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Just For Kids
Aunt Annie's Craft Page
www.auntannie.com/
Aunt Annie's Craft Page is chock-full of creative learning projects, including papercraft, puppetry, .gif images for stickers, fabric angels, cardboard tapestry dolls, personalized lunch bags and much more.
Beakman's Electric Motor
fly.hiwaay.net:80/~palmer/motor.html
Here, kids can learn how to build a simple electric motor like the one on television's "Beakman's World" using just a few household items. Diagrams are included.
Berit's Best Sites for Children
www.cochran.com/theosite/ksites.html
Berit's Best Sites for Children indexes, annotates and rates selected children's pages on the Web. Featured topics include activity centers, pages by kids for kids, family and kids' home pages, games and toys, world travel and more.
BHI Teens 90210
www.cochran.com/theosite/ksites.html
Beverly Hills Internet's Teens 90210 site is a virtual hangout any kid can call home. Here, kids under 18 can submit their own home pages.
The Big Busy House
www.harpercollins.com/kids/
The Big Busy House, the Web home for HarperCollins Children's Books, features interviews with authors and illustrators and explains how a book is made.
Canadian Kids Home Page
www.onramp.ca/~lowens/107kids.htm
The Canadian Kids page is a Web "starting place for both the young and the young at heart." Pointers are provided to "great Canadian pages" ranging from Theodore Tugboat and SchoolNet to Street Cents Online and Women in Canadian History.
Children's Literature Web Guide
www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
The Children's Literature Web Guide contains a huge searchable archive of Internet resources related to books for children. Visitors will find lists of recommended books, discussion
groups, on-line stories and much more.
The Children's Page
www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/jonathan.bowen/children.html
The Children's Page is a family project where everyone has a home page: Mommy and Daddy, Emma and Alice. Children's joke pages, calendars, sound clips, games, museums, movie clips and other family-oriented links are included.
A Christmas Toy Trek
www.dash.com/netro/fun/ttrek/ttrek.html
Join Tillie, Dusty and Barbie for "A Christmas Toy Trek." This Apple QuickTime-enhanced virtual visit to the North Pole includes Santa's home, sleigh and toy workshop.
Crayola
www.crayola.com/crayola/
Check out the Crayola home page for all the news and information about the world's favorite crayons. Find details on such Crayola developments as changeable crayons, mini-stampers and sunlight prints.
Crayola Kids
www.crayola.com/crayola/crayolakids/2_4/home.html
Here, kids will find an electronic version of Crayola's magazine, "Crayola Kids" with games, contests and details about new toys.
CyberKids Home
www.cyberkids.com/
Mountain Lake Software's CyberKids Web site features a free online magazine and games galore as part of its effort to help kids learn about the Internet while having fun. Visitors can enter a writing contest or explore the world at the CyberLaunchpad.
Doug and Lisa's Disney Home Page
www.lido.com/disney/
At this unofficial Disney page, visitors will find loads of trivia and information about Disney theme parks, movie art and animated films. A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file is included, as are links to other Disney resources.
Dole 5 A Day Home Page
www.dole5aday.com/
The Dole 5 A Day home page reminds visitors to get five servings a day of fruits and vegetables. The "Fun with Fruits and Vegetables Kids Cookbook" makes the concept more appealing to kids.
Ear Mountain Radio
www.nettiradio.fi/test/santa/saneng.htm
Ear Mountain Radio, the official Santa Claus radio station, broadcasts from Finland, close to the North Pole. Santa is off-duty until next December, the Webmaster tells us, so tune in then with your letters to Santa.
Edge
www.jayi.com/jayi/Fishnet/Edge/
"Edge" is the bimonthly cyberzine for high-performance students. It's filled with provocative, cutting-edge stories, reviews and insights for teens who want to go the extra mile.
FishNet
www.jayi.com/jayi/Open.html
FishNet is a Web space for academically talented teens. It features a college guide, a conversation forum and a huge database of articles and details about educational opportunities.
Global Show-n-Tell Museum Wings
http://www.telenaut.com/gst/
Global Show-n-Tell, a virtual exhibition space for children, provides this forum for kids to show off their favorite possessions, projects, accomplishments and collections. Visit here to visit the free exhibition and submit your entry.
Gordon's Entomological Home Page
www.ex.ac.uk/~gjlramel/welcome.html
This kid-friendly page is a terrific introduction to the world of bugs and insects. It offers a primer on bug anatomy, links to bug collector clubs and bug-enthusiast home pages, a lesson in proper bug classification and a section on "odd beliefs and ideas associated with insects."
Headbone Interactive
http://www.headbone.com/home.html
Headbone Interactive is the electronic home of the Headbone multimedia projects, from "The Gigglebone Gang" to "What the Heck Will Elroy Do Next?" Visitors will also find demos and product information.
Horse Country
http://www.horse-country.com/
Trot on over to Horse Country for a comprehensive look at horse history, science, stories, images, art and more. Visitors will find more than 400 horse-loving e-pals here, and such
features as an interactive dream stable game.
