For parents and carers

The games we list are short on purpose. Most of them are designed for five- to ten-minute sessions, which is the sweet spot for early-years and primary-school learners — long enough for a child to focus, short enough that the brain doesn't switch into passive-consumption mode. If you're trying to fit a quick learning activity into a school morning, a long car journey, or the gap before dinner, that's exactly what these games are for.

Start with the grade band that matches your child's school year. Inside, you'll find every subject filtered to that age. If something feels too easy, jump up one band. If it feels too hard, jump down one — there is no penalty, no profile to update, and no streak to lose. We deliberately don't gamify the directory itself.

What we look for in a game

• It runs in a normal web browser. No download, no installer, no app store.
• It is free to try and does not require an account before the first level.
• It teaches one thing clearly. We list the specific learning objective on every detail page.
• Levels grow gradually. The first level is easy on purpose so children meet a small early success.
• There is no in-game chat, no social feed, and no advertising aimed at children inside the gameplay.
• The game is appropriate for ages 3–10 and labelled with the band it suits best.

Using TinyPlay Hub with a school class

Teachers can link directly to any subject or grade-band page from a school portal. Every URL on the site is a stable, indexable, server-rendered page — there are no client-side routes that would break a copy-and-paste link. The full sitemap is available at /sitemap.xml if you'd like to scan the catalogue.

Healthy screen-time habits

Even good educational games are still screen time. The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests no screen time for under-twos (excluding video chat), no more than an hour a day of high-quality content for ages 2–5, and consistent limits for older children. We agree. The games we list are designed to be played in short, intentional bursts — not as a default activity. A timer next to the device, a parent in the room, and a clear "two more rounds and we stop" rule make a real difference.

Safety and privacy

TinyPlay Hub itself does not collect personal information from children. We do not have user accounts, profiles, or chat. When a game lives on a third-party site, that site has its own privacy practices — please check before letting younger children play unsupervised. Our privacy notice covers what we do and do not do here.