Nine Minute Ninja
Nine Minute Ninja is a program for youth on CBBC. He’s an expert animator with amazing art skills. His mission is to teach you his secrets and get you creating your own art. Some call him Ricky, we know him as the ART NINJA. The new series promises great art ideas, makes, mates and Ninja madness! The program has been available since 2025. A total of 24 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2026.
Last episode
Nine Minute Ninja
Ricky makes art in nine minutes. Gav makes his signature toffee apple surprise and Ricky makes a tasty looking treat with some edible art.
Catching up on Nine Minute Ninja?
Don't want to miss an episode anymore? Set up a free alarm and receive an email when new episodes are available. Handy!
Ricky makes art in nine minutes. Ricky accidentally creates a fashion look that quickly goes viral, as well as some punk patches to perk up a backpack.
Ricky makes art in nine minutes. Ricky makes a dancing animation from neon lights and the ninja apprentices challenge him to make a skull.
Ricky makes art in nine minutes. Ricky proves that you can make art from anything, as he turns some plastic pots into a putt-a-poo mini golf game.
Ricky makes art in nine minutes. Not everything is as it seems, as the Grand Master makes art that colours itself. Ricky makes a silhouette look 3D.
Ricky makes art in nine minutes. Things get surreal in the Art Ninja flat when Gav and Sarah's pets start speaking. Also with crazy collage creatures.
Ricky makes art in nine minutes. There's a party mood in the flat as the Grand Master makes a joke juice bottle and Ricky has a sweet trick for drawing a cake.
Ricky makes art in nine minutes. Sarah turns up looking a little off-colour, while Ricky makes roarsome dragon feet for trainers.
Series 5
Ricky loves a brainteaser and so makes an infinity photo cube. The Grand Master does a jailbreak magic trick, and a graffiti car comes to life when Ricky and his mates put the puzzle pieces together.
Ricky explores a world of colour, making paint from flour. The Grand Master gets in a spin with a colour wheel and the gang use mops to paint a gigantic upside-down picture.
Ricky is inspired to make art using wool. He creates a bogie-faced knitting kit and a woolly dancer on acetate to brighten up his window.
Ricky creates a gargoyle doorstop, shows how to draw a mythical unicorn and constructs a pair of ancient giant dinosaurs out of card at Bristol Museum.
Ricky prepares for take-off, creating a Fortune Flamingo. He demonstrates how to draw a flying dragon and goes foraging in the woods to make a magnificent owl.
Ricky takes the plunge with some watery wonders and makes a turtle from rubbings. He also shows how to draw a shark and turn stairs into a giant crocodile.
Ricky creates some awesome animal art, including a wrapping paper collage, a pop-up cat card and a magnificent ping-pong ball chimp.
Ricky creates more hair-raising art, a gigantic slime picture, a spinning ghost and shows how to draw a spooky castle.
Ricky makes some mini masterpieces and a 3D shrunken scene, while the Grand Master constructs an enormous pencil.
It’s time for Ricky to get ahead of the game as he makes a fish which comes out the other side of his head, he draws a dynamic Danger Mouse and creates a magazine collage bursting with ideas.
Ricky’s flat turns festive as he gets in the Christmas mood by making an egg box wreath and a giant winter wonderland scene made with snow shakers.
Ricky gets arty with the alphabet, making some abstract letter art, a comic door sign and the Grand Master appears to create a secret message magnifying glass.