Well...you could go with actual turtles, with famous artists (their names are Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael), you could do make your own pizza (their favorite food), you could have them make super hero masks (they each wear masks that tie around their heads, each one has a different color) and maybe big turtle shells that they could wear.... you could talk about heroes but spin it into "everyday" heroes (police, fire fighters, etc.).

I'd take aspects of Ninja Turtles but stay away from Ninjas, fighting, bad guys, etc.

Edited to add: The Ninja Turtles themselves are not bad. The idea behind them is that they were regular turtles that got into some kind of radioactive stuff and grew into human like turtles. They have a teacher who is a rat (Splinter) who was the pet of a martial arts master. He teaches them how to be "ninjas" and they go around fighting crime. The show (and the movies) may be a bit too mature for young kids - the bad guy (Shredder) is kind of scary. There's also a lot of fighting, but no killing.

(Can you tell that I'm a Mom of three boys? lol)

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