MyFamily.com -- Your free, private family web site. It's quick, easy, and free. Set up a site and post photos, chat, use the family calendar, go shopping, do online activities, and more. Over 1.2 million members love it. Invite your family and friends.
Free2Try -- The Free2Try Dispatch is a weekly newsletter sent to subscribers via email each Wednesday. The newsletter keeps you up to date on the latest free and trial offers available at Free2Try.com and other popular sites.
GrowthSpurts.com -- Wanna free website for you and your new baby? Track their growth, add pictures and more. Oh you can sign up now and have a chance to win $100 savings bond.
America Links Up -- A kids online teach-in! This a public awareness and education campaign sponsored by a broad-based coalition of non-profits, education groups, and corporations concerned with providing children with a safe and rewarding experience online. This site contains a number of valuable resources for parents and kids.
Childen With Disabilities -- Joint effort of nine federal agencies and offices "to provide children with disabilities and their parents access to federal, state, local and national resources." Info on advocacy, education, transportation, health, housing, recreation, and technical assistance is provided. The site contains materials on a broad array of developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities. Includes links to sources of grants and funding, research and statistics, activities and games, and a moderated online bulletin board for children to post and share experiences.
SmartAlex ICU -- Free parental control software. It takes screen snapshots at regular intervals, to provide you with the day's activities, including the date and time of each picture taken. See images of chat room conversations, email, word processing documents and more. You'll have a visual record of virtually everything that's displayed on your computer's screen. It also monitors computer activity all the time, not only during internet sessions. The program is very simple to use.
Screen It -- This service was started to serve many parents who wonder if certain movies would be okay for their children.
FamilyTime -- Helpful and totally free software. Click the "free familytime offer" link and fill out the form to get a free copy of family time software, it "integrates six programs to help you run an active family, large or small." Allow three to five weeks for shipment.
ABC's of Parenting -- This site has tons of info for parents from the latest product safety recalls to parenting tips from newborns to teens. They also have discussion boards, chatrooms, an interactive journal and lot's more!
BabaBabies -- Free professionly designed homepage for your child.
Family Contract for Online Safety -- There are lots of "rules" on how kids (and parents) can use the internet but the most important rule is that parents and kids agree to a set of criteria. Here, based on "kids rules for online safety" and "guidlines for parents" are two pledges that kids and parents can take. They should be printed out, signed by both kids and parents, and posted near the computer.
GetNetWise -- A resource for families and caregivers to help kids have safe, educational, and entertaining online experiences. They include a glossary of internet terms, a guide to online safety, directions for reporting online trouble, a directory of online safety tools, and great sites for kids to visit.
Lissa Explains It All! -- The first and original html help just for kids. This site is by a 13 year old girl in florida with lots of great instruction in HTML, java, frames, tables, colors, etc. A must see!
Easy Memory -- Find pairs, or groups of three or more identical cards. Play alone, with friends or even your youngest kids. Play with animal cards, large disney cards or lot of others cards. Improve your memory by playing with your favorite friends and pictures.
Lawrence Goetz Software -- Parents wanting their youngsters to learn and improve their computer skills are going to love this software. Mr. Goetz has designed several interesting, fun and easy to use programs that teach toddlers basic computer skills like moving and clicking the mouse, offers include larry's animals-n-things, an animal and object game where the child can click and see movement and hear sounds. [editors note: much of this software is shareware, but there are some programs that are free.]
Family Friendly Search -- Searches simultaneously through yahooligans, aol kids, kidsclick, and saluki search. For those who prefer searching through carefully selected children's sites to simply filtering out unsafe sites.
Christina Word -- Children's talking word processor designed to teach the basics of word processing in a fun way. Naturally it's free, but, like many freeware sites, it has several pop-up ads. Still, the software is well worth the annoyance.
Riverdeep -- A commercial educational site, but they also have several free educational programs for download, as well as some online educational games. This site looks like a good resource to me.
Zeek -- Online games, toons, and safe surfing for kids.
Lil'Fingers -- Introduce a toddler to the world of computers via an online storybook where you click and read while looking at colorful drawings. Several to choose from.
Candle Light Stories -- Beautifully illustrated stories for children, featuring both classics and contemporary contributions, includes links to other sites that offer stories and illustrated entertainment.
Big Eye CyberPlayground -- This site lists 60 sites where kids can explore without a problem.
Kids Corner -- Gospel Communications Network a division of Gospel Films, Inc. has created a cool kids game site. Kids can play a gospel version of the popular game Concentration plus other games like Help the Shepherd Find his Lost Sheep, Jonah's Adventure WordSearch and more mazes for your enjoyment. Also lists links to other cool stuff for kids.
