240+ online games for 3 to 7 year olds!
Children and parents can have hours of fun playing games that promise to educate and entertain.busythings.co.uk includes 130+ games, 40+ quickfire mini-games and 70+ printable activity worksheets. Create music and art, play phonics games, learn letters and their sounds, draw letter shapes and create labels and captions, and watch and listen to traditional tales. Older children can practice reading and spelling in the more advanced literacy games.
If it's maths games you're after the children can play calculating games, number games, shape games and maze games and puzzles.
busythings.co.uk also has a selection of games to help young minds explore and question the world around them. Investigate similarities and differences, cause and effect, care for ‘living’ things, and above all learn through having fun!
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Creativity
Make surprising artwork in a flash and discover the basic principles of music through explorative play. Art can be saved and shown off to the world in our gallery.
Exploring the world
Investigate similarities and differences, cause and effect, care for ‘living’ things, and above all learn through having fun!
Numbers and Shapes
Humorous characters help practise counting and calculating and developing awareness of shape and orientation.
Stories and letters
Develop children’s pre-reading/writing skills, give support to a systematic teacher-led phonics programme, and provide practice in following a story.
Matching sounds
Click on the hat with the matching sound.
Curtain call
Listen to then read high-frequency and tricky words.
Roberta Robot
Click on the object with the same initial sound.
Busy blocks
Drop blocks, build towers and then explode them!
Words and wigs
Read then listen to high-frequency and tricky words.
Crazy cogs
Click to place a Noisy Thing. Click again to change colour. Hear the results!
The Three Little Pigs
Watch Dog and Cat perform The Three Little Pigs.
Growing garden
Hold the mouse down to make the shapes grow.
Squeaky clean
Can you copy the mark that Dog makes?
Lively lines
Create lines and shapes that animate.
Sound snacks
Click on the object with the same initial sound.
Spin and shake
Hold down the mouse and create swirly patterns!
Slime time
Look carefully to find the hidden shapes!
Treehouse
Keep count of the number of pink men in the treehouses.
Magic sounds
Click on the object that contains the sound.
Playground
How many different ways can you group the pink men?
Feed the monster
Practise oral blending. Click on the thing the monster asks for.
Mudball shoot out
Fire mud balls at the pink men!
Noisy Dog
Click on Dog to see and hear his actions. Can you copy them?
Rollercoaster - Ordering
Click on the numbers in numerical order.
Behind the curtain
Listen to the sound. Which object did Dog use?
Chop and change
Chop and change a picture to make a new one.
Musical garden
Click around the garden and build up different layers of sounds.
Make a caption
Make a caption to match the picture.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Watch Dog and Cat perform Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Monster grid
Place monsters into the grid to create a tune.
Path peril
Program a path for the chicken to follow!
Worm world
Feed, entertain and clean up after the worms!
Snap!
Click the screen or press the space bar when you see a match!
Sound crates
Listen carefully and find the matching sound!
Road blocks
Fill the hole to help the chicken!
Write now!
Listen to the letter sound and see if you can write it.
Messy letters
Help Cat copy the letter that Dog draws.
Colour the picture
Colour and print pictures from traditional tales.
Tunnel trouble
Make a tunnel to help the chicken!
Read and feed
Read the word and click the object the monster is asking for.
Bubbles
Pop the matching shapes, colours and faces!
Colouring book
Click to colour the different pictures.
Which one is different?
Find the odd one out!
One dog band
Click on Dog's instruments to make him play.
Feed the monkey
Can you give Monkey the number of treats he is asking for?
Alphabet song
A song to help learn letters names!
Fill in the gaps
Spell the words by dragging the correct letter into place.
Falling wall
Position the pink men to stop them getting squashed!
Build the word
Listen to the word. Find the beginning, middle and end sounds.
Mirror magic
Complete the mirror image!
High and low
Drag the Noisy Things up and down to change their pitch.
Street scene
Create a scene and make it animate!
Word robot
Drag the words into the grid and listen to the results!
Feed the monster
Practise oral blending. Click on the thing the monster asks for.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Watch Dog and Cat perform The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Monster scale
Record a tune and play it back!
Build the word
Listen to the word.Find the beginning, middle and end sounds.
Digging for Cat
Listen to the sound change as you get nearer to finding Cat.
Shape up
Trace the shapes!
Balloon tree
What number is on the monkey's board? Pop the matching balloon.
Singing squares
Click to create pairs. Listen to the results!
Lost letters
Find the missing letter to spell the word.
Searching for sounds
Explore, listen to and recall the different sounds.
Wardrobe
Dress the baby!
Follow the cloud
Click the monster underneath the cloud to play a tune.
Animal muddle
Make a creature and see what it sounds like!
Sound bites
Match the blended sounds to the word.
Bobble beat
Click to create pairs and generate rhythms.
Tangranimals
Build creatures out of shapes!
Hen hunt
Find the chicken hiding in the maze!
Colliding cogs
Click the cannon to fire a cog. Listen to the results!
Action time
Watch carefully and count the actions.
Quiet or loud?
Which is louder/quieter, faster/slower, higher/lower, longer/shorter?
Music mixer
Drag the monsters up and down to change their volume.
Make a picture
Create scenes from five traditional tales, add text and print your work.
What's in the box?
Listen to the sound and find the matching instrument.
Colour choir
Colour them in to make them sing!
Sit down
How many seats do the pink men need?
Talent show
Create your own musical performance!
Which animal?
Listen to the sound and find the matching animal.
Pretty patterns
Create instant colourful patterns!
Sandscape
Pour sand onto trees and ramps. Watch it fall!
The Gingerbread Man
Watch Dog and Cat perform The Gingerbread Man.
Sound seek
Match the phoneme to the grapheme on the monster's board.
Jigsaw puzzle
Complete jigsaws of scenes from five traditional tales.
Islands - Total numbers
Put a number of pink men on the green or yellow island.
Monster match
Copy the sequence of sounds.
Number jump
Add and subtract to get the right total.
Wake Dog
See which instruments wake Dog up and which send him to sleep.
Alphabet
Watch the letters being drawn and see if you can copy them.
Odd one out
Find the odd one out with characters from five traditional tales.
Dressing-up box
Dress up Dog and Cat, add text labels and speech bubbles.
Copy Cat
Help Dog copy the sequence of actions and sounds.
Robert Robot
Click on the object that rhymes.
Helicopter rescue
Fly the helicopter to rescue the cows!
Tidy up!
Help Dog and Cat sort the objects into the boxes.
Letter line up
Practise letter names and alphabetical order.
Hungry chicks
Help the chicken feed the chicks!
Bouncing beat
Drop the Noisy Things from different heights to create a bouncing beat.
Word chains
Change a letter to make a new word.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Watch the clip and click on what happens next.
The Three Little Pigs
Sequence pictures from the story.
Maze
Move the animals around the maze!
The gardener
Water the flowers to make them grow!
Buried treasure
Read the word. Is it real or nonsense?
Line up
Complete the sequence!
Paint party
Amazing paint effects at the click of a mouse!
Topple the tower
Copy the rhythm to topple the tower!
Read the caption
Read the caption and make a picture to match it.
Scribble and spell
Arrange the letters to spell the word.
Which picture?
Click on the picture that matches the sound.
