Being that is is a dark and rainy day here, I thought I would share some websites for kids as listed by the Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House. I have also added some of the popular one’s in our own house!
http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/preschool-rhymes.htm
‘Gayles Preschool Rainbow – Fingerplays, action poems, nursery rhymes and songs are grouped according to early childhood education themes.
www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp/site.nsf/en/ao04853.html
Aboriginal Canada Portal – aboriginal games and activities – click on come and play! for games for young children.
http://www.rain.org/~philfear/download-a-dinosaur.html
Download a Dinosaur
Discovery Kids is the digital network that explore real life adventures on this amazing planet.
A personal fave of both my kids. Games, stories, music, colouring and more with cartoons!
Our local ‘knowledge network’ has a great list of kids programs and online activities
Reading made fun.
For fans of Blues Clues, Dora, Diego, etc.
Discover nature through games, videos and activities
Games based on the world of Dr.Seuss
I realize that there are loads more. If you know any, please email me or add them to the comments!
This is cool and so great of you to compile your findings!
I LOVE that you did this! Am bookmarking it RIGHT NOW.
Not sure if it’s useful to you up in Vancouver, but if you ever come down to Seattle and it decides to rain on you, I have a list of places to go that are indoor or covered. See: Seattle Rainy Day destinations
Keep up the good blogging!
Absolutely Bananas
Wow! Thanks for sharing your goldmine of things-sure-to-thrill-and-delight-the-kidos! Boredom, be gone! My kindergarten twin terrors have (THANKFULLY) already discovered Starfall.com (in September, I think) and it has been a godsend. I’m sure the others with which I’m not familiar will be equally fantabulous. Thanx again. 😉
Oh and by the way, thanks for listing and linking my blog. Every bit of future traffic that is sent there as a result, is sincerely appreciated. Thanks in advance. 🙂
Hey – my kids will thank me for this, so I’m thanking you. They love to go to matchbox.com and play their dirt biking challenge and other mindless, nonviolent trucks and cars games. You’ve really done your research. I’m impressed.
Thanks everyone!
I had been meaning to list them for a while and when I found that the local neighborhood house was working on a list too..though more canadian centric..I had to get going…help me remember too.
Another cool thing is these kids atari games for the PC..my kids are addicted to the Tonka Construction one and the Tonka Rescue one. And they are cheap. We keep finding them at the local grocery store for ten bucks! Caity at two can do the simple games…and she is doing really well with the hand eye coordination and so on.
So computers can’t be all bad!
You know, this is really cool, and comes in very handy (we do have A LOT of rainy days in Vancouver)
Thanks again. My kids will enjoy these.