Online Games for Preschoolers
Learning Websites for Young Children
In many cases, such as with Sesame Street, PBS Kids, ABC Kids, and CBC Preschool, young children can transition directly from their favorite television shows to interactive websites featuring the same popular characters.
Poisson Rouge
Among websites targeted at preschoolers, PoissonRouge.com caters to the very youngest users. Children, even toddlers as young as two years old, can easily navigate and enjoy this simply styled and colorful clickable playroom environment. Preschool aged visitors to Poisson Rouge (French for Red Fish) will learn basic educational skills such as colors and shapes, letters and numbers, and cause and effect, as well as basic computer mouse usage and website navigation. The alphabet sections are in English, French, and Spanish.
Sesame Street
The classic educational and entertaining television show now presents the same learning opportunities to young children online in a new website presently in beta, SesameStreet.org. Content is categorized by subject, theme, and muppet. Playlists group games and videos into interactive learning adventures that follow a common theme such as Special Holidays, Winter Clothes, or Space. Also, parents can create playlists for their children on a number of subjects or themes with video and game options.
PBS Kids Sprout
SproutOnline.com, an offshoot of the popular PBS Kids website, is designed especially for preschoolers. It features many fun and educational games and activities with many of those based on PBS television characters. Games are categorized by character and by skill, such as creativity, fine motor skills, literacy, or just for fun.
The Playground
Kids are invited to come inside the magical, wonderful, and safe world of The Playground, the ABC television preschool website. Once inside, after clicking on the keyhole, young children can play games with TV characters, listen to Playground Radio, watch videos, and do fun activities.
Kids' CBC Preschool
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, presents CBC Preschool, a fun and educational website for preschoolers where kids can watch video clips and play simple games with their favorite television characters.
Starfall
Starfall.com sets out to inspire a love of reading. The website is divided into four sections, beginning with Let's Get Ready to Read for pre-readers. This is the area where preschool aged children will spend their time clicking on colorful ABC blocks and watching the resulting animation. This section also includes a sign language option. Parents can print ABC printouts for kids to use offline.
Websites offering simple learning games and activities allow toddlers and preschoolers to learn basic early childhood educational skills, as well as computer skills, while having fun, oftentimes with their favorite television characters.
Preschool Websites
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