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Best of the Web: Children's Resources » Arts & Games
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Africa For Kids
Make an African mask, read a Swahili folktale and see photos from African schools.
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America's Story from America's Library
Kid's games and exhibits about American History presented by the Library of Congress.
- America's Story from the Library of Congress
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American Ballet Theatre: ABT Kids
Schedule of special programs for children.
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American Flag
Color this flag online, using the mouse.
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Arizona Opera: Learn
Listen to audio clips of over 40 famous operas and learn about their stories and composers.
- Arthur Coloring Pages
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Arthur Game Page
Play the Brain Game, Effective Detective and many more games featuring Arthur and his friends.
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Artist's Toolkit
"Explore the tools that artists use-like line, color, balance- to build works of art." Presented by the Minneapolis Museum of art.
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Bald Eagle
Color online, then print or e-mail to a friend.
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Between the Lions
Get wild about reading with Lionel and Leona.
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Book Plates
Download black & white or color book plates for your home library drawn by noted illustrators like Aliki, Helen Oxenbury, Tony Ross, Quentin Blake, etc.
- Bookworm Bunch
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Braille Bug Games
Type your name and see it written in braille. Send and decode braille messages with your friends.
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Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy
You can also play Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot Vs. The Stupid Stinkbugs from Saturn and many other truly disgusting games at Dav Pilkey's Extra Crunchy Website O' Fun.
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Captain Underpants: Make Your Own Comic
Fill in your name, your hometown and your teacher's name and let the fun begin.
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Cartoon Network: Games
A huge selection of games featuring popular cartoon characters.
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Catch the Reading Bug!
Coloring sheets from the PBS program WordWorld.
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Chinese Calligraphy
Learn about the tools and techniques used to create this beautiful artistic writing.
- Curious George Coloring Pages
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Curious George's Game Page
Mazes, puzzles, word searches, coloring pages, even a Curious George party kit!
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Cyberchase Games
Math games from the PBS television show.
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Kids
Make your own instruments, get practice tips and play games.
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Destination Modern Art
An alien takes an animated tour of the Museum of Modern Art exhibits with lots of activities for kids.
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Dinosaur Jokes
"Q: Why did the Archaeopteryx catch the worm? A: Because it was an early bird!"
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Discovery Channel Online
Send a postcard, vote in a poll, or begin your own adventure.
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Disney Channel Games
New games weekly. High scores are posted on the site.
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Famous Lines From Great Children's Books
"The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another&"--Do you know what book this line is from?
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Fastball Reaction Time
See if you can react fast enough to hit a 90-mph fastball thrown by a major league pitcher. Presented by the Exploratorium Science Museum.
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Fun Brain
A large collection of games. Includes dozens of games like Mad Libs, Math Games, Arcade Games...
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Get Your Web License
Master the rules of the road on the Information Superhighway and get your web license. A fun way to learn the "rules of the road" for the Internet.
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Goosebumps Games
Ghoulish Games to scare you silly from R.L Stine.
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Hamsters! Take the 10-Minute Bedtime Tour!
Peggy Rathman's furry little friends come to life.
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Harry Potter: Wizard Challenge
Hey, Muggles! How many questions can you answer? Get your name on the Daily High Score Board.
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Harry Potter: Send a Howler or an Owler
Howlers are loud angry messages that you can send when you're unhappy with somebody! Owlers are for when you want to be nice!
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Hedgie Coloring Pages
Meet author Jan Brett's friends: Hedgie, the Trolls and Santa.
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How to Make an Origami Crane
Photos of every step make this a great guide for those who have struggled to make this popular model.
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How to Make Paper Snowflakes
Learn how to make beautiful six-pointed paper snowflakes.
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I Spy
Can you find the hidden objects in these I Spy riddles?
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Kaleidoscope Painter
Move your mouse around the red dot on the screen and see brilliant kaleidoscopic images appear.
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Kendra's Coloring Book
Interactive coloring pages.
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Kids Recipes
Delicious recipes from Cafe Zoom.
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Kids' Place
Fun stuff for K-8 including geography games and fill-in-the-blanks stories.
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Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
It is really the story of Little Red Riding Hood but the words are all wrong. Can you read it?
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Just for Fun
Visit the Tomb of Perneb, Knights in Central Park, or Discover A Korean Dragon.
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National Gallery: Kids
Interactive art that you can make online, animated adventures, children's exhibition guides and more from the National Gallery in Washington D.C.
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National Geographic Kids: Games
Play Brain Teasers, Wild & Wacky and What In the World games.
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Net Smartz Kids
Games and activities that help you learn about web safety.
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New York Kids Radio Program
"Hot Radio for Cool Kids!" online and on WNYC AM 820.
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New York Kids Radio Program
Hot Radio for Cool Kids! online and on WNYC AM 820.
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New York Philharmonic Kidzone!
Visit the game room, conductor's dressing room, composition workshop, musicians' lounge and more.
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Nick.com Games
Large selection of games from the Nickelodeon television network.
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Optical Illusions
You can't believe your eyes in the "Seeing" exhibit from the Exploratorium.
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Pattern Wizardry
Discover the "power of patterns" in these online drawing games from the Brooklyn Children's Museum.
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PBS Kids
Takes you to your favorite shows: Arthur, Barney, Clifford, Teletubbies and more.
- PBS Kids Coloring
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PBS Kids Democracy Project
Be the president for a day!
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Puzzlemaker from Discovery School
Create your own mazes, word searches and cross-word puzzles!
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Reading Rainbow
How many Reading Rainbow books have you read?
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San Francisco Symphony for Kids
Listen, learn, and compose.
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Sesame Street
Coloring pages, stories, and other activities starring your favorite Sesame Street characters.
- Sesame Street Coloring Pages
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Sesame Street Games
Play games with letters, numbers, sorting, shapes and more. Featuring all the Sesame Street characters.
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Seuss, Dr.
The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lorax, Horton Hatches the Egg, And To Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Hop on Pop, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins...
- Seussville
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Shel Silverstein: The Official Site for Kids
In the "Let's Have Some Fun" section you can print the Cuttin' Kate Drawing Book make your own bookmark, solve poetry puzzles and more.
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Silverstein, Shel
Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, The Giving Tree, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?...
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smARTkids
Fun art activities from the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.
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Smithsonian Kids
Courageous Heroes, Amazing Animals, Athletic Superstars and Famous Frogs from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.
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Sodaplay
Build, race and play with the walking machines at Sodaplay.
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Virtual Kite Zoo
Lots of cool kite facts and how-to's and the many uses for kites throughout history.
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WordWorld
Where words come alive.
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World of Beverly Cleary
Test your knowledge of Beverly Cleary's characters: Ramona, Runaway Ralph, Henry, Maggie, Socks, Ellen Tebbits and more.
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World of Rosemary Wells
Click "Fun with Max & Ruby" to print Bunny Money, color or play games.
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Your Weight on Other Worlds
Find out how much you would weigh on other planets.

