Bookwakwala: Songs
These original animated music videos celebrate all sorts of common experiences, such as moving to a new neighborhood, making an echo with a friend, eating with chopsticks or trying new things. The tunes are catchy and the lyrics are easy to understand: great fun for sing-alongs at the computer. Be sure to explore the rest of the site, including the musical games, animations and stories.
http://boowakwala.uptoten.com/kids/boowakwala-gamesindex.html

Everything Preschool: Preschool Songs
Hundreds of song lyrics, both traditional and original, are categorized by topic, such as Farm Animal Songs, Sports Songs and even Popcorn Songs. Some of the lyrics are sung to well-known melodies, such as Old MacDonald, Pop Goes the Weasel or the Hokey Pokey. Others are lyrical finger plays without specific melodies. The rest of the site is chock full of preschool themes, lesson plans, crafts, and alphabet activities.
http://www.everythingpreschool.com/songs/all.htm

Mrs. Jones' Room: Sing-Along Songs
Mrs. Jones is a Pennsylvania kindergarten teacher with an amazing website. Her sing-along page starts with a list of recommended music sites, followed by a really long list of song lyrics. My favorites are the alphabet songs, with lyrics for all the letters as well as vowel and consonant sounds (consonant digraphs, long and short vowels, and consonant blends.) "Do you know the zipper man, the zipper man, the zipper man? Do you know the zipper man? He loves to zip and zip."
http://mrsjonesroom.com/songs/alphlist.html

Preschool Express: Music and Rhyme Station
Most of the original rhyming lyrics at Preschool Express were penned by site publisher and author Jean Warren. "In her retirement, Jean has decided to give something back to the world by developing a totally FREE website for parents, teachers and grandparents of young children." The rhymes are sorted by season, along with a section for Anytime Songs that include Dinosaur Songs, Color Rhymes, and Birthday Songs. Here's one about a ladybug, sung to the tune of On Top of Old Smokey. "Out on the branch / A ladybug crawled. / She wasn't big / She was quite small."
http://www.preschoolexpress.com/music_station.shtml

Preschool Rock: Preschool Songs and Poems
Use the menu in the left-hand column to find original songs about holidays, animals, numbers and letters. The Classic Preschool category has a few "old standards rewritten with a modern twist," such as My Big Truck sung to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. "Rev Rev Vroom Vroom / My big truck. / Up on a hill or down in the muck. / Your big truck wheels / Spin round and round / I see them race across the ground."
http://songs.preschoolrock.com/index.php/home

About Parenting Teens: 101 Fun Things To Do This Summer
"Here is a list of fun things for your teen to do this summer. Print it out and give it to your teen the first time they tell you they are bored. Or be proactive and give it to them before they complain about nothing to do." Great ideas from the About.com guide Denise Witmer include inventing a new type of pizza, making a music video, having a watermelon seed spitting contest, and hosting a car wash to raise money for your favorite local charity.
http://parentingteens.about.com/od/teenculture/a/funteenstodo.htm

Backyard Nature: 101 Nature-Oriented Things To Do This Summer
Here at Backyard Nature, summer is all about the outdoors. Suggestions include listing all the trees in your neighborhood, putting out a birdbath ("It doesn't have to be a real birdbath, but could be something like a turned-upside garbage can lid.") and starting a rock collection. Most of the 101 items include educational links, so you can learn more about feathers, lichens, squirrels, bug-eaten leaves, and other fun backyard stuff.
http://www.backyardnature.net/101/summer.htm

Homeschool.com: 101 Things To Do This Summer
"As much as your kids will tell you they can't wait for summer, the words 'I'm bored,' inevitably cross their lips - sometimes sooner than you think! While children do enjoy the freedom that comes with the summer months, they still like to have a little structure to their fun." So, how about writing a letter to your best friend, making dinner with your family, cutting up old greeting cards to make a puzzle, or starting a band? With 101 suggestions, there is surely something here that will capture your child's imagination.
http://www.homeschool.com/articles/101ThingsToDoThisSummer/

