Yahoo Free Internet Games for Kids
Yahoo offers a section for kids that is packed with activities, music, videos, games. The games offered for kids come in a wide variety, and include characters from some favorite children's shows, card and board games, word games, arcade and more. Games can be a fun way for children to practice skills like reading, spelling and analytical thinking. Some games are played with other people, therefore children should have parent permission before going online to play games.
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Arcade games
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Arcade games are short games that utilize a particular skill. Bubble Bug requires eye-hand coordination and timing skills. Perfect Pizza requires a child to use visual estimation to place pizza toppings to match an example; the closer the pizza looks to the example, the more points are earned. Crunchy Munch is a classic Pac-Man game that requires eye-hand coordination.
Board games
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Many board games require strategy and tactical planning. Chess and Checkers require critical thinking and strategy to anticipate an opponent's next move. MahJong Solitaire requires pattern identification. Tic Tac Toe and Connect Four cause children to think about which moves to make, and how their opponent may move in response.
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Move and TV games
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Children can hone their speed and accuracy by catching fish with the penguins from the movie Surf's Up. Work eye-hand coordination by firing up punches for the hamsters from G-Force. Help the meerkats from Meerkat Manor catch bugs in a fast-paced, Whack-a-mole-style game.
Card games
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Yahoo! Kids offers a handful of card games. Kids can practice their command of probability by playing 21, Go Fish and Gin against other players.
Word games
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Spelling and vocabulary are put to the test in Yahoo! Kids' word games. Spelldown is a challenge to spell words of a given length with the handful of provided letters. String more letters together to create bigger words and earn more points in Word Racer. Create the highest-point word possible in Literati.
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