Yesterday, I searched for open source tools for my 9 year old brother.. The results were amazing.
Tux Paint is a wonderful program for painting. In particular I liked the magic and stamp section. The happiness on my bro’s face after seeing this tool was priceless 
The features like sparkle, drip, shades, rainbow, grass, stamps etc are very good.
Pingus is a game involving penguins (well, u can term it as a strategic game ). The best part is its UI and the ease with with which u can create a level.. I designed a level for my bro and he enjoyed it very much. The game stimulates children to think about the necessary actions to be taken to reach the goal..
So.. If u have small kids at home, try exposing them to these tools and i bet they wil enjoy!!!
Signing off,
-Netra
Prabhanjan said,
April 7, 2008 at 9:28 pm
That sounds nice … i think i need to attend ur tutions some day to learn new stuff about linux
Netra said,
April 7, 2008 at 9:32 pm
ScorpFromHell said,
April 8, 2008 at 10:00 am
Give Edubuntu a try for kids. Its got the whole KDE EDU suite’s games (including KTurtle, Kanagram, etc.), TuxMath, TuxType, TuxPaint and on top of all these its got GCompris … the best possible software for kids aged 2 - 10.
You can know read my Edubuntu related posts on my blog to know more.
http://scorpfromhell.blogspot.com/search/label/edubuntu
BTW, my 3.5 yr old son has been hooked to GCompris & TuxPaint for a year now.