Some of the best educational online games for kids are listed below. Many of these may well be educational, but our priority here is that they entertain…otherwise someone’s gonna start prying the keys out of the keyboard. They play learning online games and enjoy while drawing, reading and having fun.

Great Online Activities for Toddlers

  • Find the Baby Click on objects to find baby hiding in each scene. Baby says “Peek-a-boo” when found. Spanish version too.
  • Who’s at the Door? Dog answers door to reveal various types of workers. Fisher-Price.com
  • Dora’s Dress-Up One of the best dress-up game designs we’ve seen.
  • Dora’s Cooking Select right food ingredients to make each dish
  • Choo Choo Choices A unique story game about sharing and caring. A blunt but effective tool for brainwashing your kid into sharing..er..teaching compassion. From TV Ontario.

Reading Computer Games

  • Learn your ABC’s A straightforward introduction to the letters from Fisher-Price.com, hit anywhere on keyboard to play.
  • Animated ABC’s ABC Blocks link to letters with sounds, photos, and animations for each. Good stuff, but a little slow-paced.
  • Bembo’s Zoo A unique ABCs game where the letters transform into animals.
  • Oobi Letters Oobi, the taking hand, hosts letter game which introduces and tests you on the letter sounds.

Educational Game: COLORS, SHAPES, SIZES

  • Colors and Shapes Teaches basic shapes and colors with animated shapes. Hit any key to play. Fisher-Price.com
  • Boohbah Patterns Use Click the Poohbah characters to make play with a a variety of patterns making funny sounds, movements, and color changes.
  • Leaping Boohbahs Click the character whose matches the the bubble which floats overhead. From PBS kids.
  • Mickey Mouse Mousekespotter Character-laden but good shape/pattern learning game.
  • Super Breakout Atari’s free web version of their classic breakout game is a good starter video game for learning mouse skills. You need to log-in.
  • Five Hungry Crocodiles Learn colors by feeding the right color fish to each croc in this game. Spanish version too.
  • Which is Bigger? Game Choose which thing is bigger.
  • Swimming is Fun for Fish Guide the lantern fish around obstacles in this game to learn a few preposition words: over, under etc. Song included.

Drawing Online Games

Computer Number Learning Games

Computer Memory Games

Bubble Bugs Blow bubbles to capture bugs. Relaxing music.

  • Tub Time Pop bubbles with the spacebar to reveal creatures inside. Annoying music.
  • Space Pop If your baby is a bubble addict like ours, you’ll like this simple bubble popping game from Crayola.com
  • Bubble Tractor Music and a bubble-blowing tractor. Click bubbles to pop them. By Fisher-Price.com

Music Computer Games

  • Tigga Togga Bizarre and totally awesome set of scenes where you can create musical mixes. From TV Ontario.
  • The Great Sky Race A Disney’s Little Einsteins game. Use mouse to guide rocket ship up and down, catching music notes. A little hard for toddler to play but may be good for basic mouse skills practise. Classical music soundtrack.
  • Jack’s Big Music Show: Play Instruments Play instruments to the music or dance the freeze dance
  • Jack’s Big Music Show: Videos Play Watch all the music videos from the show. From Noggin.com
  • Jam with Wiley the Sheep Play one of several musical instruments by clicking along with the music and scrolling music notes as an animated sheep dances
  • Boohbahs Dance Use a control panel to adjust the mix of a silly music loop. Choose dance moves for the hypnotic Boohbah characters from PBS kids.
  • Monkey Music Move your monkey/mouse over the shapes to play with different musical riffs.

Abstract Games for Kids

  • SNM#1 This abstract web toy is not designed specifically for babies, but it makes ours laugh like crazy. Each letter key pressed yields a different reward.

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