Play Is a Child's Work:

Entertainment for Children and Teens

A note for parents: While this section is intended primarily for use by children and teens, there are many resources in this section that parents may find helpful in selecting activities to do with their children, particularly with children who do not yet read.

Also, before allowing children to surf the Net on their own, children need to be instructed about possible hazards of the Internet. For example, some of these sites included products for sale, opportunities for chatting with other young people, and forms to fill out and submit. Families need to set up their own policies in these matters, but it might be best to check out some of the guides on safely surfing the Internet to set up family guidelines. This warning is not intended to frighten anyone, simply to make the Internet experience more enjoyable. Happy surfing!

Activity Cupboard

http://www.mothers-home.com/activities/sherri2.htm

Provides craft instructions and other activities appropriate for day cares, preschools, and elementary schools.

Almo's Riddles

http://inferno.physics.uiowa.edu/~ewl/riddles.html

Provides a variety of riddles.

American Youth Soccer Organization

http://www.soccer.org/

Provides resources and links on youth soccer.

Animaniacs Mega Lyrics File

http://members.cruzio.com/~keeper/AMLF.html

Provides lyrics for songs on the Animaniacs programs.

Babe Ruth League

http://www.baberuthleague.org/

Provides resources and links on Babe Ruth League baseball.

Barney

http://barneyonline.com/

Provides the official site for the purple dinosaur with sections for kids and parents.

Ben & Jerry's Fun Stuff

http://www.benjerry.com/fun/index.html

The portion of the ice cream maker's site devoted to fun for children. Includes games, puzzles, crafts, and holiday activities.

Berit's Best Sites for Children

http://www.beritsbest.com/

Reviewed links to sites of interest to children.

Best Games in a Small World

http://www.richardsonps.act.edu.au/

Provides resources for playground games and activities.

Boy Scouts of America

http://www.bsa.scouting.org/

The official home page for the Boy Scouts of America.

Cartoon Corner

http://www.cartooncorner.com/

Provides drawing tips, puzzles, stories, and cartoons for children.

Children's Internet Starting Points

http://www.ci.santa-fe.nm.us/sfpl/kidstart.html

Provides links to sites of interest to children for entertainment and learning.

Children's Music Web

http://www.childrensmusic.org/

Provides links to sites dealing with music for children.

Cool Kids Stuff

http://www.acekids.com/kidshome.html

Provides activities, games, stories, chats, homework help, and links.

Cuffs For Kids

http://www.infocom.com/~hboyce/cuffkids.htm

Provides information and activities on safety for children and links to safe, fun sites.

Cyberhaunts for Kids

http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~aa937/Profile.html

Contains links for children and teens, mainly for entertainment, but some educational sites also.

Dave's Wonderful World of Yo-Yos

http://www.nmia.com/~whistler/yo-yos.html

Provides information about yo-yos, and links to related sites.

Disney

http://www.disney.com/

Provides information about and activities for Disney movies, books, theme parks, and television programs.

Electronic Elementary Magazine

http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS%2bState/MDK12_Stuff/homepers/emag/

An electronic magazine highlighting interactive projects and creations of children ages 5 through 12.

Eric's Page of Puzzles

http://www.xmission.com/~ericward/puzzle.html

Provides puzzles and riddles, plus links to other puzzle pages.

Etch A Sketch

http://www.world-of-toys.com/

Provides games, a gallery, tips, and other resources for the Etch A Sketch.

Fake Out

http://www.eduplace.com/dictionary/

Provides a definition guessing game.

Family.com: Activities Category Page

http://www.family.com/Categories/Activities/

Includes many activities in a variety of areas for family education and enjoyment. Allows individualized searches for activities by type of activity and age of child.

For Kids Only

http://www.cln.org/kids/index.html

Contains links of interest to children and teens.

Free Stuff For Kids

http://www.ppi-free.com/kid.htm

Provides information about items that children can order for free or for the price of postage.

Fun Kid Links

http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca:8030/darmstro/kids.htm

Contains links to sites of interest to children.

Fun Room

http://tac.shopnetmall.com/www.funroom.com/default.html

Provides games, crafts, holiday activities, and other entertainment for children and teens.

Games Kids Play

http://www.gameskidsplay.net/

Contains descriptions and variations for more than 250 children's games.

Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

http://www.girlscouts.org/

Provides resources for Girl Scouts and links to related sites.

Girl Zone

http://www.girlzone.com/

Provides an online magazine for teenage girls.

Global Children's Art Gallery

http://www.naturalchild.com/gallery/

Provides an art exhibit done by children twelve and under with the opportunity for children to submit and display their own art.

Gus Town

http://www.gustown.com/gustownsummer2.html

Provides entertainment, educational resources, and forums for sharing creative expressions for children.

Heather's Happy Holidaze Page! For Kids Only

http://www.shadeslanding.com/hms/index.html

Provides information, activities and links about holidays for children, created by a 7-year-old girl with "a little" help from her parents.

Her Interactive

http://www.her-online.com/

Provides entertainment, educational resources, information about girls who make a difference, and other resources and links for teen girls.

Horse Country

http://www.horse-country.com/

Provides information, activities, and links for young (and not so young) horse lovers.

Hotlists

http://www.netmom.com/ikyp/samples/hotlist.htm

Formerly Jean Armour Polly's 50 Extraordinary Experiences for Internet Kids, now expanded, contains links to entertaining and educational resources for children and teens.

International Kids' Space

http://www.kids-space.org/

Provides a forum for children to share their writings, artwork, songs, and other creative expressions.

Jim Henson Company

http://www.henson.com/

Provides the official site for Jim Henson's Muppets with features and activities for children.

