Free Time
Big Huge Teen Sites – Fitness & Sports –
Get Crafty
Express Yourself –
Anime, Movies & TV – Music
– Online Games & Quizzes
TeenSpace @ The Internet Public Library
Real teens and an actual librarian scour the ‘net seeking sparkling sites for teens, and find stuff on dating, clubs, computers, math (yes, math), style and fashion, and issues and conflicts.
EXPN.com - Extreme Sports
Skateboarding, snowboarding, bike stunts, motocross, and more extreme sports share space with X Games updates and a guide to the best places to skateboard in Seattle.
Internet Resources: Sports
In Australia, they call it "Footie." Look here for soccer news from around the world, as well as links galore on American professional and college sports.
Skateboarding.com
Need help with your heelflip technique? Or maybe, you'd like to try a Backslide Ollie 180. Turn to Transworld Skateboarding magazine's website for advice, inspiration, interviews with skateboarding legends, and 'boarding news.
Skatepark.org
Want to build a skatepark? Zoom here for info on getting started, fund raising, design and building, and maintenance.
The Frisbee Freestyle Page
Yes, there are world Frisbee championships. Keep flying with the world of freestyle Frisbee-flinging at this site.
Folding Scrapbooks
Learn to make folding scrapbooks from lightweight cardboard, wrapping paper, paper, glue, and ribbon, following illustrated step-by-step instructions. These small scrapbooks can be filled with photos and mementos of family, friends, events, or places near or far.
Knitty.com
Click on “Patterns” for such knits as Toasty Pocket Creatures, knitted critters filled with rice or lavender that you can heat up in the microwave to keep your hands toasty on cold days.
Make a Sock Monkey!
These instructions for making the classic Red-Heel Sock Monkey include drawings of socks with lines on them indicating where to cut and seam.
Marble Magnets
Make tiny marble magnets from tiny photos and other pictures. What’s tiny? ½ inch tall and ¾ inch across glass domes available from craft stores, which get glued over and then magnify pictures.
Sock Monkey
More detailed than the usual sock monkey making instructions, this web site fills in the gaps.
Sock-Monkey.com
“Here you will find a fancy blend of creativity, paranoia, and silliness,” notes this web site, which includes such obscure knowledge as the origin of the sock monkey, the recent resurgence of the sock monkey, assorted musings, and photos galore.
The Duct Tape Guys
The Duct Tape Guys show you how to make duct tape wallets in eight photo-illustrated easy steps.
Top 10 Crafts for Teens
From blue jean pocket books to message boards, these ten top crafts for teens are practical, do-able, useful, and ready to express teens’ individuality.
Blogger
Create a blog to be read by billions all over Planet Earth—and beyond—in three easy steps!
Diaryland
Diaryland is a place where you can set up your online diary as your-eyes-only private, or you can make it all-eyes public for all the world to read.
PT Online
Positive Teens Magazine lets the world know about teens and young people who are doing positive things -- unlike the more common negative stories in the media. Teens’ articles, artwork, and photographs include opinions, poems, fiction, essays, and interviews, and articles about health, fitness, arts, sports, entertainment, activism, and education.
WordSmiths
Teens need not reside in New York City to send their poems and short stories to this online anthology, sponsored by the New York Public Library's TeenLink web page.
Anime News Network
Daily updates on the anime industry in Japan and the United States, anime reviews, and an anime series encyclopedia featuring detailed info about each series. Links between anime film series and manga book series.
In the Mix
Teens talk about the issues crashing into their lives. Recent programs have focused on how alcohol trashes your driving skills, how the popular media distorts body image (for guys as well as girls), and what teens are doing to stop gun violence.
Internet Movie Database
Movie fans can search by title and a whole lot more. A daily news feature tracks current movies on both big and little screens.
Movie Cliché List
Laugh out loud at those annoying logic flaws and stereotypes known as movie clichés. Seen any more movie clichés lately? Send them in.
Scifi.com
This all-sci-fi-all-the-time site runs TV schedules of science fiction series (new ones and old faves) as well as news about upcoming movies on the big movie screen and the little TV screen.
Television without Pity
Hop here for smarty-pants previews of upcoming episodes and cheeky recaps of your favorite shows.
Toonopedia
Don Markstein's Toonopedia is a vast repository of toonological knowledge about both animated and still cartoons, such as comic books, newspaper strips, and magazine cartoons.
Yahoo Movies
Find out about tomorrow’s movie right now! You can search for movie previews by title, performers, director, writer, or movie category (action, comedy, etc.).
All Music Guide
Look here for info about and reviews of rock, country, jass, blues, world music, folk, rap, reggae, and more.
Experience Music Project
Experience music at the Experience Music Project, located at the Seattle Center. The site offers an events calendar, interviews with artists and bands, and links to music sites.
Ricci Adams’ musictheory.net
Learn everything from the basics of clefs and staffs to playing keyboard, guitar, or brass—with the help of handy “trainer” screens. You’ll need a Macromedia Flash Player 6.0r65 or higher to view the content on this website
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Know your history! Visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and learn abut the Rock and Roll Timeline, This Day in Rock and Roll, and the rockers who are enshrined each year.
Ultimate Band List
The biggest band site tunes up with music news, concert info, CD reviews, interviews with bands and performers, and links to a zillion other music sites.
What the heck is emo anyway?
It's punk rock with emotion. This site describes different emo styles and suggests must-listen recordings . . . and emo fashion tips!
Brain Teasers
Tangle up your brain with bizarre mysteries and peculiar questions . . . if you dare.
BrainBashers
Bash your brain with these brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games, and optical illusions.
CR Puzzles
Cryptograms, picture scrambles, minicrostics, crosswords, logic problems… Updated daily, this online puzzle magazine will tweak your brain.
Free Rice
Put that cramming for SAT vocabulary to good use! For every correct definition you choose, Free Rice donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
The Nerdity Test
Face the 500 questions designed to measure your NQ (Nerdity Quotient). Nerd topics include computers, clothing, depth of Star Trek involvement, personality, and how you spend your spare time.
Thinks.com Puzzles
Fiendish puzzles, riddles, trivia, anagrams, crosswords and scary crossword variants (don't ask, just look) make this site a thorny thicket.
TravelPod: The Traveler IQ Challenge
How well do you know the world? Get ready to click on the world map where you think famous places and cities are located. Speed and accuracy count!
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