In our household, Disney Junior is on pretty much all of the time. It’s been fun watching my son learn and interact with his favorite characters. I’ll never forget when we were reading a book that he picked out from the library and pointed to two animals and told me that one was an octopus and the other a squid and that they live in the ocean. When I asked him how he knew that, he proudly told me “Octonauts!”.
Octonauts is an animated television series aimed at preschoolers age 2-6 and introduces them to an underwater world filled with action and adventure! The Octonauts is a team of eight underwater heroes that follow the mission of “Explore! Rescue! Protect” by educating children how they explore the world’s oceans, rescue the creatures who live there and protect their habitats.
While there are many shows out there that educate my child while he watches, there’s nothing quite like Octonauts! It’s a show that really teaches scientific concepts on a preschool level. The team explores things like navigation, simple mapping, ocean habitats and the physical and behavioral characteristics of sea creatures. Each episode also focuses on how important team work is by communicating and treating each other with respect and compassion. All of the crew bring something important to each mission – my son loves them all but Captain Barnacles Bear is his favorite!
My son loves that each episode features a different mission where the team has to work together to rescue a real aquatic creature while educating him on information about the animal. I’m still amazed that he has learned all about different underwater creatures like the octopus and giant squid and can actually tell me a little about them!
At the end of each episode, the Octonauts sum up their rescue and share information about the featured animal with the musical song “Creature Report”. I promise you just one listen and you’ll have this cute and catchy song stuck in your head!
The show is inspired by the Octonauts book series by Meomi and I love that the look of the show is so similar to the artwork in the books – the look and colors of the characters and the underwater setting is one of my favorite parts of the show!
You and your preschooler can catch Octonauts on Disney Junior at 6:30 AM EST/5:30 AM CT!
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Disclosure: I am an Octonauts Blog Ambassador. This post is part of a sponsored campaign, but my review and opinions are my own.
Oh how cute. Looks like something my son would have liked to watch.
My kids would love the book series! They are both big fans but I have been disappointed that the toys seem to all be aimed for babies and toddlers. (My son is 5, daughter almost 4)
Oh my gosh…Octonauts are so cute! Since I don’t have wee little ones anymore (boo!) I miss seeing all this cute stuff. Someday I’ll have grandkids and get to live in this world again!
We’re actually getting cable back again soon, and can’t wait to show the girls this new show!
I wanna watch and I don’t even have little ones around!!!!
My 6 year old who has autism is a big fan of the Octonauts – they really are fun!
My son loves watching Octonauts! The characters are so cute!
How fun! We don’t have cable at home, but any time the boys have the chance to watch Disney Jr. (usually at Grammy’s house), they love it! Their favorites are Octonauts and Jake & the Never Land Pirates!
My preschooler and toddler love this show. I love that it sparks their interest in aquatic animals and teaches them cool stuff about them.
This looks so cute! I bet my grandson would love it. He doesn’t get exposed to underwater creatures too often.
They are adorable, too bad my kids are too old for this show!
Those Octonauts are supercute. My 3 yr. old would love them!
My oldest likes this show, and all the adventures. I would welcome a book series!
My Maggie loves the Octonauts! I love that it teaches her about different animals… and you are right, I have “Creature Report” stuck in my head all the time. It’s catchy! Such a great show
Looks so cute! My son would love this
The Octonauts is my daughter’s most-requested show! Such a favorite here.
Disney Junior is a favorite station in our house too! Cam is 5.
It is nice to see that there are still cartoons on airs that educate. Not sure if there are any on nickelodeon that teach…spongebob? Nah! It is nice that your child can identify that each episode has a new mission and they learn about a new sea creature
really cute the kids would like this also