Ear Snacks

By Andrew & Polly

Kids & Family

What's Ear Snacks about?

Andrew & Polly are award-winning music makers and the hosts of EAR SNACKS, a radical new podcast for kids. http://bit.ly/earsnacks
Our credits include songs for Nickelodeon's Wallykazam!, the score for the Nick digital series Welcome To The Wayne, our own dope jams (like GRAPES) and a bunch of boring commercials and films for grownups.

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Jams, Pickles & Jelly Beans

07.08.2021

We talk to Andrew’s mom about making blueberry jam, Amy Dickens from Salt + Sage Catering about keeping foods separate and pickling turnips. Plus, we count all the jelly beans in Polly’s giant jar of jelly beans and reveal the ...

Ear Snacks episodes:

07.08.2021 Jams, Pickles & Jelly Beans We talk to Andrew’s mom about making blueberry jam, Amy Dickens from Salt + Sage Catering about keeping foods separate and pickling turnips. Plus, we count all the jelly beans in Polly’s giant jar of jelly beans and reveal the ...
06.30.2021 Jars! How many jars are in your house? We ask Salt and Sage's Amy Dickens -- who has at least 110 jars -- about sharing food and jar mishaps. We talk food science and scare away some microbes with Harry Rosenblum ...
06.18.2021 All One Tribe - Juneteenth Mixtape! In this brand new episode of Ear Snacks, we share songs from "All One Tribe," a compilation celebrating the rich culture and diversity that Black voices bring to family music. We also discuss the meaning of Juneteenth, the years between ...
06.11.2021 For Parents: Children and Advertising We are excited to announce that Season 3 is on its way, and with it a new format! In this episode for parents we discuss advertising on kids podcasts, data on kids listening habits from the non-profit organization Kids Listen, ...
06.10.2021 What even is Ear Snacks? Whether you're brand new to Ear Snacks or an old friend of the show, here's a treat for your ears! What happens on Ear Snacks? Kids and grownups share what they know and are curious about what they don't know… ...
02.09.2021 Ear Snacks Family Music Mixtape This year's Grammy-nominees for Best Children's Album are all artists who are white, but young ears can and should hear a rainbow of identities represented in music. Black and brown children deserve access to music that welcomes, reflects, and celebrates ...
11.01.2020 For Parents: Anti-Racist Parenting with Alphabet Rockers How can we practice anti-racism as a family? We feel a special responsibility to address this topic thoughtfully with you and your children beginning with this episode of Ear Snacks for Parents. In conversation with Kaitlin McGaw and Tommy Shepherd ...
03.20.2020 Little Bitta Joy You know what we did at our house this week? We had a dance party. We turned on some of our favorite music and we jumped around our house, all together. And we smiled. So this week on Ear Snacks ...
03.15.2020 The Notorious RBG Dissenters everywhere! Join us in wishing Ruth Bader Ginsburg a very happy 87th birthday! Andrew & Polly find some exceptionally aware kids to go on at length about the Supreme Court and it’s most Notorious justice, along with a new ...
03.13.2020 Pi + Pie with America's Test Kitchen Kids WHAT IS PIE? What about pi? Can I have 3.1415 pieces, please? Pre-heat your International Pi Day festivities! Andrew & Polly get granular with Molly Birnbaum from America’s Test Kitchen Kids who does all kinds of fascinating kitchen experiments and ...
02.28.2020 The U.S. Census (it's a party, and you're invited!) What's a census? Andrew & Polly dig in with special guests Vicki Glazer from the U.S. Census Bureau and Emily McMillan with the Statistics in Schools program that's hitting classrooms across America next week. Next month, everyone will get a ...
02.06.2020 Episode 26: Tempo! Come play around with the speed of music! This episode is designed for kids to experiment with the playback speed function on most podcast players, inviting them to adjust the speed of the our music & conversation from 1x to ...
01.30.2020 Episode 25: How Time Feels with Story Pirates & The Pop Ups Do you want 5 more minutes? In our third episode about clocks, Andrew & Polly ask kids how rushing and waiting feel different, challenge Jason Rabinowitz of The Pop Ups to a clock scavenger hunt around Brooklyn, and spin some ...
01.18.2020 Alphabet Rockers (Best Kids Music from the 62nd Grammy Awards) Alphabet Rockers make music to make change. Their 2nd Grammy-nominated album "The Love" addresses issues of identity, world news, and politics — the conversation and music you’re about to hear will include those topics. Thanks to Alphabet Rockers for sharing ...
01.16.2020 Ear Snacks for Parents: Music Therapy with Jon Samson (Best Kids Music from The 62nd GRAMMY Awards) In this special episode designed for parents (though PG for kids), Andrew & Polly discuss Jon Samson’s music therapy practice, the therapeutic benefits of musical improvisation, and how we as parents can approach creating a supportive mental health environment for ...
