Check out the Top Kids Websites from around the web. These kids' sites are great and we have something for everything- educational, learning, science, math, art, history, weather, fun, games, shopping, resource sites, and so much more. We add new sites to our Top Kids Websites every week so check back often!

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Directories and Search Sites

	Can Do Street Directory of restaurants that are kid-friendly for budding chefs. Search for restaurants throughout the country.
Activities4KIDS
Kids Net Australia Great directory site of Kids websites. Includes a Dictonary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia area.
Space Kids Directory of websites for kids about Space.
Kids Yahoo Search This is the kids area of Yahoo.
Kidsites.org This site has a nice list of sites that are specifically for preschoolers.
American Library Association-Great Websites for Kids The ALA has a comprehensive list of kid sites that have been reviewed in order to be added.
Linkopedia.com This site has a good list of kid appropriate sites.
Common Sense Media Website Reviews A Non-profit started by a father/lawyer who want to ensure a way for parents to know what sites are appropriate for kids, depending on their age, etc...
Kidsclick.org A great site that lists safe, kid appropriate websites that were added by librarians.

Internet Safety
Netsmartz.org This site is put together by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Boys & Girls Clubs of America and it has invaluable information for parents about keeping your kids safe online and off. I would highly recommend visiting and bookmarking this website.

Educational and Learning Sites

	Inventive Kids - Have Fun with Invention and Creativity Inventive Kids is a creativity blog for children who want to find out about inventions and inventors, and who want to have creative fun. Inventive Kids content is age appropriate and written with kids in mind. Inventive Kids also provides helpful information and resources to teachers and parents so they can better understand the role of creativity in the lives of children.
	Mr. Nussbaum MrNussbaum.com is a well established site that boasts a wealth of information, games and tools for students, parents and teachers.
Little Lilly Polka Dot This animated site is based on the book LITTLE LILLY's POLKA DOT WORLD. The site is geared towards ages 3-6. The site has animation, learning tools, games, and activities.
Brain Pop Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies and English movies, comic strips, activity pages and school homework help for kids.
FunBrain Online educational games for kids of all ages.
Lil' Fingers Storybook Lil' Fingers Storybooks -- Animated Storybooks for toddlers. Animated stories contain large text and big buttons for little fingers!
Kid Info- Directory of Homework and Parent/Teacher Resource Sites If you are looking for a list of websites for your child or for educational resources for you (a parent) or teacher-check out this top lists of websites for kids and parents.
Hearth Song This site is a great place to find unique and interesting kids toys and activities- that are perfect for birthdays and the Holidays. Price range is mid to high prices.
American Museum of Natural History kids site Education and games about Science and Natural History.

Art
Art Projects for Kids Wonderful site to find fun art projects that kids can do easily. Created and maintained by a Kids Art teacher.
Stubby Pencil Studio Eco products for Creative kids. All types of art supplies for kids plus more.
PBS Kids- Parents Area- Creativity Exercises Neat things to do online to help kids be more creative.
National Gallery of Art- kids area Fun art games and activities to engage your child with art.

Culture
Kids Web Japan Explore Japan on a kids level and find interesting things to do, see and learn about.

Environment
Environmental Kids Club All areas about Environment for kids to learn about and play games. Teacher area.

Foreign Language
Chillola.com A wonderful site for kids learning foreign languages with basic words for Shapes, Colors, Alphabet etc.

General Learning
	Wonderopolis An educational site that is filled with knowledge about all categories of learning. and wonder
	Free Word Games for Kids Word Game Time features free educational games, worksheets, homework help and videos for kids, parents and teachers. It is also very popular among homeschooling parents.
	B for Ball Bforball is a fun learning website that providers online children activities for parents and teachers to teach the preschool kids in a fun and an easy way. There are various activity pages for young children of age groups between four and six.
ABCya Fun educational learning games and activities for preschool kids.
Education.com This is a great overall site filled with Educational activities, worksheets and articles on Education.
Alphabet Action Learning Planet's section for learning the Alphabet. Great preschool online resource.
Sesame Street Young children can learn about letters, counting, thinking, science, music, art, culture and getting along with others.

History
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government Fun and educational site for kids to learn about history and the U.S.

