Parents' Guide to

Rainbow Horse

By Emily Ashby, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 2+

Colors, music, and motion designed for youngest viewers.

TV Hulu, Amazon Prime Video Kids' Animation 2013
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Based on 1 parent review

Babe24
Babe24 Adult
March 5, 2016
age 2+

Great for babies & toddlers

Rainbow horse is a young horse with rainbow hair and pink skin. Rainbow horse is from baby first tv introducing classical music & sounds . Rainbow horse is perfect to calm and soothe babies & toddlers to sleep, and teach little ones about the basic objects, what they do and the sounds they make. Rainbow horse has a calming theme song with rainbow horse changing colors and matching objects. In each episode, rainbow horse welcomes each baby to his backround, and finds un-colored objects, moves his tail and paints it. After rainbow horse has colored a object, he shows it off in a patterned backround. He keeps on going until he has found enough objects, and then he shows each object he has painting together.

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What's the Story?

RAINBOW HORSE is an animated series in which a brightly hued horse moves through scenes adding color to black-and-white images. Each segment progresses in the same manner, with Rainbow Horse bringing color to three categorized objects such as insects, reptiles, or food products, as background music plays. As they're colored, the objects start to move and emit a unique sound, culminating in a screen filled with the moving versions of the three images.

Is It Any Good?

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Much as in the Baby Einstein movies, Rainbow Horse is designed for babies and toddlers, precisely the group for whom the American Academy of Pediatrics cautions against screen time. The content isn't worrisome, and it does introduce youngsters to color, motion, and music in a generally appealing manner (for little ones, that is; parents may feel otherwise because of the painfully repetitive progression).

What's more, the show is entirely nonverbal, which could encourage parents to fill in the gaps with interactive commentary of their own ("See the cow? What does a cow say?" or "The ladybug is red"). The bottom line? There's nothing inherently harmful in this show, but there are lots of other ways to introduce youngsters to these kinds of concepts that don't involve watching a screen if that's a concern for you.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about colors. What colors do you see around you right now? What kinds of objects can be multiple colors? What color is your child's favorite?

  • How does the music complement the pictures on the screen? How do different music tempos (fast and slow) change how songs affect us? What songs do you like?

  • How were the objects in this show related to each other? What other types of objects would also fit into that same category?

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