Games & interactives
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Wonderpip
A calm browser-based learning space with early maths, reading, science, art, music, stories, and puzzles.
LearnEnglish Kids
Free songs, stories, games, videos, grammar activities, and printable ideas from the British Council for children learning English.
BBC Bitesize
Free curriculum-linked lessons, games, quizzes, and study support for children and teenagers.
Learning Adventures
Free, no-sign-up games and interactive storybooks for grades K-5 across math, science, English, history, and mixed skills.
National Archives Discovery Center
An interactive museum learning experience where children explore American democracy through games, documents, stories, and hands-on activities.
Te Papa Discovery Centres
Free museum discovery spaces with games, books, art activities, and hands-on learning for children and families.
Duolingo ABC
A playful early-literacy app with phonics, handwriting, sight words, vocabulary, and interactive stories.
InquiryMind
Free primary learning with read-aloud lessons, science and maths simulations, games, practice questions, and worksheets for kindergarten through Grade 5.
Open Learning Labs
Free video lessons, browser games, and learning puzzles in math, science, reading, and social studies for children ages 5-11.
Phonicademy
A structured phonics learning site with 44 sounds, browser games, decodable printables, parent guides, and companion mobile apps.
Reading Rockets Activities
Reading and writing activities for children, parents, teachers, and preschool educators from Reading Rockets.
Knowledge Kids
Commercial-free children’s videos, games, live TV, and shows from Knowledge Network for children ages two to eight.
Peabody Learning Games
A free browser arcade for kindergarten through grade 8, with reading, math, science, typing, building, and puzzle games.
Play It My Way
Forty-nine hand-built learning games for ages 2-14, covering early learning, literacy, math, geography, coding, science, and logic.
eduActiv8
Free open-source educational activities for ages 3–10, covering math, language, logic, memory, and more.
Boopaboo
A free tap-and-play collection for ages 2–5 covering sounds, colors, shapes, counting, letters, and early patterns.
Spark & Anvil
A large free collection of browser learning apps, stories, books, and puzzles for children and teens ages 3–18.
Level One Reading
A free phonics program for ages 4–6 with systematic synthetic phonics, decodable books, sounds, blending, and tricky words.
Phonics Lessons
A free browser phonics path for ages 3–6 with letter sounds, decodable stories, sound missions, games, and printables.
BBC Super Movers
Curriculum-linked songs, movement videos, and active learning resources for children across maths, English, sport, and wellbeing.
Cape Town Museum of Childhood
An interactive museum where children and adults explore childhood heritage, oral history, memory, and community through exhibitions and stories.
Sesame Street YouTube
The official Sesame Street channel with songs, stories, social-emotional learning, early literacy, and playful preschool videos.
NSW Supporting Early Literacy at Home
The NSW Government’s early-literacy guide helps families support communication, speech, language, reading, singing, word games, and creative play from birth. It also links to translated family factsheets and related public resources.
World Literacy Foundation Global Children’s Library
The World Literacy Foundation’s Sun Books Global Children’s Library connects children with digital stories and interactive books in 137 languages.
Highlights Kids
Stories, puzzles, crafts, jokes, games, and creative activities from Highlights for children.
PBS LearningMedia
A free library of curriculum-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and discussion prompts for teachers and learners from pre-K through high school.
Teach the UN
K–12 teaching guides, games, activities, and child-friendly resources about peace, human rights, sustainability, and the United Nations.
iCivics Games
Free civic-learning games that let students explore government, law, elections, and public decision making through play.
Delrita Pryce Foundation
Free animated literacy and money-skills programs, printable activities, and a learning app for young children.
Diffy
A calm, ad-free learning world with short browser games and illustrated books for math, science, coding, geography, and reading.
epotli
Free browser games for ages 3-8 covering math, reading, phonics, alphabet, geography, memory, and money sense.
games.family
Free browser games for young children, with simple puzzles, words, numbers, colors, and matching play.
Clickaroo
Open-and-play browser games for toddlers and young children covering letters, words, colors, numbers, shapes, memory, and puzzles.
PBS North Carolina Education
Public-media learning resources for young children, families, and educators, including PBS KIDS activities, literacy, STEM, and educational video.
Trace Quest
A free browser detective game where children trace online information, evaluate sources, and practice spotting misinformation through a timed mystery.
