What's Childsplay

Childsplay is a collection of educational activities for young children and runs on Windows, OSX, and Linux.

Childsplay can be used at home, kindergartens and pre-schools.

Childsplay is a fun and save way to let young children use the computer and at the same time teach them a little math, letters of the alphabeth, spelling, eye-hand coordination etc.

Childsplay is part of the schoolsplay.org project.

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Features

Childsplay provides several features for users and developers of activities:

• memory activities that are fun to play and at the same time learn sounds, images, letters and numbers.
• activities that train the child to use the mouse and keyboard.
• pure game activities like puzzles, pong, pacman and billiards.
• multilingual support, even right to left languages (via Pango).
• solid data logging to monitor the children's progress; locally (SQLite) or over network (MySQL or any other db supported by SQLAlchemy).
• set of OpenOffice reports to print this data (still in development state).
• object oriented framework for easy activity development in Python/PyGame.
• good support by the developers and translators.