Flash Games for Children
With a plethora of adult-themed games on the Internet, it might seem hard to find a safe website with games for your child. As with adult Flash games, Flash-based games for kids come in several different genres. Some provide educational information in an entertaining way, while others are just for fun. Whole websites dedicate themselves to providing kids with Flash-based games, while other websites have sections devoted to kid-friendly games. With kid-friendly Flash-based games, you can worry less about your child seeing something inappropriate.
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Neopets Arcade
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Neopets has long reigned as an entertaining website for kids and adults alike, where users create virtual pets, raise them and care for them like real pets. When downtime from pet care arises, the website features a section called Neopets Arcade. The arcade contains many different Flash-based games that allow players to have fun and collect Neopoints in the process, which are then used to purchase special items for a pet. One of the more popular games in the Neopets Arcade is "Destruct-o-Match III", in which players must eliminate blocks according to color and reach a set score for each level. Hundreds of other games exist, including "Jolly Jugglers," "Neopian Battles" and "Armada."
Flash Games for Kids
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Flash Games for Kids offers hundreds of different kid-friendly games in 34 different categories, meaning there's likely something for just about every kid. For Barbie enthusiasts, an entire section is dedicated to Barbie-themed games. Some games have a holiday theme, like "Splash and Dash" for Christmas or "Eggs!," an Easter-themed game. Other game types include jigsaw puzzles, math games, memory match games and racing games. The website offers 10 free games for non-members. After the initial 10 games, you'll have to register to keep playing; registration costs nothing.
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The Kidz Page Games
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The Kidz Page provides an assortment of entertainment and educational pages for children. The game section of the website features seven different categories, including strategy games, arcade games and sports. To help build vocabulary and improve spelling, kids can play "Word Scramble II." "Celebrity Simon" challenges kids to follow patterns set by famous faces like Sammy Davis. Jr. and Marilyn Monroe, similar to the light-up game "Simon." "Koala Checkers" takes the traditional game of checkers and adds in koala-faced pieces. "Snowboard Challenge" requires kids to navigate an obstacle course, perform jumps and special tricks to gain points as a snowboarder.
Squigly's Games
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"Squigly's Playhouse" has coloring pages, crafts, jokes and other fun things for kids, including a page dedicated to games. The games include genres like sports, action and educational games, as well as a few two-player games. "Furry Dancers" lets kids match cute fuzzy creatures by color to help them dance at a disco. Games like "Lemonade World" teach kids about time management skills in an entertaining way. "Squigly's Playhouse" also features some downloadable games like "Stand O' Food" so that kids can play a game while not connected to the Internet.
Addicting Games
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Addicting Games, the largest free online game website in the United States, includes a section dedicated to games that are safe for kids. Each week, the website adds multiple new games so the content always stays fresh. Kids choose from dozens of available Flash-based games in a variety of different genres. For word games, kids can play "Whizz Wordz," a "Boggle"-like game of creating words from given letters. For a geographical lesson, check out "50 States." This game involves correctly dragging and dropping states into place on a U.S. map. Other games include a "Pac-Man" style puzzle game called "PacXon," racing game "Drag Racer v3" and balancing puzzle game "Super Stacker 2."
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