FUN Resources

Health:

• Humor and Healing Links: a collection of resources from Allen Klein
• About Tickling: a scientific study
• Laughing Out Loud to Good Health: benefits of laughter

Society

• Child Research Net - "a non-profit organization devoted to thinking with and about young people in Japan"
• Game Studies - "the international journal of computer game research"
• Gwen Gordon on Play - a collection of wonderfuly insightful articles about the nature of play
• Footbag Peace Initiative: whole body, and wholehearted fun
• Play for Peace: Lama-approved

Work

• The Learning Organization is a connection to collection of some remarkably intelligent conversations about working together; and a welcome for you to add yours.
• See CoWorking.

Games

• Collections
  • Elliott Avedon Virtual Museum of Games - deep collection of games from all places and eras
  • Deep Fun youth games from the Unitarian Universalist Association
  • A Chance to Play games from the Children's Rights Centre in South Africa
  • Playground Games from around the world - with pictures, even
  • Zoom games: submitted by kids for the TV series
  • Theater Game Warm-Ups is just one of the very useful resources from the Improv Encyclopedia - you can download the entire site, for free, for your PDA or as a PDF file.
  • Kids' Games from Everyrule.com
  • Fun and Games: more than 200 tried and true party and social games
  • Village Games: a collection of European games from the early 20th century
  • 400 Party Games: for kids and adults, from Russia, with love
  • String figure games
    • International String Figure Association
    • Animated instructions from "Fleeting Glimpse"
    • WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures
    • Bryan Cox, the Incredible String Figure Man
  • Bridal Shower Games: Silly, happy, somewhat sexy girlish games
  • Group-Games.com - a small, well-indexed collection of party and teambuilding games
  • Scouting Links: games from the inheritors of New Games
  • Office Olympics: some games are described here. And here is a video of the infamous Office Hurdle event.
  • The Ultimate Drinking Game Home Page offers at least a half-vast collection of playful intent
  • Team Building Games: a collection with the good sense to include New Games
  • The Party Games Idea Resource Page: old games, but silly.
  • For more playworthy resources, try Youthwork Links and Activities, really.
  • Street Games: real games from real streets play by real kids, really - documented, illustrated, filmed
  • Game Finder: find kids' games by age, number of players, indoor our outdoor, and occasion. From Family.com.
  • Eldrbarry's Group Games: a youth group leader's collection of traditional active games for children
  • Campgames: a usefully categorized and highly accessible collection of camp games for all ages and group sizes
  • Games Kids Play: a collection of a couple hundred actual children's games
  • Kids games, actual, non-computer games collected from kids, by GameKids
  • Chinese children's games: a collection from Tong Liu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Child Study Center
• Word Play
  • Word Play: the site - annotated links to sources for word games and fun on the web
  • Exquisite Corpse - the game
    • A story-telling version
    • A computer-graphic version
    • A paper-based graphic version
    • See also: Redondo
• Board and Table games
  • Funagain Games: commercial games reviewed
  • The Games Journal: boardgames reviewed, discussed, appreciated.
  • The Games Domain, located in England, is one of the world's largest repositories of information about commercial games.
  • The Games Cabinet is the best source I've found so far for linking me and the rest of the virtual world to just about everything we'd want to know about games.
  • Board Games Central: intelligent, annotated collection of board and table games, commercial and free. See also their companion sites: House of Cards, Solitaire Central, Puzzle Central
  • Board Game Rules from Everyrule.com
  • Game Cabinet Rules: rules for commercial games
• Game Theory
  • Decision Science: Prisoners' Dilemma and few other revealing games
• Bibiliographies, links, references
  • A Bibliography of Play, Games and Sports from The International Society for Humor Studies
• Global play:
  • Roadside America: "Your online guide to offbeat tourist attractions."
  • International Games News: global game events, including Francaphone Games, World Dwarf Games and World Transplat Games

Playgrounds

• Nothing About Us Without Us: building instructions for a community playground for all abilities
• Shane's Inspiration: playgronds for everyone
• Boldr: a new construct for children's play spaces.
• Schoolgrounds: greening the playground
• Heard it in the Playground: a visually stunning website dedicated to "a lively intergenerational project initiated and designed by music and arts organisation Firebird." It features a sweet collection of actual games with images of actual kids playing them.
• The Online Dictionary of Playground Slang: e.g.: "cartwheels n. boys game: involved encouraging or daring girls in skirts or dresses to do handstands so you could see their underwear. UK"