Link To Cartoon Cottage

For lots of free animations and cartoons take a look at this site. The images are free to use on your personal site. There is also a selection of animated buttons to customise the look of your site.

Link To Cartoon Cottage

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CYBER PET

Want a pet but don't have time to look after it?  Well now you can adopt a pet from Cyber Pet.  There are heaps of different animals and insects to choose from and you get to name your pet and pick a colour for it.  Then you can feed it and look after it.

Or if you prefer to adopt a monster then visit http://www.moshimonsters.com/ where you can adopt your monster and play a game where you furnish its house, feed it, take it shopping and look after its health and wellbeing in general.

Loads of FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FUNKY CLOCKS

How about this lovely aquarium clock. See the fish swimming through, how peaceful. This would look great on any desktop. Or how about imagining you are flying through space with the rocket clock?

To get either of these as a screensaver you need to hold down the control key when you click on the screensaver button unless you have pop-ups disabled.

Check out their site too, there are heaps of great clocks, funny, romantic, nature inspired, the list goes on......

NUTRITION GAMES FOR KIDS

Nutrition games for kids- A fun and free way to learn about nutrition, health, and fitness! Play 'Matching Meals- Memory Game' ,free interactive online games, puzzles, educational activities, and printables that teach children to make healthy food choices. Kids have fun as they learn through animations,…

GREAT RECIPES

If you want access to 100's of great FREE recipes for every occasion then you definately want to check out http://www.allrecipes.com/ where you have access to all the recipes you will ever need. You can print them out together with the nutritional information. There are recipes for children too and reviews so you view what other people thought before cooking it yourself.

I have spent hours on this site and my recipe repertoire is growing by the day!!!!!!!!!!

SEUSSVILLE STORY MAKER

The Seussville Story Maker site lets you create your own story based on a Dr Seuss book. You give your story a title and enter your name and then create 3 scenes with your choice of characters, music, backgrounds and your own text. Once done your story comes to life on the screen. Great FUN.

www.seussville.com/games/storymaker/story_maker.html

WACKY WEB TALES

Wacky Web Tales is a site where you fill in a blank form to create your own wacky tale. There are all sorts of titles to choose from and once you have filled in the required words the site does the rest for you creating a story you can read on the screen or print out to keep.

Visit this site at www.eduplace.com/tales

There are also a heap of educational aids covering a variety of subjects such as maths, english etc.

Ziggity Zoom For Kids

The Ziggity Zoom site is the place to visit if you have pre-school or kindergarten kids. There is heaps of fun things for them to do at the same time as learning valuable skills. There are games, pictures to colour in on line or download and print to colour. There are stories to listen to and read, mini videos, arts and crafts, gardening and nutritional projects. So go visit

www.ziggityzoom.com/index.php

Brain Exercises For Everyone

Here are some sites to keep the kids occupied and give their brain a good 'workout' at the same time.

There are free games and puzzles as well as information and facts on how to look after your brain.

http://www.funbrain.com/

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/brainboosters

www.tinyurl.com/KidsBrain This site covers the whole gamit of kids health, including emotions, school, nearing teens and a whole lot more.

and some brain exercises for the oldies .....................

www.sharpbrains.com/teasers

http://www.braingle.com/

http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/

Make your computer keyboard childproof

CrazyLittleFingers - This is a great FREE piece of software if you have young children who like to take over your computer as soon as your back is turned. This program lets you protect your work from little fingers by allowing you to 'lock' your keyboard when you leave the computer.

When you leave your PC CrazyLittleFingers protects your work by locking the keyboard, so if anyone presses a key while the program is activated either a sound is made or a picture appears.

When you come back to your work just press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to escape the program.

You can install the program for free by going to http://tinyurl.com/LittleFingers and follow the link to CrazyLittleWebsite. Here you can either download the full program (65M) or a lighter version (300k). The full version is ready to use with all pictures and sounds but if you opt for the lighter version you have to set up each keyboard key to your own pictures and sounds - quite labour intensive!

CrazyLittleFingers is only available for Windows machines.

Motivational Tips

This widget gives lots of hints on keeping you motivated. If you need a 'thought of the day' this is a good widget to keep on your desktop.

Lots of tips on keeping fit and well

This widget will give you a whole array of tips on keeping fit and healthy. From diet to exercise there is sure to be a topic to suit. If you click on the widget it will take you to the wellsphere site where you can find all the information you need on keeping healthy.

A whole gallery of widgets to choose

How about this for a find!!!!!!!!!!!

I managed to score a whole gallery of widgets in one go for my first post.

Check them out............There are some really good ones.

I really love the pregnancy countdowns, great for friends and family to keep track of progress of the event.

The Widget Hunter

Would you believe a month ago I had never heard of a widget!!!!!!!!!!
Now, being recently retired and with time on my hands I have become a 'widget hunter', spending hours scouring the net looking for these often cute, sometimes informative, usually fun little gadgets.
This will be a work in progress and this is just the beginning. If you have any cool widgets to share please leave a comment or link.