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20 Most Useful Websites to Children
- Information provided by the Telegraph providing details and links to websites of educational and entertainment value to children.
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Activity Village
- Contains a huge array of children's colouring pages and themed activities, including sections for all the major UK holidays.
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Aquila
- Monthly educational magazine offers readers pages, information about back and future issues, subscription details and competitions.
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BAFTA Kids' Vote
- Allows children to vote for their favourite TV program, website, film and video game as part of the annual BAFTA (British Academy for Film and Television Arts) awards.
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BBC CBBC: Tracy Beaker
- Official site has episodes to watch, activities, plot outlines, and character information.
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Boomerang
- TV channel showing mostly older cartoon shows and cartoon nostalgia. Features a show guide, with activities and games provided for most shows.
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British Academy Children's Awards
- Offers news and highlights from the annual BAFTA children's awards.
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Cartoon Network
- Cartoon channel provides games, quizzes and details of what's on.
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CBBC
- Contains mini sites for many of the CBBC shows, plus message boards, games, activities and information about how to be on a show.
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CBeebies
- BBC's preschool TV channel offers games and colouring featuring children's favourite characters, plus presenter profiles and information on the radio channel.
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Children's British Board of Film Classification
- BBFC's children's sites; gives children the chance to learn about film classification in the UK by grading clips and trailers from popular films.
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CITV
- Features details of individual programmes, plus quizzes, games, wallpapers and opportunities for children to contribute.
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CITV
- Home of ITV's children's programming, with games, features, video and character information.
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Disney for You Preschool
- Contains character worlds featuring preschoolers' favourite Disney characters, each with games, printables and information on merchandise.
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Disney.co.uk
- Home to all things Disney in the UK; includes separate channels for boys, girls, teens and preschoolers with games, interactive features and reviews and merchandise.
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Faces of British Children's TV
- Highlights the top 15 British TV presenters over the years including Record Breakers Cheryl Baker, Andi Peters and the colourful Timmy Mallet.
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Film Nation Shorts
- Project for 14-25 year olds making short films to celebrate the 2012 Olympics. Includes information on how to enter plus details of free workshops and events around the country.
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Fun Kids
- Radio station dedicated to listeners aged 10 or under.
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Fun Radio
- Digital radio station for children; offers details of its daily programme schedule plus podcasts, live stream and information on events.
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Gamevial Kids
- Presents a portal of family friendly, ad-free online games.
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Grange Hill Gold
- Offers a series guide to this popular BBC children's programme that ran from 1978 to 2008 with interviews, reunion details and "where are they now" sections.
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Kidsjokes.co.uk
- An online children's joke site with an A-Z of knock knock jokes along with funny poems and readers comments.
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KidsLikeit.co.uk
- A comprehensive online children's directory of games, sports, music and fun activities as well as jokes and a list of children's websites.
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Land of Nursery Rhymes
- Contains the text of many popular nursery rhymes for children.
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Moshi Monsters
- UK games and social networking site for young children, which allows them to adopt a friendly monster and play games and puzzles.
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National Geographic Kids
- Online kids magazine providing games, stories, things to make and educational resources along with puzzles and quizzes.
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Nickelodeon
- Offering downloads, details of the TV channel schedules, games, competitions and special features on some shows.
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Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
- Annual awards where children can vote for their favourites in a number of categories including actors, bands and artists and film.
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Okido
- Monthly magazine for primary aged children covering science and the arts. Includes online features and subscription information.
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Parents News
- An online resource for planning days out with the kids. Find localised entertainment, activities and camps.
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Phone Brain
- Teaches kids and teens about their consumer rights when using phone-paid services, such as ringtones, competitions and TV voting.
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Pocket Money: Games
- A selection of online games for kids mainly centred around money and finances provided by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Radio Children
- Details the schedule and programmes of this radio channel where children are involved in the broadcasting.
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Young Film Critic
- Annual competition open to anyone aged between 4 and 19 years old; challenges children to write a winning film review (or draw a picture, for young children). Includes teacher's notes and details on how to enter.
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