Art Zone
Don't have time to get out your paints and brushes? "Paint" using your computer mouse. Have fun making your own collage of shapes and colors - no glue required. Take photos with a virtual camera and edit them. All this and more is available in the National Gallery of Art's Art Zone.

Cartoonster
Want to make your own cartoons and animation? This site shows you how, step-by-step.

City Creator
Be the master of your domain — build your own city, modern or medieval, on City Creator!

Enchanted Learning — Crafts for Kids
A great site packed full of a wide range of crafts, many using traditional materials such as paper bags, egg cartons, twigs . . . .

First Palette
Step-by-step illustrated instructions for fun art and craft projects, such as making your own bean bag animals. It also includes recipes for making salt dough or papier mache. Search for projects by theme or age.

Imagination Factory
How can you have fun and recycle at the same time? Make art out of trash! This Web site shows you treasures you can make using "trash" from your home, such as bottle caps, junk mail and egg cartons. Check out the "trash matcher" feature to find out what to make from things in your recycling bin.

Making Friends.com
At Making Friends you'll find lots of creative activities for kids ages 2-15.

Oriland Origami
What can you make from folded paper? Animals, boxes, things to wear and party decorations are just a few of the things you can create using the tips in the "Origami Studio" and "Origami University" sections of this Web site. Print and fold your own origami calendar, too!

Balloon Ride
There's a hot air balloon tied down with ropes. To win a ride, play your computer or another player, and be the one to cut the last rope.

Brain Explorer
These puzzles, riddles and illusions are especially for kids ages 9-12.

Math Cats
Some cool cats want to play games with you. It's so much fun, you'll hardly even know you're doing math!

FunBrain.com
Fun arcade games that boost math and grammar skills.

GeoSpy
How well do you know your way around the globe? Become a GeoSpy agent by identifying countries, continents, states and provinces.

Invention Playhouse
Build a track to route a moving ball into a cup, assemble some block puzzles, or design and view your own clouds.

Cartoon Network.com
Visit the world of cartoons. See old favorites and newcomers, look at animations and play games.

Comics.com
Big Nate and Peanuts can be found here.

Disney Fairies
Want to learn more about the Never Fairies while exploring Pixie Hollow? Join Tinkerbell as she introduces you to her friends and home!

King Features
The Amazing Spiderman, Curtis and Mutts are a few of the comics featured here.

uComics
Includes Calvin & Hobbes and Garfield. Comics Sherpa lets you take a look at undiscovered talent and rate it.

Animals

• The Adventures of Herman the Worm
  Find out all about worms and play worm games in English or Spanish.

• The BoomerWolf Website
  Be sure to read the story and solve the case. Then visit the zoo to see lots of animals in photos and videos.

• The Froggy Page
  Virtual frogginess and amphibian fun.

• Kids Farm
  Visit a farm with loads of animals and never leave your home. If your computer is set up so that it can play sounds, you can even hear the quacking and mooing!

• Kids' Planet
  Get printable fact sheets about endangered animals from around the world. You can also play games, read stories, print out animal coloring pages and find out what you can do to help animals.

• National Zoo

• Animal Cams
  Want to get up close and personal with some of the animals at the National Zoo? You can! Enjoy watching and reading about various animals through the zoo's live animal cams. Among the animals on view are tigers, gorillas, elephants and even an octopus!

• Panda Cam
  Watch Tai Shan, the National Zoo's most famous panda cub, as he plays, eats and sleeps within the giant panda habitat with his mother. Also, read about Tai Shan and his progress.

Dinosaurs

• Dinosphere
  Meet the dinosaurs that live at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis! Learn through interactive articles, activities and games about how the dinosaurs, like Bucky the Teenage T-Rex, lived. You will need sound for some of the games/activities.

• Kids Dig Dinos
  Visit this dinosaur site by kids for kids to print out coloring pages, find out how dinosaurs got their names and learn more fascinating dino facts and history.

• ZoomDinosaurs.com
  Dinosaur information, trivia and topics galore! Learn the real story behind dinosaur myths, and find out which dinosaurs were the biggest, fastest, smallest, smartest or other "record breakers."

Insects

• The Bug Club
  Build a giant bug, make insect origami, print out activity sheets or play bug games online! The Amateur Entomologists' Society has put together this collection of fun facts and creepy-crawly activities you can try at home.

• Children's Butterfly Site
  Coloring pages and information about butterflies and moths including translations in several languages. Make your own coloring book about the life cycle of the butterfly in English, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, French or German!

• Yucky Roach World
  Hate cockroaches? Like worms? Visit the other yucky sites at the Yuckiest Site on the Internet.

Pets

• Animaland
  Play games, learn about favorite pets, meet animal heroes, find information on animals of all kinds and read about animals in the news.

