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Fun Sites For Your Kids

Fun and educational sites your children will enjoy.

Kid Inventors, K-6

From another About.com site. These inventions, created by children, will amaze and amuse you!

Animals and Nature

From National Geographic, this fun site has pictures, interactive maps and online coloring pages.

Children's Storybooks Online

From MagicKeys, some very nice online books for kids of all ages.

Discovery Channel: Games Hub Page

From Discovery Online, some educational, online games your older children will enjoy. Learn about volcanos, earthquakes, and asteroids.

Home and Play

This wonderful site has poems, finger plays, crafts and much more for children.

How Stuff Works

For your slightly older kids, this site explains how everyday things work. Excellent site!

Kid's Activities

Educational, online activities for kids ages five to twelve. Includes tips for parents on educating your children.

Kids Games

This site offers rules for hundreds of games, including playground games, verses for jump-rope rhymes, and much more.

Kidsclick

From Berkeley Education site, this is a lot of links to sites your kids will love!

Kinder Planet

The KinderPlanet has activities, software, online games, and more for parents and children to share together.

Lullabies and Other Songs for Children

This site has lyrics to almost 500 children's songs, arranged both alphabetically and with a song index. If you can't remember the lyrics to a child's song, go here.

The Treehouse

Very nicely done site to share with your children. Includes gardening tips, crossword puzzles, and much more. Very "child-friendly".

Wacky Web Tales

For your older kids (8 to 12 year olds). Kids add words to make up their own "Wacky" stories. Fun and educational.

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