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Ages 2–5

Apps and games for toddlers and preschoolers

Gentle first apps for ages 2 to 5: early letters and numbers, pretend play, songs and stories.

Math

  • Numberblocks World: Counting games, number quizzes, songs and episodes featuring the Numberblocks characters.
  • Todo Math: Early number activities plus shapes, clocks and calendars.
  • Kahoot! Numbers by DragonBox: Interactive number play for exploring quantities and how numbers relate.
  • MathTango: Math Games for Kids: Arithmetic practice combined with monster collecting and world building.
  • Kahoot! Algebra by DragonBox: Puzzles that introduce equation-solving and algebraic ideas, 200 of them across ten chapters.
  • SplashLearn: A browser catalog of math games sorted by concept and grade, from early counting and shapes to later elementary topics.
  • Moose Math: Counting smoothie ingredients, matching pets by dots and solving number problems in bingo.
  • ABCya: ABCya has a large catalog of short browser games for kids, covering math, reading, art, typing and other elementary subjects.
  • NRICH: Mathematical investigations from a University of Cambridge project, built around spotting patterns, testing ideas and explaining reasoning.
  • Bedtime Math: A short daily story, factual or playful, followed by math questions for a family to talk through.
  • Topmarks Maths Games: Topmarks math games and teaching tools, sorted by age group and then by topic, from counting to fractions.
  • MathGames: Math games combined with skill practice, printable worksheets and short explanatory videos.
  • ictgames: ictgames has math and English browser games and teaching tools for ages 5–10, tied to the UK primary curriculum.
  • Education.com: A searchable library of games, worksheets, lesson plans and hands-on projects.
  • Sheppard Software: A broad collection of short learning games across early concepts, math, geography, animals, science and language arts.
  • IXL: Practice organized into detailed skill lists for math, language arts, science and more.
  • Math for Love Lesson Library: A lesson library that turns math ideas into games, conversations and open-ended investigations.
  • Teach Your Monster Number Skills: A character-led game in which young children explore early number ideas.
  • DREME Family Math: Adult-led activities that bring numbers, shapes, patterns and measurement into everyday family life.
  • Sumdog: Adaptive math and spelling practice set inside game-based challenges.
  • Thinkrolls: Kids roll round characters through physics mazes, play logic and math games, and design puzzle levels of their own.
  • Mathseeds: Kids move along a map of short animated math lessons and games, from first counting to early problem solving.
  • NumBots: Kids help a rusty robot rebuild itself by solving addition and subtraction challenges.
  • Endless Numbers: The Endless monsters seem to bring each number to life through little puzzles, animations and first sums.

Early learning

  • Khan Academy Kids: An early-learning app of books, reading and math activities, videos and creative play.
  • PBS KIDS Games: Games and videos from PBS KIDS programs, gathered in one browser destination.
  • Sago Mini School: Preschool counting, tracing, drawing and puzzle activities set around everyday topics.
  • Montessori Preschool: A Montessori-inspired app covering early reading, numbers, art and practical-life activities.
  • ABC Kids – Tracing & Phonics: Children trace capital and lowercase letters, hear the sounds they make and match letter shapes.
  • Kiddopia: Number and language games share the app with pretend jobs such as chef, doctor, farmer and musician.
  • HOMER: Fun Learning For Kids: Letter activities, stories, number games and creative tasks are arranged into a single learning path.
  • Lingokids: Games, stories, songs and movement activities touch on number sense, literacy, science and everyday social skills.
  • Bimi Boo Toddler Learning Games: Toddlers sort by color, size and quantity, fit shapes to outlines, feed animals and rebuild pictures from memory.
  • ABCmouse: Kids Learning Games: A step-by-step learning path combines early reading, numbers, science, songs, puzzles and art.
  • Sesame Street: Sesame Street’s website mixes character games, videos and printable coloring pages for preschoolers.
  • TRT Çocuk: A Turkish-language children’s site with games, program episodes, short videos and a live TV section.
  • Hey Duggee: The Big Badge App: Kids pick a Squirrel and play six quick games with Duggee, earning a badge for each one they finish.
  • Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame: Kids help a Sesame Street monster breathe slowly, pick an idea to try and work through a frustrating moment.
  • Busy Shapes & Colors: Kids drag, match and sort their way through puzzles that name 11 shapes and 11 colors.
  • Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home: Kids help Daniel Tiger through bedtime, bath time and a visit to the doctor across six short games.
  • Moshi Kids: Sleep, Relax, Play: Kids wind down with bedtime stories, sleep sounds, music and breathing exercises featuring the Moshling characters.
  • Dr. Panda – Learn & Play: Little ones appear to count, match letters, sort shapes and puzzle through small logic games alongside Dr. Panda and his friends.
  • Avokiddo Emotions: Kids dress up, feed and hand toys to four funny animals, then watch how each one reacts.
  • Pango Kids: Kids tap through soft interactive stories with Pango and friends and play small puzzles, sorting and dot-to-dot games.
  • Hungry Caterpillar Play School: In Hungry Caterpillar Play School, kids trace letters, count, paint, make music and listen to stories with Eric Carle’s caterpillar.
  • Sesame Street Games Club: Preschoolers appear to bake with Cookie Monster, climb a beanstalk with Elmo and tinker with the Mecha Builders.
  • My Very Hungry Caterpillar: Toddlers hatch, feed and look after Eric Carle’s caterpillar until he turns into a butterfly.
  • Alphablocks: How to Write: Kids trace pre-writing lines, letters and numbers with the Alphablocks, each letter paired with a short rhyme.
  • CBeebies Playtime Island: Kids join Andy on a dinosaur adventure and pick from dozens of games starring CBeebies characters.
  • PAW Patrol Academy: Preschoolers work on letters, numbers, shapes and feelings during missions with the PAW Patrol pups.
  • Budge World: Kids hop between more than 100 games, from ABCs and early math to coloring, cooking and dress-up with familiar characters.

