Starfall is an excellent website that helps younger kids develop math, early literacy, and problem-solving skills through fun learning games, stories, and printables. The site is designed so parents can sit and explore with their child, or to allow kids to navigate themselves.

The website was founded nearly 20 years ago to provide free and low-cost educational experiences for young children. Since its inception, this site has become a go-to resource for thousands of teachers and parents. It is known both for its colourful graphics, fun songs and characters and interactive learning games and its comprehensive early reading and math curricula. Starfall offers an excellent phonics-based programme which grows with your child’s confidence and ability. Most of the online resources are free but though a low-cost annual subscription all family members (including grandparents) will be able to access the full extent of the activities and printable resoures.

PBS Kids is one of the few educational websites for kids which covers a wide range of subjects. PBS Kids provides kids and their parents with a wealth of free early learning games, activities and videos from some of their favourite PBS TV shows.

The website was founded nearly 20 years ago to provide free and low-cost educational experiences for young children. Since its inception, this site has become a go-to resource for thousands of teachers and parents. It is known both for its colourful graphics, fun songs and characters and interactive learning games and its comprehensive early reading and math curricula. Starfall offers an excellent phonics-based programme which grows with your child’s confidence and ability. Most of the online resources are free but though a low-cost annual subscription all family members (including grandparents) will be able to access the full extent of the activities and printable resoures.

Funbrain.com is everything you could expect from an interactive, educational website. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of games, activities and info products on this website. The content is top-quality, and Funbrain easily takes out our number 1 spot.

For ages Key Stage 1- 8, or Years 1-13, there's something for everyone. The games have great graphics, and simple but effective gameplay. The videos are really high-quality production. And there are entire books available you can read straight from the website. Funbrain.com provides fantastic educational content, that’s highly interactive, which means your kids won’t get bored! The website is totally free to use, and there’s no signing up and logging in, which we love. The flipside to this is that the website is heavy on advertising, with both sidebar and sponsored content ads.

www.natgeokids.com is probably our favourite website on this list. It comes in at the number 3 spot though, as the content is pitched for older kids, probably 10 and up, and not all kids will be into the content offered here.

National Geo for Kids is big on education, and the site is full of information about the world around us, from China, to dinosaurs, to space missions, and everything in between! It’s like an online magazine for kids, full of articles, and competitions, and educational videos. One of the best things about Nat Geo for Kids is that they regularly update it with new information, which is great. For kids that love to read and learn about the world around them, this site will keep them busy for months! We did notice some sponsored content on the website, although it was very kid-friendly advertising.

www.nasa.gov/kidsclub is the go-to website for all those space-enthusiasts out there. If your kids are into spaceships, mars rovers and comets then this is the website to check out.

The actual Kidsclub section is fairly limited, although very educational, and simple to use. But if this section doesn’t meet the space needs for your little future Buzz Aldrin, they can click through to all the great NASA website resources, like images of the day, Nasa TV, and all the present and past NASA missions. Some of the gameplay is based on Adobe Flash, which is being phased out by 2020. It may also not work correctly on a mobile device.