Math
Math Playground Action packed math site for elementary and middle school students featuring math games, math word problems, math worksheets, logic puzzles, and math videos.
PBS Kids Early Math Games Great information and fun resources to help your child build his/her early math skills at PBS Kids parents section.

Money
US Mint kids section Games and informative videos about the US Mint and money in the United States.

Music
NY Philharmonic Kids a wonderful and fun Kids site all about Music. Composing, instruments, games and more.
Play Music Provides information about musical instruments, composers, and musicians. With Shockwave plug-in, visitors can also play interactive musical games.

Nature and Animals
Dino Dictionary Profiles of over 300 known Dinosaurs, fun games.
National Wildlife Federation Fun facts and games about wildlife and their environment on a kids level. Home of Ranger Rick.
Kids Planet Facts, games, a teacher's section,information on saving endangered species. Fact sheets on over 50 species of Animals.
Kids Go Wild- Wildlife Conservation Society Check out this site to learn more about lots of animals. Fun facts, information and things to do. Great site for kids.
Animal Planet Games and interactive features for kids at Animal Planet.
National Geographic Kids site Great site for kids with games and information about animals and nature at National Geographic Kids.

Reading
Ziggity Zoom Online beginner stories for children to be read with, or without, audio. Original stories and illustrations by Sharon Pierce McCullough.
International Childrens Digital Library Wealth of online stories for children in many different languages.
Reading Rockets A wonderful site devoted to Teaching kids to Read and helping those struggling to Read.
Free Children Stories A wonderful site of free stories for children by Daniel Errico. Some flash, flip the page stories and fun rhyming stories.
Tumble Books This is a fun site for kids, parents and teachers to utilize for Reading. Hundreds of animated books for Kids with audio.
Kid Soup Preschool and Kindergarten online Resource.
Kindersay Educational site for kids to learn letters, words and signing.
Word Girl PBS site that encourages kids to learn words and get them ready for reading.
StoryPlace Spanish & English versions. Listen to interactive children's stories, play with on-line activities, print out take-home activities.
Giggle Poetry Children's poetry by Meadowbrook Press. Lots of funny poems, poetry contests and more! Ideas for educators on teaching poetry in fun and interesting ways.

Science
	NanoSpace Where can you take a ride in a nanotube, climb the Periodic Table and build an atom in its simplest form? In NanoSpace, the Molecularium® Project’s online science “theme park,” where kids in 5th-8th grades are finding that science can be fun – and fascinating. From the leading scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. More than 25 games and animations entice kids to learn more about atoms and molecules in NanoSpace.
	Free Science Videos for School Going Kids This site is one of the best educational site for kids in India for science videos.The site is free & almost all subjects of kids' interest have been covered in detailed videos.Also it has a lot of free powerpoint presentations, interesting facts.
	Discover Water The Role of Water in Our Lives DiscoverWater.org is a fun online experience where kids can learn about water and water-related topics through games, activities, printables and more!
FOSSweb Outstanding Science site for kids, parents and teachers.
The Magic School Bus Fun facts, games and science information for kids and teachers.
Kids Discover Natural and Social Science magazine for kids 7-12.
Science Explorer- Home or School Experiments for Kids Make science experiments with household items- find out how to make a volcano, sun clock, balloon blow up, chopper, and tons more.
Inner body- Human Anatomy Online Do you have a child that wants to be a doctor- check out the different systems of the body- skeletal, digestive, nervous and more. A site geared at kids over 7 or 8- lots of big words and drawing of each body system.
Ology American Museum of Natural History site for kids. Learn a lot about astronomy, paleontology, and the definitions of other "ologies" on this site.
Kids Astronomy Powerful and fun resource for kids, exploring astronomy and other space related topics. Play games, learn through interactive applications, and much more.

Family Activities and Crafts

Mamma Felice Italian website featuring fun family crafts and activities.

First Palette Great creative site for kids crafts and family activities.

Looledo Creative Kids Crafts and Science Projects from Recycled objects.

Crayola A fun site for kids, parents and teachers with lots of coloring pages and craft ideas.

Spatulatta Spatulatta teaches children to cook with free step-by-step videos, encourages children to eat more vegetables and fruit, and makes the link between farm and table.

Parents.com This magazine and website has lots of great parenting information, ideas for kids activities, reviews and birthday party ideas.

