Every Pleo is autonomous. Like any creature, Pleo feels hunger and fatigue, offset by powerful urges to explore and be nurtured. He'll graze, nap and toddle about on his own.

Pleo Dinosaurs -  Innvo Labs LifeForm


Pleo, a one week-old baby Camarasaurus dinosaur, is a robotic marvel and the newest member of your family! Pleo interacts with you - moving organically, expressing emotion, autonomously exploring and responding to the world around him

The Pleo Store

The program that lets you build with LEGO bricks on your computer.

LEGO Digital Designer


Works with IBM PC Compatibles with Windows and The Apple Mac Computer.

It is very rare that Business-n-Pleasure go well together.

At least for the Juniors, for some years their only Business is to Learn and improve their Cognition levels.

Souptoys Desktop Toys is one such Edutainment Toy. Learning and Fun, never integrated better.

Some mechanical concepts, Physics, General Knowledge and Creativity will certainly improve with this.

The kids will not progress with war games, action games or games that foster sensations and ignore skills. These are dominant in the scene. Big firms in competition and ambition forget social responsibility.

The result, the kids mind deteriorates and any interest in real life will diminish. He will start interacting with the world around, like he does in a game; the consequences, not very pleasant.

Restrict the pocket money to your children, teach them to work, not play. Let them not waste their childhood in these perversions. The human evolution will stop and society descend into chaos. These not only apply to games it applies to all forms of entertainment.

The child is the inheritor of the earth we leave behind. his mind, the only asset.

(I may ham a bit to help emphasize the seriousness of an issue. Nevertheless do not take your kids life lightly)

Entertainment and Hobbies that Nurture Skills and Improve Learning are very important for children. Right from culture to hand skills, all forms of learning has to be nurtured to help them face the future, well prepared.

Edutainment is a Productive and Social Method of Preparing Children by Entertainment and Creative Hobbies. I have collected some resources below, that will help learn about Edutainment.

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PBS Kids - BBC Schools

Games and Puzzles at Thomas Jefferson Lab - Science Games, Element Games, Math Games, Word Games and Just for Fun.

on-line version of Amazing Coloring Book for Kids !!

Element Flash Cards - Learn the names and symbols of the elements!

Enchanted Learning Children Edutainment

International Children's Digital Library - The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community - children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online. Search Books.

Mathematical Interactivities - Games, Puzzles and other Interactive Multimedia Resources Online for Teachers and Kids - By David Hellam

Science Toys - Science ToysMake toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles. See also Science Blog and Toys.

BBC - Schools

Primary subjects - Ages 4 - 11
Art Geography History Music Numeracy Science Other Subjects ....more

Secondary subjects - Ages 11 - 16
Business Studies Design & Technology English Geography History Maths Science .... more

In our solar system, nine planets circle around our Sun. The Sun sits in the middle while the planets travel in circular paths (called orbits) around it.

The Nine Planets - For Kids

How radio astronomy works -  Learn how radio astronomy works.Educational materials available for download too.

Cool stuff for kids at SKA South Africa

The electromagnetic spectrum Released: An educational poster providing an overview of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Our solar system Released: A poster providing key information about the planets in our Solar System.

Lazy Jack goes out to work, but he's not used to earning a living, and he gets into all sorts of muddles.

This old English story, collected by James Halliwell Orchard Phillips, is a good fireside yarn. If you know the story of the Golden Goose, you might see some similarities. It has a nice repeating structure, and by the end of it, you will probably agree with Jack's mother, that he's not the cleverest of lads. -- Read by Natasha. Duration: 6.23.

Storynory - Free Audio Stories for Kids

Storynory .... where Prince Bertie the Frog brings you an audio story every week. Each one is read specially for him by his friend Natasha .

• Download a free audiobook from AudibleKids.
• The Homecoming of Odysseus
• The Brahman, the Tiger and the Jackal
• The Ugly Duckling
• Alice in Wonderland Feed
• Storynory in iTunes
• St. George And The Dragon
• Beauty and the Beast
• Video: The Rat and The Elephant
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Little Match Girl Video
• The Maiden and the Frog

Childsplay Educational games

Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children, like gcompris, but without the overkill of c/c++ and the gnome environ. Also the use of the SDL libraries makes smooth animation and the playing of sound very easy. Childsplay uses a plugin system for the games.

Tested on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and the Windows platforms. (98/ME/2K/XP).

Childsplay is a fun and save way to let young children use the computer and at the same time teach them a little math, letters of the alphabet, spelling, eye-hand coordination etc

GCompris Educational Software

GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities available in that category.

Currently GCompris offers in excess of 100 activities and more are being developed. GCompris is free software, that means that you can adapt it to your own needs, improve it and, most importantly, share it with children everywhere.