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.

TOP THREE

• 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.
• Paint like Jackson Pollock Painting with the mouse at its most basic, with cool effects.
• Fisher-Price Toddler Games recommend the following games for toddlers at this site: Learn your ABC’s, ABC’s Zoo, Little People Animal Sounds, Learn your Colors and Shapes, Count the Score, and Little People Who’s at the Door?

ANIMAL GAMES

• Who am I? Animal Game (bilingual) Select an animal to hear its sound and name in English and Spanish. Spanish version too.
• Little People Animal Sounds We recommend The ABC’s Zoo and Little People Animal Sounds. Fisher-Price.com.
• 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.
• Clifford the Big Red Dog If yours is a Clifford fan, or just plan likes dogs, these are our recommendations for games about Clifford: Pet Clifford, Treasure Chest, Puppy Days themesong, Which Clifford?(size game), Hide-and-Seek.
• 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.

PLANT GAMES

• 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.
• Mickey Mouse Mousekespotter Character-laden but good shape/pattern learning game.
• Super Breakout Atari’s free web version of their classic breakout game is a good starter video game for learning mouse skills. You need to log-in.
• Five Hungry Crocodiles Learn colors by feeding the right color fish to each croc in this game. Spanish version too.
• Which is Bigger? Game Choose which thing is bigger.
• Swimming is Fun for Fish Guide the lantern fish around obstacles in this game to learn a few preposition words: over, under etc. Song included.

DRAWING & COLORING

• Paint like Jackson Pollock Painting with the mouse at its most basic, with cool effects.
• Babar Painting Click and fill painting with the Babar characters.

NUMBERS GAMES

• Count the Bananas Very simple counting game. Monkey eats bananas, you count peels and choose correct number…then repeat. Spanish version too.
• Count the Score Use the spacebar score a goal and learn to count. Choose Soccer, Football, or Hockey. Fisher-Price.com. Count the Score

MEMORY GAMES

• Pom Pom’s Shell Game Keep track of the ball in this Babar version of the classic street hustler’s shell game.

BUBBLE GAMES

• Bubbles Bursting Burst bubbles with a telescopic hand.
• 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.
• Jack’s Big Music Show: Play Instruments Play instruments to the music or dance the freeze dance
• Jack’s Big Music Show: Videos Play Watch all the music videos from the show. From Noggin.com
• 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.
• Dora the Explorer: Little Star’s Wish Narrated story about what the evening star’s wish.
• Rumble Grumble Gurgle Roar Story about a hungry penguin. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.
• Morris’ Special Day (bilingual) Narrated story in English about a boy looking for his pet mouse - teaches lots of animal names in English and Spanish. Spanish version too.
• Clyde’s Smile Narrated story about a crocodile’s search for his missing tooth. Spanish version too.
• Five Little Babies Narrated story about babies in a crib. It’s simple, but a bit hit around here. Spanish version too.
• Time to Fight a Fire Firefighter story with song, sirens and dalmatian.
• The Barnyard Chorus The end of this short story is the payoff, where cat, dog and cow join in to sing “Twinkle, twinkle” Spanish version too.
• Engine Nine, Party Line Narrated story about train which stops to pick up various animals.