Sean's Magic Slate -- A coloring activity for ages three through seven. Select a backdrop, add the objects of your choice from the object palette, then add color. Change the background picture at any time. Add more objects, move them around, delete the ones you don't want. Express yourself! Download this fine, free program for the kiddos! This is the free games page from FamilyGames.com and there are several other freeware games on the page too. I like Valvo for example. It's simple, but still challenging.
Dr. Suess -- Seussville, Random House publishing's online haven for the works of Dr. Suess and the kids who love them. Send your kids--your very young kids--here for games. They're simple, entertaining, and educational. Grownups can take the seuss trivia quiz (with help from kids of course) and maybe win one of the monthly prizes.
CBC4kids -- A nicely done site from the canadian broadcasting company. Kids can comment on daily news stories, create do-it-yourself science experiments, quiz themselves on sports, play one of the top-ten hits on the sound bar jukebox, send in their own reviews of music and movies, and take part in discussion groups at the clubhouse.
Light Relief -- Let 'Em Draw! A simple, free child's drawing game where colored beads are placed on a black background and then, when the child is finished creating a masterpiece, the colored beads can be lit up. The program has a save/print feature, an eraser, and a choice of five colors. [editor's note: the authors site is no longer available on the web, but, the good news is I found this software on another site, along with a large collection of other educational freeware. The link given here is for the download page of
Simon Evans' Special Educational Needs teacher resources site.]
Kids Freeware -- Free software and internet services for just for kidz! Most excellent resource, well categorized and loaded with quality freeware! From the good folks at freeware home.
Webtime Stories -- This is a great collection concerning children's literature and contains selected "best of" web sites that explore picture books, folk tales, books for children and teens, and offer activities for all ages.
Billy Bear4Kids -- This is a great play area for the younger set. There are puzzles, games, and printable pages that you and your kids will love to play. If your connection is slow, they even have a mirrored site for better access.
Funology -- The science of having fun. The site offers tons of fun, creative activities, games, jokes and trivia just for kids. They might even learn something while having fun. Best of all, everything on the site is absolutely free.
Toy Trunk Railroad -- The coal fired comic strip. All aboard for some toy train cartoon hijinks! This site is updated daily with new toy trunk railroad comic strips. Also check out the activity fun page for kids!
Sticker World -- From the childrens television workshop (sesame street), now online! This is a fabulous site, designed for kids aged 6-12. It provides a multitude of interaction such as: "sticker world", collect and make e-stickers; kids can make their own web pages, games, puzzles, clubs and lots more! Of course, a parents' toolbox.
WackyWiper -- With this free download, every page you visit using Internet Explorer will be changed into silly and stupid text. Ten to choose from: Beav-Ize, Accents, Pig Latin, Canadian, French, Valley, Umm, Negate, Roman, and Ken.
Father's World -- Father's world is about all types of fathers, single fathers, stay at home fathers, the family father, the divorced father and their families but their main focus is about being a better parent. A great site for fathers!
Free Full-Length Children's Audio CD -- Yes, a free CD by popular, award winning children's recording star, David Jack! A lively collection of singable, danceable, silly toe-tapping tunes is chock full of imaginative, upbeat musical styles and is a "must have" for any child's music collection. Get one for your child today!
Picture Center -- A fun site from Kodak that let's you do all sorts of nifty tricks with your digital photos. Upload a photo from your computer and you can then enhance it, edit it, or add any of a good sized collection of effects to the image. There are other features and services here too.
Kid Klicks -- A Five-Day-A-Week newsletter for kids that reviews fun kid's Websites, tells a joke or two, and let's kids send in reviews of their favorite Websites!
LifeSavers Candystand -- All kinds of games and win prizes too!
Art Kids Rule! -- The net's best interactive site and directory for cool art activities, crafts, and a whole lotta' other stuff for kids!
Kids' Castle -- The smithsonian institute has made a great place for kids! Educational and fun. Kids articles, cool facts, photos and they can post messages for other kids to read.
Surf Monkey -- Free kids web browser; safe, easy and fun! A web browser just for kids.
KidSurf Online -- The internet surfboard for kids and teens. "This is" a great site with lots of interaction!"
Internet Detective -- Internet Detectives is a Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) initiative for all middle school social studies teachers and students to acquire skills in accessing and critically evaluating information found on the Internet.
Kid’s Domain — Great fun for the whole family. Kid’s domain has it all: contests, downloads, free icons, games and lot’s more.
Disney.com — the web site for families — loads and loads of great on-line entertainment here!
thunk.com -- Secret messages for kids only. Try the fun and easy message scrambler for instant secret code messages you can send to friends and colleagues. Plus games, jokes and spy trivia. Instructions are available in English, Spanish, and French.
