HeartKids Animations

Produced by HeartKids, our animation series provides clear, concise and entertaining information on living with CoHD to younger audiences.

Episode 5

Getting Ready for Heart Surgery

Heart surgery can feel like a big and sometimes daunting thing. This gentle animation, created and produced by HeartKids, is made especially for children with childhood-onset heart conditions to help explain what will happen, who will be there to help, and what recovery can look like. Through simple language and reassuring visuals, it supports children to understand their hospital journey and reminds them they are not alone.

This animation was informed by paediatric nurses, child life therapists, and parents with lived experience of childhood-onset heart disease, to ensure it is accurate, age-appropriate, and emotionally supportive for children and families.

Episode 3

High School as a Heart Kid: Navigating high school with childhood-onset heart disease

This animation has been designed to help young people with a congenital or childhood-acquired heart condition understand how to navigate the unique challenges of high school.

Episode 4

Gemma’s Bicillin Day: What to expect when receiving treatment for RHD

Watch as Gemma, a young girl with rheumatic heart disease (RHD), shares how she looks after her heart and what happens when she gets a bicillin treatment.

Episode 1

Being a Heart Kid: learn about your unique heart

This animation has been designed to help children with childhood-onset heart disease (CoHD) better understand what it means to be a heart kid. This video steps children through what having a heart condition can mean, how it can affect their day-to-day life and what to look out for.

Episode 2

Heart Kid Heart Check-Ups: What to Expect

This animation has been designed to help young children with childhood-onset heart disease (CoHD) better understand what to expect when attending an outpatient cardiology appointment at the hospital.