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Take a tour of our interactive and printable features for kids! Each description below includes an explanation of educational goals, and tips for exploring these games with children.
 - About Face lets children match a character's facial expression with how he or she might feel in a given situation. Developed in close consultation with the National Center for Accessible Media, the game can be used to explore the fact that facial expressions are important, especially when communicating with people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Play this game with your children, and ask them to show you the expressions they make when they are happy, sad, confused, etc. (Plug-in required: Flash)
 - Alien: Assembly Required is a game of infinite creative possibilities that lets your children create their own alien race! Children can gain an empowering sense of artistic ownership over their unique online creations. Use this game as an opportunity to build something funny together, or challenge each other to see who can build the craziest creature! (Plug-in required: Flash)
 - Art Gallery showcases children's drawings through the eyes of Binky Barnes, who presents them as the works of art they really are. Browse the gallery with your children, and talk about what you see. Encourage your children to send their own drawings to Binky.
 - Art Studio is an interactive painting game. Children can color online pictures of the ARTHUR characters, or start from scratch with a blank canvas. This feature exposes budding artists to the idea of computer art. Encourage children to experiment with the different tools in the game. The stamping function, for example, is perfect for creating unique patterns! (Plug-in required: Shockwave)
 - Ask Prunella is a fun reading activity that gives children a peek into Prunella's crystal ball. Encourage children to make up stories based on some of Prunella's quirky predictions about Arthur and his friends.
 - Baby Kate's Stickers is an interactive feature that introduces pre-readers to the basic concepts of correspondence: create something, send it, and receive a response. Children create a unique note for Baby Kate using a variety of online "stickers," send it to her, and receive an immediate reply. This feature offers lots of creative possibilities and responses, so the more kids play, the more fun they can experience!
 - Bookmarks to print and color give children an opportunity to personalize their reading experiences. Use the bookmarks your children create to mark your spot in the books you are reading together.
 - Brain Game is an ARTHUR trivia quiz. Children will love testing their ARTHUR knowledge, and they'll be practicing their reading skills as they do it! (They can access helpful hints if they get stumped.) Try playing this game with your children by taking turns reading questions aloud and submitting answers.
 - Coloring Pages let even the youngest ARTHUR fans hone their artistic skills. There are two printable coloring pages for each character featured on the site. Encourage children to get creative!
 - Connect the World is an interactive card game that children play online against Buster. Along the way, they learn interesting tidbits about some of the world's cultures, and gain a greater awareness that they are part of a diverse world neighborhood. Supporting information is provided via an interactive world map. Use this game to spark a conversation about differences and similarities between cultures. Please note that this game can be very challenging, and children may not always win. Discuss the ideas of winning and losing with your children, and encourage them to keep trying. (Plug-in required: Flash)
 - Cootie Catcher is the best of both worlds: children design their own paper fortune-tellers online, and then print them out and use them in the real world. An ARTHUR twist on an old favorite, this feature encourages both reading and writing. Create a cootie catcher with your children and entertain relatives at your next family gathering!
 - Cosmic Combos is a printable version of Alien: Assembly Required. Children print and color five aliens, and then cut them up into pieces they can mix and match to create their own alien invasion. Get out the art supplies and go wild! Encourage children to name each of their alien creatures and to give each a personal history.
 - Crank It Up allows children to mix funky sounds made by everyday objects to create their own unique musical compositions. This feature not only allows children to create their own multi-layered rhythms, but also to use sounds coded to the computer keyboard to riff on top. (Children can even record their musical masterpieces and send them to friends!) The main goal of this feature is to enforce the idea that music is a form of self-expression that is accessible to everyone. After playing this game with your children, use some everyday household items (pots, pans, wooden spoons, etc.) and make music together! (Plug-in required: Flash)
 - Crazy Bus is a printable card game that hones reading, memory, and description skills. Players match their set of ARTHUR character cards to description cards drawn from a deck. For a more informal sorting activity, choose one description card and work together with children to sort all the character cards accordingly.
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