4Kids -- Discover a toy box full of links for kids of all ages. The treehouse provides pathways to games, booklists, projects, science sites, and other kids' home pages.
Dish Magazine -- Dish is a lively, fun and informative magazine uniquely designed for young women of all ages. It is dedicated to providing valuable info that women can enjoy and use in their daily lives.
Bolt -- An online teen lifestyle journal, has compiled a list of high school newspaper stories from around the nation. You won't get lunch menus or sports scores here, but you will find some well-written opinion pieces, news, reports, etc.
Parenthub.com -- This is a one-stop family and parenting resource guide designed to help you save time and money. Find links and resources to games, fun, activities, parenting, saving money, household related issues, mortgages and more. "Nice site!"
Yahooligans — the web guide for kids from yahoo
700+ Great Sites -- Amazing, spectacular, mysterious, colorful websites for kids and adults who care about them. "Very nice resource site!"
Create-A-Book -- Now you can publish your very own coloring book for your children that will spell their name and their age. Click on each letter you want to print, and it will enlarge. Then select print. You can print on laser or inkjet. Make as many as you wish, these coloring pages are free from Create-A-Book personalized books!
America Links Up -- A Kids Online Teach-In is a public awareness and education campaign sponsored by a broad-based coalition of non-profits, education groups, and corporations concerned with providing children with a safe and rewarding experience online. This site contains a number of valuable resources for parents and kids.
Child Fun -- Crafts and activities for you and your kids.
Camp Heaven -- Greetings, this site is designed to give children and adults a starting point for conversations about Heaven and the spirit's adventure of life after death.
Coloring.com -- We now have over 100 pictures to choose from! As always, please email us with your comments. Let's start coloring!
Crayola -- A terrific site for kids, parents, and educators, from the makers of crayola crayons. Terrific site here folks!
Cyberkids -- This one's fairly commercial, but still has lots of fun activities for kids, and stuff for parents too.
Discovery Kids -- The adventure starts here. We've put together a whole site about adventure and the adventures we think you should try. Ever wanted to climb a climbing wall? Ride a camel? Learn to take your own pictures? Well, here is the place to learn how. So... What do you want to have under your belt?
Cory's Paint Box -- Basically an online coloring site, but quite a nice one, and it's in several different languages!
Alfy -- Games and activities galore, for kids, but they also have stuff for parents, and teachers. Great site from lycos.
Crayon House -- A nice online coloring book site, and they have some great tips for parents too!
Coloring Pages A to Z -- Welcome to our long list of coloring page! Dedicated to my children They color my world! I can almost guarantee this is the biggest coloring site you'll find on the web, and we are always adding more! You'll find Disney, Teletubbies, Blues Clue's, Rugrats, Winnie the Pooh, Looney Toons, Pokemon and much, much more.
World Almanac For Kids -- Now the bestselling book has a companion Web Site -- The World Almanac For Kids Online. So dive in and explore. You might even get smarter.
Eagle Kids -- Lots of cool stuff for kids, and you can win prizes too.
CIA for Kids -- Yes, the United States, Criminal Investigation Agency has a site just for kids. Is that cool or what? Check it out!
Artie the Airplane -- I have to be Honest, I never Heard of Artie the Airplane, but apparantly some of you younger people have. Check out the fun zone.
BlackDog's Internet Refrigerator -- Color some neat pictures on line. You can also download the pictures to print out and color off line. Note: A Java-capable web browser is required to color on line.
Bear Time -- What is Bear Time? It's the best time for one and all! It's time for new friends and old jokes. It's time for stories, silliness, and smiles. It's time for two little bears to have an adventure. Find out What's New on Bear Time. It's a list of fun new stuff!
Four Fish Fly Free -- A commercial site, but it seems to be a good one. Nice graphics, and they have online coloring.
Clorisa.com -- Clorisa the Cottage Mouse, Wonderful's Kids Club and Clorisa.com are creative expressions of love from Michael L Hill and Rose Voon-Hill for children and parents around the world. Rose and Michael are parents too and have a real heart for how children use new media. The internet is the greatest and worst idea of all time. The greatest because it brings us all a little closer and the worst because it beings undesirable situations closer to us as well.
Activity Pad -- Offers printable preschool activities, word search puzzles, mazes, holiday activities and more to help children learn and have fun!
Creative Kids at Home -- Gifts for kids that will put a smile on your child's face! Do you know children who: Love surprises? Have fun opening gifts? Would like to get mail? Want presents that last all year?
Could spend more time being creative? You have discovered creative gifts to delight the children you love!
garanimals.com -- Free and fun things for kids to do.
