Club Penguin is a snow covered interactive online playground where children can play games and interact with other children in the guise of colorful penguin avatars.
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Club Penguin is free to play, but additional features such as buying furniture and clothing, decorating an igloo and more will require a membership. Membership fees are $5.95 per month.
Features for Kids
Club Penguin is a fun way to introduce kids to the world of avatars and social networking! While on the site children can play mini-games, chat, send greeting cards, waddle around and participate and various other activities with other penguins.
Players can use virtual coins that they collect from playing mini-games to buy items for an array of different stores. Store types include wigs, stage costumes, igloos, furniture, sports, clothing and much more.
Children have access to the community area where they can find penguin polls, blog updates fan art, printable activity sheets and wallpapers.
Puffles are adorably small fluffy creatures that players may have as pets. Non-members have access to blue and red puffers only while paid members have access to more colors.
Parent Features & Concerns
Parents should know that while children do have a chance to make new friends on Club Penguin, they are also exposed to some not-so-friendly behavior, which, depending on your child can be upsetting.
For instance, instead of using words to start a friendship, it is very easy in the virtual world to get a mean face icon as a response to a friendship invitation. And players can also throw snowballs at random penguins for no reason.
Club Penguin has two chatting options available:
Standard Safe Chat – Players are able to type their own messages to other uses. Each and every message is filtered to allow only pre-approved words and phrases and to block attempts to exchange any personal information such as phone numbers.
Club Penguin also employs on-site staff to monitor chat activity and to receive any reports of misconduct.
Ultimate Safe Chat – This option allows players to a predefined menu of greetings, question and statements as well as actions, emotes and greeting cards. When chatting, this option only allows the user to see other Ultimate Safe Chat messages.
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