Coding

  • ScratchJr: Picture-based programming blocks for making characters move and telling interactive stories.
  • Kodable Basics: Maze-style coding challenges that begin with sequences and patterns.
  • codeSpark: Coding for Kids: Coding puzzles that don’t rely on reading, leading into tools for making stories and games.
  • Tynker Junior: Coding for Kids: Picture commands, voiceovers and themed adventures that introduce sequencing, loops and conditions.
  • Coding For Kids: Learn To Code (KidloLand): Themed challenges, firefighting among them, that introduce sequences, loops and debugging.
  • Coding Games for kids: Dino (Yateland): Dinosaur robots and space missions frame 108 visual block-coding challenges.
  • PBS KIDS ScratchJr: Graphical programming blocks, drawing tools and recorded voices for PBS character stories.
  • Code Karts: Pre-coding Logic: Route-planning puzzles in which children give a car the directions it needs to reach its destination.
  • CodeMonkey: Game-like coding courses that run from block puzzles to typed CoffeeScript and Python.
  • CS Unplugged: Computing ideas explored with cards, puzzles and movement, away from the screen.
  • Osmo Coding: In Osmo Coding, kids line up chunky physical coding blocks on the table and watch an on-screen character act out the sequence.
  • Bee-Bot: Young children tap forward, back and turn arrows to steer a cheerful bee across a grid toward a flower.
  • Edison Robot: Kids program a compact LEGO-compatible robot using printed barcodes, picture blocks, Scratch-style blocks or Python.
  • Rodocodo: Code Hour: Kids lay out arrow and action commands to steer Rodocodo the cat through five worlds of grid puzzles.
  • Ozobot: Kids draw lines and colored codes with markers for a tiny robot to follow, then try block coding on a screen.
  • Marty the Robot: Kids program a walking, dancing humanoid robot, starting with simple commands and moving on to blocks and Python.

