This is a great idea for kids. Use one of these free start pages
to put everything important there for your child that’s
internet-based. Mine includes oft-used websites, blog sites, a
To Do list, search tools, email, a calendar of events, pictures
of interest, rss feeds of interest, weather, news, a graffiti
wall and more. Yours will be different, more geared toward
summer activities. Ask your child what s/he’d like there. Maybe
sponge activities (internet sites that take just a few minutes
to soak up empty time). I used protopage.com (Protopage is your
own personal page, which you can access from any computer or
mobile phone), but you can use netvibes or pageflakes.com. Start
pages are an outreach of the ever-more-popular social
networking. Most search engines offer them also (try iGoogle at
www.google.com/ig). They all have a huge library of custom
fields (called ‘flakes’ on Pageflakes) to individualize any home
page. And, they’re all simple. Don’t be intimidated. When you
get yours set up, on the To Do lis