01.16.2020 The Okee Dokee Brothers (Best Kids Music from The 62nd GRAMMY Awards) The 62nd Grammy (TM) Awards are almost here! We’re delighted to share this series of 5 Ear Snacks mini-episodes featuring each of the 5 Grammy-nominated artists for Best Children’s Album. Brrrr! Andrew & Polly brave the frigid Santa Monica winter ...
01.14.2020 Daniel Tashian (Best Kids Music from The 62nd GRAMMY Awards) The 62nd Grammy (TM) Awards are almost here! Andrew & Polly spend a rainy day getting to know Tigerlily, Tilda, Tinkerbell, and Nashville-based singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Daniel Tashian. Daniel and his daughters wax poetic about pistachio ice cream, working with Kacey Musgraves, ...
01.13.2020 Caspar Babypants (Best Kids Music from The 62nd GRAMMY Awards) The 62nd Grammy (TM) Awards are almost here! Andrew & Polly attend a deliciously eclectic picnic hosted by Caspar Babypants! Caspar feeds us millions of peaches, introduces us to some bodacious bugs, and plays some rad tunes off his Grammy-nominated ...
01.08.2020 Episode 24: The Clockmakers of London Clock field trip! Three intrepid Ear Snacks foreign correspondents bring us to jolly old England to find out what makes clocks tick! Eilis has tea in John Kendall’s Number Four clock repair shop. Andrew’s parents visit Johnny Flower, a regulator ...
12.12.2019 Episode 23: Clocks What is a clock? How long is a minute? Are all clocks and all minutes the same? In the first episode of our epic exploration of timekeeping, Andrew & Polly examine Reggio Emilia-educator Maria/Julita’s oddly shaped Salvador Dali-designed watch. Thanks ...
11.01.2019 Episode 22: Pajamas with Mindy Thomas! Dreams, Rest, Sleepovers and The Incredible Edible Bread Bed (TM) Our special coverage of Pajamas continues! We ask our friends Gavin, Zoey, Luke, Lucy, Alexander, Sara Chana, Temima, Miriam, and Yitzy Zev about getting good rest for your mind and body, bedtime routines and we sing a song about our ...
10.18.2019 Happy Halloween! Disguises [Encore] HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Andrew & Polly receive an urgent voice message from their friends Kevin & Louise. We learned A LOT about disguises from marine biologist Rebecca Johnson from the California Academy of Sciences and voice actor and composer Greg Chun. ...
09.27.2019 A New Album of Our Music: Go for the Moon Our brand new album, “Go for the Moon” is here!!! Listen on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, our shop & CDBaby - all the places! You can even listen to some of it in a special episode of Ear Snacks, hosted ...
09.14.2019 Episode 21: Pajamas Part One - Lullabies Musicians Sing This month on Ear Snacks, we're talking about Pajamas and everything that comes with them. Rest, snuggles and coziness - and lullabies! Our awesome music pals Lucy Kalantari, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Christopher Tin, Tatiana DeMaria, Kaitlin McGaw share the ...
07.24.2019 More (More!) Roadtrip Mixtape Summer 2019 There is just too much good music out there right now! We're back with a second installment of this summer's Ear Snacks Roadtrip Mixtape. Featuring music from us, Lucy Kalantari, Vered, Renee & Friends, Ants Ants Ants, Alina Celeste, Lucky ...
07.18.2019 Road Trip Mixtape 2019! We're back to share some of our favorite music this summer in an all-new road-trip mixtape. Featuring songs from Walter Martin, Steven Steven, The Pop Ups, Mista Cookie Jar, Little Miss Ann, Michael Hearst, Saskia Lane, Alphabet Rockers, Story Pirates, ...
03.21.2019 Episode 20: Decoding Bugs Fungus farming ants, digital bees, composting worms, metamorphic caterpillars -- how can these all be bugs? In this episode, Avery talks about bugs in computer code and how she built a pollination video game with a Raspberry Pi. Izaiah updates ...
03.14.2019 March 14 is International Pi Day! Happy International Pi Day! We talk Pi, Pie & Mud Pies with our pals. So get out there and get cooking!
03.06.2019 Episode 19: Bug(g)s! What’s a bug? Who are The Buggs? Can I be a Bugg? These are the hard-hitting questions Andrew & Polly ask in this exposé on all things buggy. Thanks to entomologist (Entimen-ologist?) Dr. Chris Wheeler for teaching us about moth ...
02.19.2019 President's Day, Hamilton & More, with our pal Lucy! Happy President's Day! School's out and our friend Lucy came by the studio to talk about stuff she knows - mostly Hamilton.
01.31.2019 Best Kids Music from the 61st GRAMMY Awards! Andrew & Polly are thrilled to be joined by all five fabulous artists nominated for Best Children's Album in the 61st GRAMMY Awards.
