First sunny weekend of June 2008 in London so went out to a beautiful farm in Surrey called the Godstone Farm. Maryam absolutely loved it and here are some of the glimpses.
Some of the best online toddlers games for your child. Many of these may well be educational, but our priority here is that they entertain…otherwise someone’s gonna start prying the keys out of the keyboard.
SNM#1This abstract web toy is not designed specifically for babies, but it makes ours laugh like crazy. Each letter key pressed yields a different reward.
Baby Animal Photos A large collection of baby animal photos at Baby Animalz.com. Simple and fun.
Animal Sounds Julia’s Rainbow Corner is a bright, tie-dyed, game-packed, home-made site by Julia’s mom, “Kozmik Pearl.” We recommend the animals section.
Pick-a-Pet Simple quiz game about pets, for toddlers who just can’t get enough of the animals. Spanish version too.
Ze’s Bug a A funny little bug, make his arms move. Basic fun.
Bembo’s Zoo A unique ABCs game where the letters transform into animals.
Knee Bouncers A collection of cute, simple, little flash games featuring animal characters. Peek-a-boo, music, boats, trains, sounds, and bubbles. Well designed for random key punching.
Peep and the Big Wild World A large collection of excellent games from TV Ontario based on this show. Cute artwork and unique gentle games with audio instructions.
Jay Calls Match the animal sound to the right photo. From TV Ontario.
Dora’s Magical Garden Choose from a large number of seeds, plant them, and make them grow.
Snuffy’s Magic Garden Water the soil to make flowers grow. Other interactions make sounds too.
Paper Flower Garden Drop flower seeds in the garden and water them to make them grow. Flowers are black and white because you’re supposed to print and color them. By Crayola.com.
Dora the Explorer: Find the Map OK…not actually a plant game, but you do try to find the map in the rainforest scene. Good if your kid is a Dora fan. Mine loves the map…go figure.
VEHICLE GAMES
Scrambler’s Rumble This simple race game with a rumbling ATV chased by a dog will please many at BobtheBuilder.com.
BABIES AND PEOPLE GAMES
Find the Baby Click on objects to find baby hiding in each scene. Baby says “Peek-a-boo” when found. Spanish version too.
Who’s at the Door? Dog answers door to reveal various types of workers. Fisher-Price.com
Dora’s Dress-Up One of the best dress-up game designs we’ve seen.
Dora’s Cooking Select right food ingredients to make each dish
Choo Choo Choices A unique story game about sharing and caring. A blunt but effective tool for brainwashing your kid into sharing..er..teaching compassion. From TV Ontario.
ABC’s GAMES
Learn your ABC’s A straightforward introduction to the letters from Fisher-Price.com, hit anywhere on keyboard to play.
Animated ABC’s ABC Blocks link to letters with sounds, photos, and animations for each. Good stuff, but a little slow-paced.
Bembo’s Zoo A unique ABCs game where the letters transform into animals.
Oobi Letters Oobi, the taking hand, hosts letter game which introduces and tests you on the letter sounds.
COLORS, SHAPES, SIZES, ETC.
Colors and Shapes Teaches basic shapes and colors with animated shapes. Hit any key to play. Fisher-Price.com
Boohbah Patterns Use Click the Poohbah characters to make play with a a variety of patterns making funny sounds, movements, and color changes.
Leaping Boohbahs Click the character whose matches the the bubble which floats overhead. From PBS kids.
Bubble Bugs Blow bubbles to capture bugs. Relaxing music.
Tub Time Pop bubbles with the spacebar to reveal creatures inside. Annoying music.
Space Pop If your baby is a bubble addict like ours, you’ll like this simple bubble popping game from Crayola.com
Bubble Tractor Music and a bubble-blowing tractor. Click bubbles to pop them. By Fisher-Price.com
MUSIC GAMES
Tigga Togga Bizarre and totally awesome set of scenes where you can create musical mixes. From TV Ontario.
The Great Sky Race A Disney’s Little Einsteins game. Use mouse to guide rocket ship up and down, catching music notes. A little hard for toddler to play but may be good for basic mouse skills practise. Classical music soundtrack.
Jam with Wiley the Sheep Play one of several musical instruments by clicking along with the music and scrolling music notes as an animated sheep dances
Boohbahs Dance Use a control panel to adjust the mix of a silly music loop. Choose dance moves for the hypnotic Boohbah characters from PBS kids.
Monkey Music Move your monkey/mouse over the shapes to play with different musical riffs.
ABSTRACT GAMES
SNM#1 This abstract web toy is not designed specifically for babies, but it makes ours laugh like crazy. Each letter key pressed yields a different reward.
ONLINE STORYBOOKS
Where’s Max? Hide-and-Seek Story featuring the funny little Max the Rabbit from Nick Jr.
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Welcome to Maryam’s growing up blog. We are going to share Maryam’s weekends in London and her story of cute moments and developments. You will also see featured articles on parenting from Maryam’s Mom Aisha. All parents and family members who have toddlers running around the house please share your learnings as you learn and develop as better parents day by day.
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