Tux Paint
Drawing program designed for young children


Tux Paint is a free drawing program designed for young children (kids ages 3 and up). It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program.
It provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help your child be creative.

Features
A number of useful drawing tools are made available. (See below.)
The drawing canvas is a fixed size, so the user doesn’t need to worry about “pixels” or “inches” when making a new picture.
The entire program fits on a screen as small as 640×480, and can be displayed full-screen, to hide the computer’s underlying “desktop” interface. (It defaults to 800×600 mode, but can run at larger sizes and in portrait or landscape mode, as well.)
Loading and saving of images is done using thumbnails, so no knowledge of the underlying operating system’s filesystem structure is needed. Even filenames are unnecessary.

Entertaining Interface
Fun sound effects are played when tools are selected and used.
A cartoon version of Tux, the Linux penguin, appears at the bottom to give tips, hints and information.

Drawing Tools
Paint brush
Various brushes available
Parents/teachers can add more brushes
Various colors available
Rubber stamp
Hundreds of photographic and cartoon stamps images are available
Parents/teachers can add more stamps and create categories
Stamps can have text (names, facts, etc.) and sound effects assigned to them
Stamps can be resized, flipped and mirrored
Raster bitmaps (Portable Network Graphics ("PNG")) with full-color and alpha transparency (32bpp RGBA) supported....and much much more

Tux Paint for Windows comes as two parts, the main program and the optional add-on 'stamps' collection. [13.5MB]

Mac and Linux downloads, Please visit site

Last Updated 06 July 2009
Win 2000/XP/Vista/7
Mac OS X: Requires Mac OS X v. 10.3 or later
Linux (No special OS requirements)
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MATCH MAKER
Match letters, numbers, colors, shapes, objects and animals

MATCH MAKER is a concentration-type program that helps your child learn to identify and match letters, numbers, colors, shapes, objects and animals. And, it's FREE!

You can match upper and lower case letters, numbers and objects, pictures with pictures, or pictures with names. Print options allow game play off the computer. A fun memory exercise for young children.
Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7
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ABC Kid Genius

Free software to teach the Alphabet, Letters, Numbers, Counting, Reading and Spelling using Sound,
Pictures and Video Clips. Use it at Home, Pre-school, Kindergarten, School or Educational Business.

ABC Kid Genius is suitable for all ages and can be set to US or UK English.
Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
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Math Games Level 1
Learn basic math with the friendly robot

Mathematics is one of the most important subjects taught in school. It is therefore especially unfortunate that some students lack elementary mathematical skills even after completing many years of study. An inadequate grasp of simple every-day mathematics can negatively affect a person’s life.

Clearly, students with poor understanding of basic math will have problems in college and in obtaining advanced degrees. But the negative impact goes beyond academics. With modern life getting more complicated every day, people with inadequate knowledge of school-level math find themselves at a disadvantage when competing for high-paying jobs, buying cars or real estate, investing, and in dozens of other real-life situations.

So, how is it that many otherwise smart people aren’t fluent in basic mathematical skills?

Often it starts in elementary school: For various reasons some children miss those basics that will later provide them with a solid understanding of more advanced concepts. An important reason why many intelligent and capable students have difficulty grasping these basic concepts is that they are often taught in dull and tedious form.

Memorizing mathematical facts from a textbook can be daunting for students, especially if this is their only way of learning. We recognize the challenge teachers face in getting students interested about such subjects as math. Enter Math Games
Win XP
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VocabOne

VocabOne 02 is a vocabulary training program. It provides rich possibilities for learning and editing vocabulary libraries. A smart card box system makes you learn the difficult parts of your libraries better, while the easier parts are not repeated too frequently. Further on, there are many options in order to make the program fit all your needs, such as the flexible handling of multiple answers or the possibility to change the display font for languages using a
different character set. Like this, vocabulary learning gets efficient and satisfying. Enjoy...

VocabOne 02 runs in English, German and some other languages and needs the Visual Basic 6 Runtime Libraries
Win 95/98/ME/XP
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NoteCard 3

This all-new version of Nick’s classic freeware program is a real pleasure to use, combining a fun, attractive interface with a relentlessly efficient method for building skill in musical note-reading.

As with past versions, this major new release of NoteCard is available for free without obligation, but now you also have the opportunity to buy a premium version with some great bonus features! With either version, you can count on the core NoteCard benefit of fast, focused learning within an attractive and efficient Windows application.

