Fun Educational Games

Next Dot Europe: FREE Fun Educational Games - Geography games

Next Dot Europe is a great addition to fun educational games for kids.

Join the dots and discover the shape of a European Country. Once all the dots are connect a European country will appear with its flag, name and the capital city of that country. There are 47 maps to uncover. Great for fun educational games where kids will practice their number ordering as well as enjoying a fun learning of the maps and flags of Europe. Enjoy this fun educational game ... and see you soon for more great learning games.

Doggie Dash: Fun Games of the Day - Time Strategy Management - Fun Educational Game

Today's game is Doggie Dash game, a fun educational game that help cope with Time Strategy Management. In order to move on you'll to think quick, thus improving logical and critical thinking while caring for cats and dogs.

Have fun in helping Rocky the dog and Wendy the cat bring reluctant pet spa partners Walter and Scarlett together to get a new Dinertown business up and running!

Doggie Dash Game Description

Help reluctant pet spa partners Walter and Scarlett get a Dinertown business up and running! Featuring the goal of delivering a happy and perfectly pampered pet to its owner every time, Doggie Dash incorporates the customer service fun of the Diner Dash series with the new challenge of cleaning, grooming, and accessorizing canine and feline clients. Be sure to keep an eye out for Walter and Scarlett’s friend Flo - not to mention her very own faithful retriever, Skillet!

Wordscape Online: Fun Educational Games - Word Games

Wordscape Online Party Game Description

Prove your wordsmith worthiness as you compete live against players from around the globe. Earn bragging rights through party points as you form bigger and better words using the letters on top of the grid while unlocking bonus tiles. Challenge your opponent when you see a great word and try to steal it away for yourself. Stuck with nothing but X's and Q's? Flip the board, but flip wisely; you only get one per game. Play head to head against one opponent, or engage in a lexical free-for-all with up to 10 opponents in Party Mode! Think fast because the timer is always ticking!

Cooking Academy 2: Fun Educational Game - Cooking Games

Enter a world of culinary delights with Cooking Academy 2:  Discover Cooking Academy 2!

Cooking Academy 2 will introduce you to different food from different countries via great games. Take advantage of the educational game after playing,  extend your knowledge of international cooking. Go beyond the game and make it even more educational for you and your kids. Try finding out which food is  typical in each country. Discover that cooking is part of the cultural heritage of a country. For example the French are very much cooking oriented and French Cuisine is known all over the world. In France cooking is part of life and a big part of your social life deals with eating. The French eat for pleasure. On the other hand, in the Netherlands it feels more like you eat because you have to. Cooking there is simpler and quicker. Italian cuisine is know for its pasta and pizzas. In the US, quite often food is associated with fast food and junk food. In the UK, food has been improving over the years but for a long time the British Cooking was not know to be great. For more ideas see the recommended books at the bottom of the page.

Jewel Quest II: Fun Brain Game

Join Professor Pack on the ultimate jewel matching adventure across the world's richest continent.
The dangers of the safari, The history of the Zimbabwe ruins and the majesty of Victoria Falls await your discovery, filled with puzzles of skill and twists, while surrounded by gorgeous dynamic backdrops and animation. Get swept away by the heart pounding soundtrack as you're immersed in realistic and authentic African settings. 

Discover an amazing new element of fun with the Exclusive "Dueling Jewels" Tournament Play: Pit your jewel matching skills against others around the world! Play against other players, or be matched with a computer opponent!
Embark on a thrilling journey in a story filled with adventure, love, and betrayal that changes with every replay!

Multi Maze Mountain: Maths Games

Multi Maze Mountain is a fun educational maths game. It is designed to help children train with multiplication tables. Choose a lvel and keep and playing while practising multiplication tables. Each level can be played over and over again until your kids are confident enough to move to the next level.

Puzzle Freak 2: Brain Games

The competition of the brains is on again. How big is your brain? Your challenge in this game is to go around the playing board as quickly as possible by completing various puzzles. The faster you complete a puzzle, the more IQ points you get. IQ points are also affected by the relative difficulty of a puzzle. There are 4 types of puzzle squares you can land on, ranging from easy to very hard. There are also chance squares on the board, which may help you on your journey to the finish line. Can you win and get to the finish line first. 

DSi release date: April - Nintendo New Release - Nintendo Educational

Nintendo DSi is coming in April.

Last Wednesday, Nintendo confirmed the expected launch date of the new DS, the DSi for April 5. In Europe, Amazon.co.uk will star shipping on April 3rd

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The latest handled console from Nintendo in the DS line is the DSi. The DSi was first launch in Japan back in December and the rest of the world has been expected it since.

The 39 Clues: A Genius Reading Game and Scavenger Hunt for 8-12 years - Fun Educational Games

The 39 Clues is a fantastic, exciting and challenging reading game that will lead children 8-12 through an amazing worldwide scavenger hunt game. The 39 Clues is unique. It is an adventure, a book, an online scavenger hunt game as well as a reading game, a card collecting game and might be the next big thing after Harry Potter, once the film, probably directed by Steven Spielberg, will come out. The 39 Clues will stimulate and encourage children's reading. Turning reading into an interactive scavenger hunt game will thrill kids, parents and grandparents.

Challenge You: Online Educational Game Site - Create a Game or Play Online

CHALLENGE YOU is a site where kids are encouraged "to create games, or art, or mazes ... not just run around and "kill" things or each other." CHALLENGE YOU aim is to challenge kids to learn and create. CHALLENGE YOU game-building tools have been created and developed to challenge children and allow them to create and challenge each other.

SPACESUITS AND SPACEWALKS - NASA New Educational Web Site for Kids

NASA Education is launching a new educational website: SPACESUITS AND SPACEWALKS, a great site that  will allow children to discover the wonders of space.

The site features information about:

Spacesuits : learn all about the different parts of a spacesuit via an interactive experience. Each click will give children information regarding the name and function of each part of the suit. Children will also have a chance to watch several videos on Spacesuits including how they might look like in the future and how they looked like in the past. Other videos include brain bites and an interesting one on how you can learn how to make a "hard move" in space. The site contains a lot of information as well as many space related activities that will fascinate anyone interested by Space expeditions.

Nintendo Wii Fit - extended use

Nintendo Wii is one of the best selling console on the market. The Wii Fit has been extremely popular and itsuse goes beyond expectation. It is not only used by kids for fun, but also by some school for sports training and adult and older generation are using it to stay fit. It is a fun way to keep fit.

And now, it is also being used for Physiotherapy for kids. According to  BBC News, "A hospital in Leeds reckons it is the first place in the country to use the Nintendo Wii Fit to help children with their physiotherapy."

Strategy Games - Nintendo Educational

Nintendo educational games: What's up in February!            (European release)

Fun Educational Games on the DS or the Wii can be great tools for everyone's development and learning experience if chosen wisely. Kids love the name Nintendo and most of the time they do not associate Nintendo with educational games or learning games, they simply see Nintendo as fun games. 

Nintendo, with its innovative games play, has been able to introduce some smart educational games that incorporate learning. Nintendo educational game range that qualifies for educational game would include categories such as: as Strategy games, Adventure games, Brain Games, Time management games and Role Play games.

Brain Training does it boost your Brain? 2 separate studies show opposite results - Nintendo Educational

Over the last few days there has been an interesting article about Brain Games, especially Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training on the Nintendo DS, where such a game "might not be as good for your brain as claimed" according to a French research.

But looking back few month ago, the Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS), the main organisation for the development of the curriculum and for exploring the use of ICT in education , provided opposite results, where it actually help boost you mind.

Who to believe the French or the Scott?!