Early Learning Apps
Apps are now a part of kids’ daily lives so we decided to create a list of apps that will help introduce some learning into this daily routine. These highly rated apps for Early Childhood Education are definitely favorites amongst the Best Apps team. We consider these our not-to-miss apps for early learning.
Miniwalla The Forest Story
App Info Price: Overview Miniwalla the Forest Story is an ebook designed to teach children about values and conservation. There are six chapters, each centering around the main character, eight year old Henry who lives at the animal sanctuary, Miniwalla, on the island of Java in Indonesia. Henry has adventures and learns lessons in each …
Preschool & Kindergarten Math Learning Game
{price} AppStore User Rating: {stars}[/app] Overview Preschool & Kindergarten Math Learning Game is a simple tool to help children practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using either a multiple choice or input answers format. The game awards a star rating after completion of each level, and levels become more complex and challenging as the previous …
Scribble Cards
App Info Price: Overview Kids can learn how to write their letters and numbers with Scribble Cards. This very simple app basically offers what the name suggests, cards on which kids can “scribble” and practice early writing skills. With just a little guidance, kids can become pros at writing their letters and numbers. Features include: …
My Fixie Town: Collection of Games for Childrens
App Info Price: Overview My Fixie Town is a collection of game activities for the very young. Preschoolers are challenged to various types of coordination, placement, matching and sorting games as they help the main characters solve “incidents” and put the town to rights after trouble strikes. Features include: 13 different mini games Earn presents …
Animal Sounds, Photos and Info
App Info Price: Overview Animal Sounds, Photos and Info offers 50 animals in the free version with high-quality pictures, recordings of sounds, and fact sheets about each. The app includes a match the sound to the animal game, and a jigsaw puzzle activity. Features include: 50 animals in free version, 60 others available as in-app …
Magic Animals
App Info Price: Overview Magic Animals is an intelligent animal art app that allows users to draw any of over 36 animals for the app to guess which animal is being drawn. There are also high quality pictures of the real animals, as well as a system to color and decorate the drawings. Features include: …
Playtime in Appelsin Town for Kids 2-5 Years
App Info Price: Overview Playtime in Appelsin Town is a low-key, gentle fun app designed for the very young. Kids can explore interactive activities that include enjoying a picnic, decorating cupcakes, getting the “mail,” and growing carrots in the garden. Features include: Play without using data or internet connection Cute, engaging characters Simple, child-friendly interface …
The Name Game
App Info Price: Overview “Kids who like animals and are building letter recognition skills will enjoy The Name Game. This unique app combines kids’ names with short rhymes related to animals. For every letter in a child’s name, the app provides a short description of an animal. Kids will enjoy seeing their name come to …
Bunny Mindfulness
App Info Price: Overview Bunny Mindfulness is a mindful breathing and meditation app designed to help adults and children alike discover the value and relaxation of controlled breathing. The app offers several levels of difficulty, control over the number of cycles/minutes of each exercise, and even has a rewards system for completing exercises. Features include: …
Code Adventures: Programming for Kids
App Info Price: Overview Code Adventures provides young children with the perfect system to learn foundational ideas about computer programming. Each level presents an increasingly challenging task to for the small furry character to accomplish, and children will need to exercise logic, sequencing, and creativity skills to incorporate new commands and put everything in the …
Missing Friend-Lite
App Info Price: Overview This ebook tells an engaging story of the kidnapped Mr. Mole and Mr. Rabbit’s daring rescue from Icky Mr. Fox. It features interactive pages, vocabulary-building labels, and narration for all text. Features include: Quirky scenes and characters Narration of all pages Interactive pages activated with taps and swipes Tap objects to …
Animani
Kids interact with cute animated animals and learn all about what they eat, where they live, the sounds they make, and how to spell their names with Animani.
Miao Mi- Learn Mandarin Chinese for Kids and Junior
Early childhood is an ideal time to learn new languages, and Mandarin Chinese is a highly-sought-after skill. This app will help you and your child decide if learning the language is fun and give children an advantage if they are entering or currently enrolled in an immersion Mandarin Chinese educational program because of the extra practice it affords.
Peppa Pig: Happy Mrs Chicken
Peppa Pig: Happy Mrs. Chicken is a delightful app that will make parents search for more in the series. Young children will adore it, it’s easy to use, and it’s very educational.
