The best YouTube channels and shows for kids in 2026
Eleven channels and shows already checked and on KidsTube — what each is good for, the age it suits, and where the honest caveats are.
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The Bucket List Family: travel and wildlife for older children
A family travel channel with real snorkelling, safaris and wildlife — and the caveats worth knowing before you put it on.
Read moreRyan's World: what parents should know
The biggest children's channel we carry, and the most commercial. What is actually in our selection, and how to watch it well.
Read moreKids Diana Show: pretend play, in a lot of languages
One of the most-watched children's channels in the world. What our selection contains — including the many episodes that are not in English.
Read moreHooplaKidz: nursery rhymes for babies and toddlers
Classic nursery rhymes sung straight through, with nothing to follow and nothing to startle. Good from about one.
Read moreChuChu TV: nursery rhymes with the words on screen
A dozen animated nursery rhymes with the lyrics on screen — the ones children sing along to most on KidsTube.
Read moreNijntje (Miffy): the calmest thing we carry
A hundred episodes of Dick Bruna's rabbit — short, quiet, and almost free of incident. Our largest collection of any single show.
Read moreBuurman en Buurman (Pat & Mat): funny in any language
Ninety-five episodes of Czech stop-motion about two handymen making things steadily worse. Almost wordless, so the language never matters.
Read moreBob de Bouwer (Bob the Builder): how things get made
Eighty Dutch episodes about finishing the job, for three- to five-year-olds who want to know how things are built.
Read morePJ Masks: superheroes at bedtime, for four to six
Seventy-four Dutch Disney Channel episodes. Faster and louder than most of our catalogue, with a villain an episode.
Read morePeppa Big (Peppa Pig): five minutes at a time
Sixty-two Dutch episodes of small domestic disasters, and one of the few shows a child will watch one of and then stop.
Read moreSesamstraat (Sesame Street): still the benchmark
Forty Dutch episodes with Pino, Tommie, Ieniemienie and Bert & Ernie — children's television made with researchers in the room.
Read moreA kid-friendly alternative to YouTube launches its new website
Children end up on YouTube for entertainment and learning — and see plenty that isn't meant for them. Here's why we built something narrower.
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