Some children love to play computer and video games. Parents love it when the games are educational too. FunBrain.com is a website that seeks to combine the "fun" of playing online games with education. FunBrain offers a variety of different kinds of Internet games for kids, including games that focus on math, science, spelling and grammar. These online games are for both boys and girls and the website provides a wide variety of games to play.
In the "Kids Center" part of FunBrain, visitors can choose to enter into the Poptropica game, where they can explore, collect and compete against other players. Visitors can also choose to read web books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Callahan Cousins. You can choose to sign up for FunBuzz, which is FunBrain's email notification service where they will keep you informed of new events, movies and video games added to the site. You can read comics or you can explore the many games in the different arcades.
FunBrain.com Entertainment
From the official game website users can also access the family entertainment center, which actually takes you off-site to FamilyEducation.com. This site is also part of the Family Education Network. Once at the entertainment section, children and adults can explore even more content that includes comics, fun and games, and movies.
Top FunBrain.com Kids Games
Math Car Racing
Grammar Gorillas
Math Baseball
Math Arcade
Playground Arcade game
Bunny Count
Change Maker
Soccor Shootout
Power Football
Word Turtle game
Tic Tac Toe Squares
Cookie Dough
Penguin Waiterhttp://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html
How to Play Poptropica Using FunBrain
This video is a narrative by a person that plays games on the FunBrain.com website. He shows step by step how to get onto the Poptropica section of the kids' game website. He then shows how to navigate to the proper section, how to access game and how to start playing the game. You can select and customize your animated avatar/player by selecting the character's color, clothing, eyes, hair and more. Then you enter Poptropica and select either 'early Poptropica' or 'Shark tooth'. Next he narrates and shows how to play through the game.
Color Creature on FunBrain.com
This video features at FunBrain.com's Color Creature game. In the game, players use a virtual paintbrush and palette to color their customized creature and his surroundings. Once the coloring has been completed, the creature is animated and moves about the screen. There are a number of coloring games like this available at FunBrain.com
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Founded
June 1997 (domain launched)
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Owned by the Family Education Network (acquired in 2000)
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Provides educational math and kids games online
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The website has approximately 65,000 teachers registered
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The www.FunBrain.com website receives 35 million visitors per month and 60,000 page visits each day.
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Provides multitude of online games for kids and children including math, science, spelling and history educational games
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Kids can also play games offline
