Show Me - games, fun and activities for kids

Show Me Parents Page - games, fun and activities for kids from UK museums, galleries and science centres:

Show.me.uk is a safe and non-commercial site for kids produced by 24 Hour Museum.

The site is a collection of online games and interactive content produced by the UK's museums and galleries, for children aged 4 to 11.

We have spent a lot of time at this site! Links apparently change regularly, but if you visit now you will find a wonderful "tile designer" activity and a "mask adventure" - both of which our testers enjoyed tremendously. Well worth a visit (or two).

Slylock Fox Arcade

Slylock Fox Arcade

There are some great activities here for older kids, including "Brainboggler" puzzles, "Find the Difference" games, an online Checkers game to play, and a somewhat annoying arcade-type game called Count Weirdly Attack! Fun.

Cow Bop - a very silly game to teach your kids about calcium!

Cow Bop

How much calcium should your kids be getting daily? Try this silly Cow Bop game to work it out!

New Farm Animals Theme

Farm Animals from Activity Village

We've started a new "Theme" today, on farm animals. You will find colouring pictures, jigsaws (14 new!), printable games, and lots of links ..... and much more to come soon.

Word Spy

Word Spy

This online game, similar to Boggle, will challenge your children to find words of 3 letters or more within a certain time span, giving them extra points if they use more "difficult" letters. Good for their brain, and good fun too!

Watering Your Young Child's Mind - new article on website

Parenting Articles from Activity Village

Our new jigsaws .... play them with your kids!

We are thrilled to announce a new Jigsaw* section at Activity Village, where you will find a growing selection of jigsaws to download and play with your children. We have jigsaws for all ages, from 6-piece puzzles to enchant the littlest member of your family, to 25-piece puzzles to challenge the oldest.



We have started with jigsaws for St Patrick's Day and Easter, soon to be followed with Farm Animals of all shapes and sizes. We hope you enjoy them!

*Anybody who visited Activity Village is its early days may remember that we used to offer jigsaws - they were in fact one of our most popular downloads and only disappeared because of bandwidth limitations with one of our previous hosting companies.

Art Attack - inspirational craft projects!

Art Attack

Kids of all ages will find huge inspiration here, with close to 100 of Neil's "makes" explained clearly and with lots of photos to help you along. You will find everything from a papier mache castle to an Aztec soap carving, with many other original and appealing ideas in between! Highly recommended.

Care Bears Forever!

Care Bears Forever!

If your children like the Care Bears, you might like to visit this official site. You will find some sweet Care Bear coloring pages, clipart, and bright desktop wallpaper. Unlike many official sites, there is nothing interactive and no games ... so it is not somewhere to visit with the children (especially as there is quite a lot of information on what is for sale!)

Online fun and learning for preschoolers

cbc.ca - Kids' CBC

Kids CBC has a bright interface, appealing characters and cheerful games to play. Listen to music, try some online colouring or dot to dots (practice numbers and counting at the same time) and explore the site thoroughly for some hidden surprises. Meet some of your favourite TV characters too.

New St Patrick's Day cards to print!

We have just added a page of two cute St Patrick's Day cards to the website.

Have boys? Play games!

cbc.ca/kids

This site is packed full of arcade-style games of all kinds which will appeal to older boys who can try their hand at snowboarding, pinball and lots more!

Out on a Limb - A Guide to Getting Along

Out on a Limb - A Guide to Getting Along

"Out on a Limb" is an interactive website designed to teach children how to get along with others, and to provide them with strategies for coping with difficult situations. It is aimed at ages 7 and up and takes about 20 minutes to run through. We thought it was excellent (although younger viewers may have difficulty concentrating to the end).

March Newsletter Out Now

You can find it here. It has an update of everything added to Activity Village in the last two days (including new Easter printables), as well as our latest article ("Cooking with kids helps develop motor skills in preschoolers"), an excellent reader tip and our normal quotes, poem and recommended links.

Cod Liver Oil - Do Our Kids Need It?

Times Online - Britain: "CHILDREN should be fed postwar rations of cod-liver oil and orange juice at school to improve their diet and concentration, a government-funded research centre said yesterday. "

There is much interest in nutrition for kids at the moment - with Jamie's School Dinners showing on television and article after article appearing in the press about the links between poor diet and poor performance at school. UK readers who didn't watch the show last week should tune in tonight, but prepare to be shocked by what our kids are eating!