Kid-Friendly Computer Game Resources

There are many fun and educational games that can be played from your computer. However, it’s best to stick with websites that are reputable and popular. These gaming websites contain games for the entire family and have categories that are age appropriate. Many of these websites also feature characters from your children’s favorite television shows. The following resources will bring your family a collection of kid-friendly computer games that you can play online.

Games for Kids 3-8

• Poptropica – Fun Brain: Here you will flash arcades in various topics, such as math and reading.
• Yahoo Kids: The arcade features online games from movies, such as ‘Monsters vs. Aliens” and other fun kids’ games.
• PBS Kids: Collection of educational games that teach reading, letters, numbers, science, literacy, math, vocabulary, and spelling.
• Nickelodeon Online Games: Kids can play along with their favorite Nick Toons characters, such as SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Nick Jr. Games: Preschoolers can enjoy games and activities with Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, and other Nick Jr. characters.
• Playhouse Disney Online: Collection of Disney games for kids, such as coloring pages, memory games, and puzzles.
• Fisher Price Online Games and Activities: Learning games and activities for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

Games for Kids 9-12

• Up to Ten: Independent kids website with over a thousand fun games and activities.
• Free Online Games: Find puzzles, arcade, sports, casino, word, cash, and time management games.
• Yarr Game: Fun multi-player online game where players must defeat pirates and find treasure.
• Games Freak: Collection of free car racing games, as well as bike, parking, sports, and action games.
• Sheppard Software: Online math games to help kids practice basic math operations, measuring, fractions, time, place value, and pre-algebra.
• National Geographic Kids: Kids can participate in interactive adventures, action games, puzzles and quizzes, geography games, and much more.

Games for Teens

• Scholastic Games for Kids: Collection of quizzes and polls, arcade games, and writing activities.
• Orisinal: Here you will find fun action games and puzzles on a variety of subjects.
• Kids AOL Games: Free online mission, action, sports, arcade, puzzles, and brain games.
• Fact Monster Games and Quizzes: Educational games related to science, math, sports, and holidays.             Photo Credit|Patrick Q;Flickr 2010

• Class Brain Games: Find beginner games, brain games, holiday games, and puzzles.
• Cartoon Network Games: Kids can play over two hundred online games from shows, such as Pokémon and Star Wars.
• The Puzzle Factory: Find multi-player, racing, strategy, arcade-style, adventure, and board games.

Games for Families

• Addicting Games: Find games for everyone in the family, including puzzles, strategy, and classic games.
• Gamezhero: This website has a large collection of games, including sports and skill, action, strategy, and girls’ only games.
• Crayola Creativity Central: Family games, including online coloring sheets, action, and adventure games.
• Shockwave: Online games include jigsaws, puzzles, card & board, racing, action, and strategy.
• Prongo Kids Games: Find online games in three sections, ages 3 to 6, ages 6 to 9, and ages 9 to 12.
• Online Games for Kids and Moms: This website has games that kids and their moms can play online, including pinball and puzzles.

Games for 2 Players

• Two Player Games: Website full of two player games in a variety of categories, such as racing, action, and sports.
• FOG – Free Online Games: Here you will find many two player games, such as Raft Wars and Multiplayer Chinese Checkers.
• Daily Games: Free two player games that kids can play online, including music, cards, and ability games.
• 1 Up Free Games: Find many two player games in the action, shooting, adventure, and arcade section of this website.
• Much Games: Here you will see nearly two hundred two player games, such as American Dad vs. Family Guy and Newgrounds Rumble.
• Y8: Play one of many two player games in a variety of categories, such as alien, aircraft, and collecting games.
• Play Buz: Play free flash games for one or two players, such as Super Smash Flash and Avatar Fortress Fight.

Games for 2 plus More Players

• Mini Clip: Action, sports, puzzle, and other games for multiple players.
• Spogg: The Spoggers website allows you to play with other players all over the world.
• Gamezer: Play against the computer or with another person in these multiplayer games.
• Game Sheep: Here you will find several special categories for multiplayer gaming, such as Mario, pool, tower, and truck games.
• Game Net: These free web games are for single or multiplayer and are updated frequently.
• Nabisco World: Find a large collection of multiplayer games relating to sports, arcade, and puzzles.
• Riddler: Best online resource for trivia, brain teasers, puzzles, and word games.