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Best Alexa Skills for Kids

By Dan Moren
published 15 June 2018

These Alexa skills will help entertain and educate your children.

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Family Friendly Skills

Family Friendly Skills

Sure, the Amazon Echo is great for looking things up on the internet or playing music, but it can also be a valuable tool for helping kids learn or stay entertained, all done with just the power of your voice.

We've tested a large selection of family-friendly Alexa skills to find the ones your kids will love the most. Here are 16 Alexa skills that will appeal to the children (or even the adults) in your household.

Credit: Shutterstock; Amazon

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Chompers

Chompers

Brushing your teeth doesn't have to be a chore. Chompers walks your kids through the correct brushing technique while keeping them entertained. Alexa will tell jokes, teach your kids about tooth bacteria and play fun music while your young ones brush, with separate routines customized for morning and night brushing.  

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Meeximo LLC Tongue Twister

Meeximo LLC Tongue Twister

Remember those tongue twisters you loved stumbling over as a kid? Now, your kids can ask Meeximo LLC Tongue Twister for one of those challenges. Trying to say "stupid superstition," or "a proper copper coffee pot" five times fast will be tons of fun, and it will help your kids practice their diction.

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Bye Bye Cavities

Bye Bye Cavities

Bye Bye Cavitiesturns your kid's toothbrush routine into a quest to defeat the evil "Cavity Family" once and for all. As your kids brush, members of the Cavity Family will boast (humorously) about their dastardly aspects — but the longer the brushing, the more of the bad guys get flushed away.

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Baby Lullaby

Baby Lullaby

If you just can't get your baby to sleep, Alexa can help. Baby Lullaby plays a beautiful, soothing, and very catchy tune that's sure to lull your tot into a peaceful slumber. It may even put you to sleep!

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street

The classic kids' show is now on the Amazon Echo with the Sesame Street skill, aimed at preschoolers. Children can interact with fan-favorite character Elmo, learning about the letter of the day and playing hide-and-go-seek, complete with silly sound effects. Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty

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The SpongeBob Challenge

The SpongeBob Challenge

Fans of the under-the-sea cartoon characters will enjoy this chance to interact with their favorite Spongebob characters in the SpongeBob Challenge. You'll fill orders for the hungry customers of the Krusty Krab, but the tasks become trickier as you go along, so pay attention! After every shift, you'll get your score and see how you did.Credit: Nickelodeon

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Amazon Storytime

Amazon Storytime

It's only natural that Amazon would combine its affinity for books with the Echo, and the result is Amazon Storytime, which offers a selection of short stories for kids ages 5-12. Kids (or adults) can ask Alexa to tell them a story, pulled from Amazon's Rapids collection and a selection of Audible short stories.

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NASA Mars

NASA Mars

Have a kid who just loves space? NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers NASA Mars, which lets you ask Alexa questions about Mars, such as "How big is it?" or "Why is it red?" The skill also provides weekly updates from NASA about the rovers roaming the surface of the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.

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Word of the Day

Word of the Day

Building vocabulary is an integral part of education, and Alexa can help kids learn a new term every day with the Word of the Day skill. It integrates with the Flash Briefing to provide you a new word every day, including the definition and how to use the word in a sentence, with more than a little humor thrown into the mix.

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1-2-3 Math

1-2-3 Math

Alexa can help your kids enhance their math prowess with 1-2-3 Math. It tests basic arithmetic using timed questions, offering three difficulty levels so kids can take it easy or challenge themselves. There's even a scoring feature to introduce a competitive element.

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This Day In History

This Day In History

Don't end up doomed to repeat history; try the History Channel's This Day in History. You can ask Alexa about the most prominent event on the particular day you're asking, or on any day you like. If you want to dig deeper, the skill will also tell you about other events from the day.

Credit: NASA/Liaison

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Jeopardy!

Jeopardy!

Older kids might enjoy testing their knowledge with Jeopardy!, which lets you try your hand at questions from the game show that don't make it to air. On the Echo Show and Echo Spot, you'll even see the question written on the familiar blue background. Just remember to answer in the form of a question.

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Animal Game

Animal Game

What kid doesn't love learning about animals? With Animal Game, Alexa will ask you to think of an animal, and then pose a series of questions to try and figure out exactly which animal you have in mind — but you'd better know your animal well enough to answer!

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The Magic Door

The Magic Door

Older children might enjoy these choose-your-own-adventure-style stories in The Magic Door, in which you interact with Alexa to find your way through a variety of fantastical settings, figure out tricky riddles and meet characters along the way. There are 11 different adventures to explore, and the scenarios present an opportunity for the whole family to work together.

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See and Say

See and Say

This skill, based on the Fischer Price See n' Say toy—where you pull a string and a large arrow spins around, will play one of 34 animal sounds when you ask Alexa to launch See and Say. A companion app provides more than 280 facts about the animals, along with photos of each.

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Silly Things

Silly Things

Start Silly Things, and Alexa will ask you to act out something silly. Examples include "Act like a fish out of water", "Act like you just ate a really sour lemon", and "Do your most silly dance."

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Tickle Monster Game

Tickle Monster Game

Who doesn't love a good round of tickling? Using the Alexa app, you first set up a list of participants, then launch the Tickle Monster Game.

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Daily Dinosaur

Daily Dinosaur

What kid doesn't love dinosaurs? Daily Dinosaur will teach your children about these extinct creatures, randomly selecting one and providing a brief description. It should keep your kid entertained for a while: There are more than 1,000 dinos in its database.

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Highlights Magazine

Highlights Magazine

Highlights for Children has created its own skill, which has an assortment of family-friendly stories, poems, brainteasers, jokes, and Goofus and Gallant.

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Poop Poems

Poop Poems

What kid doesn't like a bit of scatological humor? Poop Poems takes traditional nursery rhymes and poems, and adds a little twist to each. Your child will be howling with laughter.

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Dan Moren

Dan Moren is the author of multiple sci-fi books including The Caledonian Gamibt and The Aleph Extraction. He's also a long-time Mac writer, having worked for Macworld and contributed to the Six Colors blog, where he writes about all things Apple. His work has also appeared in Popular Science, Fast Company, and more

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