And Now a Word from Us Kids

And Now a Word from Us Kids is a regular feature aired as interstitial content on most episodes of Arthur between stories. The segments feature real kids (most often third graders and usually at a school), who discuss the topic featured in the story immediately preceding the initial segment. For example, in the segment following "Arthur's Chicken Pox," a group of real-kids discuss having had the chicken pox and show their own chicken pox-related drawings. Other examples include:

• A trip to the Cape Cod potato chip factory in The Chips Are Down
• Movie making of The Three Billy Goats Gruff Arthur Makes a Movie
• A group of kids pretend it's their birthday in Arthur's Birthday
• Kids draw what they're going to bring in their paper suitcases to camp in Arthur Goes to Camp
• A school hosting a sleepover for its second graders in Arthur's First Sleepover
• Kids create their own pet businesses in Arthur's Pet Business
• Kids talk about their baby siblings in Arthur's Baby
• A class describes what their teacher is like in Arthur and the Real Mr. Ratburn
• Looking for clues to find some animals in Binky Rules
• A class trip to the fire department in D.W. All Fired Up
• Holly Holland talks about herself in The Contest
• A boy sharing about how deafness affects his life in Do You Speak George?
• A girl talks about what she and her class does when they are bored or if it's a rainy day in Arthur's Almost Boring Day
• An interview with firefighters following Part I of April 9th
• Kids rap about heroes and heroines in Locked in the Library!
• A behind the scenes look at Zoom in The Last of Mary Moo Cow (There was no Arthur drawing at the end of this segment. Caroline made a mistake by saying "And Now Back to Zoom" instead of Arthur).
• A teenager discussing acting in a play ("A Word from an Actor”) in No Acting, Please
• Letters to Arthur in Arthur the Wrecker
• A girl with Cerebral Palsy and her twin sister in The Wheel Deal
• A girl named Corinne, her sister, and friends making snacks like fruit smoothies, then play basketball at the end of the day in Desert Island Dish
• A group of kids talking about healthy snacks in Just Desserts
• Kids discuss music and play different instruments in Arthur vs. the Piano
• Kids create their own version of the Crunch Cereal commercial in Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest
• Kids show and talk about their favorite things, and how meaningful they are to them in D.W.'s Blankie
• Karate class in Binky vs. Binky
• A behind the scenes look at the making of Arthur Meets Mr. Rogers
• Students at The Perkins School for the Blind discussing how they make cookies in How the Cookie Crumbles
• Making friends in Arthur Makes Waves
• Students discussing bad habits in All Thumbs
• Computer poem in Sue Ellen Gets Her Goose Cooked
• Argument solution about a pen in Arthur's Family Feud
• Sleeping techniques in Sleep No More
• Class vote in The Election
• Kids discussing why name-calling is bad in D.W.'s Name Game
• A word from a biologist in The Lousy Week
• A word from Kosta (a pizzeria owner) in The World Record
• Imaginary Planets in D.W. Aims High
• Kids' donations in Prunella the Pack Rat
• Water experiment with filters in Feeling Flush
• Inventions in What is That Thing?
• A look at life with Asperger's Syndrome in When Carl Met George
• A Word From Buster in Happy Anniversary (There was no Arthur drawing at the end of this segment. Instead, it just shows Buster when the kids announce "And Now Back to Arthur")
• Animal facts in The Squirrels
• School news in Citizen Frensky
• Art projects and rock climbing in Three's a Crowd
• Scary stories in Fernkenstein's Monster
• Dream buildings in Castles in the Sky
• Story about a birthday party in Fern and the Case of the Stolen Story
• Jennie Kirk talks about how she's good at ice skating in The Good Sport
• Book facts in Buster's Book Battle
• Poems about bullying in The Last Tough Customer
• Trivia game in Get Smart
• Kids talk about dyslexia in The Boy with His Head in the Clouds
• A class discussing talents and interests in Baseball Blues
• A Song from Us Kids in Big Horns George
• A visit with the proprieters of a nut-free chocolate factory and their daughter who's allergic to nuts in Binky Goes Nuts
• A music class at Conservatory Lab Charter School in D.W. Beats All
• Students teaching each other how to do things in Bud's Knotty Problem
• Kids play dodgeball at recess in The A Team
• Happy and mad face in Mom and Dad Have a Great Big Fight
• Twins in Double Tibble Trouble
• A word from Amelia and Eliot in Attack of the Turbo Tibbles
• Kids creating a dodgeball opera with Rodney Gilfry's help in Lights, Camera...Opera!
• A word from us friends in Buster's Back
• A word from Larry King in Elwood City Turns 100! (There is no Arthur drawing at the end of this segment. Instead, Larry King says "And Now Back to Arthur.")
• A word from Dr. Griffith on living with asthma in Buster's Breathless
• Kids talking about times they were scared and how they got over it in Night of the Tibble

After the segment, a kid's drawing of Arthur is shown while the kids announced "And Now Back To Arthur".

In a number of installments of Arthur following the premiere of Postcards from Buster, this segment was briefly replaced with the feature Postcards from You, but it was discontinued once Postcards from Buster went off the air, and And Now a Word from Us Kids returned.

A similar themed segment, A Word from Marc Brown, is shown at the end of the second Arthur story starting with Season 10. Marc Brown showed how to draw the faces of one character per segment, including Arthur, D.W., Buster, Baby Kate and Pal.

Kid's drawings of Arthur at the end of the segment

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Trivia

• In overseas airings of the show, such as when the show aired on CBBC in the United Kingdom and on Disney Channel Asia airings of the show, this segment was omitted to make room for commercials. The segments are also omitted on many PBS stations during pledge drives.
• The interstitial after "Prunella's Special Edition" originally showed students writing their own books and having a book signing, but this segment was later replaced by the interstitial after "The Wheel Deal". This interstitial is about the All Kids Can character contest and is now featured after each of the aforementioned episodes.
• "Postcards from Buster" is the only episode to not include an interstitial, likely because the episode itself featured many different live-action scenes similar to a And Now a Word from Us Kids segment.