Must-Try Alexa Skills for Kids

Shila:  Alexa can surprise and inspire you, too!

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

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

Shila:  I should have known the answer was so obvious!

Tip: ask this question a few times if Alexa doesn't offer a solution to the riddle. You'll know you haven't received a direct answer if you hear the more witty quip, "hmm, I can't seem to crack that one."

Shila:  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!

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

Shila:  Name any animal to Alexa and she'll play a quick clip of its sound.

Shila:  This is one of my favorite Alexa skills for kids and playing together as a team. This trivia game is also so fun because you are competing head-to-head with another random person in real time. Don't worry, you have zero communication with that opponent while Alexa moderates.

It'll ask you the same set of trivia questions (e.g., geography, outer space, history, etc.). With only a few seconds to respond, you'll earn points with every correct answer said! You're earning extra points for your overall team, too (the U.S. state you reside in).

Shila:  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!