A new home for African children's stories.
Salad Kids is a children's studio rooted in Ghana and South Africa. We make shows, songs and honest parenting help for families raising small people. Our first world, Sunshine Valley, is in production now.
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What we make
Good things, mixed together.
A salad is many good things in one bowl. That's the idea.
Stories that are actually worth sitting through. Songs children ask for again. Learning that hides inside the fun. And straight, useful advice for the grown-ups doing the hard part.
Made where our children live — not made elsewhere and posted here.
Watch
Original animated series for ages three to six, built around one feeling and one skill per episode.
Sing
Twenty original songs in development — counting, courage, kindness, calm-down breathing, and dancing it out.
Grow
Practical parenting notes from people raising children in Accra, Johannesburg and everywhere in between.
Our first show
Sunshine Valley
Kind hearts. Curious minds. Good vibes.
A brilliant little robot can calculate anything except how hearts work. Four-year-old Sabrina is teaching him.
Every story starts with a small problem in the neighbourhood — a broken basket, a lost duckling, ten carrots that won't stay counted. Robo brings logic. Sabrina brings heart. Uncle Notnyc brings the rhythm. And Professor turns the whole thing into the loudest, most ridiculous, most welcoming class you've ever seen.
One feeling. One skill. One song. Every episode.
In production · first episodes coming soon
“A mistake is just a lesson wearing funny shoes.”
Straight with you
What you can count on
No account, no login, nothing for your child to sign up to. They arrive, they watch, they go — and we never learn their name.
Anything we ever sell or recommend, we put in front of you — here or in the newsletter. Your child is never the customer.
Every episode carries one heart lesson and one learning goal, and we write both on the page before you start.
Something to make, count, sing or play away from the screen. No autoplay, no streaks, no pressure to come back.
Sad, scared, frustrated and tired all get a seat. Our characters ask for help rather than perform happiness.
Ghanaian and South African writers, performers, musicians and reviewers — people who know what a Saturday morning sounds like here.
For grown-ups
Coming soon: the good stuff for parents
Short, practical, no lectures. First up:
- 01 Screen time that actually ends: a three-step wind-down
- 02 When the data runs out: 12 games from a market basket
- 03 Load-shedding evenings: things to do with a four-year-old in the dark
- 04 “You're spoiling that child”: raising kids differently to how you were raised
Industry
Working with us
Sunshine Valley is looking for co-production, animation capacity, distribution and educational partners. If you commission, publish, broadcast or fund children's content, we'd like to send you the series bible.
partners@saladkids.com
Co-production, distribution, licensing
press@saladkids.com
Press and media