Online Games
Children love to play free games online and there are numerous Bob The Builder games to amuse them while teaching them a few keyboard and mouse skills along the way.

On BobTheBuilder.com there are a large variety of games split into the following types:

•    Racing & Mazes (Mountain Scrambler, Packers’ Pick Up, Muck’s Maze, Scrambler’s Ramble)
•    Puzzles (including Jigsaws, Slider Puzzles and Noughts & Crosses)
•    Building & Painting (Paint The Gang, Design A House, Bob’s Pipe Game)
•    Matching (Matching Game & Bob’s Tool Shed)
•    Counting (Snowball Spud)

Beware though this site makes some annoying machinery noises every few seconds to keep you in the Bob The Builder building mood!

The BBC website has no such annoying noises but has a smaller selection of online games.

Here you can choose from:

•    Sunflower Park – where you help Bob build a playground.
•    Relay Race – where you have to help Bob find his lost spanner in the village.
•    Apple Antics – Spud is throwing apples from the trees and you have to catch them.
•    Bobsville Build – where you get to help Bob and his team move to Sunflower Valley.

For a more commercial online game head over to GameHouse.com for their ‘Bob The Builder Can-Do Carnival’ game.

There is a free trial of this game you can download or you can pay to upgrade to the full version. The game involves helping Bob build his own carnival. You have to help him plan the job, choose the materials, pick the right tools and clean up afterwards in a series of games that are both fun and creative.

Not quite a game, but for younger fans try these ‘projects‘:

•    Build A Playground
•    Mend A Road
•    Build A Fountain

Here your children have to go through a series of tasks to complete the overall project.  In the ‘Build A Playground’ project they have to dig a hole, fill in the sand, put up a sign etc. They have to follow Bob’s instructions and click on the right machine so that it performs the right action.

Printable Colouring Sheets

Children love to colour and what better pictures than their very own favourite characters from their favourite cartoon.

BobTheBuilder.com has many colouring sheets of Bob himself and all the most popular machines.

The BBC website has a selection of the human characters but no machines.

Printable Activity Sheets

If your children are not into colouring then print them off some of these puzzles, mazes and matching activities.

Other Printables

Brighten up your little one’s bedroom walls or doors with some Bob The Builder pictures by printing off these free posters of the most popular characters.

Other Online Activities

You can Meet The Team and find out some fun facts and hear sound effects of the most popular characters.

Read an Online Story with these great little Bob The Builder books full of pictures.

Craft Activities

Head back to the BBC website for a selection of Bob The Builder craft tasks – you can choose from making a card, a finger puppet or a drum kit.

There are also some nice step by step instructions on BobTheBuilder.com of how to make homemade dough, a shoebox town and sock puppets.

Outdoor Activities

If the weather is on your side, get your little ones outdoors for some Bob The Builder fun. Download instructions for the following activities: Painter, Muck May I? game and a Nature Collage.

And try ‘I Spy’ or ‘Construction Site’ games if you’re on the go and need to keep your children entertained.

Theme Song

If your little ones are anything like mine, then a favourite music activity is to listen to the theme song over and over again until you (not them!) want to scream! If you’re prone to headaches, don’t check this out!

I hope this gives you a few ideas of free Bob The Builder games and activities you can try with the click of a few buttons!