Warmnest
Warmnest is a children’s audio library with short stories, narrated learning series, and simple games led by animal characters. The official page describes a small, curated catalog for ages 2–8.
Teach Your Monster to Read
A phonics adventure game that takes children from first letter sounds through early sentences and little books.
Sesame Street
Public-media stories, videos, games, and activities supporting early learning and social-emotional development.
Epic Kids
A digital library for kids with books, audiobooks, videos, and reading discovery for children through age 12.
CellieKids
Free educational videos, games, songs, activities, and printables for children ages 2-9.
ABC Education
Free Australian curriculum-linked videos, games, lessons, and classroom resources for children, families, and teachers.
BrainPOP Jr.
Animated lessons, activities, and learning resources for young learners across science, math, reading, health, social studies, and the arts.
Small Fry Games
Free browser games for curious children, with playful practice in early learning, reading, addition, science, and observation.
Discovery Quest
Free human-reviewed learning quests for math, English, space science, and logic, with no ads or tracking of children.
ReadWriteThink Interactives
Free literacy interactives for children and classrooms, including story maps, plot diagrams, word sorts, and reading tools.
Islam Museum Learn
A free, open museum learning experience with age-based paths, stories, quests, teacher materials, and family activities for ages 4-18.
PBS KIDS for Parents
Family activities, games, printable ideas, and learning guidance from PBS KIDS for parents and caregivers.
Karim and Jana Words Journey
This official Qatar Reading Foundation app supports Arabic literacy for young children through a playful words journey with no ads or subscriptions.
Truth Runners
A free fact-checking game with elementary, middle-school, and high-school paths that trains source verification and misinformation detection under pressure.
AI Safety and Ethics Guide
A grade-banded AI safety and ethics module covering responsible use, deepfakes, misinformation, privacy, and digital judgment with interactive checks and printable guidance.
Digital Guardian
An age-banded K–12 online-safety curriculum with practical lessons and challenges for privacy, game chat, cyberbullying, AI, and what to do when something feels wrong online.
QuillQuest
A free spelling, times-tables, division, and touch-typing practice adventure for grades 3–8, with browser play and separate mobile apps.
TypePets
A browser typing tutor for children with finger-placement guidance, games, reading practice, and a virtual-pet loop. The official page presents it as a classroom-ready resource without login, ads, or tracking.
BBC Bitesize Primary
BBC’s primary-school learning hub for ages 3–11 with subject and year-group activities, videos, games, and topic packs across UK curricula.
Pitara Kids
Pitara Kids offers interactive bilingual stories with read-along narration and quizzes, plus screen-free audio stories for children and families.
Boston Children’s Museum Online Games
Free online games from Boston Children’s Museum that invite children to create stories, build a museum, and practise memory.
Scholastic Kids
A kid-facing library of book discoveries, series pages, and new releases from Scholastic.
Blue Brick School
A free, open-source learning platform with more than 300 activities and books, designed for children and educators and available online or offline on Android.
Ranger Rick Kids Nature
Wildlife magazines, nature stories, animal facts, games, and family activities that help children explore the natural world.
PlayWorks™ — Children’s Museum of Manhattan
A birth-to-four learning space combining music, movement, stories, sensory art, puzzles, engineering, and pretend play through daily programs.
Rolling Meadows Library Storytime at Home
A public-library storytime hub with free read-alongs, interactive storybooks, recommended storytime channels, Spanish options, and direct links to children’s reading platforms.
DoodleBeez
DoodleBeez is an ad-free learning app for ages 3–10 combining read-aloud picture books, step-by-step drawing, games, kindness and money stories, printables, and spoken support in nine languages.
Word Quest
A free word adventure that builds vocabulary, spelling, and reading comprehension through a short browser game with no account.
Provenance Academy Free Games
A free collection of browser-based digital-safety games for K–12 students, including media literacy, fact-checking, vocabulary, and focus activities with no login or student data collection.
Wondermaths
A playful browser learning world for ages 3–10 combining early maths, drawing, reading, listening, reusable pages, and guided adventures.
Gimble Gaming
A browser game library with educational music, physics, chemistry, spelling, science, and puzzle games, each labeled with a recommended age.
Stackadoo
A browser-based educational building game where children in grades 2–5 solve maths, reading, spelling, and grammar challenges to earn blocks and build 3D worlds.
