I've received a number of emails from readers asking me how they can find Web sites suitable for little kids on the Net. There are thousands of great web sites that are geared for age levels ranging from Kindergarten through 12th grade, but most parents are afraid that their child will run into sex, violence, or nasty situations and do not let their kids explore the Net.
This is unnecessary. As you will see below there are many sites that are void of bad stuff. However, you should always surf with your child. Never let your child explore the Net alone since it is pretty easy to find information - even the kind of stuff you don't want them to find.
So here is a sample of sites that are geared for little people. I have avoided any sites that mention Pokemon (it's a plot you know :) !
A Bird Without a Song
http://www.marlo.com/wguy1.htm
A Tribute to Dr. Seuss
http://www.newsword.com/cc/9510/0003cxwd.html
Anagram Insanity
http://www.infobahn.com/pages/anagram.html
Art Serve
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
Australian Guide
http://www.csu.edu.au/australia/
BeanTime Stories
http://www.meddybemps.com/5.1.html
Bill Nye , The Science Guy!
http://nyelabs.kcts.org/
Build an Egret
http://www.Friend.ly.Net/scoop/activity/airplact.htm
Candlelight Stories Home Page
http://users.aol.com/cimal/candlelight/candle.htm
Carlos' Coloring Book
http://www.ravenna.com/coloring/
Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
Children's Television Workshop
http://www.ctw.org/
Choose Your Own Adventure http://hillside.coled.umn.edu/class1/Buzz/Story.html
Crafts for Kids
http://www.kidslist.uc.edu/kidslist/crafts.html
Also check out http://homepages.uc.edu/~edavis/kids-list/Welcome.html
Curious George Rides the Bus
http://www.hmco.com/hmco/trade/hmi/george/game/index.html
Cyber Jacques Treasure Hunt
http://www.cyberjacques.com
Disney
http://www.disney.com
DoDo Land in Cyberspace
http://www.swifty.com/azatlan/
Frog Prince
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/Grimm/frog.html
Grimm's Fairy Tales
gopher://ftp.std.com:70/11/obi/book/Fairy.Tales/Grimm
interactive frog
http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html
International Kids' Space
http://www.interport.net/kids-space/
Internet Public Library--Youth Division
http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/youth/
Joseph Wu's Origami Page
http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/
Just for Kids
http://www.hmco.com/hmco/school/kids/index.html
Keys for Kids
http://www.gospelcom.net/cbh/kfk/kfk.html
Kid's Com
http://www.kidscom.com/
Kids' Corner
http://kids.ot.com/
Kids' Crambo
http://kids.ot.com/kidsspeak/
Kids on the Web
http://www.zen.org/~brendan/kids.html
KidPub
http://en-garde.com/kidpub/intro.html
Kids Web
http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/
Koala Trouble Series
http://www.scribbles.com.au/max/
Learn How to Make Pictures? On Your Computer
http://www.sillybilly.com/draw95.html
Lego
http://www.lego.com/defaultnoflash.asp
Lion King WWW Unofficial Archive
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~btman/lionking/
MathMagic
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathmagic/
Mazes
http://www.wln.com/~deltapac/maze/mazepage.html
MCA Home Entertainment Kid's Playroom
http://www.mca.com/home/playroom/
Mike Is Hungry
http://mosaic.echonyc.com/~spingo/Matt/Mike.html
Mr. Bear's Birthday Book
http://pages.prodigy.com/U/S/A/USFY50A/party1.htm
My Hero
http://myhero.com
Muppets
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/BS/Muppets/muppets.html
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
http://www.nasa.gov/
naughts and crosses (tic tac toe)
http://www.bu.edu/Games/tictactoe
Parents and Children Together Online
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/fl/pcto/menu.html
Planet Yes
http://www.sillybilly.com/yestit.html
Platypus Family Playroom
http://www.peak.org/~platypus/in.html
Ponyshow's KidsNet
http://www.PonyShow.com/KidsNet/website.htm
Professor Bubbles' Official Bubble Homepage
http://bubbles.org
Sally on the Island
http://users.aol.com/cimal/candlelight/sallyone.htm
Sally Saves Christmas
http://users.aol.com/cimal/candlelight/page1.htm
Sharon, Lois & Bram
http://www.destinyweb.com/elephant
Silly Billy's Books
http://www.sillybilly.com/
Sports Illustrated for Kids Online
http://www.sikids.com/index.html
Stage Hand Puppets Activity Page
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/onstage/puppets/
The Last Book
http://www.sillybilly.com/lasta.html
The Littlest Knight
http://www.pacificnet.net/~cmoore/lk/
The Nine Planets
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
The Simpsons
http://www.digimark.net/TheSimpsons/index.html
The Winning Game
http://www.marlo.com/t1.htm
Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/
Wacky Web Tales
http://www.hmco.com:80/hmco/school/tales/
Web-a-sketch
http://www.digitalstuff.com/web-a-sketch/
WebTime Stories with Webster the Spider for little Webcrawlers
http://www.webtimestories.com/
Wooden Toys Exhibit
http://www.pd.astro.it/forms/mostra/mostra_i.html
WWW Spirograph
http://juniper.tc.cornell.edu:8000/spiro/spiro.html