Sesame Street Number Segments Bears in Chairs . Bears sitting in chairs are counted . Colorblock Grid . Kids count themselves in colorblock grids . These segments appeared as early as seasons 24 and 25 , and feature the same cast from the " Floating Kids " segments . Computer Matching . A series of films where a girl plays a matching game to find the number of the day on the computer . Cooking by the Numbers . A miniseries of number films starring Ruth Buzzi as Chef Rutheé , a wacky chef who makes recipes in fun and silly ways . She is very self - conscious , as her name is often prone to the narrator ' s mispronunciation of " Chef Ruthie , " and sharply insists she be called " Chef Ruth – AY . " Flowers . Martin P . Robinson counts flowers in different voices . The segments appeared early as Season 34 . Growing Numbers . A series of stop - motion animated segments produced by Jane Aaron , featuring ornate cutouts of the numbers 1 through 20 growing from ( and receding into ) the surface in a variety of park and city scenes . The segments appeared by Season 23 at earliest . The various installations in the series differ chiefly by the amount of film being shown . Hortense . Hortense is a series of counting animations where Hortense encounters things to count to the number of that day . No segment for the number 2 was made . Jane Aaron Segments . An assortment of live - action segments created by Jane Aaron , featuring ornate numbers on outdoor locations , becoming animated usually through the use of " pixellation " effects . Several segments featured brief rock jingles written by Christopher Cerf , while others simply showed the number ( attached to a metal rod ) swinging across the screen . Kid Mural Painting . A series of films where kids paint a huge mural of the number of the day on a huge sheet of paper in time lapse form at a park . In between , the kids show the number of the day either on their hands or feet . Masked March . Animated creatures donning ancient masks walk across the screen carrying numbers 1 - 20 . Produced in Season 26 , the music featured is the composition " Parade of Numbers " arranged by Ken Field , and performed by The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble . Called " Parade of Numbers " on the Sesame Street Video Player . Milo Counting . A series of segments where a man ( Milo Motola ) in an outdoor scene holds and presents sequential numbers from 1 to up to 13 . The respective scenes for each number use " pixellation " effects , with the man often taking part in improbable activities such as emerging from a lake or sliding across a field . The segments were produced in 1996 by Ken Brown and Lisa Crafts . Caleb Sampson composed the score for each segment . Number Creatures . An Emmy - award winning series of computer animated segments featuring stylized numbers ending from 13 to 20 . The segments were written , directed and animated by Merrill Aldighieri , and were produced for CTW by Arlene Sherman . The music for the segments was composed by Fred Reed . Pebbles . A series of segments where a number camouflages into a group of pebbles , while off - screen children try to find it . Once they do , the pebbles that make up the number light up . Rap Animation . A series of recurring cartoons in which various collections of objects such as shapes , cookies , fingers , and units of time are totaled , narrated by a child ' s hip - hop lyrics describing and rhyming the items at hand . These were produced by Al Jarnow and appeared as early as Season 20 . Rubber Stamp . Filmmaker and stamp designer Ken Brown produced a series where numbers interact with stamped images . They first appeared in Season 23 . Salty and Pierre . Salty and Pierre , a salt shaker and pepper shaker have adventures by looking for the number of the day . The segments were animated by Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio . Skip Counting Songs With Kids . Live - action stop - motion animated kids skip count stuff by different numbers . The series is created by Christopher Cerf and appeared early as Season 35 ( 2004 ) . _ _ NOWYSIWYG _ _