Teach Your Monster to Read is an award-winning series of games that’s helped millions of children learn to read. 

Play for free on the website or download the app. Create a monster and take it on an adventure through a magical world. Travel to exciting places, meet fun characters, play games and win prizes as your monster learns the first steps of reading.

For young children in the first stages of learning to read; both those who are on track and those who need extra support and motivation.

Teach your monster to read

Nat Geo Kids makes it fun to explore your world with weird, wild, and wacky videos! Videos featuring awesome animals, cool science, funny pets, and more, are made just for curious kids like you. So pick a topic you love and start watching today! 

Visit the National Geographic Kids website for games, photos, and videos

National Geographic Kids

Joe Wicks Youtube channel provides live week day 30 minute fitness sessions, suitable for kids of all ages, and parents too! If you want to join in, live broadcasts are at 9am GMT Monday to Friday

PE With Joe started in response to the coronavirus lockdown meaning it was important to keep moving and stay healthy and positive.

Exercise is an amazing tool to help us feel happier, more energised, and more optimistic. The workouts are fun and suitable for all ages and even adults can get involved. You don't need any equipment at all.

P.E. with Joe

Little Fooby is all about cooking with little ones. Easy to follow, healthy and tasty recipes ranked by ability level - mini chef, junior chef and master chef. As well as recipes and inspiration, Little Fooby is packed with important and interesting information about cooking with children.

The little FOOBY recipes are developed especially for adults and children to cook together. 

They're easy for little ones to understand, making it easy to inspire them to cook and bake. 

What's more, little FOOBY dishes are straightforward, quick to prepare and, of course, supremely tasty.

Little Fooby

Online Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation classes for kids. 

Interactive adventures which build strength, balance and confidence - and get kids into yoga and mindfulness early! 

Designed specially for kids aged 3+, used in schools and homes all over the world.

Watch on Youtube or get the app for ad free viewing and viewing offline.

Cosmic Kids Yoga

Creating and sharing ideas for fun activities and crafts for kids (and kids at heart).

Ready for a fantastic crafting session with your kids or students? We have a ton of engaging art and crafts for kids to make and you’ll find ideas for all ages and for all occasions. 

From awesome paper crafts to origami tutorials, crafts with paper, fun activities for kids, drawing tutorials, Halloween crafts, Christmas crafts, Mothers day crafts and much more. We have hundreds of easy to make ideas with simple step by step tutorials you and your kids will easily follow. 

We make videos a couple of times a week so be sure to come back to our crafting channel often.

Easy Peasy Fun

Record-breaking beatboxer SK Shlomo is hosting weekly mass beatbox lessons to help kids and raise money for NHS Charities Together. Tune in every Thursday 2pm BST 

Each episode is a mixture of entertainment and education, including lots of beatboxing performance from SK Shlomo. 

There are lots of engaging learning exercises, warmups, vocal techniques, interactive polls and learning challenges.

Beatbox Adventures

The Dad Lab is a Youtube channel and book by father of 2, Sergei, who creates fun educational activities including:

Science experiments
Toy reviews
Crafts
Tricks

Put an end to the old saying - I’m bored!

The Dad Lab

From beginner to pro, play piano like you’ve always wanted. Whether you want to learn piano on your own, or you’re starting from scratch, Simply Piano will guide you so you can play the music you love.

The app listens to what you’re playing through the microphone in real-time to give immediate feedback.

Simply Piano

Empower children to learn the timeless game of Chess on the world’s number 1 Chess site for kids! 

The learning tools will keep kids motivated to learn and improve their Chess skills. 

More importantly, learning Chess will give them skills that they can take with them throughout life: strategy, tactics, creativity, perseverance and calculated risk-taking.

Chess Kid

With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.

Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.

Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge.

Scratch

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. 

On Skillshare, millions of members come together to find inspiration and take the next step in their creative journey.

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