Phonic Book
A free offline phonics reader for ages 3–6 with 13 talking A-to-Z stories. Children tap words to hear them read aloud, tap pictures for letter sounds, and earn a sticker after each story.
Minnesota Families READ Toolkit
Minnesota’s Families READ Toolkit gives caregivers playful ways to support emergent readers, choose books, and help children develop language and reading skills.
Shikshalay
Shikshalay is a free multilingual early-learning app for roughly ages 5–8, with Bengali, English, and Hindi lessons in alphabet, reading, maths, science, drawing, games, and everyday skills.
Brisbane Libraries
Brisbane City Council’s library service gives families access to free library membership, children’s stories and learning programmes, ebooks, audiobooks, online games, digital resources, and a library app.
Funbrain
A broad library of games, books, videos, and math activities organized for learners from pre-K through grade 8.
Animal Fact Guide
A colorful animal reference with species facts, quizzes, wildlife articles, and age-friendly nature learning.
Digital Museum of Learning
A free online museum for children and educators with interactive exhibitions, stories, resources, and playful quizzes about learning.
Duck English Phonics Games
Free browser games for practicing letter sounds, listening, blending, and early English phonics with a class or family.
Loving2Read
A free digital library with more than 1,000 children’s books, reading levels, printables, streaks, achievements, and classroom-friendly browsing.
My World Quest
A free learning world for children ages 4–15 with a 36-week journey across maths, science, English, history, geography, art, music, coding, stories, games, and creative activities.
Mighty Little Monkey
Mighty Little Monkey is a bilingual read-along app retelling Journey to the West in fifty picture books with word-by-word narration, quizzes, vocabulary, two reading levels, and twelve language options.
Open & Go Phonics
Open & Go Phonics provides free, no-prep phonics lessons for ages 4–8 with letter sounds, word audio, blend practice, games, flashcards, lesson plans, and printable PDFs.
Chimple Learning
Chimple is a free, game-based learning app for early reading, writing, and mathematics, designed for self-directed use on low-resource devices and without continuous internet access.
Toronto Public Library Ready for Reading: Playing
Toronto Public Library’s Playing collection gives caregivers simple games, letter hunts, sound hunts, rhymes, fingerplays, and sorting activities that build early language and reading readiness through play.
Luminova Kids
Luminova Kids is a volunteer project offering open English lessons, interactive exercises, audio, reading, listening, games, and worksheets for Ukrainian children in grades 1–7.
KindLearn Kids Zone
KindLearn is a free browser language-learning app with a Kids Zone for ages 4–12, offering 30-day beginner courses, listening practice, quizzes, and read-aloud word cards across 13 languages.
Learning App for Kids
Free bilingual English-Urdu learning for playgroup through Grade 5 with maths, language, science, and world topics.
Kiddo Games
A free collection of browser games for kids, including educational activities for maths, reading, science, and logic alongside creative and arcade play.
Show Me Where
A free reading-inference game for ages 6+ with short passages, a question about what the text implies, and a second question asking children to identify the evidence line that supports the answer.
ABC4Kids
A free multilingual browser app for ages 3–6 with playful alphabet, number, phonics, counting, and letter-tracing games.
LearningCave
An offline-capable learning adventure combining maths, reading, spelling, science, geography, simulations, and grade-banded practice.
Spell Trail
A free spelling practice game with age-banded word trails from Grades 1–8, audio repetition, no timer, and optional parent word lists.
WasiLearn
A browser library of 44 ad-free learning games and a home-learning plan for ages 2–6, covering early letters, numbers, rhymes, feelings, focus, and school readiness.
Squishee Academy
Squishee Academy offers free browser learning games from pre-K through grade 4 across number sense, operations, measurement, geometry, phonics, spelling, and early reading in seven languages.
Word Wonders: Free Early Literacy Curriculum
Zero to Three’s Word Wonders is a free early-literacy curriculum with playful language, reading, and caregiver activities for young children.
Potli
Potli combines children’s audio stories, games, and daily vocabulary practice to support early learning across Indian family languages.
PlatkyKutti
PlatkyKutti is a multilingual learning world for children with stories, language and grammar, math, maps, brain games, art, coding, and life-skills activities.
Learning With Momo
Learning With Momo is a multilingual web app with picture decks, pronunciation audio, games, and age modes from Little Explorer through Big Kid.