Highly-focused, fun, note-reading drill
Develop instant recognition of musical notes
Learn notes on piano, guitar, other instruments
Easy introduction of notes over multiple ‘levels’
Choose any clef — treble, bass, alto or tenor
Win XP/Vista/7
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Kidz CD 1
Web browser for young children

Kidz CD 1 - Surf Station is a web browser interface for young children (6 years or younger) that allows them to access popular internet contents in several categories including Games, Stories and Television.
It offers a very easy-to-use and kid friendly interface that uses the entire screen and also prevents casual access to the desktop (you have to press CTRL+L to exit) while it is running.
Furthermore it also disables the right mouse button preventing confusing dialogs from appearing.
Even though we did not like the fact that the parent cannot add or remove any sites, the selection provided by the software is very extensive and includes all the popular characters like Dora, Barney, Bob the Builder, Blues Clues and many others.
It allows you to let your young kid play on the computer without having to supervise every mouse click
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
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Stauri Orataur

Stauri Orataur is a simple but effective knowledge bot. Ask it a question, it will supply a straightforward answer. Orataur uses Victauri's Stauri(tm) technology to filter structured
sentences from ordinary web pages and return only those that are considered to be reasonable answers. Utilizing Microsoft Agent technology, Orataur uses AI to speak to you. Answers are designed to lead to further questions encouraging learning through interaction.
Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP
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EasyTrain

EasyTrain (ET) is a free, versatile learning program. With ET you can learn vocabulary, train multiple choice questions and deal with multiple field questions like conjugations or declinations. You have something to memorize ? Do it with this program !

ET was programmed with the intention of creating a learning-aid that can handle various kinds of learning styles and combine them under an easy-to-use interface, allowing you to create your own lectures you need e.g. for school or for any other purpose.

ET is freeware, that means, as long as you use it non-commercially, you have to pay absolutely nothing and you can pass it on to your friends. Hopefully, this decision will attract many ET-users and encourage them to exchange databases.

Multiple Choice tests with up to 9 answers
Multiple field tests with up to 9 questions
One-answer tests can also be done with multiple choice
Multiple answers for one question
Create your own databases and share them with other users
Multilingual, so far English and German
HTML-Export
Various test-options
Easy-to-use GUI
Free for private users

Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP
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Tweens Browser

The best place for Tweens online.

Tons of reasons why you should install Tweens Browser right now:

Use anywhere
Home, School, Specialised Centers, Library, Retail Stores, Internet Cafe

Completely Free
No subscription, No Advertising, No points to accumulate

Suitable for
Children 7-12, also suitable for people with autism & other developmental disabilities.

Simplicity
No configuration, No settings to play with, just click and run

Flexible
Compatible with Touch Screen, Netbook, Smart Board, Wii Remote

Security
Cannot navigate outside the secured zone, No popup, No advertising

Proper practices
No prejudice, No violence, No discrimination, No racism, Integrity

Learning tool
Discovery, Prevention, School Tools

Update
New content everyday, Auto-update, Built-in community

Win XP/Vista/7
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KBang

KBang shows images of different animals and plays corresponding sounds (like meow for cats and bark for dogs) when kid plays with the keyboard.
Dont be afraid that kid will damage your computer, well, may be keyboard itself :-). Program locks keyboard so that kid can't do anything to your computer. To exit the program it is necessary to click in top-left and then in top-right corner of the screen.
Be sure to visit the web site to download images and sounds.

Download images for KBang [212 K]
Download sounds for KBang [283 K]
Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
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Teach2000
Helps you memorize a foreign language

A private teacher to help you memorize a foreign language, topography or even the history of Italy by date. Improve your school results with this free trainer.

Included examples guarantee a quick start.
Easy handling of foreign symbols.
A question can have multiple answers.
Twelve dictionaries included for looking up translations and synonyms.
Add pictures and spoken word to the questions.
Easy recording of your own text.
A large number of test styles.
Examination of vocabulary, but also sentences, dates, capital cities etcetera.
It is possible to predefine multiple choice questions and yes/no-questions.
Ancient Greek font included.
Unicode enabled.
Easy import/export of lists.
Win 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista
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Larry's Songs (for toddlers)

Larry's Songs is a program that plays 10 different songs while various figures march around the screen.

Almost like a digital music box. It allows for a custom message to be displayed on startup as well.
Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
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Ray's Letters and Numbers

Free, fun to use educational software for children aged 3-6.

A great way to teach the alphabet, numbers, counting, simple spelling, keyboard skills and much more. Simple, entertaining, educational games which your child will want to play again and again. With a choice of US or UKspelling.
Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
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Letter Sounds

Free educational software. Letter Sounds helps children make the first, vital connection between the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they represent.

Children drag pictures to the letters that make the first sounds of the word that describes the picture. Voice is used to be sure that children know the right word and to reinforce the connection between the first letter and the first sound in the word. Fun, educational hands-on learning.
Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
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