky. Follow their adventures as they push the limits, learn about friendship and find out what it means to be free.
Super Monsters
Tales of Arcadia
A teenage girl, a Latino boy and an old man are aliens disguised as humans who develop an affection for humans and primitive Earth while searching for a way home.
True and the Rainbow Kingdom
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