I recently encountered a very good website for toddlers and young preschoolers (2-4 years old) called Ziggity Zoom.  Ziggity boasts kid-friendly games, printable coloring pages, read-along stories, and arts and crafts activities for parents and kids to do together.  The site is easy for kids to navigate due to the extensive use of spoken-word help, and also includes special sections for parents to peruse.

I particularly like the focus on learning numbers, letters, and pre-reading skills, not to mention kid-friendly recipe ideas, “get up and get moving,” “toys to make,” and others.  The entire site features simple but kid-friendly graphics including BunBun the rabbit, a princess, a pirate, robots, and TumTum the friendly alien.  Children can choose to create coloring pages, stickers, magnets, and other art projects for each character.

This time of year many parents wonder whether to send their child to kindergarten or to wait another year.  Although no website holds the answer, I found this page on kindergarten readiness very interesting.

I also really appreciated the activities parents and kids can do together, such as a print-out park activity sheet and another print-out zoo activity sheet.

To use Ziggity Zoom’s own tagline, it IS a fun place to zoom around!