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Wordventure is just like the word game we all played as kids! You can pick from many story templates, then choose Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Types of Food, Mythical Animals, etc, etc, etc and then fall on the floor laughing at the hilarious story you've just created! Wordventure is fun for kids as well as adults and can be played alone or with friends! Your kids might even learn a thing or two about parts of speech while they are having fun!

Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It's a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background. To see examples of smart, entertaining, fun, and inspirational ShowMe's that other people have made, check out ShowMe.com.

Fun with twitter

We believe that coming together to tinker with ideas, draw, work on problems and create stories with others is a really fun and vital component of learning. When we get together with others in an open-ended, creative environment, we explore new ideas, new ways of thinking and problem-solving, naturally. That's why we created Scoot & Doodle: live, face-to-face collaboration studios where friends and classmates easily get creative together.

Placefy is fun geographic game that teaches you about world cities in pictures, we ask you to identify cities by displaying one picture at a time and if you are correct you will earn points and jump levels. You can tweet and post your score to facebook any time.

Super Simple way to have fun with photos

A Literacyhead is someone who is intensely serious about exercising creative literacy, making connections across multiple literacies, pursuing thoughtful literacy as an individual and as a teacher, and constantly searching for ideas. Literacyheads may have expertise in different areas of literacy, but all are committed to children's literacy, passionate about the arts, incessant thinkers, and display a propensity for having fun.

With PhotoCard you can make dazzling, high resolution postcards on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, and send them on-the-spot, through e-mail or the US Postal Service. The app is amazingly easy to use. To create a PhotoCard, select one of Bill's nature photos or use one of your own personal photos. Then, flip the card over to type your message. For a fun touch, jazz up your PhotoCard with decorative stickers and stamps. If you're e-mailing your card, it can even include an audible greeting. When you've finished your creation, send it off to any e-mail or postal address in the world!

MathBoard is appropriate for all ages from kindergarten (with simple addition and subtraction problems) to elementary school where learning multiplication and division can be a challenge. You can control the range of numbers you want to work with, the number of questions you want to answer and even assign a time limit per quiz. MathBoard will make learning math fun.

fun games and activities to practice math skills

British website for fun math activities at different levels

SEA-SAWS is a new interactive activity developed by the Gallery's education department. Young artists choose photographs of natural and man-made objects, then assemble the pieces to create a seascape or an abstract composition. A "build" option allows them to construct animated characters and set them in motion. This Art Zone program is fun for children of all ages. (Requires Shockwave)