(soft music)
- Hi there.
It's me, Alan from Sesame Street,
and you're listening to Goodnight, World,
a sleepcast where your friends at Sesame Street
and Headspace Studios help you get ready for bed.
- Goodnight, world.
- Tonight's episode is.
- Elmo's Choo Choo.
- Hi, it's me, Alan from Sesame Street.
And I'm so glad you're here.
I was just walking over to visit with Elmo,
and it's nice to have you along.
Elmo's working on a craft project here in the play yard.
He's been busy for quite a while now.
Oh, hey, Elmo.
- Alan, hi.
Oh, Alan, you're just in time.
- Just in time for what, Elmo?
- A ride on Elmo's choo choo train, of course.
- Of course, what else?
A ride on Elmo's, wait, Elmo's train?
- Yes, Elmo's choo choo train.
- Oh, I see.
You made a choo choo train out of that empty box
you asked me for from the store.
That's pretty special, Elmo.
- Uh huh, oh, when Elmo asked you for the box,
Elmo said it was gonna be a surprise,
so ta-da!
(Elmo laughing)
- Oh, that is a surprise.
I sure wasn't expecting a train.
And you did a really good job
making that box look like one.
- Oh, thank you, Alan.
Oh, Elmo worked really hard on it today.
First, Elmo used markers to draw a big window
in front of the box.
(marker scraping)
Next, Elmo glued paper plates onto the sides for wheels.
Elmo wanted reels for his choo choo train,
because a real train has big metal wheels.
Oh, Elmo saw that in one of his story books.
- Ah, good thinking.
- And now Elmo's choo choo train is ready for a ride.
So last of all, Elma made some railroad tracks, Alan.
- Oh, of course.
Because choo choo trains ride on tracks.
Not on roads, like cars do.
What a great idea, Elmo.
I see you used chalk to draw tracks here
in the play yard.
- Uh huh, oh, now Elmo would just move his choo choo train
over the top of the tracks, and.
Uh, a little help here, Alan.
- Oh, sure, Elmo, sorry.
- Thank you.
- That box is pretty big.
I'll give you a hand.
- Put it right there on top of the tracks, Alan.
Yes, right there.
Pretend tracks for Elmo's pretend choo choo train.
- It looks like you really planned this out, Elmo.
I'm impressed.
What gave you the idea to make a pretend train?
- Well, you're never gonna believe it, Alan,
but tomorrow, Elmo's going to ride a real choo choo train.
- You are?
That's pretty amazing.
Why are you taking a train?
- Oh, we're visiting Elmo's granny and grandpa monster.
They live far away,
so Elmo's mommy and daddy,
oh, and Elmo too, need to ride a train to get there.
- That's exciting.
Well, I think you did a super job
of making a pretend one, Elmo.
So now what?
- Oh, Elmo wants to make a train with a sound, Alan.
Uh.
Elmo hasn't learned to whistle yet.
- Oh, but a train has a special kind of whistle.
You can make that kind.
It sounds like this.
(whistle blaring)
- Oh, Elmo can do that.
Oh, listen, Alan.
Woo woo!
- Exactly, you make a great train whistle sound, Elmo.
Next, let's imagine that your choo choo train
is chugging off down the tracks.
So climb into your pretend choo choo, Elmo.
- Okay, Elmo will chugga chug.
Chugga chugga, chugga chugga.
Choo choo!
(pair laughing)
That was fun,
but Elmo wishes his tomorrow train ride
was happening now, Alan.
- Well, there is a way you can ride it now, Elmo.
You can imagine you're riding on your choo choo train.
- Oh!
- Imagining means that Elmo can ride his pretend choo choo
anytime he wants.
- And Elmo can be the engineer,
or the conductor, or the passenger?
- You can pretend to be anything you like.
- Maybe Elmo will be all them!
- That sounds like fun.
(Elmo laughing)
- All aboard.
Elmo's train is leaving the station.
- [Pair] Chugga chugga, chugga chugga.
Choo choo.
(soft music)
(train whistle blaring)
- Elmo, we can get ready for imagining by slowing down,
by taking a slow belly breath together.
- Okay, Alan, Elmo can do that.
- Good, so let's breathe slowly in through our noses.
(pair inhaling)
Then lowly breathe out through our mouths.
(pair exhaling)
And now before we imagine our choo choo train ride,
let's think about something
we might see outside the window on our imaginary ride.
- Like what, Alan?
- Like some clouds.
Clouds that are colored by the light of the setting sun.
So many colors of the rainbow.
Red,
orange,
yellow,
then blue,
and even purple as nighttime arrives.
- Wow, so many colors.
- Yes, so let's close our eyes,
and together, let's imagine that we're looking out
an imaginary choo choo train window.
