Online Games on Sproutletsgrow.com

 

This is one of the few images on this blog I don't know where it's from. It was in part one of my history video from 2020 though.

Madeline Fretz - Sproutletsgrow.com, later known as SproutOnline.com, launched in 2005 when Comcast launched its Sprout on Demand service in April. The website gave a brief description of the VOD service and available shows, such as Sesame Street, Barney & Friends, Thomas & Friends, Bob the Builder, Caillou, and the shows in the "Children's Favorites" section. These shows were eventually put into their own categories.

After months of preparation, PBS Kids Sprout launched as a cable channel on September 26th, 2005, and that's when everything changed. 

Atlanta-based Primal Screen, who also made the iconic logo and on-demand idents, was hired to create Sprout's idents, which were modeled after classic children's storybook illustrations, while New York-based company Funny Garbage was hired to make the Flash menu of the new Sproutletsgrow.com, which used elements from the Primal Screen TV idents - such as the alphabet trees and circus acrobats.

Funny Garbage also made three original games for the website, all three of which are in the above video, which I used in my post about Sproutletsgrow.com from a few months ago.

And there you have it - a robot cake!

Make a Cake was a game in which you could make your own cake out of strange, sometimes non-food things - not only eggs, ice cream, and milk, but also bugs and clocks.

Magic Seeds was a game in which you could plant seeds from things like shoes and vases and see what grows - a violin, piano, and harp, drums, or trumpets.

Connect the Dots was a game in which you could connect the dots to reveal things like a car and … whatever the thing in the above picture is.

Anyways, all three games survived the 2007 and 2011 site refreshes, but were probably removed with the 2013 site refresh.

Click here to play fun games like these on the Parents and Kids Share Together forum!