English for Fun
English for Fun is a set of browser games for children learning first English through picture vocabulary, early sentences, letters, numbers, shapes, colours, and early maths.
Topmarks
A long-running collection of educational games, interactives, maths worksheets, apps, and subject resources organized by age and topic.
TheMiniKid
A free K–8 learning app with math, reading, science videos, interactive books, quizzes, and achievement rewards for children and families.
Rusty Learning
Rusty is a parent-managed learning adventure for children ages 4–12, combining reading and math practice with a playful world and family controls.
Small Universe
Small Universe is a free browser English-learning game with 102 short lessons, mini-games, read-along fairy tales, and age-banded practice for children from age 3 and families.
Oplaland
Free child-friendly learning games, typing practice, colouring activities, and printable worksheets with accessibility settings.
BibyGames
Free American-English preschool games for ages 3–7 covering alphabet, numbers, tracing, and early recognition.
Kids Story Book
Interactive rhymes, storybooks, counting, shapes, pre-writing activities, and games for young children.
Critter Quest
A free no-ad maths and literacy practice game for kindergarten through sixth grade, with short question sets and collectible animal cards.
Dad4Kids
A free, ad-free browser library of learning games for children, organised around early maths, reading, Spanish, STEM, logic, and U.S. grade levels.
Storytime Builder
A free set of browser activities for letter recognition, tracing, first words, counting, ten-frames, and addition, with a storybook studio in development.
Toy Theater
Free educational games and virtual tools for elementary learners across math, literacy, art, music, puzzles, and classroom play.
Reading Bear
A free phonics and vocabulary library with narrated presentations, quizzes, and early-reading practice for young learners.
ReadWriteThink
Classroom-tested reading and language arts resources with interactive activities, lesson plans, and student tools from the National Council of Teachers of English.
The Free Reading Program
A nonprofit online reading, language, grammar, and spelling program with Level K–6 activities for children, families, and schools.
Education.com
A broad library of printable worksheets, games, activities, and lesson materials organized around school subjects and grade levels.
Roy the Zebra
Interactive reading games, guided stories, songs, and worksheets that help emerging readers practise phonics, vocabulary, and early literacy.
MiniQuestKids
A free learning site combining phonics, decodable stories, early math games, worksheets, life-skills stories, and Hindi vocabulary practice.
TernQuest
A K–5 learning app with games, narrated picture books, reading, math, science, coding, social studies, and a parent progress dashboard.
Geni
A playful learning app for children with math and reading practice, interactive activities, and a parent-oriented learning experience.
Wonder.io
An interactive reading website with choice-driven stories, read-aloud support, and playful comprehension activities for developing readers.
EduChild Quest
A quest-based learning website for children ages 4–12, with coding, math, English, science, and life-skills maps organised by school year.
GameForKidz
A free collection of browser games and learning-center activities for children, spanning puzzles, numbers, words, memory, and printable worksheets.
Mochi
A playful personal tutor for children ages 4–12 that teaches math and reading out loud through lessons built around each child’s interests.
Livermore Public Library Fun & Games
A public-library collection of family activities including neighborhood bingo, book-title scavenger hunts, secret messages, and Creative Kids at Home videos.
Cambridge Public Library Online Resources for Kids
A public-library guide to children’s learning and reading resources, including Britannica Fundamentals, Craftsy, Encyclopedia Britannica, PebbleGo, Hoopla, digital collections, and family games.
Phonics.com
Phonics.com is a free early-reading program with soundcards, audio, worksheets, ebooks, printable literacy games, and lessons aligned to foundational reading skills.
FUNetix
FUNetix is a free reading app and browser module for children ages 5–9, using a game-like 12-hour curriculum to move from alphabet knowledge toward an approximate second-grade reading level.
CoolFamilyGames Kids Corner
A family-friendly collection of maths, English, science, and fun-facts games organised for young age bands.
LingoStories
A free interactive story platform for language learners with simple graded stories, audio, translations, and choices.
Prolaud Free Learning Games & Tools
A free browser shelf of learning tools including Abacus Quest and printable abacus worksheets for ages 4–12, plus additional English practice games.
KiDly
A free-to-watch, ad-free catalog of short educational cartoons for ages 3–8 that pause to ask a question, with web, mobile, tablet, and TV access.
