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Here's a educational website that allows folks to download and print flash cards.

They have a variety of cards like mathematical times tables, verbs, identifying animals, holidays, religion, colors, and more.

This can be useful for the youth and folks who want to learn/upgrade their English language skill.

The cards are illustrated well with a clear representation of the subject.

The website is very nice as it's easy to navigate with their clean layout. Their search bar is found at the bottom of the page. I'm used to it being at the top of web pages.

For a full list of their flash cards visit https://flashcardfox.com/flash-cards/. Newly posted flash cards will appear on their main page.

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AutoDraw is a unique drawing platform that turns messy doodles into clean shapes/graphics.

It's pretty fun, you can even experiment with being pretty abstract and see what your doodle is interpreted as.

it's easy to use, where you draw your thing using the magic pencil (the sparkle one). When your done drawing the AutoDraw will generate a selection of similar shapes.

Are you curious if there's an element that's safe to lick? Here's a page from EverydayScienceStuff.com (an independent educational website that makes STEM learning fun, free, & engaging). Their websites has an interactive periodic table that shows you elements that are and aren't safe to lick.

They also have categories of what's safe to small, if safe to inject, lethal dose, or market/accessibility.

Here's website that you can use to generate a cool background and pick the theme before downloading it. The backgrounds generated can be used for your device's wallpaper, website background.

CodePen.io is a social environment where folks can build, test, and share their front-end coded project (aka Pens). Codepen supports all standard front-end web languages HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They also support external frameworks/packages like jQuery (hurray!), React, Vue, etc.

Sign-up

You can sign up for their free service that currently as unlimited public pens and you're allowed up to 3 files per Pen -- that sounds like a pretty sweet deal!

Challenges

They also offered challenges which are a fun way to upgrade your skill sets by developing things. New challenges are offered each week to those with an account. This is a cool way to keep your coding journey fun. You can learn more about this at https://codepen.io/challenges.

Really cool way to share your work

Folks within the community have the option to share and have the option to do real-time collaboration with other folks with Pens.

Cool Fireworks

The platform is pretty powerful and can handle things like a fireworks simulator like the one developed by Caleb Miller. https://codepen.io/MillerTime/pen/XgpNwb

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Celebrate Independence Day with Google Arts & Culture with a pretty cool fireworks game.

Play in your favorite web browser to illuminate the skies over famous American landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. In this musical game, fireworks are set to the sky in time with the music. The best display is produced by the best timed clicks. Playing it is simple and enjoyable.

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Teach Your Monster to Read is a free online platform that helps young children, typically from Pre-K through 1st grade, learn the fundamentals of reading. Through fun and engaging games, children can practice important literacy skills such as letter recognition, phonics, sounding out words, blending letters and sounds, and reading simple sentences and captions.

These interactive activities can support learning both at home and in the classroom, helping children build confidence and develop a strong foundation for their reading journey.

Create your own cool ambient sounds if you want a relaxing, cooling, and even spooky background.

You can select the volume of the sounds you want included in your custom background. You have the choices of white noise, singing bowls & birds, fire, wind, water and more.

You can save & share your own personal mixes. Timers can be set with your custom sound.

This is a pretty cool tool if you want to relax, add to your mental wellness session, or while reading.

You can listen to radio across the globe with places like https://radio.garden.

Its easy to use, just spin the globe and point to a place somewhere near by or far far away across the seas to listen to their local radio channels.

This is pretty interesting and has an educational value to it.

Streamlabs offers resources, guides, and tutorials for live streamers. Live streaming is a heavy activity/profession that takes energy and effort to maintain. This includes having a healthy work/life balance, managing stress, preventing or dealing with burnout.

Streamlabs offers resources for streamers to enhance their live sessions. They have software, dashboard tools, and more! I've broken down some of the areas in a nutshell that go over each area that are all free to use.

They're compatible with streaming and social media platforms like Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Kick, or Twitter/X (will still be Twitter for me, lol) otherwise you can sign in with your StreamLabs ID.

Dashboard Their dashboard is where you can set up actions, widgets, user tools, etc.

Software They offer software you can download and use on your favorite streaming device. This provides you with your tools to connect online and engage. https://streamlabs.com/desktop-app

GoComics is a website that has the biggest selection of comic strips, featuring both new favorites by emerging cartoonists and the newspaper comics you already know and adore.

They include classic series like Calvin and Hobbs, Garfield, Peanuts.

If you're looking to participate in a free event/activity you can try searching from places like TripAdvisor.

You can type in the search field for "free" along with key words that include location and type of event.

This is a good way to find events, plan ahead, research, and enjoy your time.

From Flying Squid Studios, the creators of cartoons designed to rot your brain, comes The Skeletor Show.

Created around 20 years ago (wow!), this series is a cleverly edited and dubbed parody of the classic He-Man cartoon. It follows Skeletor and his minion through a collection of absurd and hilarious adventures, using reworked footage and comedic voiceovers to create its own unique stories.

I first watched the series a few years ago, and with the new Masters of the Universe film now out, it reminded me of the many fan tributes and parodies inspired by the franchise. Among them, The Skeletor Show remains one of the most delightfully funny and memorable series available on YouTube.

Here's a link to their playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zBGW6CdlWo&list=PLC92B8ADA8247C55D

Here's a fun in interactive website where you can play with a cube character it via mouse.

If your mouse leaves the screen the cube will try to look for it. It's a pretty charming website if you're looking to add a little whimsy to your day.

You can read free digital issues via Marvel's website at

Marvel offers several free online comic series, including Chee'ilth, Spider-Man, Hero Project, Vitals, and more.

Here's a fun website that'll tell you when it's Friday.