Kaboose.com This site has lots of parenting information and activities for kids and families.

Familyfun.com Family Fun has great ideas for parents for arts, crafts, cakes, and holidays.

Cooking for Kids
	Bake and Do A fun cooking website for children packed with easy and delicious recipes as well as plenty of fun arts & crafts activities. Written by children for children. All of the recipes have easy to follow instructions and all are tried and tested by children before being included. The site also contains plenty of fun arts & crafts activies to keep children occupied. Competitions encourage children to try their own recipes out and to submit the results for the chance to win some great prizes. This is a great way to encourage children to learn to cook and to take an active interest in food.
Cupcake Kid Cafe A fun site all about Cooking, run by 7 year old Rachel who features fun recipes, videos and cooking games for Kids.

Fun and Entertainment

FishingKids: Books, Toys, Gear for Young Anglers FishingKids is an integrated program of chapter books, toys, apparel, and gear that encourages children to get outside and play. With an emphasis on a healthy outdoor lifestyle and positive social values, FishingKids is a world designed to energize kids to get outdoors to enjoy the same activities that their parents and grandparents grew up with. The world of FishingKids is centered upon two young boys, Spinner and Bobber, and their fishing adventures around the United States. The FishingKids heroes – along with their parents, grandparents, and friends – share their fishing stories from around the country. Along the way, they learn lessons about fishing skills, safety, sportsmanship, geography, culture, friendship, and optimism. By providing quality children’s books and toys that revolve around fishing adventures, FishingKids supports imaginative play that is wholesome, healthy, and educational.

Kids 7 and up
	Model Rockets 321Rockets offer a large selection of Estes model rockets, beginner kits, and rocket engines. Buy in bulk to save money for your youth group or function. Let us be your one stop rocket shop.
NASA Kids Club Fun and games for kids 7 and up.
Go Girls Only A fun site sponsored by the Girl Scouts of America. Fun and games for girls.
Woogi World Online virtual world for young children.
Poptropica Poptropica, a virtual world for kids to travel, play games, compete in head-to-head competition, and communicate safely. Kids can also read books, comics and more.
Kerpoof- Draw, Make a Picture, Write a Story or Make a Card A site for kids 4 or 5 and up. They can make a card, picture, draw or create a story. This site was recently purchased by Disney.
Primary Games Fun site for teachers, parents, and kids featuring free educational games, coloring pages, interactive e-books.
Seussville Seussville Games. Here are lots of games for you to play. To keep you entertained all day!
Up To Ten Educational and Fun games and activities for children aged up to ten years old.
Barbie Fun activities, crafts and other online fun all revolving around Barbie.

Preschooler-6
	TJ & Pals | Where Learning is fun An interactive, safe play, creative oasis – with totally original content. Where kids can play, learn and grow at their own pace, and that parents trust. Membership required.
	Summer Kid's Gear Summer Kid's Gear offers a great selection of award-winning games, music, and cookbooks all geared towards good, kid fun! They also carry Baby Banz sunglasses, hats and ear protection, ergo-Cocoon swaddles, kids' backpacks and drinking bottles, and great personalized pottery sets for babies.
	Sesame Street Educational site featuring Sesame Street characters in videos and games to play.
	Cincopatas A fun site for preschoolers with lots of different types of online activities.
	Ziggity Zoom Fun preschool games for kids. Educational games that combine fun with concepts of color, language and numbers.
Painting games Coloring online and Coloring pages.
Speakaboo A fun site for Reading with lots of books to choose from, read by celebrities.
Gofrette A fun and games site for the younger set. In French or English. Based on a favorite tv character, Gofrette.
Boowa & Kwala Wonderful and fun Kids site. Children's music plus great illustrated stories. A preschool activity center with over 800 games for kids aged up to six. English or French.
Jump Start JumpStart is a series of educational games produced by Knowledge Adventure. The series is distributed as Jump Ahead in the United Kingdom.

Health and Nutrition

Kidshealth.org Good site for kids health information.

Healthy Children, Healthy Choices information from the CDC Information for parents about healthy eating for your family provided by the Centers of Disease Control's government site.

