Younger Children

These fun, engaging, and simple videos, resources, and activities can be helpful for preschool up to primary school-aged children to better understand their bladders and bowels.

Guides

Free Resources
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Continence Guide for Carers

Includes toileting help for adults and children with additional needs also inside: webinar links, videos and resources in multiple languages.
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Tamariki and Teens

Includes our Busting the Myths series! Also inside: resources, videos, tips and activity sheets to help support a range of ages and needs.

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Healthy Wees and Poos
Storytime
Toilet Training

Healthy Wees and Poos

Meet Mr Poo! (And know whether he is happy!)

From our Top 5 Tips for Tamariki and Teens series released for World Continence Week 2022, this is a great video to watch alongside children. Children's Continence Nurse Lisa Smith introduces "Mr Poo" and offers simple information about the food-to-poop tube and how to spot a healthy and happy poo.

Bristol Stool Chart

This Bristol Stool Chart (featured in the Meet Mr Poo!  video) describes the different shapes and types of poos using simple images and descriptions - ideally, children will have Type 4-5 poos. Download the Bristol Stool Chart (PDF) here.

How to Poo? From Get Well Soon

This video is from the CBeebies show Get Well Soon, which is based on children's experiences of going to the doctor. It features five loveable puppet characters that come in to visit the doctor, and through them, children get to learn about common health issues.

In this episode, Dr Ranj helps Deep when he feels blown up like a balloon and Nurse Morag gets the Healthy Helpers bouncing on hoppers when they look at what helps you poo.

Why do we Wee? From Get Well Soon

In this episode, Poor Petal keeps going to the loo and Dr Ranj has to test her wee to find out why, then Nurse Morag and the Healthy Helpers look at why we wee.
young girl smiling at camera in playground

Colouring and Activity Sheets

Sometimes it can be helpful to do some colouring or fun activities to help start the conversation about wees and poos with children. Download our colouring sheets and/or word search below:
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Rabbit colouring
‍‍Giraffe colouring‍
‍Super healthy food colouring‍
‍Word search
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Storytime

Poo Hoo

This video adaptation of the book Poo Hoo tells the story of Tim Thompson, a boy who is having problems with sore tummies and sneaky poos.

A Wee Secret

Jet Johnson has a secret... find out how he bravely gets the help he needs in this video adaptation of the book A Wee Secret.
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Toilet Training

The Toilet Song by The Wiggles

Toilet training? The Wiggles to the rescue! This video is designed to help little ones sit on the toilet or potty for about three minutes - and realise when they’ve successfully gone wee or poo.

Sitting on the Potty from Super Simple Songs

A catchy song about sitting on the potty from YouTube kids’ music favourites Super Simple Songs. Little ones can sing along: “Look at me. Sitting on the potty. Tweedly dee. Sitting on the potty. I’m a big kid. Sitting on the potty. It’s potty time.”

Pirate Pete and Princess Polly For Boys

Videos that help parents with potty training for children aged 18+ months. Clear, informative and fun pictures are aimed at tackling the common anxieties that children may have about using the potty or toilet.

Pirate Pete and Princess Polly For Girls

Videos that help parents with potty training for children aged 18+ months. Clear, informative and fun pictures are aimed at tackling the common anxieties that children may have about using the potty or toilet.
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