Fun Web Sites
- Kids on the Web: Fun Stuff - A collection of Web sites that offer educational games, stories and all kinds of other cool stuff.
- Crafts for Kids - An About.com guide with links to crafts around the Web in addition to their own seasonal and weekly activities, craft projects, fun recipes, and craft resources.
- Draw and Color with Uncle Fred - Shows how to draw several "cartoonys" step by step.
- Pauly's Playhouse - Fun puzzles, games and cartoons.
- Hangman at Kid's Corner - Guess the letters in the puzzle. The computer draws pieces of the hangman for each incorrect guess. Win if you guess all the letters before the hangman is completely drawn.
- Wacky Web Tales - Choose a topic, fill in the blanks, and watch the computer make a wacky tale from your words. For grades 4 and up.
- Geo Globe: Interactive Geography - Several interactive games about locations of countries, cities, rivers, lakes and mountains; animals; landmarks; the oceans; how plants have adapted to their habitats; and the layers of the globe.
- Animals, Myths & Legends - Folklore, games, activities, and links to other sites from Australia and around the world.
- National Wildlife Federation Kid's Page - Includes games, and tours of water, wetlands, endangered species, and our public lands. Ranger Rick Magazine and activities to do outside are also featured.
- Frogland - Facts, fun and everything you ever wanted to know about frogs, brought to you by allaboutfrogs.org.
- Wired for Books - Visit the Kids' Corner to read books for kids, featuring Beatrix Potter.
- New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams - An online magazine that gives older girls a chance to speak their diverse feelings and dreams. New Moon celebrates girls, explores the passage from girl to woman, and addresses the gender inequities girls experience.
- Bob the Builder - Play interactive building games with Bob and his friends.
- The Magic Schoolbus - Join that wacky science teacher, Ms. Frizzle, as she takes her class of enthusiastic, inquisitive students and playful sidekick, Liz the lizard, on educational field trips in her magically transformable bus.
- Sesame Street Central - Younger Web users can read stories, print pictures to color, solve puzzles, read about the Sesame Street TV shows, and many other activities.
- Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends - Lots of activities are available in addition to the really cute trains (and friends).
- Educational Web Adventures - Discover the world of art, science, and nature with online adventures. Help a woman identify a painting; get sucked into a painting in the art museum; find a loose tiger, design a place to keep it, find it a mate, learn all about tigers; and set up an ecotourism project in the Amazon.
- Exploratorium ExploraNet - From the museum in San Francisco, this site lists links to 10 new cool sites each month, along with 23 categories of nearly 300 reviewed web sites. It also includes online exhibits, activities, and "science snacks."
- Franklin Institute Science Museum - Information about current exhibits at the museum in Philadelphia as well as online exhibits, a Living Things section, and links to other sites on the Web.
- Smithsonian - Includes all the museums, resources, tours, events, activities, memberships and shops. The museums contain art, Natural History, Air and Space, the National Postal Museum, and the National Zoo.
- White House for Kids - Tells the history of the White House, gives a tour, and shows pictures of kids and pets in the White House, plus more.
- FIFA - Keep track of your favorite international soccer stars.
- Major League Baseball - All you want to know about major league baseball, including the Colorado Rockies! Stats, scores, standings and more.
- National Football League - Keep up to date on your favorite National Football League team, including the Broncos.
- National Hockey League - Hockey's official site, including all the teams, especially the Avalanche.
- National Basketball Association - NBA official site, with a page on the Nuggets!
- Sports Illustrated for Kids - News, trivia, games, fantasy sports, girls' sports and more.
- Arapahoe Library District Kidsite - Visit Bookaneer Island, which is full of treasure, homework help, programs and tall tales.
- Carmel Clay Public Library Young Adult page - This Indiana library has links to web sites of interest to teenagers as well as teen book recommendations.
- Colorado Virtual Library for Kids - A collection of Internet reading resources for kids, parents, and teachers.
- Internet Public Library - Includes both a youth and teen division. Youth can find books to read, stuff to help with school projects, and interesting facts. There are also some special things you can do like tour a museum, or see what books other kids recommend. Teen categories include career and college, issues and conflicts, sports, style, and many others.
- Multnomah County (Oregon) Library KidsPage - Homework help sites, hot sites, books and reading sites, fun and games, good stuff to read, the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden and more.
- West Bloomfield Township (MI) Public Library KidWeb - Homework help and fun.
- NewSmartz Workshop - An interactive, educational safety resource to teach kids and teens how to stay safer on the Internet.
- WiredKids.org - A site with tips on how to surf safely and how to have fun doing it.
