Free Educational Software

Welcome to www.educational-freeware.com! This site is dedicated to listings, descriptions and reviews of the best free educational software for kids and grown-ups. Some of the software is web based (see the online section), and some is Windows software that you can download (see the downloadable section).

Many of the software titles are multilingual. In order to see what titles run in your language, you can list the software by language.

Toddlers

Boohbah.tv Zone - Cute Games For Toddlers
Boohbah.tv is a very cute website that offers lots of small and ingenious games and fun for young kids (2-5 years old). Most of the games simply let the children acquire basic computer skills such as using the mouse.
Read more... (02/14/2008) (in online)
http://www.boohbah.tv/

BBC Teletubbies - Fun And Games For Toddlers
The BBC Teletubbies website provides a bunch of very simple but fun learning activities for toddlers, such as "Spot the rabbit", "Animal Sounds", "Shape Game", counting games and more.
Read more... (01/11/2008) (in online)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies/

Minisebran - Freeware For Toddlers
Minisebran contains alphabet exercises, number exercises and doodle activities. It is perfect for toddlers and kids up to 5 years old who are learning the basics of using a computer, keyboard and mouse.
Read more... (01/29/2007) (in freeware)
http://www.wartoft.nu/software/minisebran

Gcompris - Educational Games For Linux and Windows
GCompris is an educational software package which offers different activities to kids from 2 to 10 years old. GCompris is part of the GNU project. It is available for both Windows and Linux.
Read more... (01/15/2007) (in freeware)
http://gcompris.net

Poissonrouge.com - Games For Children
Poisson Rouge is an amazing site. It contains lots of free fun and educational games and activities for children (approx. 3-7 years old). It is also beautifully designed, and completely ad free! Highly recommended!
Read more... (11/16/2006) (in online)
http://www.poissonrouge.com/

Hiyah - Free Software For Special Needs Kids And Toddlers
Hiyah is a collection of nice and extremely simple software written by a mom with two young children who struggle with autism, ADHD, and speech delays. It is so easy to use, all you need to do is to press the spacebar!
Read more... (08/23/2006) (in freeware)
http://www.hiyah.net/

Childs Play - Free Educational Games
Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children (approximately between 3 and 10 years old). Just like Gcompris, it is both freeware and open source, and is available for Linux as well as for Windows.
Read more... (08/19/2006) (in freeware)
http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/

Magnetic Numbers
This is a simple but kind of cute Flash application that lets you place and move magnetic numbers, similar to the ones you can put on the fridge, on the screen.
Read more... (08/03/2006) (in online)
http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/magneticNumbers/index.html

Cyberstart - Freeware For The Very Young
Cyberstart by Larry Loveland is a great way to teach toddlers how to use a mouse, some basic shapes etc. This freeware program does not use the keyboard at all, and you do not need to be able to click the mouse to use it. You simply move the cursor over the screen, matching up colors and shapes.
Read more... (01/24/2006) (in freeware)
http://www.larryloveland.com/

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