Monday, July 30, 2001		Cyber Kids

HELLO friends! It’s Monday and time for our journey to the Cyber World. The World Wide Web is a happening place and has in store something for everyone. However, for cyber kids it has a lot of fun, education, entertainment and activities. You can learn many new things in the cyber world, which are not taught in the class or elsewhere. One such site where you can learn some interesting things is

www.i-craft.com/kids/index.htm. This is a great site for learning and doing new projects. You don’t have to wait for a rainy day to visit this site as you can enjoy crafts anytime. This site features a great collection of Kids friendly projects. Some of these projects are Christmas Tree Card, Garden Watering can, Talking Frame, Talking Teddy & Pillow Talk, Gilded forested glass vase, Seashell keepsakes, memory album, Felt Ornaments, Kids Cap, Rubber stamps barrettes, Tie-Dyed heart T-shirt etc. All these projects are quite interesting yet very simple and boosts your creativity. So, what are you waiting for? Just log on to this site and start a new project with your brothers and sisters. If you are a studious kid and would prefer science projects to the crafts projects, then www.halcyon.com/sciclub/kidproj1.html is a great site for you. This is a good site for science-related projects and has two broad categories.

1) Simple Projects, which includes projects like Quick and simple Telescope, Acid/Base Goldenrod secret, Antibubbles etc.

2) Medium difficulty projects, which includes simple kid-lifting hovercraft, The Disgustoscope, Tornado generator box, Gigantic low cost solar furnace, Ultra simple Electric Generator, Touch the clouds device, Electrostatic generators etc. Where as the third category or advanced projects include Electrostatic loud speaker, Giant rainbow prism, Antigravity chamber, Plasma globe without vacuum pump or glass. The kids activity in the cyber world may not just be limited to projects as there are lot of other fun filled activities, which you can do at your home with your brother, sisters and friends. One such site, which has a lot of fun filled activities, is www.datasvnc.com/waidsoft/funkids.htm. This is an interesting site and based on the book — 101 things to do with your kids. On this site you will come across good creative ideas full of fun and entertainment and also some interesting games. Some of the interesting activities listed on this site are Goody guessing- a good party game, which guests can play, memory game – a fun filled game for all ages, Picture Lotto, Pig Race and Potato print paper. — IV