Encyclopedia Smithsonian

Experience a Puerto Rican carnival and design your own mask!

Activities focused on the Wright brothers and the first airplane.

Match vehicles and destinations. Drive through time. Become a director by selecting vehicles for a new movie.

Learn about the animals of the Arctic on this kid friendly website!

Artful Abe is an online scavenger hunt that takes you from outdoor sculptures of Abraham Lincoln around America to discover related artworks in the collection of the American Art Museum.

Play an anatomy matching game.

Test your knowledge about North American animals.

Follow Cappy the giraffe on an adventure through American art.

Discover buffalo hide art and create your own painting!

Suggestions for science fair projects.

Imagine you're a settler on the open prairie, and you need to build a house.

Play dress up with traditional or modern African styles.

Create your own design for a cloud and send it up to the sky.

Try your hand as a planetary researcher. Please NOTE: do not use "save your work" feature. It is not functioning.

Are you a brainiac on the subject of the human brain? An authority on American authors? An ace on astronomy? A whiz on The Wizard of Oz? If not, don’t worry. The game Digging for Answers tests your research skills as well as your expertise.

Test your knowledge about Giant Pandas!

Solve jigsaw puzzles and crossword puzzles, take a virtual world tour, send an e-card, learn about animals and their names—National Zoo website.

Explore the riches of the Smithsonian’s collections, learn how to start your own collection, and see what kinds of things other kids collect.

Build your own light bulb.

Do you look like your relatives? Your prehistoric relatives? Try  morphing yourself backward in time with MEanderthal. You might be  surprised when you see your face transformed into the face of an early  human with the Smithsonian Institution's first-ever mobile app.