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"The We Do Listen Foundation offers free animated stories, games, and lessons for children. The books and their corresponding lessons are designed to help young children learn about things like how to be a good listener, what to do about bullies, and good sportsmanship. All of the books feature the character Howard B. Wigglebottom. The We Do Listen Foundation's games are a mix of matching activities, spelling games, and pattern recognition games. Children can create their own Howard B. Wigglebottom stories on the We Do Listen Foundation's website. The foundation provides online tools and templates for writing and coloring their stories. You will also find templates that you can print out and have students color offline too."

BrainNook is an online multiplayer game that helps kids ages 6-11 develop Math and English skills. It contains over 100 educational games based on Math and English concepts. The games help kids to practice important skills such as mental arithmetic, spatial visualization, vocabulary and grammar. They cover topics as simple as recognizing 3-letter words and adding single-digit numbers, to more advanced concepts like counting syllables and manipulating fractions.

"Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!"

Ice Breakers is a no frills site with tons of free instructions about many useful icebreakers, group games, and team building activities. This is a great place to find activities for the classroom. The site is uber-plain and filled with ads, but the content is strong enough to still recommend it to educators.

This site lets you create your own name tags ( you can type a name in or draw). You can also see innovative designs that others have made. You can save the name tag as an image or print it out. You can also print out a multiple name tags. Besides the obvious uses, these name tags can be used in classroom activities where students are portraying an historical or literary figure. Students could also play a 20 questions game and reveal their person or concept to the other when guessed. Students could also have tag placed on their back and receive clues from other students as their "identity."