- Mhm.
- We see a big soft fluffy white cloud
sailing slowly across the sky.
- Hi, big soft fluffy white cloud.
- Now the sun is setting far away behind the clouds.
It is moving down, down, down through the sky.
The light turns the cloud one color,
then another, then another.
- And another.
- We are going to say the names of the colors two at a time.
You say them after me.
Okay?
- Sure.
Okay, Alan.
- Slowly, the cloud turns color
from fluffy white to rosy red.
White.
- White.
- Red.
- The big soft fluffy cloud
is changing color again.
Slowly, it turns golden yellow.
Then slowly it turns color again to bright orange.
Yellow.
- Yellow.
- Orange.
- The big soft fluffy cloud is changing color again.
The sun has set, and nighttime is coming.
The sky is growing darker and darker now.
Slowly, the cloud turns blue.
Then slowly changes color again to purple,
a dark purple.
Blue.
- Blue.
- Purple.
- Now the sky outside your imaginary choo choo train
is dark as night.
A deep dark beautiful black,
all speckled with tiny far off white stars.
Black.
- Black.
- White.
- All done saying colors now.
So we'll take another slow belly breath.
(pair inhaling)
Then slowly breathe out through our mouths.
(pair exhaling)
I think we're ready to imagine our train ride,
right, Elmo?
- Yeah.
(Elmo yawning) (soft music)
- It sounds like it's time for engineer Alan
to say all aboard.
(soft music)
(train whistle blaring)
- Let's imagine we're in the train station
on a train with Elmo and his mommy and daddy.
We can hear air coming out of the tall smokestack,
and a.
(train whistle blaring)
Woo, woo sound of the train's whistle,
as the train doors slide closed.
In the front of the train,
the conductor looks out the window.
The conductor wears a blue striped shirt and hat.
She waves goodbye to the people on the platform,
as the wheels of the train begin slowly moving
on the train tracks.
Inside the train car, Elmo is in his seat,
snuggling close under his mommy's arm.
His daddy sits next to them, reading a book.
The train chugs out of the station.
Looking out the train windows, Elmo sees green grassy hills.
The wheels go chugga chugga,
and the train starts to move faster.
Now Elmo sees fields and flower gardens too.
Elmo likes hearing the train wheels
click clacking on the tracks.
Elmo's mommy snuggles with Elmo,
as they look through the train window.
The train is passing a farm,
and Elmo sees three horses standing in the grass.
Their long tails swish back and forth,
and their manes move gently in the breeze.
As the train keeps moving, a big field comes into view,
with lots of mooing cows.
Elmo even spots some fuzzy sheep resting near a pond.
He hears a door open,
and turns to see the conductor entering the train car.
The conductor comes by, and takes Elmo's ticket.
As the train keeps moving along the track,
Elmo sees light sparkling on a long winding river.
He sees the water moving around some rocks
that are in the river.
In the seat in front of him,
there are two children playing I Spy.
They speak in soft voices as they play,
looking out the window.
The chugga chugga of the train wheels
is making Elmo feel sleepy.
He leans back in his seat again
as a passenger walks down the aisle toward the dining car.
Elmo's mommy pulls a book out of her bag.
It is filled with colorful pictures
of places you can travel to all over the world.
Elmo looks at the book with his mommy,
and points out the pictures he likes,
a beach, a mountain, a green forest of super tall trees.
His mommy nods, and agrees.
They are all beautiful places to visit.
But outside the window are beautiful places too.
Elmo turns back to the window to look out.
He sees green trees now,
and trees with very long leaves.
Elmo was feeling oh so relaxed.
When Elmo looks out the window again,
he sees blue sky and puffy clouds.
Elmo's daddy smiles.
We're going over a bridge, he tells Elmo.
Elmo pretends to be the train
chugging over the bridge.
He whispers chugga chugga, choo choo.
His mommy and daddy smile.
The train keeps moving along,
and soon, they come to the other side of the bridge.
Elmo now sees a field of yellow flowers outside his window.
Now the train is moving past a town.
Elmo sees all kinds of houses all in a row,
and gardens full of colorful flowers.
He sees the tall red roof of another train station,
and watches as another train stops
to pick up some passengers.
But Elmo's train keeps chugging along past the red station.
As the train moves, the sun sets lower and lower in the sky.
The sky changes colors
before the sun lowers behind the hills.
Elmo's mommy looks out the window, and Elmo looks too.
The sky starts turning dark blue now,
as it turns to nighttime.
Elmo is feeling sleepy.
He climbs into his mommy's lap.
His mommy hugs him,
so he knows she's there,
even when his eyes are closed.
Soon, they will reach their destination.
And after a good night's sleep,
will be ready for new adventures tomorrow.