If you have a baby you know how much they like the keyboard. I have an extra one that I have let Karlie bang the keys on, one of those old and loud keyboards and she loves it. The only problem is she wants to use the keyboard mommy and daddy use. Welcome Baby Smash! This free program allows your baby to use the pc worry free and makes it fun for them. As babies smash on the keyboard, colored shapes, letters, and numbers appear on the screen and you can set options for laughing or speech. If they use the mouse a bunch of colorful circles follow the pointer.
Some other sites for your kids:
Quintura
A kid friendly search engine powered by Yahoo Kids, so all search results should be G-rated.
TOTLOL
A youtube for kids.
YUVA
Karlie is too young for this but for older tots a good way for kids to create art with shapes. This "creative playground" (basically an online drawing program) lets kids create artwork using shapes that can be dragged, expanded, flipped, rotated, doodled, and so on. The resulting masterpieces can be saved in "sketchbooks," turned into e-cards to share with friends and family, or printed.Is not free but can try it for seven days and if your kid likes it only 29 per "artist".
Printable Car Activities
Some fun stuff to do with your kids while taking that summer vacation trip.
Free Sesame Street Ipod videos that teach kids valuable lessons
The iTunes Store is offering six free Sesame Street videos, each designed to teach kids an important life lesson. The videos range from 13-42 minutes; they're free to download and can be viewed on your PC or iPod. You will need to have itunes installed to download the videos. Also tons of kids audiobooks can be found here at Storynory.
Print your own coloring books
For those of you who love to color (or who have kids who love to color) coloring-book.info has a whole bunch of printable coloring book sheets.
Here is a video of Karlie mashing away at Baby Smash!...
