Great Sites For Kids and The Adults Who Care About Them

Kids can have fun even without donning costumes. With a little imagination, learning about anything like history or science can be fun. The following resources cover a wide range of topics relating to kids, with activities and lesson plans parents can use at home.

Arts & Entertainment

• Kinder Art: offers tips and ideas on incorporating arts and craft projects into a child’s daily life.

• AHC Arts & Crafts: provides step by step instructions on craft projects for kids of all ages, with pictures.

• Art Kids Rule: fun lessons and activities for teaching kids about art.

• Arts and Kids: displays artwork completed and submitted by kids from around the world.

• Nick: kid friendly entertainment including videos and games featuring the most popular cartoon characters on Nickelodeon.

Literature & Language

• Kids @ Random: provides information on upcoming children’s books from Random House as well as activities featuring the more popular characters.

• Children’s Storybooks: free e-books for children, including adventure stories and fairy tales.

• Children’s Book Council: provides free e-books, reading lists organized by age and other information for parents.

• Grammar and More: offers tips for parents on teaching language to their children.

• Reading Rockets: focuses on strategies for parents and teachers when dealing with children who have reading problems.

Historical People

• Gallery of Early American Portraits: provides biographical information on the founding fathers and other important men.

• Biographies for Kids: features short biographies of every U.S. president as well as artists and musicians.

• Kid Info: offers resources on different biographies and historical information for kids.

• Historical People for Kids: interactive quizzes meant to teach kids about famous people in history.

• History Detectives: teaches kids about history and famous people by using interactive games.

Planet Earth and Beyond

• Kids Astronomy: provides games and short lessons to teach kids about astronomy.

• NASA Kids Club: club for children from NASA that teaches kids about important moments in space travel.

• Amazing Space: divides the information into exploration, space travel and famous missions in space.

• A Virtual Journey into the Universe: takes kids on a journey through space, with images showing each planet up close.

• Space Place: offers interactive games and lesson plans to make learning about space fun.

Science and Technology

• Science News for Kids: offers the latest news and headlines for kids about science and technology.

• Sci 4 Kids: offers games and other things that kids can do at home to learn about science.

• Science Facts & Videos: provides short videos and facts for kids relating to technology and science.

• Cool Science: offers kids the chance to ask a real scientist questions and do their own experiments at home.

• Science for Kids: fun activities divided by lessons or ideas that kids can do at home.