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High Visibility Animated Cursors
A collection of large and brightly colored animated cursors for Windows 95/98/ME or NT/2000. They provide those with laptops, children, or limited visual acuity, cursors big enough to easily find, but still interesting to look at. There are 10 different colored cursor schemes in the set, for a total of 257 cursors. They provide a wide selection of replacements for all the mouse pointers. These cursors are copyrighted but free for personal use.
Animated Clock
A program for children from pre-school through third grade that teaches them to tell time in a variety of ways. This life skill program helps them convert digital time to analog time and vice-versa. Difficulty levels can be selected to provide practice in increments of hours, half-hours, 15 minutes, 5 minutes and one minute. Animated rewards "pop out" of the cuckoo clock's doors for each correct answer, 10 correct answers get a silly cartoon.
BattlePets
BattlePets is a PC game like Pokemon. Players explore dark caves and haunted castles, battling wild BattlePets and training their own. Players can also challenge one of six evil wizards, in an attempt to free the island of Enchantia.
Coloring Book
Children will have hours of fun with this electronic coloring book. Large buttons for color selection make it easy to use even for young children. No more broken or lost crayons with this computer version and the pages can be colored over and over again with the dozens of available colors.
Coloring Book II: Dinosaurs
A second coloring book program from Dataware, but this time it's ALL dinosaurs! It has the same interface as the first Coloring Book with large buttons that make it easy to use for children, but there is new background music. Not only are there dinosaurs to color, but the written pronunciation of the dinosaur names are included.
Coloring Book III: Animals
A third coloring book program from Dataware. With this one, there are lots and lots of cute animals to color! It has the same easy to use interface as the previous coloring books which makes it easy to use even for young children.
Coloring Book IV: Plants
A fourth coloring book program from Dataware. With this one, there are a large variety of plants to color! It has the same easy to use interface as the previous coloring books which makes it easy to use even for young children.
Fantasy Chess
Play the game of chess while transforming into fantasy creatures. Choose from different character sets for your chess pieces including dinosaurs, insects, traditional pieces, and more. This chess set is excellent for learning to play chess in that moves are highlighted and the difficulty levels (ten in all) were designed for beginner chess players. Veteran players will find it a good chess set for practicing strategic moves.
Homeboy
HomeBoy is a program that allows children to write stories in order to have them read back, and play games. It uses Microsoft's "Text-To-Speech" engine and with the help of 4 animated characters, the stories are brought to life on your PC, with 120+ actions and over 200 animations the characters can perform. The game include Tic-Tac-Toe and Riddles (over 150 riddles to solve).
123 Free Solitaire for Children 2003
123 FREE Solitaire for Children 2003 is a collection of five great solitaire games: Doublets, Grandfather's Clock, Klondike, Pyramid (Easy Couple) and Twenty. 123 FREE Solitaire for Children 2003 features a winning layout, fast game play, rich sounds, extensive options, and quality help. Each game has more than nine trillion (9,999,999,999,999) possible games to play, so the game remains fresh no matter how many times you play.
Letter Drop
If you are familiar with the classic game of Hangman, you'll have no trouble playing Letter Drop. The rules are the same, but your mission is different. You are training to become a letter air drop qualified pilot. Your training consists of air dropping cargo (letters) to exact locations to form words. Complete 20 missions to earn your wings.
Magic Beads
Unhurried tetris-style game with intuitive rules and skins. Easy-to-play fun for the entire family. In Beads you rotate colors of falling blocks to line up three or more of the same color. Hints are available, high scores are recorded, and an honor roll keeps track of the family experts giving them nice funny icons. This game has a built-in midi player.