I've no doubt that Children will have some fun while learning with the ten websites highlighted in this blog and, that Family Learning Practitioners/parents/guardians/carers/etc., can have fun teaching them too.

In the words of this blog entry...

"What probably helps today’s parents is the relative precociousness of the ‘digital age’ generation. They seem to be naturally drawn towards anything that’s interactive."

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Yet another website, in fact a scholastic game, where visitors can create a creature.  Creature Creator can be used for writing or art activities.

Visit http://www.scholastic.com/underlandchronicles/creaturecreator.htm to try it out.

P.S. Here is my first effort...

GRABBA BEAST lets users build their own Beast from a huge, ever-growing library of body types and parts —

• some scary,
  
• some cute,
  
• most are ridiculous
  

Hitting RANDOMIZE will generate a random creation, or visitors can view other Beasts in the BEAST GALLERY.

The resulting images can be used to encourage learners to...

• write stories
• improve their vocabulary - listening skills (describing a given beast or identifying a beast from a descr...

If like me, you love the art of paper folding, (I blame the Rupert Bear Annual) then you will definitely get hooked with the Origami Club Website.

Origami Club is a free comprehensive online resource for paper art lovers and origami enthusiasts full of free and easy origami diagrams and animations.

With Origami Club, users can browse through various origami creations and watch and/or find directions on how to create them.

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has three excellent interactive activities about dinosaurs.

There is a virtual tour in which learners can tour the museum and see close-ups of exhibits. The interactive time line provides learners with an overview of the...

• Paleozoic,
• Mesozoic, and
• Cenozoic eras.

The highlight of the interactive activities is the virtual dinosaur dig where learners use a variety of archeologists' tools to unearth fossils and then assemble them.

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Paper Toys are an inexpensive way of keeping children both happy and busy.

If you are a Family Learning practitioner looking for activities that involve cutting, folding and gluing? Paper toys from Toy-a-Day could be one answer. Parents/Guardians/Carers etc., and their young charges, can print, fold and glue them together, to create any number of toys they want. Children (and Adults) will have a great time making the toys and costs are minimal. 

The resulting toys could be used in a 'Toy...