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Children should not explore the internet without a responsible adult or an internet filtering program

Fun & Games

• 20 Kids, 20 Kites, 20 Minutes - Easy classroom kite that really works!!

• Berit's Best Sites for Kids - Hundreds of sites for children are described and rated on scale of 0-5

• The Disney Page

• Easy Type - a typing tutor program

• Enchanted Learning Home Page - Incredible resource for everything educational and fun

• FunBrain - Games, activities, quizzes and FUN  to stimulate the brain

• International Kids' Space - Has a great map of activities for kids around the world

• Jump Start Grade School - games, activities, encyclopedia and samples from their award winning educational software programs  

• Kids' Corner - Solve a jigsaw puzzle, play hangman or read an illustrated story

• Kid's on the Web -  by the author of Zen and the Art of the Internet

• Learn to Juggle!

• Potato Head Page  - Put a face on a Potato Head

• Stage Hand Puppets - Puppet's  and plays or poems for dramatic play

Craft Links

• Annie Alsfords Kid's Craft Page  - clever projects used in an after school program with kids 5-12

• Aunt Annie's Craft Page - hours of creative fun and problems solving with links to many other craft

• Butterly Information and related activities

• Life Cycle: Coloring Page

• 3-D Butterfly

• Monarch Butterfly with Transparent Wings

• Butterfly Optical Illusion Activity

• Crayons and Computers - Carol Sabbeth, author of Kids Computer Creations, gives an art lesson in conjunction with related computer crafts

• Funroom Craft Index - craft projects and recipes

• The Learning Arcade Craft Page

Reading Links

• 50 Great Sites for Parents and Kids - American Library Association selection of useful educational sites

• Children's Online Stories - Scanned classics with illustrations, some not english

• Cotsen Children's Libraru - Princeton University

• Storyteller's Sources on the Internet - Alphabetical list of  story sources

Science Links

• Athena - a science curriculum project sponsored by NASA and SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation)  a contract research firm with over 17,000 employees and 300 offices worldwide

• Helping Your Kids Learn Science

• Smithsonian Computer History - an interesting collection of  interviews with computer pioneers

Math Links

• Family Math -  Hands on activities that work well with a diverse group

• Mathemagic - Math activities and contests for all ages

• MegaMath  - Intended for younger children, but they need to be able to read well

• Tom Gettys' Polyhedrons - pictures and descriptions of many solids