11.19.2018 Episode 18: Taking Care of Teeth! It's important to keep your teeth healthy! Andrew & Polly learn what to expect when visiting the dentist and get some official teeth info from one of the friendliest pediatric dentists around, Dr. Jessie Schwarz. Plus, a song about a ...
11.15.2018 Episode 17: Human Teeth How many teeth do you have? Will you always have that number of teeth? Andrew & Polly ask Izzy, Ainsley, Desmond, Frankie, Jad & Kai about the teeth in their mouths and Frankie shares a song she wrote about her ...
10.24.2018 The Lion's Whisker from Circle Round We are delighted to share an episode of WBUR's Circle Round called "The Lion's Whisker" about overcoming frustration and impatience with courage, understanding, and a little magic. Andrew & Polly and Cory the Crocodile encounter some frustration of their own. ...
10.17.2018 Episode 16: Animal Teeth Which animal has a tooth that comes out of its forehead and what does thinking like a beaver mean? Andrew & Polly call on podcast pals Chompers & Cool Facts About Animals as well as film pal Sarah Koenigsberg to ...
09.28.2018 Episode 15: Steps with John Baldessari In which Andrew & Polly interview four kids, an alien, and art legend John Baldessari about the steps involved in making art, sandwiches, and paper airplanes. Many thanks to Malcolm, Jonas, Milena, Sady, Ella, and to Patrick Pardo for arranging ...
09.24.2018 What's a Muppet? Happy Birthday, Jim Henson! Our pals Zoey, Luke, Gavin & Izzy talk to us about the muppets. Why? Just because we like 'em.
09.19.2018 How to Talk Like a Pirate! Learnnnnn ye how to talk like a pirate from arrrrrrr friends! Thanks to Heidi, Kieran, Lilah, Frankie, Liliana, Bodhin, Izzy & Nano and their parents for this thorrrrrough extra!
09.13.2018 Episode 14: Steps Andrew & Polly and their friends think about STEPS - the kind your feet take, like when you go on a walk with mom... or when you get up and dance! Special guest Sarah Reich tells us all about tap ...
09.07.2018 Gabes at McCabe's & "Hold Tight, Shine Bright" We're at McCabe's Guitar Shop with our band The Gabes at 10:30a this Sunday! Hope to sing with you soon! And if you have two ears and a heart, you should probably check out "Hold Tight, Shine Bright" - a ...
06.27.2018 Roadtrip Mixtape 01 Trail of Hearts by Underbirds 02 Lighten Your Load by The Okee Dokee Brothers 03 Sunshine Family by Mista Cookie Jar and Aaron Nigel Smith 04 Camp Songs by KB Whirly 05 Mr. Spaceman by Randy Kaplan 06 Paletero ...
06.08.2018 Episode 13: Seeds (II) Andrew & Polly ask many different people about growing many different things. How does bird poop bring the world together? With peppers, duh! And no one knows more about peppers than Uncle Fred. Our neighbor Miriam takes us to the ...
06.08.2018 All the Powers! (Bonus) Summer's heating up, and so is Ear Snacks! We're cooking up a bunch of new episodes that pick back up this week and will take you through your summer adventures, whether they are home or away! In this bonus, we ...
04.04.2018 Polly's Birthday Wish? Psssst....it's Polly's birthday! What should her birthday wish be? She'd love to hear your ideas via voice memo or see your ideas in a drawing! Let her know at http://bit.ly/earsnacks-pollysbirthdaywish !
03.29.2018 Episode 12: Seeds What do YOU know about seeds? Andrew & Polly's friends from Austria, Australia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts invite you into their homes and gardens to discover what kinds of seeds there are where they live. Canadian Chanel Tsang from the Peace ...
03.21.2018 Bonus Episode: Super (Hero) Suggestions! When we last left our heroes, Super George was saving the feet fish from Lima Bean Lunch with Super Polly, ahem, Super-Hero-Waiting-for-a-Name! Thank you so much to Ainsley, Lucy, Savannah, Adeline, Bela & Izzy for their suggestions for Polly's superhero ...
03.15.2018 Episode 11: More Bad Guys (Part II) Andrew & Polly's Bad Guys game continues. When they can't figure out WHY they are having fun scaring fish and serving them their least favorite foods, they call up a Bad Doctor to find out! Dr. Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas from ...
03.07.2018 Episode 10: Bad Guys (Part I) Andrew & Polly play an imaginary space game that evolves into a game of Bad Guys. Sadie, William, Wesley, Adalyn, Grey, Amelia, Kohler, Roland, Betula & Orion share what they know about Bad Guys and learn how to make Bad ...
02.21.2018 For Parents: Pretend Gun Play and Actual Bad Guys with Jane Lindholm We know playing “Bad Guys” is an integral part of early childhood development — but, as some older kids who are more exposed to the media know, real people can do bad things, too. Last year, But Why: A Podcast ...
02.17.2018 Dogs & Caterpillars! (Happy Chinese New Year!) Happy Chinese New Year! It's the Year of the Dog and Andrew's thinking about the word "metamorphosis" - what a perfect time to sing some dog songs and take a closer look at caterpillars with our friends at Valle de ...