Halloween-o-Webbery
www.primenet.com/~trix/hallo.htm
Halloween-o-Webbery features a year-round look at Halloween scariness and trickery. It includes links to sound and movie files, Halloween poems and other sites devoted to the holiday.
Hyperman
www.hyperman.com/
Fans of television's Hyperman won't want to miss this chance to go on a mission with him. Along the way, they can check out Emma's cool links, or take the agent test at mission control with
the Comptroller.
Interesting Places for Kids'
http://www.kids-space.org/
Compiled by the parent of a 10-year-old daughter, this page points to a wide variety of sites of potential interest to children. Indexed by topic, categories include art and literature, music, museums and other exhibits, science and math, toys and games, arts and crafts, and more.
International Kids Space
www.kids-space.org/
The International Kids' Space page is maintained especially for children, with links to the kids' gallery, a story book section and a chat area for kids. In Japanese and English.
Kiddin' Around
alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~watts/kiddin.html
Kiddin' Around contains a vast collection of links for teens. Subjects covered range from movies and music to libraries and museums to fantasy and outer space.
Kidlink: Global Networking for Youth 10-15
www.kidlink.org/
The goal of Kidlink is to involve as many children around the world as possible in a global electronic dialogue. Join the more than 50,000 kids from 80 countries who are already participating.
Kids on Campus
www.tc.cornell.edu/Kids.on.Campus/
Kids On Campus, a project of the Cornell Theory Center, is dedicated to increasing computer awareness and scientific interest among third, fourth, and fifth graders via activities, videos and demos.
Kids on the Web
www.zen.org/~brendan/kids.html
Kids on the Web contains an extensive listing of children's resources. Visitors will find fun stuff, educational sites, children's books and information for parents, too.
Kids Web - A World Wide Web Digital Library for Schoolkids
www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/
The Kids Web is a library of links to kid-friendly arts, science and sports resources on the Web. Guests will also find such fun items as games, comics, and crafts pages.
Kids' Space
http://www.kids-space.org/
The Kids' Space is a showcase for children's art, stories, music and letters. Kids can communicate with one another via e-mail and bulletin boards, and the site includes a page of links to other kid-friendly sites on the Web.
Kids' Window
jw.stanford.edu/KIDS/kids_home.html
Kids' Window is a service of Japan Window, a U.S.-Japan collaboration for Internet-based Japan information. It provides many resources for education about Japanese culture, including a picture dictionary.
KidsCom Home Page
www.kidscom.com/
KidsCom is a "communication playground" on which kids can find an e-pal, write on a graffiti wall, play games, talk about their favorite things and write stories, all in French, German, Spanish or English.
North Pole Web
north.pole.org/santa/
It's Christmas year 'round at the North Pole Web site. Visitors can talk to Santa, Rudolph and the elves, decorate a digital tree, or listen to Handel's "Messiah."
Nye Labs Online
nyelabs.kcts.org/
Fans of PBS's Bill Nye, "the Science Guy," can enter his online laboratory and explore the world of science. Be sure to check out the Demo of the Day and the Nyestore's home videos.
Pocahontas
www.disney.com/DisneyPictures/Pocahontas/?GL=H&referer=^DisneyPicture
Images and clips from Disney's "Pocahontas" are featured here, and visitors are also treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie.
Press Return
199.95.184.10/public/Network/PressReturn/Press-Return.html
"Press Return" is the online teen magazine from the people at Scholastic. Each theme-based issue represents a collaboration between young writers and professional editors.
Questacon
sunsite.anu.edu.au/Questacon/
Take a virtual tour of Questacon, Australia's national science and technology center. The Questacon home page features a "KidSpace" full of exhibits, games & activities.
The Realist Wonder Society
www.wondersociety.com/
The Realist Wonder Society is a "whistle-stop of imaginzation between way stations of reality." It features kid-oriented fantasy stories, art and poetry.
Santa's Home Page
www.netm.com/eh/christma/santa.htm
This Santa home page features humor and history of the Jolly Old Elf as well as a "Merry Virtual Christmas" greeting. Visitors can jot down recipes from Mrs. Claus' kitchen or send e-mail to Santa.
Time for Kids
pathfinder.com/TFK/index.html
"Time" magazine's kid-friendly news site contains feature stories, reports and lots of color. Headlines include "Kids design a space city."
Virtual Jack-O-Lantern
www.chaco.com/~glenn/jack/
Who says Jack-O-Lanterns are only for Halloween? Here children can carve virtual pumpkins in 3-D by choosing from various eyes, nose, mouth and stem options on a checklist. Submit the design and, voila, an artistic pumpkin appears. The program displays VRML files only, but provides a link to download VR Scout.
Virtually React
www.react.com/
The electronic version of the teen mag "react" is appropriately titled "virtually react." Actually, it's brimming with news, sports, entertainment, photos, jokes, contests and, of course, a cybermall (without the food court).