Clear your mind, it’s GoNoodle time! Expand your GoNoodle experience with our new, special-edition, guided-audio experience with tonies.

How is it that our kids can remain zen when tech problems arise, while us adults have a blood pressure spike? What takes us a serious Google search or a frustrated series of flips through a manual, our kids – some who can’t even read – solve with one swipe of a finger. It’s a fascinating change from our era of learning patience with dial-up AOL to our little ones being able to adapt and understand new tech as quickly as it’s released.

Over the past year, our kiddos use of technology has ramped up even further. Electronics are a go-to for the majority of their needs in and out of the classroom, from tablets, phones, and computers to handheld gaming devices and the next must-have item. As parents and teachers, we are faced with the question, “How do we capture and retain kids’ attention without defaulting to more screen time?”

Introducing the special-edition GoNoodle x tonies® Mindfulness Starter Set that brings the Good Energy you know and love from GoNoodle right into your home and classroom with a guided-audio experience. We have teamed up with tonies® to bring the GoNoodle community a moment (or two) of mindfulness and meditation with our well-known content and a little help from the Toniebox. 

What is The Toniebox?

The Toniebox is an imagination-building, screen-free digital listening experience that plays stories, songs, and more. Designed for little listeners ages 3+, it’s the perfect storytime companion for tiny hands and active imaginations. The Toniebox comes to life when paired with the whimsical collection of Tonies figures – hand-painted characters with hours of stories to tell, songs to sing, and worlds to explore. To get started, all your child has to do is magnetically attach the Tonie figure to the top of the Toniebox. All tonies® content is managed through a secure, cloud-based system, via the app and website. The tonies® app enables grownups to easily set and adjust Toniebox settings like maximum volume, access rights, and privileges, so that they are always in control.

How can I use the Toniebox in my classroom?

Use your GoNoodle Creative Tonie to provide daily activity summaries, record announcements, and give assignments. This screen-free option is a great tool for large or small groups or even using one on one by sharing custom messages and reading assignments. Level-up your learning experience and enhance your curriculum with this imagination-building, screen-free, digital-listening experience.

Squatchy Naptime: Managing multiple children during naptime can be hard and finding one source to calm their minds for a reset can be a task in itself. Settle their minds to set them up for a peaceful snooze with their favorite Champ, Squatchy, in our Squatchy Naptime Story.

Get Moving Toward Mindfulness: Each child learns differently and can connect with different GoNoodle videos based on their needs and interests. Create a rotation for your students around the room as they practice different guided meditations, rainbow breath, assignments, other GoNoodle videos, or mindfulness in each station. This can also be paired with custom assignments you record on your creative tonie, GoNoodle videos, solo activities, and more. 

How can my kids use it at home?

The options are endless from bedtime, to wifi-free on-the-go time – make your GoNoodle Toniebox your BFF for screen-free kid entertainment.

Bed Time: Use Squatchy Naptime or Melting as part of your nighttime routine to help your little ones drift off to dreamland. This is a great source to help you get the heck outta that room as your routine ends. 

For Long Car Rides: Motion sickness is the worst. Also, it’s hard for our little ones to understand that sometimes staring at the electronics they know and love is the reason they feel that way. Use your portable Toniebox to give them something to do that doesn’t require staring at a screen the whole car ride!

DJ Your Dance Party: Just like we love to show our new gadgets to friends, so do our little ones. Let them be in control of the vibe with their Toniebox as they set the mood for their stuffed animals, action figures, or those epic sleepover hangouts with their mini-besties!

What content is on the GoNoodle x tonies® Mindfulness Starter Set?

We teamed up with tonies® to bring kids across the country a moment (or two) of mindfulness and meditation! As well as bring the GOOD ENERGY of GoNoodle to even more families and classrooms. The GoNoodle Tonie is packed with 35-minutes of audio including:

• Guided Meditation
• Rainbow Breath audio
• Melting audio
• Squatchy naptime story

The kit also includes a GoNoodle Creative Tonie that will let you record stories, lessons, or classroom instructions. And, your Toniebox pairs with any other Tonie figure!

Purchase your GoNoodle x tonies® Mindfulness Starter Set here and give your kids the chance to participate in different GoNoodle mindfulness activities without using a screen in imaginative play, reading, and screen-free listening activities, designed especially for them. Be sure to tag us on social @GoNoodle with your Toniebox!