Fun Stuff
|Animals|Arts and Crafts and Hobbies|Chat Sites|Kid's Business|Games and Puzzles|Just for Fun|Preschool Fun|Science|Sports|TV and Movies|Kid's News|
Animals
Arts and Crafts and Hobbies
Chat Sites
Kid's Business
- Guide to the business of babysittting "handy online how-to covers all the essentials, including what to ask parents and how to ensure your safety and the safety of the children under your care."
- FleetKids "a suite of games, quizzes and interactive lessons designed to teach kids about money".
- Gazillionaire Shareware Game "a Windows-based science-fiction fantasy game to download and play."
- Monopoly Online an online versin of the board game.
- Rags to Riches "you are the manager of Groovy Gravy's five-city tour. You get to choose concert venues, set ticket prices, decide on advertising expenditures, and select when to record new songs."
Games and Puzzles
- Constructor Play with animated springs to make models. This is too fun and weird to describe--try it yourself.
- Chess Corner "A complete chess resource containing a comprehensive chess tutorial, book and software reviews, find a chess opponent to practise skills, discussion forum and much more." (LII)
- Chess Here.com "ChessHere.com is an easy to use online chess server. Chess Here has rich features, is browser-based, multi-lingual, customizable, and free."
- ChessKIDS Academy good for beginners. (STN)
- Internet Chess
Club one week free trial membership, after that there is a yearly fee. (STN)
- Chess Maniac a free online chess playing community where you can play chess online, participate in tournaments, teams, chess clubs and more.
- Game A Day A new game every weekday.
- Games Kids Play "over two hundred games and jump rope rhymes." (BWN)
- Fun and Games
- Games at Fun Attic Lots of free games and ideas for games.
- Kaboose.com games and activities
- KIDLINK
- The Case "Each month TheCase.com for Kids ("Mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic tricks, and contests") features a quick solve (the answer is just a click away), a mystery writing contest, and a mini mystery
Solve-It contest."
- Mystery Greats Time Line see mystery stuff from olden times.
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Nancy Drew Interactive mystery, chapters from the books, and games!
- NabiscoWorld This online amusement park has fun and games for the entire family!
- Puzzlemaker
- Jigzone
- MaMaMedia Jigsaw Puzzles
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Scrambler for Kids
- Trivial Pursuit online
- Kids Crosswords and Other Puzzles (STN)
- New York Times Learning Network Crosswords (STN)
- One Across (STN)
- Thinks.com: Crossword Central (STN)
- American YoYo Association
- Infinite Illusions Yo-Yo instructions
- Jennifer's Yo-Yo Page
- Ken's World on a String
Just for Fun
- Activity TV.com "features free step-by-step video instructions with printables for a wide array of fun activities for children. Our website covers a variety of topics, such as crafts, cooking, puppets, science, and more."
- Barbie
- Kids' Castle From the Smithsonian Museum, you can explore all sorts of interesting things at this site.
- Kids' Space
- Klutz Stuff
- LEGO Homepage
- Serious Lego awesome designs with notes on how they were built. (BWN)
- Museum of Unnatural Mystery
- My Hero Write about your personal heroes, and read what other kids have written
- WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures use string to create figures, like cats cradle, and jacob's ladder.
- Streetplay.com "The history, rules, and finer points of play for some favorite games are found at this site. Games covered include stickball, handball, jacks, hopscotch, bocce, jump rope, boxball (four-square), and marbles. Searchable. " (LII)
- Titanic Scavenger Hunt for grades 6 and up
- Treasure Hunt for the 'Net Check out 5 different hunts, including the California Gold Rush and Holiday Treasure Hunts.
Preschool Fun
Science
Astronomy|Eclipse Info|Science Fair|Other Science Stuff
Astronomy
Eclipse Info
Science Fair Info
Other Science Stuff
- Franklin Institute of Science Museum lots of exhibits to explore.
- How Stuff Works really cool newsletter that explains how things work. (BWN)
- Cool Science for Curious Kids biology projects for elementary kids (LII)
- Dragonfly Elementary School Interactive Science
- Girls Go Tech fun stuff in the sciences, from Girl Scouts. (LII)
- FDA Kids Homepage
- KidsHealth.org
- Kodak Picture Playground Online Have fun at this site playing with pictures.
- Microbe World [.pdf] "includes six "microbe mysteries" that explain microbes and their many functions, news-making microbes, several experiments, and information on microbiologists and their jobs."
- The Mummy Tombs information on mummies around the world. (LII)
- National Geographic
- Natural Gemstones "This resource site from the U.S. Geological Survey
contains definitions and reference material such as the Chemical
Formulas of Gemstones and the hardness of gemstones."
- Nye Labs Online [Shockwave, RealPlayer] Bill Nye the Science Guy presents this interactive web site. Look for experiments you can try at home!
- Cool Robot of the Week "Each week, Cool Robot adds a new link with a short description of the featured site or a news story concerning a breakthrough in robotic technology or an innovative solution to robotics problems."
- Star Wars: The Magic of Myth
- USDA for Kids Ever wonder how the goo gets inside chocolate covered cherries? For that and more look no further than this site!
- Weather from the Franklin Institute
- About Rainbows Everything you wanted to know about rainbows
- Cloud Boutique Explanations and pictures of common clouds.
- PBS Kids: ZOOM "science experiments, recipes, trivia, games, and viewer submissions (Z-mail)" (SR)
Sports
- Whitecaps!
- Little League Baseball history of Little League, current news, and a ten-question Little League trivia quiz. (STN)
- Fastball Arcade
- Major League Baseball Fun and Games
- Major League Baseball: Kids' Dugout "seven cool online games, tips on improving your game, baseball trivia, and a page dedicated to your team" (STN)
- National Derby Rallies Soap Box Derby information. (LII)
- SkateboardDirectory.com "directory of skateboarding links, with sections for museums and history, professional skaters and teams, organizations, news, magazines, and more." (LII)
TV, Movies, Magazines
Kids' News
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