Creative play

  • Pok Pok: Open-ended digital toys for drawing, building, making music and pretend play.
  • Vooks Creator: Storybook Maker: Children make their own digital book from drawings, text, stickers and a recorded voice on each page.
  • Kids Drawing Games & Coloring – Drawing Academy: Tracing templates, animal and vehicle drawings, and finished pictures that come to life as animations.
  • Kids Coloring & Drawing Games – Draw & Dance: Voice hints and dotted outlines guide children through drawing characters that then dance.
  • Draw and Tell HD: Draw a scene, add stickers, then record the story aloud while moving the stickers around.
  • Sago Mini World: Character creation, baby care, bakery treats and pretend towns in one play world.
  • Crayola Create and Play: Digital crayons, paint, stamps, glow art and pixel art for making pictures.
  • LEGO DUPLO World: Digital DUPLO bricks and themed scenes with animals, vehicles and familiar places, for building and wandering around.
  • Toca Boca Hair Salon 4: Kids cut, curl, color and regrow a character’s hair, pick outfits and photograph the finished style.
  • Bimi Boo: Build & Create: Children put up houses, towers and bridges stage by stage, starting from the foundations and using construction tools and vehicles.
  • Toca Boca Jr: A collection of play activities spanning pretend cooking, block building, nature shaping and dance-making.
  • Crayon Club: A coloring app with character pages, a blank canvas, and tools that run from crayons and paint to stamps, glitter and patterned tape.
  • Bluey: Let’s Play!: Kids wander the Heeler family house, finding surprises and replaying Bluey games room by room.
  • Pepi House: Happy Family: Kids seem to play house across four floors, cooking, running the laundry and tinkering with the family car.
  • My Town World: Kids roam a sprawling doll-house city of homes, shops and an airport, steering a crowd of characters into stories of their own.
  • Fiete World: Kids sail, fly and drive with Fiete the sailor through places drawn from five countries, making up adventures as they go.
  • LEGO DUPLO Peppa Pig: Kids snap together 3D DUPLO bricks and act out everyday adventures with Peppa, George and their friends.
  • Miffy’s World: Toddlers guide Miffy through her day, from bath and breakfast to gardening, painting and bedtime.
  • LEGO Bluey: Kids build with LEGO bricks and play out Bluey moments, from a garden tea party to floor-is-lava indoors.
  • Thomas & Friends: Let’s Roll: Kids drive Thomas and friends across the Island of Sodor and lay out their own train tracks.
  • LEGO DUPLO Marvel: Preschoolers build with DUPLO bricks and go on kind, helpful adventures with Spidey and the Avengers.
  • LEGO DUPLO Disney: Kids snap together DUPLO bricks and play with Mickey, Belle, Woody and other Disney characters.

Live classes

  • Outschool: Teacher-led online classes in subjects such as art, coding, science and schoolwork.
  • Preply: Children practice English vocabulary, pronunciation and sentences with an individual tutor through stories, games and conversation.

Reading

  • Epic – Kids' Books & Reading: A digital library where children browse stories and nonfiction, listen to Read-To-Me books and audiobooks, and look up words with an audio dictionary.
  • Reading.com: A parent and child go through scripted phonics lessons together, followed by decodable stories and practice games.
  • Reading Eggs: Pre-reading, first reading, systematic phonics and later comprehension are split into separate programs aimed at different ages.
  • Teach Your Monster to Read: Children design a monster and take it through games that match letters to sounds, blend words and read sentences.
  • Hooked on Phonics Learning: Guided reading activities come with an ebook library meant to go alongside the lessons.
  • Vooks: Animated storybooks with narration, where each word is highlighted as it is read aloud.
  • Endless Reader: Animated words are built letter by letter, dropped into short sentence puzzles and then acted out in a little scene.
  • Starfall: Starfall offers a sequence of clickable reading activities that move from letter sounds to short words and connected stories.
  • Endless Alphabet: Kids drag wiggly, talking letters back into place to rebuild a word, then watch monsters act out its meaning.
  • Alphablocks World: Kids watch Alphablocks clips, sing phonics songs and read interactive books that use the sounds they just heard.
  • Circle Round: Kids appear to settle in for folktales from many cultures, performed as radio plays with a cast and music.
  • Story Pirates Podcast: Kids hear stories dreamed up by other kids performed as sketch comedy and songs, and some go on to write their own.
  • Stories Podcast: Kids wind down with a weekly story, from retold fairy tales to serialized classics and original tales.
  • Lions and Legends: Kids listen to myths, fables and folktales from many cultures, retold as fantastical audio adventures.
  • Novel Effect: Kids hear music and sound effects chime in as a picture book is read out loud.
  • Ello: Kids read aloud to Ello, a friendly elephant tutor who listens, helps with slips and adjusts the next session.
  • Libby, the library app: With Libby and a library card, kids borrow ebooks, audiobooks and read-along picture books from their public library.
  • Yoto: Kids slot a card into a screenless speaker to play audiobooks, music, podcasts and stories themselves.
  • Phonics Hero: Kids help superhero Zak rescue his friends by playing phonics games that build from letter sounds to sentences.
  • Storyberries: Kids read and listen to bedtime stories, fairy tales, poems and chapter books sorted by age and reading time.
  • Storyline Online: Filmed readings of children’s books, with actors reading aloud while the illustrations appear on screen.
  • StoryWeaver: A multilingual picture-book library from Pratham Books, covering everyday life, adventures, science and nature.
  • Free Kids Books: A collection of downloadable picture books, stories and educational texts gathered from many contributors.
  • Oxford Owl for Home: A children’s eBook library paired with guidance on phonics and reading at home.
  • Unite for Literacy: Short picture books with narration available in many home languages.
  • Gus on the Go: A set of language apps that introduce vocabulary through illustrated lessons, reviews and games.
  • African Storybook: Illustrated reading material in African languages, with tools for finding, using and adapting stories.
  • Book Dash: Illustrated books to read online or download, with many South African settings and languages.
  • Let’s Read: Let’s Read is a digital library of children’s picture books drawn from communities across Asia and the Pacific.
  • Literacy Cloud: Room to Read’s Literacy Cloud is an online library of children’s books, with read-aloud videos and material for adults who help children read.
  • Storybooks Canada: Storybooks Canada offers illustrated stories with text and audio in English, French and many immigrant and refugee languages.
  • Indigenous Storybooks: Indigenous Storybooks gathers illustrated stories, text and, where it exists, audio for children, families and educators.
  • Nal’ibali Stories: Nal’ibali’s audio-story page collects recorded stories in South African languages.
  • British Council LearnEnglish Kids: LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council’s site of English-language games, songs, stories, videos and printable activities.
  • Duolingo ABC: Duolingo ABC is an early-reading app for learning to read and write in English.
  • Read Along by Google: Read Along by Google pairs stories and word games with an on-screen reading companion that listens as a child reads aloud.
  • VL2 Storybook Apps: VL2 Storybook Apps are illustrated digital books that pair signed storytelling with written text, made by Motion Light Lab at Gallaudet University.

