Must-Try Alexa Skills for Kids

Shila said:  Alexa can surprise and inspire you, too!

Shila said:  Here are some funny things to ask Alexa - have it tell YOU a joke! Just say, "Alexa, tell me a joke."

Check out more funny jokes for kids, too. If you enable the Joke Responder to your Alexa's settings, it can reply to your own joke based on popular web results.

Shila said:  Alex Trebek's pre-recorded voice and Alexa team up to rattle-off the "6th brand new mystery clues" from categories shown in the most recent television broadcast. Alexa moderates, reads the answer aloud, and you reply directly with the correct question!

Shila said:  Play this fast-paced trivia game where Alexa plays short clips of awesome songs from a chosen decade and it's your goal to guess the song title and artist name.

The best part of this Alexa game is playing head-to-head live with an opponent remote (though, you'll never have communication with him or her). I also like Alexa's decade-appropriate slang when you get an answer correct!

Shila said:  Alexa will quickly ask you a series of true or false questions followed by a quick fact about each.

Try this Alexa experience for your next family game night! Alexa can transport you to an audio-version escape room! From there, you'll have to think very hard in order to solve the necessary clues to escape. Control your family's moves by speaking through Alexa. Ask it to inspect things, check your inventory, manipulate pieces of the puzzle, and even receive hints.

Shila said:  Alexa will give a glowing review of a unique animal.

Shila said:  You can chat back and forth with every "knock knock" request you ask Alexa. Upon this command, Alexa will be the one leading the joke and revealing the punch line. Check out more funny knock knock jokes for kids, too!

Shila said:  Alexa will sing you a hit song clip in its voice set to auto tune.

Michael Farina said:  Similar to "Can you rap?", the response is a quick ditty in an unexpected musical style.

Shila said:  If you ask Alexa to tell you a story - or a kids story, it will. Oftentimes, it will pull from an audiobook (if your settings allow) offered on Amazon.

Check out a curated selection of more audiobooks that kids and parents love. Easy on the ear and educational, too!

Shila said:  You can ask Alexa any close-ended question and she'll randomly respond with a standard Magic 8 Ball answer, such as 'yes,' 'no,' 'without a doubt,' 'most likely,' 'don't count on it,' etc. Fire off a bunch of funny things to ask Alexa and it'll read aloud your fortune to each and every one!

Shila said:  Ask Alexa this popular tongue twister for its pretty literal response!

Practice with more tongue twisters, too. Alexa may not supply exact answers for all, but it can gear you towards a fun fact or two!

Shila said:  Go the skills section of your Alexa app, and be sure to enable this game if it's not already. Alexa will moderate a version of this "mimic my move" activity for everyone in the room with her own additions such as "crawl like a baby" or "stand on one foot." If you're playing in a group, you may want take turns assigning an in-person judge considering Alexa can't actually determine your movement post command!

Shila said:  Unlike the daytime tv game show, there's unfortunately no chance at winning a brand new car in Alexa's version of the game with the same name. Instead, it questions aloud 'how much something would cost,' and you provide the best multiple choice response. See how many points you can win in this challenge!