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Visual communication tools such as computers and the internet, which have become an indispensable part of our daily life in the 21st century, are very important in terms of making education more meaningful and permanent. With its visual, auditory and interactive features, time and presentation of information in various ways, animations and cartoons are influential in the formation of children's personalities. In these productions, it is necessary to make more useful content to ensure that children are less affected by harmful content. Because it is important to follow useful content in order to raise individuals with the right personality structure. In addition, especially animation and cartoons unity, love, respect and so on. They are important tools in terms of gaining and teaching values. In addition, animation and cartoons are important tools for teaching and acquiring values of unity, love, respect, and so on. Because children now need audio-visual communication and learning tools more and these tools attract their attention more. Therefore, such tools are especially useful for educational purposes. Cartoons and animations as a whole contain a theme. In other words, there are target behaviors that children want to gain. Target behaviors and values to be taught can only be revealed by examining production for children holistically. In this study, the animation movie "Tay", which was released in theaters in September 2022, prepared with the co-production of TRT, was examined in terms of religion and values education. In this context, the story told in the movie was briefly mentioned and the study was supported with various visuals. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the religious and value-based expressions, attitudes and behaviors in the animated movie "Tay", which attracts the attention of children and is watched very intensely, and the messages that are especially desired to be given to children. Cartoons and animations are important materials in teaching children about positive behaviors and values. It attracts the attention of children especially between the ages of 3-6 and is used in education. In the research, the qualitative research method was used and literature review and document review data collection techniques were used. In this context, various findings were determined by scanning the literature similar to the research subject. Thus, the data obtained in our study were evaluated in the light of the examined literature. According to the results obtained in the study, the "Tay" 3D animated feature film refers to the life of our prophet during the Hijra period, and this information is presented to the audience in a curious and interesting way, especially for children. In the animation, which includes idioms and proverbs with cultural values, it is also seen that negative elements that will be bad examples for children are not included, and the main characters in the movie exhibit positive behaviors that children can take as an example. Considering that the messages that are tried to be given through this animated film, especially emphasize the values of love, kindness and friendship, emphasize the importance of the family, and aim to raise awareness of religion and value education in children, we can say that the study has an important content in terms of religion and values education. It can be stated that this animation the film is an extremely important step in gaining religious content and values. It is thought that duplication of productions in similar formats will contribute to the education of children in religion and values.

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