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First Words — free online game for toddlers

Part of Tiny Paws: 24 free games · no ads · no tracking

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Ages 1–3 vocabularyword-object mappinglistening works offline

Six big, familiar things sit on friendly pastel cards: an apple, a ball, a duck, the moon — drawn from a pool of eighteen everyday objects chosen for being toddler-world words. Tap one and it bounces while the site says its name clearly and warmly. That is the entire game, and that is precisely the point: word-object mapping, the foundation of vocabulary, practiced through the one gesture every toddler has mastered.

After ten taps the set slides away and six new things arrive with a chime, keeping curiosity fed without overwhelming choice. Every keyboard key is tied to a card, so keyboard-smashing babies hear words too. First Words pairs naturally with Animal Friends (animal names) and Color Pop (color names) to form the site’s little language corner — and like everything in Tiny Paws, it requires zero reading and permits zero failure.

How to play

Safe by design

Like every Tiny Paws game, First Words runs fullscreen behind a kid-lock: your child can play and switch games freely but can't accidentally leave. Exiting takes a deliberate grown-up action: hold both top corners for 2½ seconds on a touch screen, or type parent on a laptop. There are no ads, no purchases, no accounts, and no tracking of any kind — read the two-minute privacy page.

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