This month Sesame Street is celebrating forty years! Forty years of dancing, singing, monsters, and mayhem. Forty years of education and entertainment!

My siblings and I grew up watching Sesame Street and now my kids are watching those very same lovable monsters! Of course I have no problem sitting down and watching it with them!

And now, with Sesame Street’s dvd celebratory release of Sesame Street: Forty Years of Sunny Days, my kids and I can share our favorite muppet memories of the past or present! Sesame Street: Forty Years of Sunny Days is a double disc dvd set packed with over 5 hours of scenes and skits from the past forty seasons.

This special dvd set also includes some amazing never-seen-before footage and a Limited Edition Commemorative Book with some unbelievable facts. Did you know that the man behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Carol Spinney, is one of only three original cast members still on the show?

I love watching Sesame Street: Forty Years of Sunny Days with my daughters. It is has definitely been their dvd of choice lately! I actually wasn’t sure what they would think of the earlier episodes. After all, the clothes and hair styles were quite a bit different! But my girls love them!!! My 3 year-old was a little confused as to why Oscar wasn’t green at first but then she loved seeing the “new” skits and learning the “new” songs. She’s still singing “Put Down the Ducky”!

In the past four decades the characters of Sesame Street have dealt with everything from birth to death, marriage to hurricanes. They have talked about self-confidence, fear, family, and friendship. Journalists, actors and musicians from every genre have made their way to the most famous street in the world to wear fairy wings, interview monsters, and sing with chickens. However, no matter how things may change on Sesame Street they are still holding true to the principles it was originally founded on in 1969 — Children’s Entertainment and Education!

Some of my favorite memories from Sesame Street years past are Bert & Ernie fishing (“heeeere fishy, fishy, fishy”), the Alligator King & His 7 Sons, and that crazy painter who would go around painting the Number of the Day in random places. My daughter absolutely loves the old episode of Kermit the Frog reporting on Sleeping Beauty. She cracks up every time when Prince Charming kisses her and falls asleep, too!

I’m so glad that Sesame Workshop and Vivendi Entertainment have put together the Sesame Street: Forty Years of Sunny Days dvd pack. It is an amazing way to relive those old Sesame Street memories with your children and to make a few new ones!

This celebration dvd is available for purchase at most retailers and on SesameStreet.org. And don’t forget to head over to SesameStreet.org for more 40 Years of FUN!!!

Again, Congratulations on 40 years Sesame Street and here’s to 40 more!!!

As moms we obviously love Sesame Street here at 5 Minutes for Mom and are so excited to be giving away a copy of Sesame Street: Forty Years of Sunny Days as part of our Christmas Giveaway!

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* We did receive a complimentary copy of Sesame Street: Forty Years of Sunny Days for this review. Sesame Workshop and Vivendi Entertaiment are also providing one copy for this contest AND another for our Under the Tree Program.

Written by 5 Minutes for Mom Contributing Editor: Stacey Lynn