Crafty Kids Club

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Crafty Kids Club (French: Brico Club) is a French television series produced by Futurikon. [1] The term "Brico" is a shortening of "bricolage", meaning to construct things from what is available - relating to the main characters' main intent for their club.

Contents

The series focuses on the everyday lives of a group of four children - Matt, Clara, Li-Mei and Ben - who are skilled in handcrafted creations out of recycled material. They prefer to create any new ideas collaboratively and mainly use their expertise, in order to solve various problems of the other townsfolk.

Broadcast

The French version aired in Europe on France 5's Zouzous programming block since 2013, [2] and in Canada on Unis since 2016. [3]

The English version aired in The Philippines on Discovery Kids since 2013. [4]

The Spanish version aired in Mexico canal 22 conaculta since 2014-2017.

Characters

There are four main friends in the club: [5]

Others include:

Production

It is produced by Philippe DeLarue and directed by David Pascal. Writers include Nathalie Dargent. [6] The series uses puppet animation.

Episodes

There are 52 episodes each 12 minutes long. Titles include:

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References

  1. "Crafty Kids Club". futurikon.com .
  2. "Brico Club Zouzous". France5.fr . Archived from the original on 2013-03-12.
  3. "Brico Club". Unis.ca . Archived from the original on 2016-08-21.
  4. "Discovery Kids Channel airs new animated, crafty series". Philippine Daily Inquirer . 15 June 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-06-17. Discovery Kids' new animated series CRAFTY KIDS CLUB serves up a big bowl of creative imagination.
  5. "BRICO Club : bricoler, un jeu d'enfant !" [BRICO Club: crafting, child's play!] (in French). 7 November 2012.
  6. Dickson, Jeremy (1 February 2016). "Superights to distribute The Horn Quartet". Kiscreen . Archived from the original on 2016-02-02. The Horn Quartet is written by Nathalie Dargent (Lulu Vroumette, Crafty Kids Club)
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