The Kids on the Web: Fun Stuff III

• For a really awesome cyberspace adventure, drop by the Nabisco® Kids Home Page. you can fly through time, speak your mind and hang out with your buds.
  
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood is the official home page of Mister Rogers!
  
• A great thing to do in the summer is to go to a summer camp. A few even have Web pages! For example, you can learn about Camp Winding Gap in the US in North Carolina.
  
• With your parents, you might be interested in dropping by an online toy store.
  
• Check out the radical super hero cartoon characters drawn by RadicalMan! You can also use a coloring book, check out a worm puzzle, or learn how to draw horses in motion.
  
• Hands On Children's Museum in Olympia, Washington, is a fun place for kids 10 years old and under. Meet Casbah the Camel, go through a maze, or play the wildlife matching game!
  
• Child.net offers a collection of pages of different topics, often oriented towards a certain location. They also offer the National Children's Coalition, High School Central, Teen of the Year, and Kid of the Year.
  
• The Macquarie K*I*D Dictionary is a dictionary that is totally written by kids. It contains words of children and teenagers from all over the world. These are your own words IN your own words. Now you can leave your mark on the world of words forever!
  
• Rhinos and Tigers and Bears -- Oh My! If you go to the Knoxville Zoo, you might well see a tiger over a barrel. But don't worry---that tiger isn't in trouble.
  
• At Spidey's Web - A Playground for all ages, you can have fun with card collecting, learning, visit sites about movies and TV shows, sports, and games to play.
  
• Another collection of fun and interesting places to visit is the Magellan KidZone.
  
• Toys Forever is the first page for kids developed in Portugal. It's dedicated to toys and to be explored by kids who love toys. You can listen to other kids about what they think are the best toys, voting by categories on particular toys, and other things. You can get the page in portuguese and english, and a bunch of other languages.
  
• If you enjoy playing chess, Southern California's chess club for youth, Chess For Juniors, may be of interest. They also offer a National Chess Camp every summer.
  
• In the Think Tank, a monthly contest is held in the Club Think area for kids, with prizes including free software. There are other fun activities which are continually being updated.
  
• With a visit to Knowledge Adventure, you can explore JumpStart Elementary, a learning system that integrates the core components of elementary education; find out about Knowledgeland, the new 3-D world; play games, sample activities from their products, and use a free Reference Library. Don't miss the fun!
  
• The Collaborative Book Review Project brings school classrooms from every province and territory in Canada together electronically to review a recent book. Their work in progress can be read on their bulletin board. Their final reviews will be published on their Web site as well as in CM magazine.
  
• Books A to Z has put together a set of links especially for children, with some really helpful pointers!
  
• Perhaps you might give a listen to the Elk Creek Family Band. Their music is homegrown, old-time, lively, fun, and original. Mandolin, banjo, guitar, bass, harmonica, tamborine, and jug... played by mom, dad, and kids. Take a minute and have some fun!
  
• The Hands On Children's Museum is a fun place to be for kids 10 years old and under. Sign in on their guest book (and read the stuff put there by others!), go on an ocean odyssey, say hi to Casbah the Camel, or go through a maze! There's so much there, you'll go exploring through the museum for hours.
  
• If you go visit the MCA/Universal Playroom, you'll find a bunch of things to do. Would you believe there's a Casper coloring page? Or maybe one for the Babe?
  
• All kids love to play! They can try Tic Tac Toe, Hangman, or Connect Four. (Hangman is my favorite.) Originally from England, the Games Domain has another great catalog of games that you can search just by typing a name.
  
• A launch pad in cyberspace, The Internet For Kids is for young folks who want to get right into the fun and fantasy of the Internet without all the hassles. You can name a puppy, go to the Squirrel Cam, or have fun & games.
  
• The 4Kids Treehouse has stuff about entertainment, reading, science, and a playroom.
  
• At KidsCom you can post messages, send in your ideas and stories.
  
• You'll be able to learn all about Bart and the rest of the family at the The Simpsons Archive.
  
• Visit Family Planet for expert advice (including Penelope Leach), reviews (tv, movie, web sites, software, etc.), local events calendars, fun family activities, holiday specials (advent calendar, etc.), daily news briefs, and more!
  
• Learn more about math with LavaMind, business with Zapitalism, and economics with a Gazillionaire!
  
• In Jean Armour Polly's Top Fifty Extraordinary Experiences for Internet Kids, you can get a feel for the sort of stuff that's available in her great book, The Internet Kids Yellow Pages.
  
• In Fairbanks, Alaska, The Falcons' Nest has a lot of stories to share--stories about life in Alaska, stories from their imagination, and stories in pictures and sounds. They'd like to hear your stories, too.
  
• If you're not able to travel to San Francisco, The Exploratorium is still well within your reach.
  
• World Surfari, created by Brian, a 10 year-old boy, lets you learn about Kenya, Japan, and Italy, and has some really cool features, like a spinning globe.
  
• The Eastchester Middle School Home Page contains information about the school, fiction and opinion pieces written by the students, and student artwork of planetary systems and impressionistic reproductions. There are also numerous links to home pages designed by the students and to other school sites.
  
• Also, Stephen Savitzky created a kids web page originally for his daughter Katy that offers a variety of toys and web pages put together by kids.
  
• You can go down under to Australia to colour in a rainbow lorikeet, make a sugar glider fly, complete the dot-to-dot to find a cuddly Australian animal, or make a hopping kangaroo. You can even hear a kookaburra laugh!
  
• The Froggy Page contains links images, sounds, stories, and songs all about frogs. There are even instructions to make an origami jumping frog.
  
• Take a look at Sammy's Guide to the Jewish Holidays, where you can see Sammy and his family, learn about the holidays, or check out the CD-ROM of Sammy instead!
  
• For some fun, visit Seussville, the digital home of Dr. Seuss. It's got stories and contests and will even let you chat with the Cat in the Hat!
  
• Check out a weather page especially for kids, parents and teachers from KSTW-TV weather forecaster Nick Walker.

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