Science

  • Science for Kids by Tappity: Interactive science videos, questions and a science journal, covering topics such as magnets and volcanoes.
  • MarcoPolo Weather: Children adjust wind, temperature and precipitation and watch a landscape and its characters react.
  • MarcoPolo Ocean: Reef building, a submersible to assemble and marine animals to find, with narration that introduces ocean words.
  • Coral Reef by Tinybop: Children explore a reef food web, hide an octopus and follow food through a jellyfish to see how ocean life connects.
  • Plants by Tinybop: Children move through the seasons in forest, desert and grassland habitats, looking at plant life above and below the soil.
  • The Human Body by Tinybop: A working model of the human body that children can investigate, covering digestion, breathing, circulation and the senses.
  • Simple Machines by Tinybop: Kids tinker with levers, pulleys, ramps, wedges, wheels and screws to launch, lift and topple things.
  • Wow in the World: Kids listen to weekly audio adventures that spin real science news into silly, sound-effect-filled stories.
  • But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids: Kids send in their own big questions, and host Jane Lindholm seeks out experts to answer them on air.
  • SciShow Kids: Kids watch host Jessi and Squeaks, a robot rat, work through one kid-sized science question per short video.
  • The Kid Should See This: Kids and grown-ups wander through a huge, hand-picked collection of short videos on science, nature, art and how things get made.
  • Peep and the Big Wide World: Preschoolers watch Peep the chick and friends poke at how the world works, then play simple games about sound, light and motion.
  • Tumble Science Podcast for Kids: Kids hear working scientists tell how a discovery happened, from T. rex’s tiny arms to a robot built for hugging.
  • Science Sparks: Science Sparks is a collection of hands-on science ideas spanning chemistry, biology, physics, seasonal themes and fairy-tale challenges.
  • DK Learning Activity Packs and Worksheets: DK Learning’s activity packs are downloadable projects and worksheets on nature, STEM, history and creative subjects.
  • NASA StarChild: NASA StarChild is a small astronomy site with two levels of material on the solar system, the universe and space exploration.

Music

  • Chrome Music Lab: A collection of browser experiments for playing with sound, pattern and rhythm.
  • Blob Opera: In Blob Opera, a Google Arts & Culture experiment, kids drag four opera-singing blobs to change their notes while the others join in.
  • Classics for Kids: Kids hear composer stories on a weekly radio show, play note and rhythm games, and write little tunes of their own.
  • Prodigies Music: Kids sing, use hand signs and ring colorful bells along with short video lessons.
  • Hoffman Academy: Kids learn piano a step at a time from Mr. Hoffman’s video lessons, with songs, ear training and practice games.
  • Carnegie Hall Musical Explorers: Young kids sing, dance and learn songs from musical traditions around the world with Carnegie Hall artists.
  • Noodle Loaf: Kids sing, clap rhythms and dance along with short, playful music episodes led by educator Dan Saks.

