This website from the National Gallery of Art in WashingtonD.C. has amazing online interactive art projects. You can make your own Rousseau jungle, decorate a Dutch dollhouse, or create a fun collage, among other things. These projects require Shockwave, a free download you can access through the site.
Just click and drag to create your own digital work of art on this neat site. You can paint in different colours, change your brush size, and even save your painting for others to see. This is a very addictive site for kids and grown-ups!
This open source drawing program is free to download and easy for kids to use. It has sound effects and a friendly mascot who guides children as they use the program.
This website from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis has fun games for children from Pre-K to Grade 8. There are games with trains, dinosaurs, and puppets, to name a few.
Know somebody who loves toy cars? This website contains a manual of United States traffic signs. Print some out for the Matchbox car lover in your life. Includes information on how signs are made.
A great site where you can download and print out book plates created by children's book illustrators for free. Some are in colour and others are in black and white so you can colour them yourself.
A place for kids of all ages (and adults who are kids at heart) to play. Go to the activity centre on the right for games about clocks, holidays, and trains.
Have you ever wondered about what animal sounds are like in other languages than English and French? On this site you can find out by clicking on the animal pictures next to the names of the languages.
This site has lots of great resources for learning all about the world. There's an online version of the magazine and lots of games, videos, and stories.
This website features a baby chick and friends from the Canadian TV production shown on The Learning Channel and Discovery Kids. Simple activities introduce preschoolers to the wonderful world of science.
Ever wonder what makes those roller coasters work? Learn all about the physics of amusement park rides at this fascinating web page and even design your own rides!
On this great cooking site, kids use videos to teach other kids how to cook simple recipes. There are lots of handy tips for making snacks and decorating the table.
This site has loads of fun recipes that kids can make. They are organized into categories: snacks, drinks, main courses, and desserts. You can even rate the recipes after you've tried them!
Play all kinds of interesting activities, like designing a cell phone, or predicting the weather. You can also learn about simple machines and see how surgery is done.
Check out the games in the Playground section: tell your own version of Horton the Elephant with the SeussvilleStorymaker; play Sylvester McBean’sSneetch Belly Game; try your hand at Elephant Ball.
Here you’ll find lots of fun games and activities connected to your favourite PBS programs such as Arthur, Clifford, Curious George, and Between the Lions. There’s also information for grownups.
Read online books from all around the world. Search for books by favourite colour, or by type of character. Books are available in 29 differentlanguages !
This colourful site lets you search for web pages, pictures, and videos either by asking a simple question, like “why is the sky blue?, or by using words and short phrases such as sign language and dogs.
This great search engine was created by librarians. You can click on any of the topics on the front page to learn more about them, or you can search by typing in what you’d like to know. Each web page that is found is given a reading level.
This is so much more than a kid’s search engine! You can use it to search the Internet, but it also has sections with games, music info, jokes, and homework help.
A wordless, creative website for little ones to explore. As there are no directions there is no right or wrong way to navigate this site, allowing young children to use their curiosity.
This colourful website was specially designed for children aged 2-4. They play games while being introduced to the world of a blonde toddler named Victor. (Note: if you get stuck on this page, you can exit it by holding down ALT on your keyboard and pressing the F4 key.)
A fun website where babies and toddlers can learn to interact with the computer. Simple games require only a keytouch from the youngsters before the adventures begin.
Ever wonder if a book, movie, game, CD, or TV show is appropriate for your child? This site has lots of reviews written specifically for parents wanting to know just that. You canevenwriteyourownreviews.
A database which contains records for all children's books held in the National Library's Canadian Children's Literature Service Collection. It includes Canadian children's books in English, French and other languages.
Looking for more recommendations? Check out the American Library Association's page of Great Web Sites for Kids. Pages are grouped by categories (Animals, The Arts, History & Biography, Literature & Language, Reference Desk, Math & Computers, Sciences, and Social Sciences). You can search by keyword and age of intended audience.
Also: Don't know how to pronounce your child's favourite author's name? Listen to them introduce themselves in their Author Name Pronunciation Guide.
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