Best Apps For Kids – Children’s Apps and Websites Reviewed, Rated & Ranked By Moms & Educators

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MyStoryMyLife is a modern, up-to-date variation on an age-old theme: keeping a personal diary or journal. Older children, pre-teens, and teens will love the privacy and the potential for creativity through the use of not only text, but also drawing tools and photographs.

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Traffic Racer – Wild Run Car Racing is a fun app that allows users to take the wheel of virtual racing car navigating freeway traffic. The user has control of the make/model of the car, its color, and a host of other options. There are also various options to customize game play. The main drawback is the extreme number of advertisements that run after nearly every click in the app.

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Romeo and Juliet’s Secrets is a creative and entertaining interactive ebook that makes the famous Shakespearean play more accessible with modern language narration and historical background and information.

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Gold Rush 2 is a fun role-playing game set in the old west around the time of the California Gold Rush. Players take the role of the lead character as they try to right wrongs and solve mysteries.

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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 …

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App Info Price: Overview Teachley: Fractions Boost is a program designed to help third through fifth grade students deepen and internalize their understanding of fractions and the places where fractions are located on a number line. Players drive down a futuristic highway full of hills, banks and curves, and more, and periodically are challenged to …

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See the App in iTunes JustTwoDudes Price: FREE SecureTribe is a new app designed for parents who want to use a secure social media account.  With SecureTribe, parents can share life’s memories and moments with only their closest family and friends.  I thought that this app would be perfect for those looking to have a …

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App Info Price: Overview Three Good Things is a journaling app that prompts users to write down three positive sentences each day using notifications and messages. The goal is to build a habit of thinking in a positive manner each day to improve mental health. Features include: Simple user interface Game-like atmosphere Optional social media …

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{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 …

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“Mommy, can I play games on your phone?” Sound familiar? Smartphones, welcome or not, are here to stay. With such a wide variety of games on the app stores, you and your children have more choices than ever. Since kids have all sorts of different interests, it can be tricky to find apps and games …

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App Info Price: Overview Can you connect the dots to remove lines from the puzzle? That’s the goal of Spots Connect. This colorful dot game has players complete challenges to advance through the levels. It also has lots of surprises that pop up along the way. Features include: Complete challenges Advance through levels Use special …

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App Info Price: Overview Bilingua is designed help people learn a language by conversing with others. Users are matched with conversation partners based on personal interests and the languages they want to learn. Through games and fun conversations, they begin to build their language skills. Features include: Take a personality quiz Play fun language games …

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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: …

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The concept of an amazing road trip adventure is one that’s becoming more popular, particularly with safety concerns at more crowded tourist hotspots throughout the world, and the problems that plague airports and airlines on what seems like a daily basis. A road trip can be great for a family with kids as well because …

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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 …

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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 …

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App Info Price: Overview WordStory-Word Search Puzzles & Brain Games is a series of word puzzles that begin on a 3 x 3 grid of letters. Players are challenged to connect the letters to make two words suggested by the number of letters in each word. The letter boards provided can easily make many combinations, …

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See the App in iTunes ICKYPEN Price: FREE Missing Friend – Lite is the free version of a cute, interactive storybook for children.  With Missing Friend, kids can join Mr. Rabbit on an adventure to rescue his friend Mr. Mole from the mischievous Icky Mr. Fox.  I thought that this app had cool scenery and …

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See the App in Google Play Tk Studio Price: FREE Master of Jump is a fun new side-scrolling running game for kids.  With Master of Jump, kids can play through a variety of side-scrolling levels of action.  The game features various modes and a sense of challenge all the way through. The game modes include: …

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See the App in iTunes See the App in Google Play Dr. Panda LTD Price: $1.99 Dr. Panda Train is yet another great addition to the Dr. Panda series of preschool games.  With Dr. Panda Train, kids can help Dr. Panda as he puts on his conductor hat and takes passengers on a journey!  I …




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