Arts and Games

Activities for learning and laughing

Coloring Pages

On TV

Activities for learning and laughing

Africa For Kids
http://pbskids.org/africa/
Make an African mask, read a Swahili folktale and see photos from African schools.

America's Story from America's Library
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
Kid's games and exhibits about American History presented by the Library of Congress.

Arthur Game Page
http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/index.html
Play the Brain Game, Effective Detective and many more games featuring Arthur and his friends.

Book Plates
http://www.myhomelibrary.org/bookplates.html
Download black & white or color book plates for your home library drawn by noted illustrators like Aliki, Helen Oxenbury, Tony Ross, Quentin Blake, etc.

Braille Bug Games
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/Games.asp
Type your name and see it written in braille. Send and decode braille messages with your friends.

Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy
http://www.pilkey.com/games.php
You can also play Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot Vs. The Stupid Stinkbugs from Saturn and many other truly disgusting games at Dav Pilkey's Extra Crunchy Web Site O' Fun.

Captain Underpants: Make Your Own Comic
http://www.scholastic.com/captainunderpants/comic.htm
Fill in your name, your hometown and your teacher's name and let the fun begin.

Cartoon Network: Games
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/index.html
A huge selection of games featuring popular cartoon characters.

Chinese Calligraphy
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/site_sum.html?lib_id=2218&team_id=3614
Learn about the tools and techniques used to create this beautiful artistic writing.

Code Makers and Breakers
http://summerreading.nypl.org/read2003/3_4/code/index.cfm
Be a secret agent. Turn your words into code and then see if your friends can figure out what you said.

Concentration
http://summerreading.nypl.org/read2002/concentration/index.html
See if you can match the covers of these popular children's books!

Curious George's Game Page
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/cgsite/gamesandfun.shtml
Mazes, puzzles, word searches, coloring pages, even a Curious George party kit!

Cyberchase Games
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games.html
Math games from the PBS television show.

Dinosaur Jokes
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/Dinojokes.html
"Q: Why did the Archaeopteryx catch the worm? A: Because it was an early bird!"

Disney Channel Games
http://www.disney.go.com/disneychannel/games/
New games weekly. High scores are posted on the site.

Famous Lines From Great Children's Books
http://kids.nypl.org/arts/ChildrensBookQuiz.cfm
"The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another…"--Do you know what book this line is from?

Fastball Reaction Time
http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/reactiontime.html
See if you can react fast enough to hit a 90-mph fastball thrown by a major league pitcher. Presented by the Exploratorium Science Museum.

Fun Brain
http://www.funbrain.com/
A large collection of games. Includes dozens of games like Mad Libs, Math Games, Arcade Games...

Geography Game
http://summerreading.nypl.org/read2002/matching/index.cfm
Match each book title with the location in which it takes place (for grades 5 & up).

Get Your Web License
http://pbskids.org/bts/license/
Master the rules of the road on the Information Superhighway and get your web license. A fun way to learn Internet safety and search skills.

Goosebumps Games
http://www.scholastic.com/goosebumps/games/index.htm
Ghoulish Games to scare you silly from R.L Stine.

Hamsters! Take the 10-Minute Bedtime Tour!
http://www.hamstertours.com/
Peggy Rathman's furry little friends come to life.

Harry Potter: Wizard Challenge
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/challenge/index.htm
Hey, Muggles! How many questions can you answer? Get your name on the Daily High Score Board.

Harry Potter: Send a Howler or an Owler
http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/wizard/section/howler_main.asp
Howlers are loud angry messages that you can send when you're unhappy with somebody! Owlers are for when you want to be nice!

How to Make an Origami Crane
http://www.monkey.org/~aidan/origami/crane/
Photos of every step make this a great guide for those who have struggled to make this popular model.

How to Make Paper Snowflakes
http://www.highhopes.com/snowflakes.html
Learn how to make beautiful six-pointed paper snowflakes.

I Spy
http://www.scholastic.com/ispy/play/index.asp
Can you find the hidden objects in these I Spy riddles?

Kids' Place
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/index.html
Fun stuff for K-8 including geography games and fill-in-the-blanks stories.

Kids Recipes
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/cafe/
Delicious recipes from Cafe Zoom.

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/index.html
It is really the story of Little Red Riding Hood but the words are all wrong. Can you read it?

National Geographic Kids: Games
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/games/games_main.html
Play Brain Teasers, Wild & Wacky and What In the World games.

Net Smartz Kids
http://www.netsmartzkids.org/
Games and activities that help you learn about web safety.

Nick.com Games
http://www.nick.com/games/index.jhtml
Large selection of games from the Nickelodeon television network.

Optical Illusions
http://www.exploratorium.edu/seeing/exhibits/index.html
You can't believe your eyes in the "Seeing" exhibit from the Exploratorium.

