The muppets of Sesame Street have been long-time supporters of military families.

They’ve created several videos to help children deal with deployment, PTSD and battlefield injuries. They’ve toured military bases around the world every year to give kids a free, fun-filled afternoon with all those furry monsters.

Now, the Muppets are here for military families, 24-7, through a new website and set of apps launched this week.

The site, Sesame Street for Military Families, gives parents an additional set of tools to help navigate their children through stresses of deployment, homecoming, relocation, injury and grief.

Under each topic for parents there are tips on how to handle the situation and where to find resources. For kids, there are videos about those topics, hosted by Elmo and friends, as well as coloring sheets and activities, all related to each military family topic.

The coloring sheets in particular are perfect for young military children. There are sheets that help them express their feelings and draw a picture of how they are feeling. There is a sheet of moving box stickers featuring their favorite Muppets so they can label their own toys. There are Veterans’ Day pages and a page that is a “pocket full of hearts” so they can draw pictures for their deployed family member and send them a “pocket full of hearts.”

There is also a music making program that allows children to choose instruments, recordings and voice overs to make their own music.

The website is an extension of Sesame Street’s highly successful, “Talk, Listen, Connect” initiative.

Log in, click on and let the muppets help carry you through the stress and joy that comes with being a military family.

Find the website here: http://www.sesamestreetformilitaryfamilies.org/