Do your kids ever ask ‘Why do we wear poppies Mommy or Daddy?’ Yet they’re a little too young to understand?
Cbeebies might have the answer during remembrance week as part of the special BBC programming Cbeebies and CBBC will have some special broadcasts.

CBBC and CBeebies will simulcast a dialogue-free two-minute animated film, Poppies, on Remembrance Sunday and on Tuesday 11 September at 11am. An atmospheric piece, Poppies, depicts the war as experienced by the animal inhabitants of a WW1 battlefield and is set to a score composed by Oscar-winning Steve Price (Gravity) and recorded by the BBC Philharmonic.

A behind-the-scenes film explaining the context of Poppies for parents and caregivers has been commissioned as a companion piece and will be available on CBeebies Grown-Ups and CBeebies YouTube.

Also on the 9 November CBeebies Radio presents Poppy’s Day. Poppy finds out about why we wear poppies and watches a remembrance parade, read by Falklands War veteran, Simon Weston. And on Tuesday 11 November, Simon returns in My CBeebies Special Day – Remembering the War.

I think this a fantastic way for young children to start to understand the tradition of wearing poppies in November.

What do you think?