Playful learning games for curious kids.

Free educational games for Grades 1–6

Curious Forest™ is a growing collection of 25+ free, ad-free educational games for kids in Grades 1 to 6 (Year 1 to Year 6 / Class 1 to Class 6), mapped to the Cambridge Primary curriculum. No ads, no subscription, no third-party trackers, no in-app purchases — just playful learning. Creating a forest profile is optional: kids who do save their name and progress; kids who don't leave no server-side footprint. Each clearing in the forest is hosted by a different mascot.

Daily challenges. Each refreshes once per UTC day, so the same target appears for every kid worldwide. Word Saplings is the daily vocabulary crossword (Grades 2–6). Guess Today's Country and Guess Today's Animal are one-mystery, ten-clue-cards, three-guesses sprints with Peri-Peri the Peregrine. Tic-Tac-Otto · Today locks the maths topics for the day so every kid races the same target.

Maths. Math Glade covers the Cambridge times tables 2× through 12× with Otto the Fox, plus Year 1 counting and take-away, halves and quarters (Acorn Share), o'clock and half-past (Berry Clock), and UK coin recognition (Berry Market). Berry Brunch is a calm fluency run for Year 2–5. Tic-Tac-Otto is maths tic-tac-toe where berries beat acorns — pick your year, topics and difficulty; each win is worth 1,000 leaderboard points. Pictogram Pip is a statistics arcade with Pip the Panda for Grades 3–6 — read pictograms and bar charts, find the mode and range. Baby Bear's Forest Shop is a story-themed coin-counting game for Grades 1–3 — help Baby Bear pay for a picnic, a birthday party or a stormy-night supper. Twig Workshop is Chuck the Woodchuck's matchstick-puzzle preview for Year 1. Acorn Aim is Rusty's Year 4–6 fractions duel — Mimic Sprites hide behind disguise fractions (4/8, 10/20, 121/242) all sharing one true name (1/2); build the simplified form on an acorn and throw. Mixed numbers and decimal mimics at higher levels. Run Rusty Run is an arcade-paced maths game with Rusty the Squirrel.

English & reading. Letter Loop is the Reception / Year 1 tracing game — trace CVC words (cat, dog, sun) in both CAPITAL and lowercase, plus numbers 1 to 20, with two matching games for capital↔lowercase letters and digit↔written-number pairs. Hosted by Hoot. Phonics Path teaches Reception / Year 1 letter sounds, CVC blending and sight words with Professor Hoot — no timers, read-along pace. Reading Hollow has cosy stories for Grades 1–4 — Zen and Taoist parables, Big-Feelings tales about emotions, and True Stories of real-life heroes; sight words are highlighted in orange. Tell-Tale Trail is sequence-the-story reading — drag a scrambled story back into order to unlock the ending. Word Garden is Quill the Magpie's spelling game using the Montessori Movable Alphabet — Year 1 to 6. Word Rush is Quill's spelling arcade — hear the word, pick the spelling (General + Plurals topics). Punctuation Polisher is Quill's third game — tap-to-drop apostrophes, speech marks and commas for Grades 3–6. Word Chain is Bramble the Hedgehog's word-link spelling game — chain words where each new one starts with the last letter of the previous. Forest Fire Rescue is a recall-from-definition vocabulary game with a Boggle-style letter bank. Picture This is Professor Hoot's visual vocabulary game for Years 4–6 — see a diagram, name the concept; covers 47 geography, maths and science terms (peninsula, hypotenuse, refraction, oxbow lake…). Name Place Animal Thing is the classic schoolyard letter game online with Rusty the Squirrel — spin the wheel for a letter, name a place, animal, food or invention; voice input works on TV browsers, spell-check catches mishears, and the accept pool covers 2,000+ places (via the Atlas Chained dictionary) and 200+ animals. Cloudburst is the monsoon synonyms game and the first time the whole mascot roster appears together — ten word clouds drift overhead, kid taps five that share a meaning (synonyms of brave) or a category (all the verbs), the root word appears, and the cloud bursts in a downpour onto Otto, Hoot, Rusty, Bramble and Mayuri below. 24 word groups, five rounds per game, Years 3–6. Bamboo Grove teaches 10-finger touch typing through 15 progressive lessons. Word Rain is the typing arcade — catch the falling words before they float away.

Geography. Atlas Acres is a 190+ country quiz across six continent tours with Peri-Peri the Peregrine — Easy to Super Hard tiers, 10 fun facts per country, stamp-collecting passport. Atlas Chained is the chained-flag word game where each new country starts with the last letter of the previous one — save your run and resume from any device. Guess in 10 and Guess the Animal are deduction sprints — pick clue cards, narrow it down, fewer clues earn more stars.

Science. Science Quest covers the full Cambridge Primary Science 0097 curriculum — Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth & Sky — for Years 1–6 with Professor Hoot. Tree of Life is an evolution-climb game — pick a creature (human, tiger, eagle, sunflower), then climb the family tree of life from the first single cell up to your destination, collecting a science word at every fork.

Telugu & heritage. Akshara Vanamu teaches Telugu letters, vowel signs (గుణింతాలు), and reading with Mayuri the Peacock. The 30-day Pada Bandham course teaches English-first kids to build Telugu sentences from a 160-word corpus. Telugu Nursery Rhymes and Telugu Riddles are standalone routes for kids who want the rhymes or riddles directly. Telugu Keyboard (Tilakam) is a discoverable on-screen keyboard that turns roman keystrokes into Telugu glyphs. Vinnu Vale is Vinnu the Elephant's heritage corner — daily slokas with word-by-word meanings in Telugu and English.

Curious Forest works on laptops, desktops, and most tablets. The typing games need a real keyboard; everything else is fully tap-friendly on mobile. New clearings and games ship most weeks — check back often.