Guide to Kids Site
Online Games
ABCD Watermelon
Leona sings the alphabet song, but keeps adding in silly words. It's your job to fill in the correct missing letters. It's a fun way to learn the alphabet song, and to learn to identify letters.
This game focuses on: Letter Knowledge
Alphabet Soup
Words are hidden as noodles in alphabet soup. Each word is taken from the answer to a riddle. Unscramble the word, and you get the punch line.
This game focuses on: Text Comprehension
The Best Trampolini Game
This talented animated circus trio demonstrates adjectives, plus their comparative and superlative forms (e.g., loud, louder, loudest). Spin the pictures until they match the descriptions.
This game focuses on: Vocabulary
Blending Bowl
It's an exciting day at Blending Fields, where football players crash together to make words! Each match-up allows five players to go head to head with a featured challenger. Using the featured rhymes, kids can practice the most common English spelling patterns.
This game focuses on: Letter Knowledge, Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary
Chicken Stacker
Try to stack five hens by clicking on words with the featured vowel in them: the "a" sound in the word map, the "e" in bet, the "i" in pin, the "o" in top, and the "u" in duck.
This game focuses on: Phonics
Coloring Pages
Pictures of your favorite Between the Lions characters to print out and color in! You'll also find more offline fun in our Printables area.
Flood!
The library has flooded, and Cleo needs help getting books back onto the right shelves. Books float by in groups of five, but each shelf only holds three. Choose three whose titles share a common theme.
This game focuses on: Text Comprehension
Fuzzy Lion Ears
This game features partially written words with accompanying pictures. As Leona presents each one, she'll say the word. Choose from three different letters to make the word you heard. Roll over each letter to hear its sound, or click on the picture to hear the word again. All three choices make real words that Leona will speak as you try them.
This game focuses on: Phonics
Lionel's Talking Gizmo
In this listening game, kids can explore and discover a fun and funky sentence-maker. Click on the individual paw-fingers to change a word. Click the paw-palm to hear the new sentence.
This game focuses on: Text Comprehension
Monkey Match
In this game of concentration, you can find three different kinds of matches: upper- and lowercase letters; beginning sounds; and rhymes. Flip over the coconuts and find all the matching pairs to clear the board.
This game focuses on: Letter Knowledge, Phonological Awareness
Pounce!
A great game for our youngest readers. Cleo is eager to pounce on a certain word. She says the word once, and will repeat it if you click on her. Listen, then choose the right word. If you're correct, she'll show you a picture and congratulate you. If you choose wrong, you'll have a chance to try again.
This game focuses on: Phonological Awareness
Sky Riding
Guide Leona's hot-air balloon as she floats around the sky. Help her sort through the letters of different styles and sizes to collect only the ones she's looking for.
This game focuses on: Letter Knowledge
Synonym Sam's Lab
Help Sam and her loyal, lovable dog Rufus play with synonyms. She'll tell you what Rufus is up to, then it's your chance to describe what he's doing using other words. It's amusing, delightful, AND fun, all at the same time!
This game focuses on: Vocabulary
Theo's Puzzles
Choose a letter, then put together a jigsaw puzzle featuring that letter. Then watch a video clip all about the letter you chose.
This game focuses on: Letter Knowledge
Vocabulary Games
Accompanying half the stories, these games stretch the learning of the stories by focusing on relevant vocabulary. Choose the correct word to fill in the blanks in a variety of sentences.
This game focuses on: Vocabulary
Word Morph Games
Accompanying half the stories, these games stretch the learning of the stories by focusing on relevant phonemes, onsets, and rimes. Can you spell the word you hear?
This game focuses on: Phonics
Word Play
In this game, kids can see words behave like their meanings: "pop" pops, "leap" leaps, and so on. Each word is also spoken aloud, and is enhanced with sound effects.
This game focuses on: Vocabulary
Offline Activities
Printables
This collection of things to print has something for everyone, from alphabet cut-outs and word games to Between the Lions number and letter coloring pages. Some specific features are...
Alphabet Cutouts
Printable letter-cards for use in a variety of word games.
This game focuses on: Letter Knowledge
Destination: Library
A Between the Lions board game. Follow the alphabet from A-Z, thinking of words that begin with these letters along the way.
This game focuses on: Vocabulary, Letter Knowledge
Letters and Numbers
Coloring Pages
Practice your letters or numbers with these printable pages.
This game focuses on: Letter Knowledge
Matching Games
A group of games based on rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, short vowels, initial letters, and categories.
This game focuses on: Vocabulary
Watson's Word Wall
Print these word-cards, then use them to create collaborative stories.
This game focuses on: Text Comprehension
Word Worms
Another story-starter game, this one with a letter-recognition component.
This game focuses on: Text Comprehension, Letter Knowledge
Other Areas
Video Clips
A collection of great Between the Lions songs and other clips from the show.
Stories
Video versions of our popular stories, accompanied by either a Word Morph Game or a Vocabulary Game specific to that story.
Lions To Go
Trying to find Between the Lions to take with you? Then look no further. Here you'll find free downloadable songs, stories, and more.