Pattern Wizardry
http://www.brooklynkids.org/patternwizardry/games.html
Discover the "power of patterns" in these online drawing games from the Brooklyn Children's Museum.

PBS Kids Democracy Project
http://www.pbs.org/democracy/kids/
Be the president for a day!

Pirate Concentration
http://summerreading.nypl.org/read2001/one-online.html
Match all the tiles to reveal the picture underneath.

Puzzlemaker from Discovery School
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Create your own mazes, word searches and cross-word puzzles!

San Francisco Symphony for Kids
http://www.sfskids.org/templates/splash.asp
Listen, learn, and compose.

Sesame Street Games
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/?scrollerId=games
Play games with letters, numbers, sorting, shapes and more. Featuring all the Sesame Street characters.

Seussville
http://www.seussville.com/
Click on the "Playground" sign for fun with your favorite Dr. Seuss characters.

Shel Silverstein: The Official Site for Kids
http://shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html
In the "Let's Have Some Fun" section you can print the Cuttin' Kate Drawing Book make your own bookmark, solve poetry puzzles and more.

Sodaplay
http://www.sodaplay.com/
Build, race and play with the walking machines at Sodaplay.

The World of Beverly Cleary
http://www.beverlycleary.com/games/index.html
Test your knowledge of Beverly Cleary's characters: Ramona, Runaway Ralph, Henry, Maggie, Socks, Ellen Tebbits and more.

The World of Rosemary Wells
http://www.rosemarywells.com/
Click "Fun with Max & Ruby" to print Bunny Money, color or play games.

Virtual Kite Zoo
http://www.kites.org/zoo/
Lots of cool kite facts and how-to's and the many uses for kites throughout history.

World Record Paper Airplane
http://www.workman.com//fliersclub/download.html
Learn to make the plane featured in the Guinness Book of World Records. It has flown for 18.8 seconds. Can you break the record? (Instructions for the Skyhawk and the Gemini are also included.)

Your Weight on Other Worlds
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/index.html
Find out how much you would weigh on other planets.

Zomo the Rabbit Jigsaw Puzzle
http://summerreading.nypl.org/read2001/pre-online.html
Drag each piece to its place to build the book cover.

Coloring Pages

American Flag
http://www.coloring.com/working/begin.cdc?img=wavingflag
Color this flag online, using the mouse.

Arthur Coloring Pages
http://pbskids.org/arthur/print/coloringpages/index.html

Astronaut, by Paul Zelinsky
http://summerreading.nypl.org/read2001/adventures/coloring/astronaut.html
Travel into outer space...

Bald Eagle
http://www.coloring.com/working/begin.cdc?img=baldeagle
Color online, then print or e-mail to a friend.

Camel, by Paul Zelinsky
http://summerreading.nypl.org/read2001/adventures/coloring/camel.html
The adventure begins!

Catch the Reading Bug!
http://kids.nypl.org/images/coloringsheets_catchthereadingbug.pdf
Coloring sheets from the PBS program WordWorld.

Curious George Coloring Pages
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/cgsite/partykitpdfs/cgcolsheetyoung.pdf

Hedgie Coloring Pages
http://www.janbrett.com/activities_pages_artwork.htm
Meet author Jan Brett's friends: Hedgie, the Trolls and Santa.

Ivy's Dinosaur Coloring Pages
http://www.ivyjoy.com/coloring/dinosaur.shtml

Kaleidoscope Painter
http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
Move your mouse around the red dot on the screen and see brilliant kaleidoscopic images appear.

Kendra's Coloring Book
http://colorbook.tripod.com/
Interactive coloring pages.

PBS Kids Coloring
http://pbskids.org/fun_and_games/coloring.html

Pirate, by Paul Zelinsky
http://summerreading.nypl.org/read2001/adventures/coloring/pirate.html
Find treasures in books!

Sesame Street Coloring Pages
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/coloringpages/

On TV

"New York Kids" Radio Program
http://www.nykids.org/
"Hot Radio for Cool Kids!" online and on WNYC AM 820.

Between the Lions
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/lions/
Get wild about reading with Lionel and Leona.

Bookworm Bunch
http://pbskids.org/bookwormbunch/

Discovery Channel Online
http://kids.discovery.com/
Send a postcard, vote in a poll, or begin your own adventure.

PBS Kids
http://pbskids.org/
Takes you to your favorite shows: Arthur, Barney, Clifford, Teletubbies and more.

Reading Rainbow
http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/
How many Reading Rainbow books have you read?

Sesame Street
http://www.pbs.org/kids/sesame/
Coloring pages, stories, and other activities starring your favorite Sesame Street characters.

WordWorld
http://www.wordworld.com/
Where words come alive.