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'Tis the season to be jolly, and we're all due a bit of time off - but what are you going to do after you've opened all your presents and polished off your Christmas dinner?

Well, that's a good question, and one which I've been asking my colleagues at the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ. Thankfully, it turns out that the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ website is absolutely jam-packed with games, quizzes, videos and activities you can do on your own and with your family this Christmas.

In fact, there are so many that as an early Christmas present I would like to present The WebWise Guide To The Best of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ. In this list you will find a hand-picked selection of some of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's most interesting stocking fillers - from games to play on your own or with your children, to short videos, recipes for those leftovers, garden designing tools and more. What else could you possibly want?

Videos

As you'd expect from an organisation which primarily deals in making things for TV, the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ website is absolutely choc-full of videos. However, we're not just talking about iPlayer, where you can catch up on programmes you missed on TV. Oh no. For starters, the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Comedy website has lots of delightful exclusives, including our favourite: Misery Bear’s Christmas special.

Alternatively, you could watch these great animations made by Hands On History, and this funny showreel of bloopers from comsumer rights programme Watchdog is guaranteed to raise a smile. For fans of either Prof Brian Cox or - well, the universe, there's a whole site dedicated to archive material from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ - and something similar about the Battle of Britain.

Games

Perhaps surprisingly for a broadcaster, the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ website has some really great games - so much so that it was difficult to pick which ones to tell you about. The absolute pick of the crop is The Doctor Who Adventure Games, which you can download and play. So far there are three episodes, and they're really amazing.

Apart from that, fans of magic and adventure will love the quizzes and games on the Merlin website, and Wallace and Gromit have also got some fantastic games centred around invention. Also, it would be extremely lax of me not to mention the Only Connect Quiz, a fiendishly difficult and addictive game already considered a real cult classic.

For children

Want to keep the kids occupied? The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ website is the perfect place for them to have a look around, as everything on it is safe for children (although you should always make sure very young children aren't left unattended at a computer - find out more in our section on internet safety for children). The most obvious places for children to go are the C³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and CBeebies websites, as well as ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Schools. I particularly enjoyed Shaun the Sheep's Championsheeps, which frankly is far too good for children.

If you want to give your children some learning-by-stealth, unlike their school ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Bitesize is open for business throughout the school holidays - so they can have a go at innovative games like Questionaut - a beautifully surreal as well as cunningly educational quest to retrieve a strange creature’s top hat. There’s also the beautifully addictive Greek Hero game on the Primary History website (part of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Schools), where you can complete tasks and even meet up with Socrates.

Extras

Making New Year's resolutions? We can help you with that, too. ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Food's Recipe Finder will help you with your post-Christmas health kick. Finally, for the Grinch in every family, Victorian Christmas will help you get into the spirit of things.

So, hopefully that should be more than enough to keep you busy. Happy Christmas from everyone at ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ WebWise - and have a great new year, too.