Health and Medical
	Allergy Warning Labels AllergyWarningLabels provides proactive solutions for families of food allergy sufferers as well as businesses serving patrons who may have a food allergy.
Ask Dr. Sears- kids health topics Good resource with articles on many kids' health topics by the well-known family of pediatricians and published authors.
Dr Greene- Pediatrician- website about kids' health topics Good resource about kids health topics by a Pediatrician.

Nutrition
Food Facts- Find out What Ingredients are in your Food www.foodfacts.com is a site that gives you nutritional information for hundreds of food products and food items at restaurants. Use this site to find out what you are really eating.
Portion Distortion-slideshow National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-Obesity Education Initiative offers a informative slide show about portion sizes and eating right.
Healthy Children, Healthy Choices

Safety

	Children Donate2 This site teaches kids about charities and how to help others in need - and animals in need. Internet and cell phone safety, fun kids sites, lists of sites to help dogs, cats, turtles and other animals.
AllerMates Allergy education site and Allergy awareness products.
Smokey Bear Kids Games, Facts and Fun surrounding the idea of Fire Safety.
Kids be Safe Online Site This site is run by a mom/grand mom who has devoted her time to informing parents about being safe online and keeping your kids safe. It is a good resources for parents to use and read up on website safety.
Consumer Products Safety Commission Parents this site has product safety and recall information at the Consumer Products Safety Commission website. For the toy safety page click here.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Good site for parents with information about car safety and car seat safety guidelines at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Shopping

Piggy Paint Non-toxic Nail Polish for little girls.

Saf baby #1 Resource for safe products for babies.

Posh Tots Exquisite childrens furniture, decor and bedding.

Walmart.com Earth Friendly and Organic Products Walmart offers hundreds to thousands of Earth-Friendly and Organic Products for your baby, child and home. Whether you ever enter a Walmart or not you can order tons of affordable orgaic and Earth-Friendly products from Walmart.com/earth. I recommend checking it out. They even offer Reusable Diaper Covers and Biodegradable Diaper Liners.

Happy Sacks Reusable Sandwich Bags This company offers a reusable sandwich bag option and snack bags for you or your child's lunches.

The Silly Wagon Check out this hip, cool, stylish site for boutique style kids clothes, shirts for mom, toys and some home decor products for your child's room. www.thesillywagon.com

Oompa.com A great site with kids toys and gifts.

TheSarutGroup.com A great site for unique and fun, whimsical gifts.

Baby Gifts and Products
Kate Quinn Organics This site offers organic kids, toddler, mom's clothing and bedding and bath items.
SkipHop.com A site with neat and trendy Baby gifts and products.

Children's Clothing & Accessories
	Kids Wear Fun kids tee shirts for all ages and sizes. Cool kids T shirts for all occasions. Boys Tee Shirts, Girls Tee Shirts, Tuxedo Tee Shirts.
Kid Bean Earth-friendly, labor-friendly vegan products for your kids and the entire family. Cotton organic Pajamas.
Trendy Togs Trendy clothes for kids from exciting clothing designers just for kids.
Baby Petunia Kids, Clothing, Bedding and Decor for ages from newborn to 12 years.

Children's Room Decor & Furniture
Land of Nod Shop the Land of Nod for high quality kids furniture; including kids bedroom furniture, playroom furniture, kids bedding and everything for your nursery.

Toys and Games
Maukilo European and American made children's toys.
Moolka Wonderful creative childrens toys, many from European companies.
Smarter.com- Toy Shopping Shop Smarter.com for a wide selection of toys for babies & kids from top online stores. Find scooters, learning toys, games & much more for low prices.

Teacher Resources

	Kinderplans Offers preschool and kindergarten lesson plans, activities, crafts, printable reading books and worksheets.
	Animal Dot-to-Dot Printables Dot to Dot books to purchase.
	http://www.headspacesoftware.com/fresh.html Fresh Phonics for Windows helps children learn to read and write through letter sounds and letter formation. Membership fee.
	Early Learning HQ Early learning resource site for teachers and parents. Free printables.
HomeSchool Central Resource site for Homeschooling parents.
ESL Printables Teacher and parent resources for learning the English language.
Internet 4 Classrooms Resources for teachers of all grades to use in the classroom and for parents to use at home.
Teaching Ideas Teaching Ideas and Resources for all subject categories.