Kidsdomain.com – The Kids’ Turf

Now this looks like a useful site for the homeschooler or for just the kid and all of us!

I am talking about Kidsdomain.com which has a wonderful variety of information and fun for kids and a wealth of resources for parents and teachers. It is divided into two main areas -Kids and Grownups. There is considerable over lap between the two. Everything on the site is child safe so parents can feel free to let their children play.

First you will notice that the site is not full of clutter and is broken down in to basically a few sections. For example, you could get downloads and information on some of your or your kids favorite games, not to mention the Safe Surfing, Holiday Fun, Crafts and Brain Builders sections.

The site is set up in such way that kids and adults can look for games or information by type (crafts,links, downloads, printables etc.) or by topic (wizards, sports, holidays, seasons etc). For instance-if you went to ’’summer’’ you would find printable word searches and crosswords (both on several levels of difficulty) using summer words.

You will also find crafts, free downloadable summer icons, screensavers and games (for both PC and Mac), a reading list of summer books (with suggested age and a brief description, links to online story sites and much more. You can also send a summer e-greeting. The number of things to do and links to other activities and sites are amazing.

We used links from the Wizard School section to plan our son’s Harry Potter Birthday last year. There is some repetition of information but it works well. (The summer icons are in summer and the icon area. Some of the summer icons picturing nature might also be in science areas)

Within the grownup area is my favorite part of the site-parent written reviews of software, video games, computers and educational materials. There are also articles and an e-newsletter. The same topics are covered that are also in the children’s area. There is an amazing list of freeware and shareware that can be downloaded as well as links to other educational sites. You could spend days chasing links! Two other great features are the Kid’s Safety on the Net and the Teaching Kids to Program links.

If you get tired of downloading freeware, printing games and puzzles and researching space with your kids, there are lists of contests for kids and/or parents and teachers. The contests that are part of kidsdomain only request an email address. The amount of information requested by other links varies as does whether participating in the contest puts you on an email list. (Kidsdomain contests don’t).

For elementary age children, parents and especially teachers Kids domain is definitely worth checking out.