Art

  • Art for Kids Hub: Art for Kids Hub has step-by-step drawing videos for kids, with a parent and child drawing the same subject side by side.
  • National Gallery of Art Paint ’n’ Play: A digital painting tool with brushes and palettes based on artists in the National Gallery of Art collection.
  • Getty Drawing With Kids: A short Getty article with five drawing ideas tied to artworks in the museum’s collection.
  • Tux Paint: A children’s drawing program with a penguin mascot, sound effects and an open canvas.
  • Crayola Crafts: A library of Crayola craft projects that can be searched by materials, theme and age.
  • Tate Kids: Tate Kids is a place to paint, draw and spray digital street art, play art games and quizzes, and find art projects to make at home.
  • Aqua – Adobe for Kids: Kids draw, color, design outfits, make comics and turn drawings into 3D objects on a map of creative islands.
  • CBeebies Get Creative: Little ones paint, doodle, build with blocks, invent toys and make music alongside CBeebies characters.

Movement

  • GoNoodle: GoNoodle has short movement and dance videos for kids, built around music, characters and simple instructions.
  • Cosmic Kids: Story-led yoga and movement videos in which kids follow a presenter through an adventure.
  • Smiling Mind: Kids listen to short guided sessions of breathing, body scans and calming stories grouped by age.
  • Danny Go!: Kids jump, dance and freeze along with Danny’s high-energy songs, games and make-believe adventures.
  • Peace Out: Kids breathe, stretch and picture calm scenes while a gentle host tells mindfulness stories.
  • Active Arcade: Kids jump, duck, dodge and dance through camera-powered games where their body acts as the controller.

Languages

  • Studycat: Young kids tap, match and sing their way through first words in Spanish, French, German, Chinese or English.
  • Dinolingo: Kids watch animated lessons, sing songs and play games in any of 50 languages.
  • Little Pim: Little ones watch five-minute episodes in which a cartoon panda and native speakers introduce words in a new language.
  • Salsa: Kids watch puppets act out familiar fairy tales entirely in Spanish and pick up words from context.
  • Canticos Bilingual Preschool: Preschoolers sing nursery rhymes, watch videos, read books and play games in English and Spanish.
  • Endless Spanish: Kids drag wiggly letters back into Spanish words and watch the Endless monsters act out what they mean.
  • Tiny Wrist Bilingual Books: Bilingual Vietnamese and English board books, picture books and a sing-along music book about Vietnamese rhymes, colours and festivals.

Making

  • LEGO Builder: Kids follow LEGO building steps as 3D models they can spin and zoom, sometimes sharing one set with family.
  • KiwiCo DIY Projects: Kids build, tinker and experiment through step-by-step projects that mostly use materials found around the house.

Nature

  • Seek by iNaturalist: Kids seem to spend their time aiming a camera at leaves, beetles and birds, then filing each find into a growing collection.
  • Merlin Bird ID: Kids hold a phone up to birdsong or snap a photo, and Merlin suggests which birds might be around them.
  • Cornell Lab Bird Cams: Kids watch live cameras trained on real nests and feeders, with hawks, ospreys, albatrosses and toucans going about their day.
  • Ranger Rick: Kids meet wild animals through Ranger Rick’s stories, photos, reading games, videos and a wildlife podcast.
  • Journey North: Kids report the monarchs, hummingbirds and other migrants they spot, then watch sightings sweep across a live map.
  • San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorers: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorers has animal and plant profiles, zoo stories, facts and printable activities.
  • Natural History Museum: Activities for All: The Natural History Museum’s Activities for All page lists ways to explore nature at home or close by.
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Online Courses: Monterey Bay Aquarium runs online courses built around marine animals, with observation and making activities.
  • National Park Service Junior Ranger Booklets: The National Park Service’s national-theme Junior Ranger booklets cover subjects that span many parks.

Chess

  • Kahoot! Learn Chess: DragonBox: Kids follow Grandmaster Max through six worlds, meeting each chess piece in puzzles before playing full games.
  • Story Time Chess: Kids learn how each chess piece moves through silly stories about characters like King Chomper, using a special board and pieces.

Typing

  • TypeTastic: Kids get to know the keyboard through playful games, from building a keyboard map to typing words on an island adventure.

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