Parenting.com: 101 Fun Things To Do in the Summer
This list from Parenting.com is written for Moms and Dads with preschoolers and toddlers. Suggestions include helping your little ones make new friends on the playground, bringing your kids' books alive with a scrapbook or a letter to the author, and mastering jump rope games with your child. One of the items even includes an iTunes playlist of "guaranteed kid-pleasers" for "boogieing down" in the living room or backyard.
http://www.parenting.com/article/fun-things-to-do-summer

Semicolon: 100 More Things To Do When You're Bored: Summer Edition
Semicolon is a mom from Houston,TX who blogs about "kids and books and homeschooling and communities and sometimes movies and politics and fun links." Her very creative ideas include acting out Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, painting the Sistine Chapel on a piece of butcher block paper taped to the bottom of a table (that might take a while!), creating a math scavenger hunt, planting a flower bed and learning the alphabet in sign language. Many of the projects include links to other mommy bloggers who expand upon the activities and offer advice on how to implement them.
http://www.semicolonblog.com/?p=1211

About.com: Parenting Teens: Birthday Party Games
Teens may say they just want to "hang out" with their friends, but having a few games up your sleeve will surely come in handy for those moments when the conversation slows. These games, from About.com Parenting Teens guide Denise Witmer, are specifically for teens, and include many clever ideas such as a Duct Tape and Newspaper Fashion Show ("each team creates fashions"), Fill my Bowl Relay Race (how many M&Ms can you carry in a straw?) and Pass the Peanut (with a spoon in your mouth!)
http://parentingteens.about.com/od/birthdays/a/birthdayparty.htm

Birthday Party Ideas: Games
"So, you've come up with a great theme and now you've got to figure out how to keep all those little party goers busy -- birthday party games of course!" From the classics (such Pin the Tail on the Donkey and Musical Chairs) to the unique (a Bucket of Pennies Contest or a Chinese Auction), Birthday Party Ideas has a very large collection of games, mostly submitted by readers like you. To add your birthday party idea (or game), click on the Submit Idea button in the top menu.
http://www.birthdaypartyideas.com/html/games.html

Family Fun: All Party Games
Disney's Family Fun site has thirteen pages of party games organized by title or user rating. To view the highest rated games, click on Sort by Rating. These games are both well-liked by parents, and also a bit different from the usual same old, same old. They include games such as The Clairvoyant Crayon ("young magicians wow their audience"), Sardines ("a version of hide and seek") and Polka-Dot Pinch ("players will see spots before their eyes").
http://familyfun.go.com/playtime/party-games/

Party Game Central: Kids Party Games
Party Game Central is my pick of the day because of the size of its database and terrific search function. To find games perfect for your audience, start at Build Your Custom Game List, where you can query by age, group size, venue (indoors or outdoors) and activity level (passive or active.) And Party Game Central doesn't stop with kids games. You'll also find hundreds of games for teens, pool parties, bridal showers, baby showers, couples parties, and holidays.
http://www.partygamecentral.com/kids-party-games.php?tp=kids-games

University of Illinois Extension: Let's Party
"A guide to drug-free parties for 5th to 8th graders." Focusing on a slightly older audience, this site from Urban Programs Resource Network covers both party hosting and party attendance. It includes a section of Party Games, but also has advice on party foods and party rules. For example, when hosting a middle-school party, "If anyone leaves the party they should not be allowed to return. This will discourage people from leaving your property with the intent to drink or use drugs and return to the party."
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/party/

The Galileo Project: The Medici Family
"Through banking and commerce, the [Medici] family acquired great wealth in the 13th century, and political influence came along with this wealth." This one-page overview of the Medici Family is part of The Galileo Project at Rice University. Ferdinand (1549 - 1609) appointed Galileo as a math professor at the University of Pisa. In 1610, his son Cosimo II (1590 - 1621) (who had been tutored by Galileo as a young boy) offered the scientist a court position.
http://galileo.rice.edu/gal/medici.html