• Hamsterific!
  Everything you ever wanted to know about hamsters and hamster care, plus some fun links.

• How to Love Your Dog: A Kid's Guide to Dog Care
  Learn how to train your dog and care for your pet. Video clips show how to teach your dog tricks and obedience. You can even add pictures and stories about your own dog to this Web site! Riddles and games add to the fun.

• Pet Planet
  Solve pet puzzles, send pet e-cards to your friends and find advice about caring for all kinds of pets on this Web site from Animal Planet.

Microbes

• The Microbe Zoo
  How small does life get? What lives in humans? Do microbes help make human food? Take a look! — a close look!

Sharks

• Shark Surfari
  Test your shark knowledge with this online quiz by National Geographic.

• Sharks and Rays
  Learn more about Elasmobranchs (otherwise known as sharks and rays) and their bony fish relatives on this informative Web site.

• The Truth About the Monsters of the Deep
  Don't be afraid to learn the truth about sharks. Facts and photos tell about where they live, what they really look like and more.

20 Questions
2Q is a computerized version of the game 20 questions. Think of something animal, vegetable or mineral, and challenge artificial intelligence to figure out what it is in 20 questions or less.

Checkers Online
Learn new ways and strategies for the old game of checkers. Nifty moves — and the computer doesn't always win.

Chess is Fun
Learn to play or learn super strategies to try later on your friends. The split screen offers a chess board on the right side and how to play on the left. It's so easy, even an adult can learn from this site!

Game Goo
Turn up the volume, and have fun playing these colorful, interactive reading and language arts games for kindergartners through 2nd graders.

Games Kids Play
Listing all kinds of games for kids to play inside and outside, on the computer and off.

Keyboarding

Maze Works
A variety of games and puzzles to challenge you, including a new chess problem every day.

Play Kids' Games
Young kids will have fun playing video-style learning games at this site designed by parents.

J.K. Rowling Official Site
J.K. Rowling shares the latest Harry Potter news, debunks rumors and talks about her life. Learn details about her upcoming book by solving puzzles scattered through the Web site.

Scholastic Books' Harry Potter Site
Official Web site created by the U.S. publisher of Harry Potter books.

Unofficial Harry Potter Site
Get the latest buzz on Harry Potter. Lots of links to official and other unofficial sites included.

America's Story
Fun facts and games await at this site made especially for kids by the library of Congress.

Ancient Egypt — Neferchichi's Tomb
Neferchichi, who looks suspiciously like a Chihuahua dog, hosts this Web site. Learn to write in hieroglyphics and look at 3-D, magic eye-style pictures. Find out about mummies, pharaohs and gods of ancient Egypt.

Archaeology

• Archaeological Adventure
  For folks who are truly into archaeology, this site has all kinds of information and links.

• Do You Want to be a Mummy?
  Slightly goofy illustrations show what it takes to be an Egyptian mummy.

Pirates!
Are you ready for high seas adventure? Join National Geographic and learn about real pirates through fictional tales based on historical fact.

Secrets of Lost Empires
See real-life recreations of ancient technological wonders. Try making a Roman aqueduct or a medieval weapon.

Vikings
Get a taste of life as a Viking. Check out the Multimedia Zone for animations, games and reconstructions.

Walk Through Time
A cool interactive site with games too.

Activity TV
Watch step-by-step demonstrations of crafts, cooking projects, magic tricks, science experiments and more!

Coin Collecting — U.S. Mint Site for Kids
It's all about the money: play coin games, view coin cartoons and travel through time to solve coin mysteries.

Design Squad
Do you like to build things? Find project instructions for making your own hidden alarm, zip line, dance pad and more on this Web site based on the PBS show "Design Squad."

LEGO
Join the LEGO club for comics, games and instructions for building new LEGO creations.

Stamps — American Philatelic Society Site Just for Kids
Find out how to start your own stamp collection and print out fun activity pages.

Thunk.com Secret Messages
Use this online scrambler to turn all your words into secret code.

DLTK Holidays
From birthday to Earth Day, this site has crafts to help you decorate, games to help you celebrate and puzzles to stretch your brain!

Holiday Sites from JohnThurlow.com
Can't wait for that special holiday to arrive? Enjoy holiday stories, games, crafts, riddles and more — anytime!

A Kid's Heart Holidays
Whether it's Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day or even National Watermelon Day, this site includes fun holiday games, activities and printables.

Primary Games Holiday Fun
Send musical postcards, print your own holiday stationary, play games and color pictures for Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Hanukkah and many other holidays.

Mr. Bones
Can you put the skeleton back together?

Your Gross and Cool Body
Find out about sweat, gas and all kinds of bodily functions.