Gruffalo: Puzzles
Extend the classic story of The Gruffalo with Gruffalo: Puzzles, an app full of different puzzle games for kids.
Autism Games 4 – Matching
Help kids with autism learn new words, colors, letters, and numbers with a series of simple matching games in Autism Games 4 Matching.
Story Starters Pro
Story Starters Pro offers a nearly limitless supply of stimulating prompts to set writing off on the right foot. Everyone from students of all ages to professional writers will benefit from the material that this app has to offer.
Dr. Panda Town Review
See the App in iTunes Dr. Panda LTD Price: FREE Dr. Panda Town is a great new addition to the Dr. Panda app series. With Dr. Panda Town, kids can explore, role play and tell their own stories across 4 different fun-filled locations. There are lots of fun new characters to meet, and plenty of …
Little Tiger: Fire Truck, Submarine, Spaceship
Encourage kids to use their imaginations and go on journeys with Little Tiger and his friends in Little Tiger: Fire Truck, Submarine, Spaceship.
Smarter Kids
This free app offers a few simple games for your young preschool children, but it isn’t likely to have much staying power without subscribing to the higher level monthly program.
Juana la Iguana goes to the Beach
Juana la Iguana Goes to the Beach is a fun app that plunges preschoolers into the Spanish language. The beach theme is fun and attractive to young children, and the immersive style of instruction is a proven method of teaching language to young children.
KidsCast
Kids will always have new content with a monthly subscription to KidsCast, an app full of games, books, and shows.
Pick-A-Pic
Pick-A-Pic is a simple app that encourages young children to match pictures of common items to their written word names. It’s easy to use and provides both practice and quizzing modes.
Spell Bear
Spell Bear is a simple and pleasant app that is designed to help very young students develop basic understandings about letter sounds and word order. The app provides practice with spelling three letter words, sounding words out, and more.
Sight Words – Learning Games
Help kids learn sight words through a series of six fun games with Sight Words – Learning Games.
MonSticky-Decorate Your Monsters
MonSticky-Decorate Your Monsters is an entertaining app that will unleash creative streaks in small children. Users can create thousands of variations of these not-so-scary monsters.
Poppetto Costumes
Poppetto Costumes is a challenging and entertaining collect and match game that will sharpen players’ grasp of strategy, their observation skills, their memory, and their logic. It’s fun for nearly any age group.
The Turtle, Hare, and Friends Learning Puzzle Race
The Turtle, Hare, and Friends Learning Puzzle Race is a free app that features three simple games suitable for toddlers and preschoolers. The app is pleasant, but somewhat limited in scope unless parents make some in-app purchases.
ExplorArt Klee – The Art of Paul Klee, for Kids
ExplorArt Klee – the Art of Paul Klee, for Kids is a beautifully designed and illustrated ebook that invites users to explore many artistic styles and concepts through play. Let your imagination fly with this ebook!
ABC Puzzles Game for Kids
Kids can drag and drop objects such as letters and animals into simple puzzles in ABC Puzzles Game for Kids.
Super Spelling
Help kids learn to spell 400 new words with Super Spelling, a fun spelling game for kids.
Buzkids
Buzkids is a personalized app that helps little kids learn their letters, numbers, animal sounds, and fruit and vegetable names.
STEM Storiez-Wootzy Colors
STEM Storiez-Wootzy Colors is a pleasant e-book designed to introduce the very young to the names of the basic colors. It features cute space creatures that visit their colorful home planets and offers surprise animated interactions on each page.
Tongo Music – for kids and families
Tongo Music-for kids and families is a shining example of a high-quality, valuable app that is both beneficial and fun. It’s suitable for the whole family (including the very young), and will provide hours of educational entertainment.
More 4 Monkey: Pre-K Number Foundation
Help kids build beginning number sense through a series of simple games in More 4 Monkey.
RelationShapes
Interact with shapes and build logic and visual-spatial skills with RelationShapes, a creative shapes app for kids.
Fido & Pumpkin Position Words
Fido & Pumpkin Position Words is a fun app to help young children learn about position in space, covering words such as “in,” “up,” “down,” and “between” with colorful animations and multiple-choice endings to sentences that describe the characters’ positions.
Dr. Panda Cafe Review
See the app in iTunes Dr. Panda Ltd Price: $2.99 When we visit my parents’ house, one of my son’s favorite things to do is get out their play kitchen and play “Restaurant”. He loves to take our orders and prepare the food. He serves it to us like a real waiter and …