For parents
And caregivers, grandparents and teachers. You decide whether Kip gets to stay. This page is the whole deal, plainly: who the shows are for, how they teach, how we check what we say, and what we will never do.
Who it is for
Children aged 4–7, watching with a parent, carer or teacher. Kip is about ten: an older kid, not an adult presenter and not a toddler. He is the friend who has already found something and cannot wait to show you.
How children learn with Kip
Every adventure follows one small ritual. Kip notices a clue and says “Look close…”. He asks “What do you think?” and leaves a real pause, two or three seconds, long enough for a child to answer out loud. Then “Let’s find out!”, and the answer arrives and goes in the Field Book. The shape stays the same so the new thing in the middle, a name, a fact, a shape, has room to land.
Names come first. A dinosaur name is broken into sound chunks a parent can read at a glance, with the loud chunk in capitals, said slowly, then all together. Children get the sound; the spelling is for you.
Nobody is scored. Kip never says “wrong”. Attempts are celebrated, and the only call to action is the next mystery.
How we check facts
Every factual claim is checked against a natural history museum or a peer-reviewed paper and given a confidence level. The wording children hear is cleared separately from the wording you read. We keep the hedges: “scientists think”, “may have”, “nobody knows”. Where museums disagree, we say so or leave the number out. Artistic choices, like a dinosaur’s color, are labeled as design, never taught as fact.
Each dinosaur guide lists its sources and the date they were checked, and says what it deliberately does not claim.
What we will never do
- Ask children for personal information, or keep any. There are no accounts, comments or uploads. The one form is the adult contact form, which emails the studio; the website itself keeps no copy.
- Profile visitors. No analytics identifiers, advertising pixels, fingerprinting or third-party cookies. The site sets no cookies at all. Our host, Cloudflare, processes the technical details of each request to deliver the page, as every website’s host does; the privacy page says exactly what that is.
- Autoplay, auto-advance, nag, count down or guilt anyone into coming back.
- Show advertising to children, or ask children to follow us anywhere.
- Publish a “watch now” that is not real, or a fact we cannot source.
The detail, including what our hosting provider sees, is in our privacy page.
Teachers and group settings
The dinosaur guides work as a two-minute circle-time activity: say the name slowly together, say it fast, then pick one true thing from the Field Book. Each guide has a short “talking about it together” list, and the Field Book has a page to print and draw in. More printables follow as the guides settle; we will not add them before they are good.
Where to watch
Our episodes are on our YouTube channel, published as made-for-kids content, and listed on the Watch page with each dinosaur’s Field Book guide. We link to YouTube rather than embedding a player, so this site still sets no cookies.
Official channels
Our YouTube channel is the only official Puddle Rocket account. It is listed here and in the footer, verified by the studio, and written for grown-ups. Any other account using our name is not us.
Talk to the studio
Questions, corrections, partnerships and press: see the contact page. Corrections to a fact are especially welcome, with a source.