Comments on: Online: Disney Playhouse

By: wookie

wookie — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:21:27 +0000

http://www.sesameworkshop.org

I find this much easier to swallow than the more popular tv channel sites, and my daughter has gotten a lot more milage out of this than any other site.

Most of the more recent games are specifically preschool targeted, with pre-reading and pre-math skills (sequencing, letter/number recogntiion, grouping, etc.). The other sites seem to have more entertainment games than ones targeting building certain skills or concepts.

There is, however, a lot of older content on the site from when the internet was in a pre-flash era… but still plenty of useful stuff. I am, however, a little tired of having to “Grovercise!” every day.

By: Ian Chia

Ian Chia — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:24:36 +0000

NickJr.com has absolutely tons of great Flash and Shockwave based games for preschool and lower primary kids (my two girls love it.) If you go there, they launch the site in a popup window, which can be annoying if little fingers miss the mouse and jump off the window. I bookmark the direct URL to the page inside the popup, and use that instead:

http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/index.jhtml

Dora the explorer games, Blue’s Clues and heaps more. Highly recommended.

Cheers,

- Ian

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:31:16 +0000

I know most people (including me) hate Boohbahs, but their site is brilliant.

http://www.boohbah.com/zone.html

My son learnt how to control a mouse through their site, and there is some pretty iteresting stuff on there.

By: Penni

Penni — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:30:35 +0000

It’s not actually interactive, but our whole family loves this. Little boys with digger fascination will especially like it, beautiful one for boys and their dads.
http://www.jcbsong.co.uk/jcbvideo.asp

We’ve found Elmo’s keyboard-o-rama on the sesame street site is the best for our three year old to play by herself, otherwise she needs help using the mouse function on my ibook.

By: emily

emily — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:35:03 +0000

Up to ten- http://www.uptoten.com/kids/boowakwala-navigation-games.html

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:15:48 +0000

One more thought – Don’t be afraid to let your preschooler try level 3 (or higher!) of http://www.starfall.com. The “Who am I?” section of level 3 is particularly fun for my daughter.

Also, http://www.nickjr.com is a great site for preschooleres.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:04:35 +0000

My preschooler and first-grader LOVE http://www.starfall.com — lots of FUN, high-quality games and activities that teach reading, and tons of free printables as well. Many schools use this sight — it’s fantastic!

By: emira

emira — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:04:23 +0000

We're fans of the CBC Kids website at our house (CBC being the Canadian public broadcaster). Not sure how it would fare for smaller ones, but in particular my 9yr old step daughter likes Sushi Samurai (and I must admit we've played a few levels ourselves).

By: Jayme

Jayme — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:30:25 +0000

Kindersite offers searchable activities for children up to age 6 or so. You can search by category. Most of their activities are linked to outside sites such as disney, pbs, bbc, etc. All very kid friendly. The site is widely used by early childhood schools.

By: The Feminist Mafia

The Feminist Mafia — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:09:32 +0000

My Little Man loves clicking around http://www.pbskids.org and at barely 3 years old, he’s pretty skilled at finding his way around. Not surprisingly, the Sesame Street section is excellent.