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Choosing an Activity
Within Playhouse Disney Online, your child can explore different areas for each of their favorite Playhouse Disney characters, including Rolie Polie Olie, Bear in the Big Blue House, PB&J Otter, and Tony and Viv from Out of the Box!
When you get to the home page for each character you will see pictures that represent all the activities to choose from. Some activities are designed to be more creative or exploratory, while others are more structured, and encourage your child to work toward a goal. In the Rolie Polie Olie section, the music, storybook, stamping, paint ball, and coloring book activities are more exploratory, while the connect the dots, block/puzzle, and clean your room activities set a challenge for your child.
Levels
| Some activities contain several levels of increasing complexity and difficulty, in order to support the child's development. The higher levels can be accessed by clicking on the green forward arrow. |
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| A light bulb meter will also indicate how many levels each activity has, and can be used to jump to different levels. |
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| A Looping arrow will appear in many activities, and can be clicked on to return you back to the beginning of that activity. |
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Clearing and Leaving an Activity
In many activities, such as coloring or stamping, you may want to clear the screen. You can do this by clicking on the picture of the trash can.
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When you are done with an activity, you can always return to the Home page by clicking on the Home Button.
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On television, Playhouse Disney seeks to address the whole child, ensuring that elements across programs cover the several categories of child development. On the Internet, Playhouse Disney Online is able to extend the curriculum into a new medium in order to give the child more opportunities to play and learn. In fact, the more interaction the child has with an adult in playing these activities, the greater the opportunity to learn. Adults are encouraged to participate by stopping to ask questions about things like what the child thinks they should do next and to talk with the child about colors, shapes, numbers, sounds, etc.
Each category of child development contributes to the whole child, and children need all of these areas of growth to reach their full potential. The categories of child development that Playhouse Disney covers on television and online are:
Physical Development - Increasing both fine and gross motor skills, such as hand-eye coordination, dressing oneself, walking, jumping, cutting, connecting dots, moving the mouse, etc.
Emotional Development - Understanding and expressing a range of emotions, such as happiness, fear and confidence
Social Development - Learning to appreciate the social world and one's own place in this world, including such ideas as sharing, taking turns, cooperating and friendship
Cognitive Development - Acquiring a variety of "facts" about the world, including everything from concepts like colors, shapes, and numbers to facts about nature or history
Metacognitive Awareness/"Thinking about Thinking" - Understanding HOW thinking works, including being able to come up with strategies and hypotheses, and solving problems
Creative/Artistic Development - Developing creativity as shown in music, dance, art, song, etc.
Moral, Ethical, Spiritual Development - Differentiating right from wrong; understanding what it means to be a member of a family or a community; developing a sense of wonder
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Each person in the Rolie Polie family has an instrument. Click on each family member to help them to start or stop playing music. Explore the different combinations you can make! If you have your own musical instruments, play along with the game! Some things to do when you are done on the computer... Listen to music with your child and see if you can tell when different instruments are playing or if you can name the instruments. Make up your own musical game with songs, clapping, drumming, etc.
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| Help Olie try to find Spot. Use the arrow to turn the pages of the storybook. |
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| If you want to see an animation again, click on the replay button. |
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Click on different places on each page to help Olie find Spot. (These change each time you visit!) Some things to do when you are done on the computer... Read stories with your child! Look for words and pictures that go together and help kids find layers of meaning in the stories you read
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You can make your own picture with people and things from the Rolie Polie world. Click on the picture stamps along the top of the page, then drag them into the scene. Click again to place them in the scene. If you want to move them, click on them again.
| You can get to more stamps by clicking on the golden arrows . |
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| You get to more scenes by clicking on the green arrow. |
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| Click on the trash can to clear the scene. |
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Once 12 stamps are placed in the scene, no more stamps can be added. The scene must be cleared by clicking on the trash can. Some things to do when you are done on the computer... Cut out pictures from a magazine and place them on a piece of felt, velvet or cotton to tell stories.
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Help Billy and Olie mix colors. Click on a ball in front of Olie and then click on a ball in front of Billy. Click on toss to see what happens next! See if you can guess what color they will make. Some things to do when you are done on the computer... Explore color mixing with finger-paints or by mixing water dyed with food coloring. Try making pictures with different media (crayon, paints, adding sand, etc.)
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Color in pictures of Olie, his friends, and his family. Choose a color or pattern by clicking on a paint bucket, then click on the area in the scene that you want to color.
| Click on the green arrow to access more scenes, |
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| Click on the trash can to clear your current scene. |
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Some things to do when you are done on the computer... Name colors for your child, point out the colors and patterns of things in the everyday environment-blue ink, brown sweater, red hair, orange juice, etc.
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Follow the numbers and the flashing dots to make a picture.
| Click on the green arrow for more complex scenes. |
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| Click on Looping Arrow to reset your current scene. |
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Practice counting along as you connect the dots. See if you can guess what the finished picture will be. Some things to do when you are done on the computer... Practice counting with your child, or have them try to count backwards
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Finish the puzzle by putting each block into its beveled slot. ** Choose more scenes by clicking on ???????? Some things to do when you are done on the computer... Make a block pattern for your child to match. Build a tower with blocks. Use words like tall, long, high or low to describe spaces and buildings. Point out architecture. Talk about how things are built.
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Help Olie clean his room by clicking on each of the moving objects.
| Click on the green arrow to access higher levels of difficulty. |
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| Click on the Looping arrow to reset the current scene. |
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Some things to do when you are done on the computer...Have your child clean his or her room by playing a game with shapes or colors of things, with where they go in the room.
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