KidMindPath
A free collection of five ad-free browser games for young children covering early reading, English vocabulary, memory, early maths, attention, painting, and problem solving.
KidsOnline
A free browser library of small games across math, reading, science, logic, geography, and early learning for ages 2–12; children can play without signing up.
Curious Reader
A free Android literacy app from Curious Learning Org with games and stories that help children recognise letters, spell, and begin reading.
Are We There Yet?
A free browser game collection covering memory, arithmetic, spelling, word play, logic, and world geography for ages 4–16.
Brainland
A Singapore-built browser learning world for Primary 1–6 with free gamified zones for maths, English, science, geography, art, coding, and puzzles.
Quill
Quill is a nonprofit literacy platform with free interactive activities for reading comprehension, writing, grammar, and language skills, including evidence-based writing prompts and teacher tools.
Patchwork Speech
Patchwork Speech is a free speech and language practice library created by an SLP, with word lists, picture cards, printable materials, early-reading activities, and browser games for families and speech-language professionals.
Toondemy Kids Learning App
Toondemy is an iPhone and iPad early-learning app with phonics, literacy, numeracy, discovery, motor skills, creative expression, and cognitive-development activities for ages 3–10.
University of Utah Kids Links
The University of Utah Student Parent Support Center curates a broad set of children’s links for general interest, math, reading, science, and safe search, with short descriptions of the learning value of each site.
Austin Public Library KidSpeak
KidSpeak is an Austin Public Library digital language-learning resource with more than 40 activities, puzzles, songs, and practice experiences for children learning languages.
Mitch & Chlo: Make It Up
Mitch & Chlo’s Make It Up is a weekly children’s podcast and video show where submitted story ideas become playful audio adventures for young listeners.
KOBI
KOBI is a multilingual reading coach with stories, reading-together features, word games, progress insights, and classroom support for families and educators.
Fun With Learning
Fun With Learning combines visual math games, science and comprehension activities, live-action video quests, story time, and short interactive sessions for young children.
MIMI Smart Kids
MIMI Smart Kids is an offline Android learning app with math, phonics, spelling, world facts, riddles, stories, and age-banded games.
Education.com Games
Educational games and interactive practice for math, reading, language, science, logic, typing, and early learning.
Duolingo
Game-like language lessons with short practice sessions, listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.
Newsela
Differentiated nonfiction articles and quizzes designed for classroom reading practice.
Turtle Diary
Interactive educational games, videos, quizzes, worksheets, experiments, and activities for preschool through grade 5.
StarKid
A playful early-learning app and website for ages 2-10 with reading, math, everyday skills, feelings, games, and printable worksheets.
Alec
A game-based learning platform with more than 110 math and English mini-games, animated worlds, family progress tools, and school dashboards.
CodingMarble Kids
A free early-learning website for children ages 2–6 with picture-and-audio games, early literacy and math, science experiments, crafts, printables, and Hindi-English learning.
Andy Warhol Word Find
A printable word-find activity built around Andy Warhol's art and vocabulary, including Pop Art, Campbell's Soup Cans, Brillo Boxes, and screen printing.
Famous Artist Crossword
A printable crossword puzzle about famous artists, with clues connected to artists and artworks including the Mona Lisa, Campbell’s Soup Cans, drip painting, and Surrealism.
BrightBound Adventures
A free browser learning adventure with curriculum-aligned questions across literacy, numeracy, logic, storytelling, and motor-skills worlds.
Lumasha
Lumasha offers playful flashcards, stories, games, and printable activities designed to help young children learn and keep using family languages.
Bloopi: Kids Learning Games
Bloopi is a calm early-learning Android app with numbers, letters, counting, tracing, memory, creative play, parent controls, and offline access.
Kvasi
Kvasi is a beta learning world that turns reading, maths, geography, biology, art, health, physics, chemistry, and philosophy into themed realms.
Kids Discover
Visual nonfiction articles and interactive lessons covering science, history, geography, and social studies.
Ducksters
Readable reference pages for children covering history, geography, science, biographies, animals, and educational games.
StoryPlace
Interactive stories and early-literacy activities from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.
EarlyActivity
EarlyActivity provides printable worksheets, colouring pages, puzzles, stories, science activities, and browser-based worksheet makers for children ages 2–12, families, and classrooms.