Barney... A Helping Hand for Growing Children

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Barney...A Helping Hand for Growing Children was a marketing campaign launched in February 2004. The campaign eventually evolved into a new post-show segment that first aired during Season 9 episodes. This segment later appeared in 2004-2008 reruns of Seasons 7-8 on PBS Kids.

Purpose

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The management launched the campaign in early 2004 as a means to promote the series as a platform for all the essentials of its target audience.

Briefly replacing the Barney Says segment from the previous eight seasons, the segment sorts each episode into five core educational concepts: 

• Sharing and Good Manners (aka Good Manners and Healthy Habits)
• Caring and Emotional Development (aka Love and Caring)
• Imagining and Creativity (aka Creativity and Imagination)
• Dancing and Movement (aka Physical Skills)
• Learning Educational Concepts Through Music and Play (aka Learning Through Educational Activities and Play and Early Learning)

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Segment Used In...

Season 9

1. Everybody's Got Feelings - Caring and Emotional Development
2. Caring Hearts - Caring and Emotional Development
3. Let's Make Music! - Creativity and Imagination
4. Movin' Along - Dancing and Movement
5. Let Your Creativity Fly! - Creativity and Imagination
6. Imagine That! - Creativity and Imagination
7. All About Me - Caring and Emotional Development
8. My Baby Brother - Caring and Emotional Development
9. Keep On Truckin' - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
10. I'm A Builder - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
11. Coming On Strong - Dancing and Movement
12. Let's Play Games! - Dancing and Movement
13. You Can Count on Me! - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
14. A Wonderful World of Colors and Shapes - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
15. Easy as ABC - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
16. Look What I Can Do! - Dancing and Movement
17. Making a Move! - Caring and Emotional Development
18. Home, Safe Home - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
19. On the Road Again - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
20. My Friends, The Doctor and the Dentist - Sharing and Good Manners

Season 7 (re-airing)

1. All Aboard! - Creativity and Imagination
2. Up, Down and Around! - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
3. Tea-riffic Manners - Sharing and Good Manners
4. Puppy Love - Caring and Emotional Development
5. Bunches of Boxes - Creativity and Imagination
6. Stop! Go! - Dancing and Movement
7. Red, Yellow and Blue! - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
8. Play for Exercise! - Dancing and Movement
9. Come Blow Your Horn! - Creativity and Imagination
10. A New Friend - Caring and Emotional Development
11. Numbers! Numbers! - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
12. This Way In! This Way Out! - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
13. Spring Into Fun! - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
14. Play It Safe! - Sharing and Good Manners
15. Three Lines, Three Corners - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
16. A Parade of Bikes - Dancing and Movement
17. It's a Happy Day! - Caring and Emotional Development
18. My Family and Me - Caring and Emotional Development
19. Splish! Splash! - Creativity and Imagination
20. BJ's Really Cool House - Creativity and Imagination

Season 8 (re-airing)

1. A Fountain of Fun - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
2. On Again, Off Again - Creativity and Imagination
3. Sharing Is Caring! - Sharing and Good Manners
4. Here Kitty, Kitty! - Caring and Emotional Development
5. Once Upon A Fairy Tale - Creativity and Imagination
6. It's Hot! It's Cold! - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
7. A Perfectly Purple Day - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
8. Day and Night - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
9. Play Piano With Me! - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
10. A Picture of Friendship - Caring and Emotional Development
11. A-Counting We Will Go! - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
12. A Little Big Day - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
13. A World of Friends - Dancing and Movement
14. Who's Your Neighbor? - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
15. Squares, Squares Everywhere - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play
16. Let's Go For A Ride! - Creativity and Imagination
17. That Makes Me Mad - Caring and Emotional Development
18. It's Your Birthday, Barney! - Caring and Emotional Development
19. It's Showtime! - Creativity and Imagination
20. At Home in the Park - Learning Through Educational Activities and Play

Core Educational Concepts

Sharing and Good Manners

Caring and Emotional Development

Creativity and Imagination (aka Imagining and Creativity)

Dancing and Movement

Learning Through Educational Activities and Play (aka Learning Educational Concepts Through Music and Play)