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What's Ear Snacks about?

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Ear Snacks episodes:

Jams, Pickles & Jelly Beans

Jars!

All One Tribe - Juneteenth Mixtape!

For Parents: Children and Advertising

What even is Ear Snacks?

Ear Snacks Family Music Mixtape

For Parents: Anti-Racist Parenting with Alphabet Rockers

Little Bitta Joy

The Notorious RBG

Pi + Pie with America's Test Kitchen Kids

The U.S. Census (it's a party, and you're invited!)

Episode 26: Tempo!

Episode 25: How Time Feels with Story Pirates & The Pop Ups

Alphabet Rockers (Best Kids Music from the 62nd Grammy Awards)

Ear Snacks for Parents: Music Therapy with Jon Samson (Best Kids Music from The 62nd GRAMMY Awards)

The Okee Dokee Brothers (Best Kids Music from The 62nd GRAMMY Awards)

Daniel Tashian (Best Kids Music from The 62nd GRAMMY Awards)

Caspar Babypants (Best Kids Music from The 62nd GRAMMY Awards)

Episode 24: The Clockmakers of London

Episode 23: Clocks

Episode 22: Pajamas with Mindy Thomas! Dreams, Rest, Sleepovers and The Incredible Edible Bread Bed (TM)

Happy Halloween! Disguises [Encore]

A New Album of Our Music: Go for the Moon

Episode 21: Pajamas Part One - Lullabies Musicians Sing

More (More!) Roadtrip Mixtape Summer 2019

Road Trip Mixtape 2019!

Episode 20: Decoding Bugs

March 14 is International Pi Day!

Episode 19: Bug(g)s!

President's Day, Hamilton & More, with our pal Lucy!

Best Kids Music from the 61st GRAMMY Awards!

Episode 18: Taking Care of Teeth!

Episode 17: Human Teeth

The Lion's Whisker from Circle Round

Episode 16: Animal Teeth

Episode 15: Steps with John Baldessari

What's a Muppet?

How to Talk Like a Pirate!

Episode 14: Steps

Gabes at McCabe's & "Hold Tight, Shine Bright"

Roadtrip Mixtape

Episode 13: Seeds (II)

All the Powers! (Bonus)

Polly's Birthday Wish?

Episode 12: Seeds

Bonus Episode: Super (Hero) Suggestions!

Episode 11: More Bad Guys (Part II)

Episode 10: Bad Guys (Part I)

For Parents: Pretend Gun Play and Actual Bad Guys with Jane Lindholm

Dogs & Caterpillars! (Happy Chinese New Year!)

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