Lily, Qui and Ji-Young are celebrating Lunar New Year on Sesame Street. They share with their friends how their families celebrate the holiday.

Sesame Street's Lunar New Year Celebration

Kevin Clash

Caroll Spinney

Frank Oz

Sonia Manzano

Roscoe Orman

Martin P. Robinson

Suki Lopez

Violet Tinnirello

Jennifer Barnhart

Ryan Dillon

Alan Muraoka

Elmo Helps the Amazing Zero!

A Home for Fido

Reporter Grover learns that people can be friends even if they are different ages, cheer for different sports teams and like doing different things.

Can They Be Friends?

Grover and his friend, the octopus, are helping at Hooper's Store but the octopus can only cook bread. With help from his friends, Grover fulfills his customer's order while learning that families all over the world make bread in different ways, shapes, and sizes!

The Oct-Dough-Pus

Elmo, Gabrielle and Rosita join a basketball team; Elmo and Gabrielle encourage Rosita to tell the coach to call her by her actual name; Rosita is proud of her name because names are a big part of one's identity.

Proud of My Name

Gabrielle, Charlie and Abby are having a sleepover! As they start their bedtime routines, they learn that their routines are different and alike.

Abby's Magical Sleepover

Elmo, Tamir, Charlie, Julia and Cookie Monster are making self-portraits, drawing what they look like and what they love to do.

Sesame Street Self-Portraits

Elmo shares his scooter with Zoe and learns how to be patient and wait for his turn, while she practices and learns how to ride.

Scootin' on Sesame Street

Frankie the worm wants to play with her cousins, but they moved far away. To help their friend, Rosita, Gabrielle and Zoe must think like engineers.

Worms Want To Play

Elmo and Abby help Crystal the Ball come up with a morning routine so she can be ready to go out and play.

Elmo's Morning Routine

When Rudy and Zoe feel nervous about getting ready for kindergarten, Ji-Young and Baby Bear host a game show all about school to help.

Are You Ready For School?

Alan creates a game to make food shopping more fun! Can Elmo, Abby and Cookie Monster get the food in Alan's cart before checking out?

Supermarket Games

Mia learns how to sing a song in Spanish with help from her friends, who tell her how special she is no matter how much or little Spanish she speaks.

Sesame Street Song Day

When Fred the Flamingo is visiting Sesame Street for a family reunion, Elmo, Rudy and Nina learn all about flamingos.

The Flamingo Scoop

Chris, Elmo and Abby help Fido feel proud that he's a frog and find him the right habitat to live in.

The Amazing Zero and Elmo are on Sesame Street to help take everything away when people need to get to zero.

At Street Carnival Day, Cookie Monster is playing the Grover Game and needs to move ping pong balls off a plate without touching them.

The Grover Game

Chris and Elmo put up signs to try to find a lost kitten's owner, and Grover and Cookie Monster learn all about how to take care of a kitten.

The Kitty Sisters

Tamir needs to figure out how to keep the community garden watered while he's away at camp. With his friends' help, Tamir makes an irrigation system.

Tamir's Water Works

On Opposite Day, everyone is doing things that are as different as they can be. Bert and Ernie realize they like so many opposite things too!

Bert and Ernie's Opposite Day

For a school project, Mia writes a musical about how special it is to grow up in a family with two different cultures.

Our Family Musical

After Abby turns Sesame Street into a magical ocean, Dorothy disappears, and Elmo and Abby must follow clues to find her.

Elmo and Abby's Ocean Adventure

At the Feelings Fair, Elmo, Alan and Julia learn to figure out how someone is feeling by looking at their facial expressions.

The Feelings Fair

At Alphabet Day, Elmo sings the ABC song and his friend Mathis signs the alphabet using American Sign Language.

The Sign Language ABCs

Elmo tries to find something to do in the rain while he waits to jump in puddles.

Jumpin' in the Rain

Charlie and her family share Shabbat dinner with their friends Elmo, Alan, Big Bird and Tamir, who help them prepare their meal before sundown.

Shabbat Shalom!

Elmo keeps practicing and doesn't give up until he learns how to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on his piano.

Elmo's Little Star

Alan has a lot of food deliveries to make at Hooper's. Elmo, Charlie and Rosita ride their scooter and bikes to help deliver food to customers.

The Tasty Transport

With help from his friend, Tamir, TJ makes a comic book gift to welcome his favorite comic book artist, Bobby Manalo, to Sesame Street.

Tamir Learns Tagalog

Gabrielle puts on a show to tell her friends about Bessie Coleman, the first African American and Native American woman to fly an airplane.

Brave Bessie by Brave Gabrielle

Librarian Grover helps Nina and Elmo find the books they need while looking through the different sections of the library.

Elmo Visits the Library

Elmo is excited and a little scared to go down the big slide for the first time. With help from Chris, Elmo is ready to go down the slide by himself!

Elmo Goes Down the Big Slide

Elmo, Chris and their friends on Sesame Street have dressed up as dinosaurs. With help from Elmo's book, they learn facts about dinosaurs!

Roar, It's a Dinosaur

At a cook-off about rice, everyone learns that when we share foods that are special to us, we share something special about ourselves.

Use That Rice!

Elmo, Abby and Tamir come across a wooden cricket and learn that it's Dave's favorite Cuban musical instrument called a guiro.

The Mystery Cricket

At Prairie Dawn's cookie party, Cookie Monster needs to figure out which of the cookies are octagons.

Prairie Dawn's Cookie Party

On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.

Sesame Street's Lunar New Year Celebration

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