Smart-Kit — An Amazing Learning and Fun Free Online Site for Children

by Jenny Mannion
on 06.29.08
10-11, 11-12, 12 and up, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, Tweens, adult
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When I found Smart-Kit my first thought was “wow, this site has SO MANY fun thinking games — it is PERFECT for my site”. The Smartkit site was founded by a Neurologist (M.D.) and has many fun and educational games in several categories. Every once in a while, the founding Neurologist will add an educational post about brain health and enhancement. It would take weeks to go through all their games but I have found a few I whole heartedly recommend. I also recommend checking the site out for yourself and think there is something here for ages 8 on up through adult (and a few for even younger). The ads are just for other games on their site so it is safe to let an older child play independently but the younger children would need your help navigating and figuring out some of the instructions.

Here are a few recommendations for the Flash Games:

Smart Kit has a Plexus Puzzle to try for free and some f o r s a le. In Plexus puzzles– the puzzle pieces are all different sized and shaped cartoon characters and you need to rotate them and fit them together so they form one solid puzzle. I found this one fun, challenging and was able to do it in 10 minutes and I am by no means a puzzle expert. The pictures you fit together are kid friendly pictures and I could see children loving this one and HAVING to finish it. I think ages 6 and up would enjoy this but ages 8 and up might have a better chance at finishing it without help.

Poiser is fun for all ages. The object is to build boxes on top of each other (pyramid style) so they reach the goal height. The boxes start out small and later on they are different sizes and made of different materials so they have different weight. Oh and did I mention you are building in space on a board being balanced on something like a pin? This makes it challenging as you always have to make sure your pyramid-type building is even on both sides.

Smart Kit’s 3D Logic Game “Stronghold of Sage” is lots of fun. There is a cube that you manipulate 3 sides of. There are blocks of different colors on each side and you have to find a path to match the colors without intercepting the other. Each level gets a bit harder and I think ages 8 and up would enjoy it and not get too frustrated.

Smiley Puzzle has different color faces and you need to match 3 in a row of to get them removed. Instead of “swapping” places as a bunch of similar games have you do to move the rows horizontally or vertically. Cute faces and sounds makes this good for ages 5 and up.

Smiler Concentration is a standard concentration game with you choosing between making 12, 8, 12, 18 and 24 matches. You get a peek at where the faces are before they turn them over and then it’s up to you to find the matches. It has very cute graphics and my son loved the sound as well.

Pickies Factory Game is a very cute game that young children ages 5 and up would enjoy playing. Pieces of the characters (4 pieces in all) fall and you put them together (by color) to form the whole character.

There are so many categories on this site that I recommend you checking out the Categories list on the right hand side of the home page. Here are a few of my favorites but these are just a handful of the more than 20 categories:

Brain and Puzzle Games
Cartoon Puzzles
Hidden Object Puzzles
Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Math Puzzles
Paper Folding and Cutting Puzzles
Printable Puzzles
Spot the Differences Puzzle
Optical Illusions

There are also very insightful articles on everything relating to the brain. Again, there are MANY categories… but here are a few…

ADD & ADHD
Brain Herbs and Smart Drugs
Improve Concentration
Improve Memory
Stress Reduction

Smart-Kit is an amazing site for learning and having fun. There is lots to learn here and you can also use it to improve memory, concentration or IQ. I highly recommend Smart Kit and think children as well as adults would get a lot from this site.

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