The Bucket List Family: travel and wildlife for older children

A family sold what they owned and started travelling with their children, filming as they went. The channel is the record of it, and for a child who has begun asking what the world is like somewhere else it is the most useful thing we carry.

What it is

Documentary rather than cartoon. An episode is a week somewhere — Belize, Tonga, the Bahamas, Cuba — and the children in it are doing the thing rather than watching it: being taught to snorkel, meeting a whale, learning to ski. The camera work is good and the places are real, which is a rarer combination on YouTube than it ought to be.

What is on KidsTube

A hundred videos, the widest single collection in our vloggers section. The wildlife episodes are where to start — teaching children to snorkel in Belize, swimming alongside whales in Tonga, a dive with tiger sharks in the Bahamas. There is a run of skiing, surfing and swimming lessons too, which work well for a child who is about to try any of them.

What to know

Two things. It is a family vlog, so not every episode is about a place — there are birthdays, a gender reveal, a present for a wife, and the occasional video that has drifted a long way from anything a child needs. Choose episodes rather than letting it run on. And the titles and thumbnails are loud in the way the platform rewards; the films underneath are considerably calmer than the capital letters suggest.

Best from about six. Younger children will happily watch the animals and lose interest in the rest.

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