Joseph Wu's Origami Page

http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/

Provides illustrated instructions for origami creations.

Kendra's Coloring Book

http://colorbook.tripod.com/

Provides an interactive virtual coloring book.

K.E.W.L. Kids Excellent Web Links

http://www.cybercomm.net/~teach/

Contains links to sites of interest to children and teens.

Kid Links

http://www.kcpl.lib.mo.us/kidlinks/

Provides links to sites of interest to children and teens.

Kid Pub WWW Publishing

http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/

Provides a forum for kids to share their stories and poems with others.

Kidlink: Global Networking for Youth 10-15

http://www.kidlink.org/

Provides an opportunity for youth around the world to communicate with each other. Also has a multicultural calendar, activities, and a newsletter.

Kids' After School Clubhouse

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/

Contains links to sites of interest to children and teens.

Kids -N- Teens Quest - Fun and Educational Links

http://www.useekufind.com/kidteeni.htm

Contains links of interest to children and teens. Also provides information on safety on the Internet.

Kids' Space Connection

http://www.ks-connection.org/

Contains links to sites created by kids, organized by subject, and also provides assistance in finding pen pals.

LEGO World Wide Web

http://www.lego.com/

Provides children with the opportunity to construct cyber-Lego-models and other activities and games involving Legos.

LifeSavers Candystand

http://www.candystand.com/

Provides games and other interactive multimedia features. A word of warning: some of the pages take a long time to load.

Little League Baseball International

http://www.littleleague.org/

Provides information, resources, and links on Little League and Babe Ruth baseball.

MidLink Magazine

http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu:80/~MidLink/

An electronic magazine created for and by middle school students.

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

http://www.pbs.org/rogers/

Contains sections of interest to both children and their parents. Sections include a children's corner, a singalong, a booklist, activities, and parent pages.

Muppet Songs

http://home.nc.rr.com/muppetsongs/

Provides lyrics to Muppet songs.

Muppets

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/BS/Muppets/muppets.html

Provides links to sites related to the Muppets.

New Moon Magazine

http://www.newmoon.org/

Subtitled "The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams," provides articles of interest to girls and their parents, and also has the possibility of publication for readers.

Paper Projects

http://www.ptialaska.net/~bundyd/paper.html

Provides instructions for craft ideas using paper, and gives links to other craft sites for children and teens.

PBS Kids

http://www.pbs.org/kids/

Provides information about popular PBS children's television programs and coordinating activities.

Professor Bubbles' Bubblesphere

http://bubbles.org/index.htm

Provides information and activities related to bubbles.

Puppetry

http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/

Provides information about puppetry and links to related resources.

Puzzle Depot

http://www.puzzledepot.com/

Provides puzzles and games for children and teens.

Rainy Day Resource Page

http://www.cp.duluth.mn.us/~sarah/

Provides recipes for craft supplies and directions for art and crafts projects, and also contains links to online activities for children and teens.

Sass Kids

http://www.sass.ca/kmenu.htm

Provides activities, games, contests, and links for children.

Sesame Street Workshop

http://www.sesameworkshop.org/

Homepage for Sesame Street.

Snoopy's Doghouse

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/

Provides information about Charles Schultz and the Peanuts cartoon strip, and excerpts from the strip.

Sports Illustrated For Kids

http://www.sikids.com

Provides articles and games about sports for children and teens.

Stone Soup, the magazine of writing and art by young people

http://www.stonesoup.com/

Provides a forum for older children and younger teens to publish their writings and artwork.

Techno Teen

http://www.technoteen.com/

Provides entertainment and links of interest to teens.

Teen-Net

http://www.teen-net.com/

Provides entertainment, information, and links of interest to teens.

Teen Scene

http://www.rpl.richmond.bc.ca/teen/

Provides resources and links of interest to teens.

Teens Only

http://education.indiana.edu/cas/adol/teen.html

Contains links to sites of interest to teens.

Topher's Castle

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/3278/index.html

Provides entertainment for kids from an elementary school student in Hawaii, and also has links to other fun sites for kids.

Ty Inc. - The Official Homepage of the Beanie Babies

http://www.ty.com/

Provides information about all the Beanie Babies, and has related games and activities.

Ultimate Band List

http://www.ubl.com/

Provides resources and links on musicians, musical groups, musical genres, and other music-related information. Provides search capabilities.

Virtual Museum for Children

http://www.museums.reading.ac.uk/children/

Provides entertaining resources and links for children compiled by a family in Britain.

Virtual Pets

http://www.virtualpet.com/vp/vpindex2.htm

Provides information and links about tamagotchi and other virtual pets.

Wacky Web Tales

http://www.hmco.com/hmco/school/tales/

A story game. Fill in a form with the parts of speech requested, and then read your final story.

Walkin' Jim Stoltz: Kids' Korner

http://www.walkinjim.com/kids.html

Provides song lyrics, activities, and outdoors information. Also provides a forum for children to display their artwork.

World Kids Network Tour Guides

http://www.worldkids.net/guides.htm

Provides a variety of resources and links of interest to children and teens.

World Village Kidz

http://www.worldvillage.com/kidz/

Provides entertainment and links of interest to children.

Yahooligans

http://www.yahooligans.com/

Search engine designed specifically for children and teens. Can access sites via a subject tree format.

Young Writers Club

http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~david/derya/ywc.html

Provides a forum for children and teens to publish their creative writing efforts. Also has activities, book reviews, and links.

ZuZu

http://www.zuzu.org/

Provides an online newspaper for and by kids, with stories, artwork, and other creative efforts.


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