The online games chapter today is dedicated to younger children, for whom the internet is full of fun and interactive games, which are safe and, perhaps, even for educational purposes, exercising the skills of logic and ingenuity. Below we discover the best sites to find games for children, with particular regard to some games for children under 13 who can be considered the best of the genre and the most popular.
Among the sites indicated, all free and of a high level, there are some really very good facts that can also provide educational support to parents of a small child and to teachers of nursery and primary schools .
Unfortunately, even in this sector, that of childhood and teaching for children, English-language sites are often preferable to those in Italian.
In total we have 18 game sites for younger children to have fun on the internet and learn new things on the computer.
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1) Nasa Kids Club is a section of the official NASA website dedicated to children who can find games set in space, to learn and have fun.
For example, you can see Earth from space or try to drive the robot that was shipped to Mars.
2) The Peppa Pig site is a lot of fun for children from 2 to 5 years old, with characters from the popular cartoon and easy-to-do, very fun and well-designed games.
The site is in Flash, which is therefore to be activated if disabled on the browser.
3) FunBrain is a very well maintained and updated educational online games site for children. The site has several math and reading games, it also contains books and comics in English.
4) PBS Kids Games is an educational site for very simple, colorful and fun online games for children. Some of the games on the site are also great for learning new things.
5) Sesame Street is a beautiful site with a lot of games dedicated to children aged between 3 and 7 years. On the colorful home page, made especially to stimulate the curiosity and discovery of the little one, without boring him.
6) Starfall is one of the best educational sites for young children, where there are letter recognition games, math games, very didactic, but simple and fun musical games.
7) Kids National Geographic is the children's section of the most important documentary network, where you can learn many interesting curiosities about animals, look at photos of nature, learn about the different countries and try scientific experiments.
8) Nickjr is a site for children also in Italian, where you can find videos, games and coloring pages that portray the many heroes of children's cartoons including Paw Patrol, Shimmer And Shine, Alvin, Nazboo and several others.
9) Baby-flash is an Italian site for children with many educational and instructional games to learn Italian, for math, geometry, geography, fairy tales and many other very fun interactive exercises.
10) Scholastic is a site for students of all ages, from kindergarten to elementary and middle school, with activities and games for everyone.
11) PlayKidsGames has several flash games about the alphabet, really fun. In one I have tried, a mole with a letter on the head must be hit with a hammer. Letters must be struck in order, from A to Z.
12) Kidsknowit is a site where you can discover videos and stories about animals, chemistry, spelling, geography, astronomy and many other topics.
13) ABCya is another site with games with numbers for kindergarten children.
The site is in English so even stories and games with letters cannot be done.
14) The SmartyGames site is always in English but contains several very nice, colorful and educational interactive games with games on numbers, memory, colors and more.
15) Orisinal is a site of games of skill and reflexes that I had already mentioned in the list of the best sites with flash games.
Orisinal advice for children for its delicate and colorful graphics that lend themselves really well to a game without anxiety, fun and completely innocent.
16) On the Kidspsych website there are some interactive games, some for children from 1 to 5 years old, others for older children, from 6 to 9 years old. The games didn't seem too good to me but the animations are very nice.
17) The Italian Giochiper site contains a large selection of games for children, all organized according to age. They are not educational games, for the most part, they are fun pastimes.
18) On the classicsforkids.com website there is a musical game dedicated to children to create music on the computer, but it is so much fun that it becomes a game for all ages that leads us to play music by combining the notes in a simple way.
19) The game of musical instruments for children can be found on the Fisher Price website. This fun interactive game game is a music mixer that allows the child to learn about instruments and songs. Once you have chosen the song, you can click on the animals of the band to make them play with their instruments, one, only a few or all together.
20) Music-Maker is one of the games on the KneeBouncers children's website to choose from by clicking on the icon with the piano. On the right side, you can select the drums, the piano, the guitar and play by playing. The selection of songs is on the left, and from there, just press any key to play that chosen song with the selected instruments. For the piano, you can also move the cursor over the keys to play.
21) The New York Philarmonic KidZone children's site offers various musical composition games : one where you become a conductor and choose the instruments to play a specific classical music . The second game is called Minuet Maker and allows you to create a Mozart song by combining various pieces of music with each other with a choice of musical instrument.
21) Three games described in another article, also suitable for babies in the first months, allow you to play them by typing on the PC keyboard at random .
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Other sites with lots of online games for children of all ages are:
- children games
- BoomerangTV
- Flashgames.it
For older children, however, I refer to the list of the best games for younger boys and girls, role-playing and multiplayer
